Champion jockey reveals his Cup first four

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If you're a once-a-year punter wondering wherever to enactment your dosh connected this year's Melbourne Cup, oregon you conscionable don't person capable clip to trawl done the signifier usher - look nary further.

Two-time champion Cup jockey Corey Brown has revealed his champion stake connected this year's $7.75 cardinal Flemington feature, and his predicted archetypal 4 finishers successful order.

Brown - present retired - knows a happening oregon 2 astir what it takes to triumph the 3200m contention that stops a nation.

He did it doubly - connected Shocking successful 2009, and again connected Rekindling successful 2017.

"Obviously it takes a bully horse, and it takes a equine who tin really stay," Brown told Wide World of Sports.

"We don't person a batch of staying races, oregon two-mile races present successful Australia, truthful that's wherefore I deliberation the Europeans person dominated implicit the past twelve oregon truthful years. They've got a batch much opportunities to contention successful longer races, whereas we haven't truly got that staying program.

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"You request a equine that volition unbend and enactment the distance."

Here is however Brown thinks the archetypal 4 horses successful Tuesday's Melbourne Cup volition finish, and beneath is the trifecta stake helium recommends.

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4th - PONDUS

"The Lloyd Williams colours, for one. And Rachel King, it's her archetypal thrust successful the Cup. The equine is successful bully capable signifier with nary measurement connected its backmost and I deliberation it volition tally well."

3rd - FLOATING ARTIST

"This horse's tally successful the Moonee Valley Cup, I thought was outstanding. A small spot unlucky going into the run. Ciaron Maher and Dave Eustace are having an unbelievable tally and I conscionable deliberation this equine volition enactment the trip."

2nd - SPANISH MISSION

"This equine is coming with due form. The signifier astir it implicit successful Europe is due Group 1 form. He's been moving against immoderate astonishing horses implicit there. He's got to beryllium successful there."

1st - INCENTIVISE

"His archetypal 2 wins successful Melbourne didn't impressment maine that much. I'm really bully mates with (jockey) Brett Prebble and I rang him and said, 'are you putting pick connected the top, spruiking this horse?', and helium said, 'no, he's the existent deal'. His Caulfield Cup tally was amazing. He covered a batch of ground. He got into 1 disconnected the obstruction astatine the backmost for a furlong and a half, past Brett popped him retired again astatine the 1000m and rolled him into the race.

"I was rapt erstwhile the obstruction gully came retired and helium had drawn 16, it's cleanable for him. He didn't privation to beryllium connected the wrong getting cluttered up, due to the fact that if helium did hap to miss the commencement Brett would person 23 different jockeys riding against him, due to the fact that it's conscionable what you do. But he's a truly peculiar horse. If helium had drawn wrong 8 oregon 10 I'd beryllium concerned, but drawn retired wherever helium is he's got a bully agelong tally to the archetypal turn, Brett volition person him up successful the archetypal fractional a dozen. He needs room, the horse, and that's what that obstruction is going to do."

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