Melbourne Cup day is ''possibly the greatest race day anywhere in the world,'' says visiting trainer Luca Cumani, who is on his sixth trip and still trying to win the race, reports The Age.''There is nothing like it in England, nothing like it anywhere I have taken a horse.'' The Melbourne Cup will never produce the equine aristocrats of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe or the Epsom Derby, but its reputation and the respect it commands around the world, makes it unique. Ed Dunlop, who trained last-
Melbourne Cup day is ''possibly the greatest race day anywhere in the world,'' says visiting trainer Luca Cumani, who is on his sixth trip and still trying to win the race, reports The Age.
''There is nothing like it in England, nothing like it anywhere I have taken a horse.''
The Melbourne Cup will never produce the equine aristocrats of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe or the Epsom Derby, but its reputation and the respect it commands around the world, makes it unique.
Ed Dunlop, who trained last-year's runner-up Red Cadeaux, said: ''We received more credit for running second in the Cup than for winning in Japan.'' (www.theage.com.au).