CAULFIELD CUP WINNER JOINS EFFICIENT AT TOP OF WEIGHTS
RACING Victoria Ltd (RVL) Chief Handicapper, Greg Carpenter, today announced a 1kg weight penalty for Viewed in the $5.5m Emirates Melbourne Cup following his win in the $2.5m BMW Caulfield Cup on Saturday.
Viewed, the reigning Melbourne Cup champion, joins 2007 cup winner Efficient at the top of the weights for Flemington’s 3 November feature on 58kg.
In the last 30 years, 26 horses have run in the Melbourne Cup with 58kg or more, but only one,
Makybe Diva in 2005, has been successful.
In the same period two horses have won the Caulfield Cup carrying 57kg, the weight carried to
success by the Bart Cummings-trained Viewed on Saturday, or more.
Ming Dynasty won the 1980 edition with 58kg and was not penalised for the Melbourne Cup
where he subsequently finished 17th. In 2002, Northerly won with 58kg and received a 2kg
penalty for the Melbourne Cup, but he was withdrawn before final acceptances.
“The win of Viewed on Saturday confirmed him as one of the great stayers of the modern era,”Carpenter said. “He was already high up in the Melbourne Cup weights and his new weight of 58kg represents an increase of 5kg on his Cup winning weight in 2008.
“He will need to emulate the deeds of Makybe Diva in 2005 when she became the only horse in
the last 30 years to win the Melbourne Cup with more than 57kg.
“In determining the penalty it was important to understand that additional weight will have a
greater impact on the performance of a horse higher up in the handicap than it will on a lightly
weighted runner.
“I was also mindful that the Melbourne Cup represents a new challenge for Viewed with
Efficient, Speed Gifted and Alcopop, last start winners of the Turnbull Stakes, Metropolitan
Handicap and Herbert Power Stakes respectively set to run, along with a second wave of
international entries who did not contest the Caulfield Cup.”
Third declarations for the Emirates Melbourne Cup close at 10am on Monday, 26 October.
MELBOURNE CUP runners with 58kg or more and how they fared:
2008 Septimus 58.5 18th
2006 Yeats 59.0 7th
2005 Makybe Diva 58.0 1st
Vinnie Roe 58.0 8th
2004 Vinnie Roe 58.0 2nd
2002 Vinnie Roe 59.0 4th
1999 Tie The Knot 58.0 14th
1998 Faithful Son 58.0 7th
Doriemus 58.0 19th
1996 Doriemus 58.0 6th
1995 Vintage Crop 59.0 3rd
Jeune 59.0 15th
Double Trigger 60.5 17th
1994 Vintage Crop 60.0 7th
1993 Drum Taps 58.5 9th
Subzero 58.5 15th
1992 Better Loosen Up 59.0 12th
Super Impose 59.0 15th
1991 Super Impose 60.0 4th
1990 Sydeston 58.5 11th
1982 Kingston Town 59.0 2nd
Just A Dash 59.5 16th
1981 Hyperno 58.0 6th
Kingston Town 60.5 20th
1980 Hyperno 58.5 7th
Ming Dynasty 58.0 17th
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