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• Crime gangs plot Melbourne Cup raid

  OVERSEAS crime gangs are flying into Australia to prey on Melbourne Cup racegoers with police cautioning bookies and women with expensive jewellery.

   
• Punters put on guard

  A ROUSING track gallop has sparked a betting plunge on former Irish stayer Changingoftheguard as he races to be fit for the Melbourne Cup.

   
• Champ set for farewell tour

  TAKEOVER Target and Joe Janiak were the unlikeliest of champions who won the hearts of a nation – and now we will get the chance to say goodbye.

   
• Top horses may miss out

  SOME leading Melbourne Cup contenders are not certain to run in the famous Flemington “two-miler” as the squeeze to secure a start intensifies.

   
• Gallant grey will take place

  OWNER Lloyd Williams allayed punters’ fears something might be amiss with Efficient by declaring the grey “ready to go” for the Melbourne Cup.

   
• Maestro thinks again on Plate star

  COX Plate hero So You Think, already rated without peer among spring three-year-olds in the modern era, could be a surprise starter in the Group One $750,000 Mackinnon Stakes.

   
• Early hopes fall by the wayside

  THE Melbourne Cup bids of highly rated imported stayers Speed Gifted and Changingoftheguard hang in the balance as the attrition rate climbs for the nation’s most famous race.

   
• Waller snaps up Ollie

  TRAINER Chris Waller’s bid to win the Melbourne Cup with his first runner moved a step closer to fruition when he secured champion jockey Damien Oliver to ride Warringah.

   
• Cummings continues to reign

  SO you think Bart Cummings is a legend? You better believe it. The master trainer just continues to astound, guiding three-year-old colt So You Think to a win in the $3 million Cox Plate.

   
• (Apache) Cat among the pigeons

  CHAMPION sprinter Apache Cat became a Cox Plate scene stealer with a memorable win at Moonee Valley, with the crown giving him a standing ovation.

   
• Rosehill turns rodeo

  VETERAN trainer Jack Denham was at a loss to explain the dramatic antics of Hurrara before the opening race at Rosehill yesterday.

   
• Rangirangdoo to step up

  RANGIRANGDOO had just smashed the Moonee Valley track record, but trainer Chris Waller had no regrets about not starting the galloper in yesterday’s Cox Plate.

   
• Bart’s not finished yet

  BART Cummings continued his domination of the Melbourne spring carnival with So You Think’s memorable Cox Plate, then declared: “I’m not finished yet!”

   
• Whobe’s trainer taunts rivals

  WHOBEGOTYOU’s trainer has baited rival jockeys to ensure the $3million Cox Plate becomes a genuine staying test at Moonee Valley today.

   
• Who and Heart’s epic showdown

  WHOBEGOTYOU and Heart of Dreams will fight out the Cox Plate in another epic showdown, according to one of the nation’s leading form experts.

   
• El Segundo the forgotten horse

  EVERYONE seems to have forgotten that the last time Luke Nolen rode El Segundo in the Cox Plate, he stormed home to a brilliant victory.

   
• Day Bart looked death in eye

  BART Cummings was only 16 when, troubled by asthma, allergies and attacks of breathlessness, he visited a specialist hoping to find answers.

   
• I’m on right path, says Freedman

  HALL of Fame trainer Lee Freedman is banking on Speed Gifted following the trail blazed so successfully by Efficient, Makybe Diva and Saintly.

   
• Gai fears Whobegotyou

  GAI Waterhouse has provided a ringing endorsement for besieged Whobegotyou and declared the Melbourne champ the horse to beat in the Cox Plate.

   
• Bart battles baby curse

  BART Cummings’ young charger So You Think faces an uphill battle to win the Cox Plate considering the maestro’s disturbing three-year-old curse.