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A fiercly competitive 2016 Melbourne Cup has been run and won at a frantic pace, with Heartbreak City taking out second place in the big race.
In what was an incredible finish after a fast race, there looked to be a three-way battle to the end before Heartbreak City and Almandin ran away up the final straight.
Heartbreak City, along with the Almandin both came up the outside of the field at around the same time and pushed away.
Heartbreak City, ridden by Joao Moreira hit the front inside the last 500 metres and got well ahead of the rest of the field who seemed to have nothing in the tank.
However, the lead over Almandin was barely more than a head most of the way up the final straight, and into the final 200 metres, the lead swapped hands with Almandin coming over the top to take the victory.
Trained by Tony Martin of Ireland, Heartbreak City just didn’t quite have the legs to keep up, but still did a wonderful job in holding off Hartnell who seemed to make its run at the finish line too early as it fell a length off the pace.
Moreira said after the race ‘in the last 50 metres, I knew my horse was getting a little bit weak. I’m going home happy with the result though.’
The second placed horse and their ownership team take $900,000 in prize money with them for their efforts in the cup.
Place | Horse | Barrier | Jockey | Age | Trainer | Weight | Odds | Margin |
1 | Almandin | 17 | Kerrin McEvoy | 7 | Robert Hickmott | 52kg | $10.00 | 03:20:58 |
2 | Heartbreak City | 23 | Joao Moreira | 7 | Tony Martin | 54kg | $19.00 | 0.2L |
3 | Hartnell | 12 | James McDonald | 6 | John O’Shea | 56kg | $5.50 | 4.45L |
4 | Qewy | 15 | Craig Williams | 7 | Charlie Appleby | 51.5kg | $29.00 | 6.7L |
5 | Who Shot Thebarman | 20 | Hugh Bowman | 8 | Chris Waller | 56kg | $34.00 | 6.8L |
6 | Almoonqith | 19 | Michael Walker | 7 | David & B Hayes & T Dabernig | 54.5kg | $34.00 | 6.9L |
7 | Beautiful Romance | 1 | Damian Lane | 5 | Saeed Bin Suroor | 52.5kg | $67.00 | 7.9L |
8 | Exospheric | 13 | Damien Oliver | 5 | Lee & Anthony Freedman | 56kg | $21.00 | 8.65L |
9 | Pentathlon | 4 | Mark Du Plessis | 5 | John Wheeler | 51.5kg | $126.00 | 9.4L |
10 | Big Orange | 7 | Jamie Spencer | 6 | Michael Bell | 57kg | $13.00 | 9.5L |
11 | Grand Marshal | 9 | Ben Melham | 7 | Chris Waller | 54.5kg | $31.00 | 9.8L |
12 | Oceanographer | 11 | Chad Schofield | 5 | Charlie Appleby | 52kg | $9.00 | 10L |
13 | Bondi Beach | 5 | Ryan Moore | 5 | Aidan O’Brien | 56kg | $10.00 | 10.75L |
14 | Grey Lion | 16 | Glen Boss | 5 | Matt Cumani | 52kg | $61.00 | 13.75L |
15 | Jameka | 3 | Nicholas Hall | 4 | Ciaron Maher | 54.5kg | $8.00 | 13.95L |
16 | Excess Knowledge | 21 | Vlad Duric | 7 | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | 53.5kg | $67.00 | 15.7L |
17 | Our Ivanhowe | 6 | Dwayne Dunn | 7 | Lee & Anthony Freedman | 57kg | $41.00 | 15.8L |
18 | Sir John Hawkwood | 14 | Blake Spriggs | 8 | John P Thompson | 54kg | $67.00 | 20.8L |
19 | Assign | 22 | Katelyn Mallyon | 6 | Robert Hickmott | 52kg | $71.00 | 20.9L |
20 | Gallante | 2 | Blake Shinn | 6 | Robert Hickmott | 54.5kg | $51.00 | 22.15L |
21 | Secret Number | 10 | Stephen Baster | 7 | Saeed Bin Suroor | 52kg | $31.00 | 22.35L |
22 | Wicklow Brave | 24 | Frankie Dettori | 8 | William Mullins | 56kg | $16.00 | 24.35L |
23 | Curren Mirotic | 18 | Tommy Berry | 9 | Osamu Hirata | 56.5kg | $51.00 | 27.35L |
24 | Rose Of Virginia | 8 | Ben E Thompson | 7 | Lee & Shannon Hope | 51.5kg | $101.00 | 99.9L |
Odds were correct as of 1:45pm (AEDT), November 1
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