They're calling it the foreign legion...Half of next month's Melbourne Cup field will be made up of overseas-trained horses. That's the prediction, anyway. It's been confimed that Dermot Weld's Profound Beauty is on the way, making it 12 internationals in the top 31 horses in the order of entry. Profound Beauty, 5th in the 2008 Melbourne Cup, is due to arrive in Melbourne on Tuesday, along with the Godolphin team of Holberg, Campanologist, Eastern Aria and the yet unqualified Pompeyano. Three ot
They're calling it the foreign legion...Half of next month's Melbourne Cup field will be made up of overseas-trained horses. That's the prediction, anyway. It's been confimed that Dermot Weld's Profound Beauty is on the way, making it 12 internationals in the top 31 horses in the order of entry. Profound Beauty, 5th in the 2008 Melbourne Cup, is due to arrive in Melbourne on Tuesday, along with the Godolphin team of Holberg, Campanologist, Eastern Aria and the yet unqualified Pompeyano. Three other Melbourne Cup contenders - Sans Frontieres, Bauer and Illustrious Blue - are due in from the UK on Saturday.
Punters keen to see a titanic clash between So You Think, Whobegotyou and More Joyous will have to wait until the Cox Plate...Seems that More Joyous will miss the Yalumba Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday in favor of a Toorak start.