Bauer bounces back...Surprise of the week is the news that 2008 Melbourne Cup runner-up Bauer is on the comeback trail -- and there's a good chanhce he'll run in this year's Cup. A tendon injury ended his Cup campaign last year but now part-owner Simon O'Donnell says the plucky gelding is soon to resume serious trackwork. He says: 'The scans have all been clean which is pleasing and the horse has been in work a long time now with the intention of coming back to Melbourne for this year's Cup...He
Bauer bounces back...Surprise of the week is the news that 2008 Melbourne Cup runner-up Bauer is on the comeback trail -- and there's a good chanhce he'll run in this year's Cup. A tendon injury ended his Cup campaign last year but now part-owner Simon O'Donnell says the plucky gelding is soon to resume serious trackwork. He says: 'The scans have all been clean which is pleasing and the horse has been in work a long time now with the intention of coming back to Melbourne for this year's Cup...He's built up from walking to cantering and trotting and will start his serious race gallops in July...The plan is to give him two or three runs in Europe and if all goes well and he pleases Luca Cumani then he'll be headed back to Melbourne.'