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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 Caulfield Cup 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 Rekindling, 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. Drawn bY __________________________________________________________ Drawn bY __________________________________________________________ Drawn bY __________________________________________________________ Drawn bY __________________________________________________________ Drawn bY __________________________________________________________ Drawn bY __________________________________________________________ 6 sound check 7 who shot theBaRman 8 ace high 9 maRmelo 10 avilius 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 Almandin 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 Winx 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 Melbourne Cup 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 Brew 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. Drawn bY __________________________________________________________ Drawn bY __________________________________________________________ Drawn bY __________________________________________________________ Drawn bY __________________________________________________________ Drawn bY __________________________________________________________ Drawn bY __________________________________________________________ 18 nakeeta 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.