The 163^rd working of the Group 1 $8.41 million Lexus Melbourne Cup (3200m) takes place on Tuesday, November 7, and the official remaining discipline and barrier draw for the basic are actually full.

Gold Journey will soar from barrier two on Tuesday for his title defence within the 2023 Melbourne Cup discipline at Flemington. Photograph: Steve Hart.

Very long time favorite Vauban hails from the Irish stables of Willie Mullins and is well-supported to steal the present after arising trumps with barrier three.

Tuesday marks his maiden run down underneath however the gifted Galiway gelding was monumental in his early Flemington trackwork.

A champion hurdler and flat racing star at residence, he has an excellent two-mile strike-rate (5:2-2-1) and can take the facility of beating with Ryan Moore aboard on 55kg.

Fellow Irish raider Media Puzzle ready by Dermot Okay Weld again in 2002 was the final Melbourne Cup winner from barrier three.

Up to date Melbourne Cup odds at Ladbrokes have Vauban into $3.30 and firming to be the subsequent.

Mullins additionally saddles-up Vauban’s underrated stablemate Absurde with the Fastnet Rock six-year-old in on 53kg.

Absurde was final seen saluting within the Ebor Handicap (2816m) at York in late August to punch his ticket into the Melbourne Cup discipline with a hefty 60.5kg on his again.

He additionally drew favourably in Saturday night’s Melbourne Cup barrier draw with gate eight that has produced 5 wins with the final being Seen in 2008.

Dermot Okay Weld additionally ready the inaugural Melbourne Cup winner from outdoors of Australia and New Zealand again in 1993 with Classic Crop.

Since then the internationals have put collectively a dominant file within the ‘Race That Stops a Nation’ with the final to beat residence the locals being Twilight Cost for Joseph O’Brien in 2020.

O’Brien celebrated his second success that 12 months having earlier ready Rekindling (2017) and is again with one remaining runner within the 2023 Melbourne Cup discipline in Okita Soushi after Valiant King was withdrawn attributable to lameness on Friday night.

Dour Japanese star, Breakup, seeking to atone for his unplaced Caulfield Cup efficiency final trip is the opposite raider within the combine and Tatsuya Yoshioka is on the town for the prized trip.

Breakup suffered an early blow drawing out in gate 18 with Verry Elleegant in 2021 the primary ever Melbourne Cup winner from that barrier.

Gold Journey took out the Melbourne Cup final 12 months with the 57.5kg topweight in an upset and returns at a lot shorter odds seeking to change into the primary to win a number of editions of the occasion since Makybe Diva’s three-peat (2003-05).

He’ll cart 58.5kg with Cox Plate successful hoop James McDonald booked for the trip, which is a weight no Melbourne Cup winner has carried to victory since Suppose Massive received his second in 1975.

Gold Journey was one other massive winner within the Melbourne Cup barrier draw and can begin one contained in the favorite from gate two.

He occupies the second line of betting at $4.40 to change into the primary back-to-back winner with completely different jockeys.

Mark Zahra received on Gold Journey final spring however has opted to trip rival With out A Combat as he chases back-to-back Melbourne Cup victories this season.

The Anthony & Sam Freedman-trained With out A Combat was 13^th as a global with Simon & Ed Crisford within the race 12 months in the past.

He comes into this 12 months’s discipline match as a extra mature galloper with the arrogance of his final begin Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) victory.

With out A Combat carried 55.5kg to win the Caulfield Cup and goes up a kilo on Tuesday seeking to change into the 12^th horse in historical past, and the primary since Ethereal (2001), to finish the Caufield Cup – Melbourne Cup double.

He’ll begin from barrier 16 and is at the moment at a quote of $7.50.

Final 12 months’s successful trainers Ciaron Maher & David Eustace have a stranglehold on the Melbourne Cup discipline this spring numbers-wise with Gold Journey joined within the line-up by 4 stablemates.

The Bart Cummings winner Future Historical past in on simply 50kg, Proper You Are, Geelong Cup runner-up Ashrun to be ridden by three-time Melbourne Cup successful jockey Kerrin McEvoy, and Bendigo Cup winner Interpretation full the secure’s contingent.

The opposite best-represented coach on this 12 months’s Melbourne Cup discipline with 4 remaining acceptors is Chris Waller who received in 2021 along with his star mare Verry Elleegant.

The most effective of the Waller clan this 12 months is Soulcombe to be ridden from barrier 4 by the ‘Magic Man’ Joao Moreira, and the son of Frankle’s lead-up run was a Caulfield Cup seventh.

The opposite Waller-trained runners are triple-figure roughie Magical Lagoon, Sheraz who has had some harm considerations within the lead-up, and one of many darkish horses within the discipline Extra Felons drawn the acute outdoors in barrier 24.

Jamie Kah has picked up the trip on Extra Felons at 50.5kg and the European import has some assist for an upset off his slashing Australian race debut when a half-length fifth within the Geelong Cup on October 25.

Michelle Payne on 100/1 outsider Prince Of Penzance in 2015 is at the moment the one feminine Melbourne Cup successful jockey.

Together with Kah the opposite feminine riders seeking to change into the second are Rachel King on Navy Mission for Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott and English hoop Hollie Doyle on the aforementioned Future Historical past.

Different notable Melbourne Cup horses within the combine embody Kris Lees’ Group 2 Moonee Valley Gold Cup winner Cleveland to be ridden by Michael Dee from out in barrier 23, diminutive however thrilling imported French mare Lastotchka who Craig Williams will trip first-up down underneath additionally vast in gate 21, and 2019 champion Vow And Declare lining-up in a Melbourne Cup race for the fourth consecutive 12 months from gate 19.

The 2023 Lexus Melbourne Cup is scheduled to leap at 3:00pm (AEDT) as Flemington Race 7 on Tuesday.

2023 Lexus Melbourne Cup Subject & Boundaries

Desk Credit score: Racing Australia.

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