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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

RACE PATTERN THE FAVOURITE HISTORY THE TRACK The track has a The withdrawal of Japanese horse Bande due to Lucia Valentina’s pattern is to race in the second half of the field and make her First run in 1879 when won by triangular layout and a injury has had many experts scrambling to redo run in the straight, as she did in the . Trained by Kris Lees, Lucia Newminster, the Caulfield Cup is circumference of 2080 their speed maps. Most thought Bande would Valentina has been well supported since she won the Turnbull Stakes and been a 2400m handicap and 18 years metres. The 2400m start be the leader, and without him tactics need to backed again following the withdrawals of Bande, Dandino and Gris Caro. younger than the Cup. is in the home straight. be reassessed. Jockey Craig Williams, who rides The first $1 million Cup was in outsider Araldo after his original mount, Dandino, 1996 when Arctic Scent was was scratched, has won two Caulfield Cups and was successful. It’s now worth second in 2013. He says it is one of the most $3 million tactical races to ride in with a frantic jostling for positions in the run to the first turn. Jockeys must then decide when to make their next ARCTIC SCENT moves – the back straight or the home turn.

LUCIA VALENTINA

TALKING POINTS Horses to complete the Caulfield- Shortest-priced non-winner: Tobin Melbourne Cups double in the same Bronze (8-11 when sixth to in year: (1906), The Trump 1966) (1937), Rivette (1939), Longest-priced winner: Saint Warden (1954), Even Stevens (1962), Galilee (100-1 in 1943) (1966), Gurner’s Lane (1982), Let’s Elope (1991), (1995), Might The 2013 winner Fawkner gave And Power (1997), (2001) leviathan owner Lloyd Williams his first Caulfield Cup Dual Caulfield Cup winners:Paris (1892, 1894), Hymettus (1898, 1901), European-trained horses have DUNADEN Poseidon (1906-07), Uncle Sam (1912, competed since 1998 with three 1914), Whittier (1922, 1925), Rising winners: Taufan’s Melody (1998), All Fast (1954-55), Ming Dynasty (1977, the Good (2008) and Dunaden (2012), NOTABLE WINNERS 1980) which won a year after he took the . Oakleigh (1887), Poseidon (1906, 1907), holds the Caulfield (1930), Rogilla (1932), The Trump (1937), Skipton Cup record of seven wins with Galilee The 1992 Cup remains one of the most (1943), Rising Fast (1954, 1955), Redcraze (1956), (1966), Big Philou (1969), Leilani controversial with Shane Dye steering (1957), Even Stevens (1962), Galilee (1966), Tobin (1974), Ming Dynasty (1977, 1980), favourite Veandercross wide on the Bronze (1967), Ming Dynasty (1977, 1980), Gurner’s Lane Let’s Elope (1991) and (2009) home turn to get better ground. The (1982), Let’s Elope (1991), Doriemus (1995), NZ horse failed by a short half-head (1997), Ethereal (2001), (2002), (2004), Viewed Shortest-priced winner: to reel in Mannerism, but Dye remains (2009) and Dunaden (2012). Tulloch (4-6 in 1957) adamant he made the right decision.