15 to line up in the Centrebet.com Geelong Cup

A total of 15 horses have been accepted for Wednesday’s Group 3 Centrebet.com Geelong Cup.

They include French stayer Americain, English stayer Drunken Sailor, AJC Oaks winner Once Were Wild, Sydney Cup winner No Wine No Song, VRC St Leger winner Exceptionally, Tulloch Stakes winner Count Encosta and Adelaide Cup winner Kerdem.

Gai Waterhouse, fresh from her Caulfield Cup victory with Descarado, will be aiming at the Geelong Cup with Once Were Wild - sportpix.com.au

Promising horses like Moudre, Mr Charlie, The Hombre and Gallant Lady will also line up in one of the better Geelong Cups of recent times.

The race has grown in stature in the last decade, with it now considered a prime lead up to the Melbourne Cup 13 days later.

In the last 20 years, the only horse to do the double was the Dermot Weld-trained Media Puzzle in 2002.

However, numerous winners have placed at Flemington.

These include Bauer, On a Jeune and Mr Brooker.

Those who are beaten also can figure in the Melbourne Cup, with notable examples including Crime Scene and She’s Archie.

The field for the 2010 Geelong Cup is as follows:

8-04.00 CENTREBET.COM GEELONG CUP (2406 METRES)

No	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Handicapper Rating
1	AMERICAIN (USA)	Alain de Royer Dupre	Gerald Mosse	1	58	110
2	DRUNKEN SAILOR (IRE)	Luca Cumani	Brett Prebble	9	57	108
3	NO WINE NO SONG	Kevin Moses	Jim Cassidy	14	57	108
4	ONCE WERE WILD	Gai Waterhouse	Nash Rawiller	5	55	108
5	MOUDRE	Ciaron Maher	Craig Williams	10	54.5	101
6	KERDEM (IRE)	Patrick Payne	Michelle Payne	15	53	97
7	APPREHEND	Tony Vasil		6	53	95
8	COUNT ENCOSTA	John P Thompson	Craig Newitt	13	53	95
9	EXCEPTIONALLY (NZ)	Terry & Karina O’Sullivan	Danny Nikolic	3	53	95
10	MR CHARLIE (NZ)	Peter G Moody	Luke Nolen	2	53	95
11	THE HOMBRE	John Bary	Mark Du Plessis	7	53	95
12	MILES ABOVE	Denis Daffy		12	53	89
13	MACEDONIAN (NZ)	Peter G Moody	Dwayne Dunn	4	53	82
14	GALLANT LADY	Lee Freedman		11	53	80
15	SAINT ENCOSTA	John P Thompson	James Winks	8	53	78