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• Melbourne Cup tipping forum

  WHO do you think will win the big race? Join our live tipping forum now and have your say.

   
• Your best Cup bet revealed

  MELBOURNE CUP LATEST: RACING editor Ray Thomas tells you which horse is most likely to win Australia’s greatest race.

   
• A rough ride to life redemption

  TODAY is Chris Munce’s first Melbourne Cup since being sent to prison in Hong Kong for trading race tips in return for bets.

   
• Changingoftheguard scratched

  IRISH stayer Changingoftheguard has been sensationally withdrawn from today’s Melbourne Cup at Flemington.

   
• Viewed still Melbourne Cup favourite

  12:50pm: VIEWED remains favourite for the Melbourne Cup, but late money for Alcopop has brought the SA galloper not far behind.

   
• Bart is human after all

  ALL the hype was riding with Bart Cummings in the Melbourne Cup, but this was one occasion he didn’t deliver.

   
• Shocking goes international

  SHOCKING is set to blaze the international trail after his outstanding staying performance to win the Melbourne Cup.

   
• Daffodil heavily backed for Cup

  DAFFODIL has been heavily supported at the Melbourne Cup Call of the Card but Viewed still remains the favourite to give Bart Cummings a 13th win.

   
• Timeless Bart’s secret art

  HE GROWS older and somehow better. Bart Cummings wins the Caulfield Cup a fortnight ago and the next weekend, turns water into wine in the Cox Plate.

   
• Eyes – and money – on Bart

  THE weight of a nation will be on Bart Cummings’ three horses at Flemington tomorrow, with as much as $60million expected to be plunged on his three Melbourne Cup runners.

   
• Bart’s 27-year secret mateship

  THE Chinese say in the field there should not be two tigers. So when Malaysian entrepreneur Dato Tan Chin Nam met Bart Cummings, there was the potential for problems.

   
• Alcopop ‘at home’ after trip

  YOUNG South Australian trainer Jake Stephens has declared Alcopop has never been better and spot on in the lead-up to his date with destiny in the Melbourne Cup.

   
• This is my time – Brown

  FOR Corey Brown, Sydney’s champion jockey, the pain of losing last year’s Melbourne Cup by the narrowest margin in history is still painfully raw.

   
• Newport hoping for lucky grey

  AS the only horse of grey colouring in the $5.5 million race at Flemington tomorrow, Newport will be very conspicuous during the run.

   
• Derby pick Shamoline Warrior scratched

  DERBY favourite Shamoline Warrior and Melbourne Cup star Kirklees have been scratched in a dramatic morning at the track.

   
• Vigor misses out – full field

  VIGOR has missed out on a start in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup with Racing Victoria officials electing not to use their discretionary powers to elevate him into the final field.

   
• Viewed’s cup chances soar

  VIEWED’s chances of a second successive win in the $5.5million Melbourne Cup have soared with two of his main rivals, Efficient and Vigor, out of the big race.

   
• Brown is Sydney superstar

  CHAMPION Sydney jockey Corey Brown yesterday said the monkey was off his back after finally breaking through to claim a Melbourne “major”.

   
• Little separates big race hotpots

  WILL the proven formlines of Shamoline Warrior prevail or can the untapped potential of Monaco Consul be realised?

   
• Make-or-break for Vigor

  TRAINER Danny O’Brien concedes he may have no alternative but to start in-form stayer Vigor at Flemington today.