18 SWEEP TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3 2020 THE SWEEP

1. ANTHONY VAN DYCK 2. 3. 4. MASTER OF REALITY 5. SIR DRAGONET $9 $41 $51 $20 IRELAND GREAT BRITAIN Trainer: Danny O’Brien IRELAND IRELAND Trainer: Aidan O’Brien Trainer: James Cummings Jockey: Jamie Mott Trainer: Joseph O’Brien Trainers: Ciaron Maher & David Eustace Jockey: Hugh Bowman Jockey: John Allen Barrier: 4 Jockey: Ben Melham Jockey: Glen Boss Barrier: 3 Barrier: 10 Vow And Declare just Barrier: 11 Barrier: 14 Anthony Van Dyck is looking Back for another crack at the doesn’t seem to be going Master Of Reality was the Will be the first Cox Plate to make history and become Cup after he failed to fire in as well as he was 12 months controversial runner in the winner in the Cup since So You the first top-weight to win 2018. It has been a while ago. His three runs this spring Melbourne Cup 12 months ago Think in 2010 and is a chance the Melbourne Cup since between wins for Avilius but he have been fairly poor and he and he was relegated to to become the first horse the great Makybe Diva in hasn’t been going that badly. heads into the race on the fourth place on protest since Makybe Diva in 2005 2005. There is no Still not sure he is going well back of a flat effort in after causing interference to do the double. Has doubt he is a very enough to win with this the . It in the straight. I am class but is the Cup an good horse, but the sort of weight on his takes a very good confident that he will be afterthought? That big weight does make back, but I think he can horse to win the Cup right in the mix again. seems to be the case this an extremely difficult produce a better effort than back-to-back and it may The Melbourne Cup has and I am not convinced task over 3200m. his price suggests. well be beyond him. always been his major target. he will run a strong 3200m.

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9. STRATUM ALBION 10. DASHING WILLOUGHBY 11. FINCHE 12. PRINCE OF ARRAN 13. SURPRISE BABY $41 $17 $10 GREAT BRITAIN GREAT BRITAIN GREAT BRITAIN Trainer: Charlie Fellowes Trainer: Paul Preusker Trainer: Willie Mullins Trainer: Andrew Balding $81 Trainer: Chris Waller Jockey: Jamie Kah Jockey: Craig Williams Jockey: Jordan Childs Jockey: Michael Walker Jockey: James McDonald Barrier: 1 Barrier: 7 Barrier: 9 Barrier: 19 Barrier: 6 It is impossible not to like Prince Stormed home to finish fifth in Mullins is yet to win a Cup but Flopped badly in the Caulfield Cup I think Finche might have had Of Arran. He finished third in the the Cup last year and has had went close with Max Dynamite, when beaten by 27 lengths after his best chance to win the Cup in 2018 and was way better only two starts since. Did he and Stratum Albion is similar. leading in the early stages. Melbourne Cup last year and I in 2019. Can he improve again miss out on his chance last Races mostly over hurdles Connections are am happy to be against him in and win the race? There is no year? I am leaning that in Ireland but earnt a trip adamant he is a better the 2020 edition. He certainly reason he won’t be in the way. He doesn’t get to Australia for the horse than that and hasn’t been disgraced in any mix. He goes to another into this race as well at Cup with a second in his form in Europe is of his starts this campaign. level when he arrives in the weights and his the Lonsdale Cup. Not pretty good, but He just seems to lack the Australia and there was run in the Turnbull convinced he has the how could you back turn of foot that is plenty to like about how he suggested he wasn’t turn of foot required but him on his Caulfield required and I expect him found the line in the quite up to these elite can’t discount him. Cup performance? to run well without winning. Caulfield Cup. Group 1 stayers.

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17. THE CHOSEN ONE 18. ASHRUN 19. WARNING 20. ETAH JAMES 21. TIGER MOTH $34 $21 $41 $101 Trainers: Murray Baker & FRANCE Trainers: Anthony & Sam Freedman Trainer: Ciaron Maher & IRELAND Andrew Forsman Trainer: Andreas Wohler Jockey: Luke Currie David Eustace Trainer: Aidan O’Brien Jockey: Daniel Stackhouse Jockey: Declan Bates Barrier: 8 Jockey: Billy Egan Jockey: Kerrin McEvoy Barrier: 5 Barrier: 24 Looked to be heading in the right Barrier: 22 Barrier: 23 The Cup is the only feature Ashrun won his way into the direction but would have liked him Connections have done a great Tiger Moth is the horse to beat staying race in Australia to Melbourne Cup with a classy victory to hit the line a little better in the job with Etah James and you in the 2020 Melbourne Cup. Aiden elude Baker and he is in the Hotham Stakes on Victoria Caulfield Cup. The return to know that she will run out a O’Brien has worked out the type of adamant The Chosen Derby Day and it was no surprise Flemington suits and he will strong 3200m following horses that he needs to bring to One is good enough to to see him shorten significantly in relish the step up to her victory in the Sydney Australia and Tiger Moth fits win. Was a little flat Melbourne Cup betting. It is fair 3200m, but I’m not Cup this year. It would the profile of recent Cup in the Underwood to say that he didn’t beat the convinced he is classy surprise me if she was winners and and Herbert Power strongest field in the Hotham enough to match it good enough to win, . I don’t but back to a Stakes and these European with the best stayers but I wouldn’t be think the fact that he will be semblance of his best stayers can often struggle on the and weight-for-age shocked if she was able having just his fifth race start in the Caulfield Cup. quick back-up. performers in this field. to sneak into the top 10. is an issue.

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Ladbrokes WINNERS &PRIZE MONEY 1st 2nd Hoop has buckets of confidence for G1 success

IT is a long way from being Danny O’Brien’s in-form mare work for Ray Lawson at Flem- The popular Victorian hoop The four-year-old mare has about the distance of the races, forced to sit on a bucket out the Miami Bound. ington. We used to have to be is chasing his first Australian won three from four on soft not the track surface,” he says. front of a stable as punishment “Everyone wants a cool at the stables at 3.15am, but as a Group 1 win. tracks and will not get her fav- “It wasn’t until she got out to riding in a Melbourne Cup. nickname, I suppose but my kid from Warrnambool I was Miami Bound, last year’s oured soft track conditions at to the trip of the Moonee Val- But that is the extraord- nickname Buckets stuck,” pretty late on occasion.” VRC Oaks winner, bounded Flemington on Tuesday. ley Cup that she showed her inary racing adventure Daniel Moor says. Moor, 36, had a successful back to her best last start when However, Moor insists she best this preparation. “Buckets” Moor has been on “It was more or less a form two-year stint in Singapore but getting out over 2500m in the is more than just a soft-tracker. “She is probably a fraction and one that will feature his of punishment when I was an decided to return home after Moonee Valley Gold Cup and “We have discussed it and better on (soft ground), but she first Melbourne Cup ride, on apprentice and I was late to the COVID pandemic struck. romping to victory. we are of the opinion it’s more is fine on a good track as well.”

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