But we’re not going to see a great one.

Competition between two very good horses like Whobegotyou and Heart of Dreams with Speed Gifted and 3-year-old So You Think thrown in will be fascinating

Outsider Sir Slick has been scratched from this afternoon’s $3 million Cox Plate at Moonee Valley, after failing to pass a veterinary examination on an injured hoof.

Kavanagh paid tribute to Rodd’s ride on Maldivian and said by the time rival jockeys realised they had to make a move the race was over.

”We had guys pressing buttons halfway through the race and, ‘Shit, the bird’s flown’ and Danny Nikolic on Zipping took off and everyone went mad,” Kavanagh said. ”Well, it was just too late. They had to make up too much ground.”

And this afternoon at Moonee Valley we’ll see the hot favourite Whobegotyou try to prove he’s not just a sit-and-sprint horse. He’s going to get that chance because Cox Plates almost never are.

And arch rival Heart Of Dreams will be there to establish he’s got the bigger ticker.

Whobegotyou is a natural backmarker, leaving Kavanagh to hope the race is run at a reasonable tempo. ”Every time you dissect the race, you can see it run a different way,” he said. ”The Cox Plate is a notoriously tactical race. Certainly there will be a lot of jockeys today planning things with owners. You may see someone do something totally out of left field.”

Cummings knows So You Think has Cox Plate potential, but believes the race might just be a little early in the young horse’s career.

Freedman is wily. He’s aiming Speed Gifted at the A$5.5 million Melbourne Cup. He hasn’t said so, but he’s probably worked out that he might just be able to get away with a Cox Plate in a weak year with a horse on the rise.

Each week Matt Campbell previews the weekend’s major sporting and racing events and provides key analysis, latest odds and hot tips. Select the preview you would like to see this week from the available list below.

If you tuned in last week you would have seen Matthew Campbell and John Dow both tipping Viewed for the Caulfield Cup! Who are they tipping this week for the Cox Plate? Watch the Cox Plate preview to find out!

• Audio: Interview: Mark Kavanagh, Con Karakatsanis (Grandstand)
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• Map: Moonee Ponds 3039
• Related Story: Kav predicts no ridiculous Maldivian repeat

The site also has Aussie racing experts Ben Scadden and Lincoln Moore previewing the great race and telling you where to place your hard-earned money.

Australian Champion jockey Damien Oliver also tells fans about his Cox Plates win, while superstar trainer Bart Cummings uses the Herald Sun to tell punters that he believes he holds the key to the 2009 Cox Plate.

Fans can see the videos by following this link!

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James Bartholomew Cummings was born and raised in Adelaide, working for his father at the Adelaide stables after completing high school at Marist Brothers, Sacred Heart College.  He took out his own training licence in 1953, utilising his father’s stables.  Bart first hit the headlines when he not only won his first Melbourne Cup in 1965 with Light Fingers

Bart Cummings first experienced the thrill of a Melbourne Cup win at 23 years of age when he strapped the home-bred Comic Court for his father Jim Cummings in 1950.  His training feat to date of 12 Melbourne Cup winners and 5 quinellas has earned him the title of “ Cups King ”. 

James Bartholomew ‘Bart’ Cummings AM (born 14 November 1927) is one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers, and is known as the "Cups King", referring to theMelbourne Cup, as he has won the ‘race that stops a nation’ a record twelve times.

He won his first Group 1 with Stormy Passage in the SAJC Derby in 1958 and has gone on to train stakes winners every year for 51 years since.  Viewed’s Melbourne Cup win in 2008 made it Group 1 win number 250, and a few days later Swick’s Group 1 win made it 251.   Bart went on to train his 252nd Group 1 winner at the AJC Derby in the same racing year 2008/2009

The Australian Racing Museum moved to Federation Square in Melbourne in 2004 and Bart Cummings’ 12 Melbourne Cup trainers’ trophies are currently on display there, an impressive sight.   In fact it was Mrs. Valmae Cummings, Bart’s wife, who first suggested trainers should receive a miniature replica of the Melbourne Cup trophy presented to the owners, a suggestion which has since been implemented by the Victorian Racing Club.

Flemington – "Saintly Place"
22 Leonard Crescent
Ascot Vale
Melbourne, Vic

Flemington is arguably the centre of Australian racing.  The home of the Melbourne Cup is also the location of Saintly Place – the site of success for Bart`s incredible 12 Melbourne Cup winners.  A first class racing and training facility that has been the mainstay of Bart Cummings` training operations for 40 years.

In 2004, Bart received a surprise honour from the VRC.  The club presented J.B.Cummings with Lifetime Membership, the first time a trainer has received the honour.

Melbourne Cup winners

Cummings has won twelve Melbourne Cups with eleven horses:

• Light Fingers (1965)
• Galilee (1966)
• Red Handed (1967)
• Think Big (1974 & 1975)
• Gold and Black (1977)
• Hyperno (1979)
• Kingston Rule (1990)
• Let’s Elope (1991)
• Saintly (1996)
• Rogan Josh (1999)
• Viewed (2008)^[2]

Bart Cummings Victory videos melbournecup-> Click here to see video gallery

FROM THE STABLE OF BART CUMMINGS

Melbourne Cup 2009

2nd acceptances

(06.10.09)

                       Allez Wonder                         Dandaad                         Joe Blow                         Naval Escort                         Precedence                         Roman Emperor                         Think Money                         Viewed

Ref: http://www.bartcummings.com.au/

His other notable achievements include:

• 12 Australian Cups
• Six Caulfield Cups
• Eight Newmarket Handicaps
• Three W.S.Cox Plates
• Four Golden Slipper Stakes
• 23 Derbies (5 VRC, 4 AJC, 10 SAJC, 4 WATC)
• 23 Oaks (8 VRC, 7 AJC, 6 SAJC, 1 QTC, 1 WATC)

Bart Thinking About Another Guineas 7/10/2009
Champion trainer Bart Cummings fears Denman as the horse that stands between him and a seventh win in Saturday’s $1 million Caulfield Guineas.

Bart Cummings horse wining stats  – > http://www.horsedirectory.com.au/racinghistory/trainer/profiles/bart_cummings.html

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