30 SPORT MONDAY NOVEMBER 5 2018 COURIERMAIL.COM.AU COURIERMAIL.COM.AU MONDAY NOVEMBER 5 2018 SPORT 43 with nathan NATHAN’s Tips: 1 Cross Counter THE 2018 CUP OFFICE SWEEP eXelBy 2 Yucatan 3 Muntahaa Best Roughie: Marmelo 1 Best solution 2 the cliffsofmoheR 3 magic ciRcle 4 chestnut coat 5 muntahaa 6 sound check 1 Best solution Ladbrokes odds: $13 Ladbrokes odds: $16 Ladbrokes odds: $8.50 Ladbrokes odds: $41 Ladbrokes odds: $11 Ladbrokes odds: $34 Age: 5yo horse Age: 5yo horse Age: 7yo gelding Age: 5yo horse Age: 6yo gelding Age: 6yo horse Weight: 57.5kg Weight: 56.5kg Weight: 56kg Weight: 55.5kg Weight: 55.5kg Weight: 55.5kg 2 the cliffsofmoheR Trainer: Saeed bin Suroor Trainer: Aidan O’Brien Trainer: Ian Williams Trainer: Yoshito Yahagi Trainer: John Gosden Trainer: Michael Moroney Jockey: Pat Cosgrave Jockey: Ryan Moore Jockey: Corey Brown Jockey: Yuga Kawada Jockey: Jim Crowley Jockey: Jordan Childs Barrier: 6 Barrier: 9 Barrier: 17 Barrier: 4 Barrier: 13 Barrier: 16 Can Win: There to be beaten in the Can Win: Has a similar profile to last year’s Can Win: Has looked like a steam train Can Win: Japan won this race in 2006 Can Win: Big win in the Ebor, a Can Win: Matched strides with 3 magic ciRcle but still won. Has gone to a Cup runner-up Johannes Vermeer and did in his only two runs this calendar year, with Delta Blues. His best form is race that has proven a handy Caulfield Cup winner Best new level in 2018 and did not incur a close off the Caulfield Cup better than any winning by six lengths both times. His undoubtedly good enough and he’s guide to the Cup and his Solution before coming to penalty for his Caulfield victory. other runner. Trainer is a genius and jockey new trainer has put a new lease of proven at the trip. rating from that race is as Australia. Was a Group 2 4 chestnut coat Can’t Win: No horse has done has already won this race before. life on him. Can’t Win: Ordinary looking run good as any winner to come winner three starts back the double since 2001. The Can’t Win: Looked reasonably well Can’t Win: Hasn’t raced since May. No in the Caulfield Cup and needs here. Looks to be peaking over this distance. fact he was not penalised held in the Caulfield Cup. Stable’s horse has won the Cup off such a long to turn that around quickly. at the right time. Can’t Win: Failed to for Caulfield means the public comments clearly lean to break. The two that did win first-up off After winning the Cup in 2006, the Can’t Win: Seeking to become make any impact in the 5 muntahaa handicappers think he a preference to the favourite the plane, Vintage Crop and , Japanese have had a few high-profile the first UK-trained horse to win Caulfield Cup. Hard to see already faces a stiff task. Yucatan. had both raced in September. flops at Flemington since. the race. him turning that around.

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7 who shot theBaRman 8 ace high 9 maRmelo 10 11 yucatan 12 auvRay 7 who shot theBaRman Ladbrokes odds: $41 Ladbrokes odds: $71 Ladbrokes odds: $16 Ladbrokes odds: $13 Ladbrokes odds: $6.00 Ladbrokes odds: $71 Age: 10yo gelding Age: 4yo horse Age: 6yo horse Age: 5yo gelding Age: 5yo horse Age: 8yo gelding Weight: 55.5kg Weight: 55kg Weight: 55kg Weight: 54.5kg Weight: 54.5kg Weight: 54kg 8 ace high Trainer: Chris Waller Trainer: David Payne Trainer: Hughie Morrison Trainer: James Cummings Trainer: Aidan O’Brien Trainer: Richard Freedman Jockey: Ben Melham Jockey: Tye Angland Jockey: Hugh Bowman Jockey: Glyn Schofield Jockey: James McDonald Jockey: Tommy Berry Barrier: 18 Barrier: 22 Barrier: 10 Barrier: 11 Barrier: 23 Barrier: 1 Can Win: Has run very well in this Can Win: Won last year’s Victoria Can Win: Ran a cracking race in Can Win: Won the Bart Cummings, the same Can Win: Ridiculously easy win in Can Win: Veteran who continues 9 maRmelo race in the past and showed he Derby, a race Efficient won in 2006 the Caulfield Cup last year then race did before claiming this race the Herbert Power, with rating to race well. His trainer Richard was ticking over nicely again before winning the Cup the was flat in this race. Trainer in 2016. Only defeat in Australia was at experts suggesting it was as good a Freedman was associated with his closing effort in the following year. Gets Tye Angland says he is best fresh, so he the hands of in the Cox Plate, performance as we’ve seen in that with several Cup winners Moonee Valley Cup. back aboard, a jockey who has runs this year without an which was always designed as a race. His part-owner Lloyd Williams is with his brother Lee. 10 avilius Can’t Win: He’s now a won four races aboard him. Aussie lead-up. lead-up for this. a freak at winning this race. Can’t Win: Lacks the 10-year-old, an age unheard of Can’t Win: Before Efficient, Can’t Win: Not many Can’t Win: Was beaten Can’t Win: No European-trained class of many rivals. And for a winner. Phar Lap in 1930 was the fail in the Cup one year comfortably in the Cox Plate and only import has won this race as favourite – questionable whether he’s Has had three attempts in the previous Victoria Derby winner and come back to win it fell in to win prior. He’s not rating high and there’s been a dozen of them who going as good now as he was 11 yucatan past and come up short. to win this as a four-year-old. the next. enough at the weights to win this race. have failed so far. last year. Drawn bY ______Drawn bY ______Drawn bY ______Drawn bY ______Drawn bY ______Drawn bY ______12 auvRay

13 finche 14 Red caRdinal 15 vengeuR masque 16 ventuRa stoRm 17 a PRince of aRRan 18 nakeeta 13 finche Ladbrokes odds: $26 Ladbrokes odds: $34 Ladbrokes odds: $61 Ladbrokes odds: $26 Ladbrokes odds: $17 Ladbrokes odds: $71 Age: 5yo horse Age: 7yo gelding Age: 7yo gelding Age: 6yo gelding Age: 6yo gelding Age: 8yo gelding Weight: 54kg Weight: 54kg Weight: 54kg Weight: 54kg Weight: 53kg Weight: 53kg Trainer: Chris Waller Trainer: Darren Weir Trainer: Michael Moroney Trainer: D&B Hayes & T Dabernig Trainer: Charlie Fellowes Trainer: Iain Jardine 14 Red caRdinal Jockey: Zac Purton Jockey: Damien Oliver Jockey: Patrick Moloney Jockey: Mark Zahra Jockey: Michael Walker Jockey: Regan Bayliss Barrier: 15 Barrier: 5 Barrier: 2 Barrier: 7 Barrier: 20 Barrier: 3 Can Win: Ran a tidy race at his Australian Can Win: Trainer won the Cup in Can Win: Trainer Michael Moroney won Can Win: Has run well in two Turnbull Can win: Has clearly shown he has Can Win: Ran a respectable fifth in debut in the Geelong Cup, a race that has 2015 and he races in the colours this race with in 2000. He won last Stakes at this track behind Winx. Leapt adapted to life in Australia and was too this race last year at big odds, 15 vengeuR masque produced three winners of the Cup this of Australian Bloodstock, who year’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes, a race off the good run this year to finally break good under a big weight in the Lexus on performing better than some century. won the race in 2014. Makybe Diva won the year before the through in Australia when winning the Saturday. Both Brew and Shocking more fancied internationals. Can’t Win: This looks lengths Can’t Win: Came here with a first of her three Cup wins. Moonee Valley Cup. Now he’s broken were able to elevate from that Can’t Win: Hasn’t won 16 ventuRa stoRm tougher than the Geelong Cup decent reputation 12 months Can’t Win: Hasn’t won since through he might go on with it. race to a Cup win this century. a race since August 2017 and other Europeans appear to ago, but has been a big that Queen Elizabeth and only Can’t Win: Was safely held in the Can’t Win: Yucatan beat him and didn’t raise great have more menacing form. Will disappointment and would midfield in the Caulfield Cup. Caulfield Cup before his Moonee pointlessly in the Herbert Power hopes of that changing possibly be a better horse in 12 take a monster turnaround to Was 5.5L behind Avilius before Valley win and this is even and it’s hard to see how he can turn when he failed in the 17 a PRince of aRRan months. figure here. that and others look better. tougher. the tables. Moonee Valley Cup.

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19 siR chaRles Road 20 zacada 21 Runaway 22 youngstaR 23 cRoss counteR 24 RostRoPovich 19 siR chaRles Road Ladbrokes odds: $101 Ladbrokes odds: $126 Ladbrokes odds: $34 Ladbrokes odds: $16 Ladbrokes odds: $9.50 Ladbrokes odds: $26 Age: 5yo gelding Age: 6yo gelding Age: 4yo rig Age: 4yo mare Age: 4yo gelding Age: 4yo horse Weight: 53kg Weight: 53kg Weight: 52kg Weight: 51.5kg Weight: 51kg Weight: 51kg Trainer: Lance O’Sullivan & Andrew Scott Trainer: Murray Baker & Andrew Forsman Trainer: Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Trainer: Chris Waller Trainer: Charlie Appleby Trainer: Aidan O’Brien 20 zacada Jockey: Dwayne Dunn Jockey: Damian Lane Jockey: Stephen Baster Jockey: Craig Williams Jockey: Kerrin McEvoy Jockey: Wayne Lordan Barrier: 14 Barrier: 24 Barrier: 12 Barrier: 8 Barrier: 19 Barrier: 21 Can Win: Turned in a tidy effort in last week’s Can Win: He’s a son of Zabeel, who has Can Win: Won the Geelong Cup, Can Win: Queensland Oaks winner Can Win: Has impressed in Europe. Can Win: Trainer Aidan O’Brien is a Bendigo Cup, showing a return to the form sired previous winners Might And a race Media Puzzle, Americain who produced an outstanding Trounced the English Derby runner- master and he comes with solid European 21 Runaway that saw him win a Group 2 during the Sydney Power, Jezabeel and Efficient. Ran and Dunaden all won before run at this track when second up two starts back and while beaten three-year-old form this year – just as autumn before running a handy third in the the closest of seconds in the saluting at Flemington. to Winx in the Turnbull last time, he finished comfortably Rekindling did before winning last Sydney Cup. Sydney Cup this year. Won the St Leger over Stakes. Nothing went right in front of Kew Gardens, who then year. Has had a run in Australia, Can’t Win: Bendigo Cup is not the right Can’t Win: Form looks 2800m at this track in the Caulfield Cup. ran well in Europe’s finest WFA just as five of the seven imports 22 youngstaR formline to be winning a Melbourne Cup dreadful. This is a tougher race earlier in the year. Can’t Win: Needed to do race, the Arc de Triomphe. to win this race had. and he needs to produce a clear new than the Sydney Cup and he’s Can’t Win: Not sure more at Caulfield, despite the Can’t Win: Missed a few days work Can’t Win: Beaten a big margin career best at start No.25 to win this. seemingly just making up the Geelong had the class this bad luck and soft tempo. Query after cutting his leg in Australia. Can in the Cox Plate and the other 23 cRoss counteR numbers. year as previous years. whether she’s seasoned enough for this. he endure a setback and still win? internationals have more appeal.

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