Melbourne Cup 2022

Racing Victoria said: “Robert Hickmott stable has advised RV Stewards that Point Nepean has returned elevated blood results and has been withdrawn from ...

“It was a very easy piece of work. Point Nepean’s scratching is certain to revive the debate about whether there should be emergencies for the race. “Obviously we’re full of hope but it’s a horse race at the end of the day and everything has to go right.Ferguson gave Deauville Legend a gallop at Werribee on Sunday morning, which he said would leave the top stayer ready for the Melbourne Cup after a quiet day on Monday. It was what we call a nice breeze to open the lungs before he has a quiet day on Monday going into the race.” Deauville Legend is the only runner under $10 in Melbourne Cup betting but his trainer James Ferguson said the Flemington contest would not be a procession for the favourite. “I do feel that with the weight he has been given, that he’s got a very good chance because he’s coming here with a lot of form,” Ferguson said. Deauville Legend will carry 55kg but Ferguson said that weight gave the gelding a chance to win the Melbourne Cup at only his eighth start. Ferguson has been part of a previous Melbourne Cup success as Charlie Appleby’s travelling foreman with the 2018 winner Cross Counter. [Why our expert is tipping a big upset](https://www.foxsports.com.au/nfl/melbourne-cup-2022-form-guide-horses-tips-odds-field-analysis-of-every-runner/news-story/7ccc71707d0594ecb8acb36c34292cf2) [LOOK FOR THE CLUES: ](https://www.foxsports.com.au/horse-racing/melbourne-cup/melbourne-cup-2022-betting-guide-for-dummies-how-to-place-a-bet-what-is-a-trifecta-quinella-exacta-who-to-bet-on-information/news-story/c6cd2d6971a92cce96c3d0eee26dc05f) [All the Cup lead-up runs you need to see](https://www.foxsports.com.au/motorsport/formula-one/f1-2022-mexican-grand-prix-live-blog-updates-grid-max-verstappen-george-russell-daniel-ricciardo-times/news-story/261476157a49340080309ec2cd062bcf) A tight grip on Melbourne Cup favouritism has not prompted any complacency from the Deauville Legend camp leading up to Tuesday’s $8m event. Currently the TAB does not have the capabability to accomodate more than 24 numbers in the system for a race. [How to place a bet](https://www.foxsports.com.au/horse-racing/melbourne-cup/melbourne-cup-2022-betting-guide-for-dummies-how-to-place-a-bet-what-is-a-trifecta-quinella-exacta-who-to-bet-on-information/news-story/c6cd2d6971a92cce96c3d0eee26dc05f)

They were worried Melbourne Cup mare Realm Of Flowers could have died but she has beaten 100-1 odds just to race in Tuesday's Cup.

"She beat Durston and in the last 50 metres was drawing away from Durston who then came out and won Caulfield Cup and was quite well fancied before he got taken out of the Melbourne Cup." "She can't be held up in a race – she just needs to be rolling around the field and start her race 800m from home, just keep plugging away and finding. "Fast forward to recently and her run in the Metrop was an absolute corker. "Realm Of Flowers finished very well to run second to the stablemate, the Freedman team expected the stablemate to beat her a lot easier," Bester said. "This filly was out of Astral Flowers so the name came from there, she was named in honour of my daughter." "She was hospitalised for a long time and then in a paddock for a long time and then had gentle rehabilitation for a long time. "The odds of her getting back to the Melbourne Cup this year were 100-1, that was just to get her back to racing and aiming at the Melbourne Cup. "I negotiated to buy her at under her reserve price, the reserve was $200,000 and we paid $180,000 and put together some friends in a (ownership) syndicate. She left Durston in her wake that day, with Durston then coming out and winning the Caulfield Cup and being one of the top fancies for the Melbourne Cup until vet protocols ruled him out. "She has already beaten the odds to get to the first Tuesday in November." Her most recent performance – finishing third in the Group 1 Metropolitan and being ahead just after the line – was an eye-catcher from a Melbourne Cup point of view. "She developed an infection in her knee, which got quite bad, and it got to the point we assumed it was career ending and we wondered if it might end up life threatening," Realm Of Flowers part-owner and the man who named her and purchased her as a yearling, James Bester, said.

The first two of the big three races on the Spring Racing Calendar — the Caulfield Cup and the Cox Plate — have been run and won.

Then-second favourite, Loft, was withdrawn on Friday after scans found an issue with the German horse trained by Marcel Weiss. If you're in Queensland, the race will start at 2pm AEST, or in South Australia, at 2:30pm ACDT. A crowd of 80,000 is expected on Tuesday. These include the famous main "Loving Cup" for the winning owner, and trophies for the winning jockey, the winning trainer, the strapper who prepares the winning horse and to the breeder. Two of the top three horses in the market for this year's Melbourne Cup are a bit of a mystery, as they have not raced in Australia prior to the race. The race will also be streamed on 10Play and — for those who have a subscription — on Kayo.

The reigning Sydney Cup winner Knights Order has been the subject of good each way backing with Ladbrokes for the Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington on ...

Interpretation (6) Emissary (3) Arapaho (19) Serpentine (23) He dominates betting, with Realm Of Flowers next best at [$9.50](https://www.justhorseracing.com.au/go/ladbrokes/), and they are the lone runner at single figures. Stockman (2) Camorra (17) Numerian (7) Montefilia (11) T’s & C’s apply. Duais (10) Excl SA & WA.

The field for Tuesday's Melbourne Cup has been reduced to 23 after Point Nepean was ruled out on Monday due to an elevated blood result.

Numerian, High Emocean and Interpretation should be handy from favourable gates. [vets ruled Caulfield Cup winner Durston out of the Cup](https://www.news.com.au/sport/superracing/melbourne-cup/melbourne-cup-2022-horses-order-of-entry-final-field-favourite/news-story/40629714a89742424b017fda2baf7584) after spotting a potential injury during pre-race scans. Robert Hickmott stable has advised RV Stewards that Point Nepean has returned elevated blood results and has been withdrawn from tomorrow’s Lexus Melbourne Cup— Racing Victoria (@RacingVictoria) The field for Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup has been reduced to 23 after Point Nepean was ruled out on Monday due to an elevated blood result. “Robert Hickmott stable has advised RV Stewards that Point Nepean has returned elevated blood results and has been withdrawn from tomorrow’s Lexus Melbourne Cup,” Racing Victoria said in a statement. Point Nepean ruled out of Melbourne Cup after elevated blood result

The spacious Flemington racecourse is a mere postage stamp compared to the place trainer Phillip Stokes spent his childhood.

If you had a horse that lost a shoe, you had to put it on yourself from scratch." "Unfortunately, I had weight problems, which made it hard. Stokes took Daqiansweet Junior from a lowly Pakenham win to winning the $300,000 Adelaide Cup and running third in the $2m Sydney Cup in a matter of weeks. "You weren't able to just go down the shop if something went wrong. The Sydney and Adelaide Cup efforts qualified Daqiansweet Junior for the Melbourne Cup, giving Stokes the chance to place the son of US sire Sweet Orange to advantage in the build-up to Tuesday's $8m race. "In his early days, he got beaten at Moe and beaten at Bendigo and I thought, ‘we might be in a bit of trouble here' but he started to find his way," Stokes said. "I changed a few things with his training and trained him like a Kiwi horse out of the paddock up at the farm, and that was the turning point. "I learned a lot over there with how they train their horses up and how they don't really let them go out of work, they keep them ticking over all the time and they have a lot of residual fitness. Stokes left the cattle stations in his mid-teens to have a crack at making the grade as a jockey in Adelaide. "It taught us everything. "You had stockmen and that sort of thing out there because it was a big acreage and they did the mustering and they ran the stock camp," Stokes said. "That side of it was very educational as it was tending to the stock as well.