A tendon injury may have ended the career of English stayer Bauer who will miss this year's Melbourne Cup at Flemington.The six-year-old suffered a tendon injury in his work at home, Racing Post reported.Bauer beat all bar Viewed in last year's Melbourne Cup and trainer Luca Cumani had planned his campaign around this year's race in November."He will be out until next year. It's rather sad because we were looking forward to taking him back to Melbourne," Cumani said."Everybody in the yard is gut

A tendon injury may have ended the career of English stayer Bauer who will miss this year's Melbourne Cup at Flemington.

The six-year-old suffered a tendon injury in his work at home, Racing Post reported.

Bauer beat all bar Viewed in last year's Melbourne Cup and trainer Luca Cumani had planned his campaign around this year's race in November.

"He will be out until next year. It's rather sad because we were looking forward to taking him back to Melbourne," Cumani said.

"Everybody in the yard is gutted. He will have some treatment and rest and hopefully he'll make it back next year."

The fast-finishing Bauer was beaten by the narrowest of margins last year, and it was subsequently found that he had posted a time one hundredth of a second faster than Viewed.

The discrepancy was explained by the fact that the speed sensing equipment in the saddle of the smaller Bauer crossed the line before that in Viewed's saddle despite the fact he went down by a nose.

Bauer is part-owned by Simon O'Donnell and Terry Henderson who bought a half share in the stayer through their company OTI Racing.