Roughie wins Geelong Cup but is unlikely to press for Melbourne Cup

The connections of Geelong Cup winner Amade said they’re unlikely to press onto the Melbourne Cup, but runner-up Ashrun has all but booked his place in the race after a thrilling finish on Wednesday.

Connections, trainer Phillip Stokes and managing owner Terry Henderson, said Amade was more likely to head to the 2600-metre group 3 Queen Elizabeth Stakes on the final day of the Cup carnival, given the class of the race. He jumped as a $31 roughie on Wednesday.Racing Photos / Getty Images

“Big thanks to Terry Henderson and the team at OTI, they’ve stuck with us and trusted us with this horse.Wet weather plagued Geelong for its feature race day, but did not sour the main event, which provided an epic finish.Hot favourite First Immortal sat in the box seat throughout the race, but a number of challengers swamped him at the 100-metre mark, with Amade bursting through to get his head out at the line. headtopics.com

Third-placed Sir Lucan, who made his Australian debut for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott when 14th in last year’s Cup, is not heading to this year’s Melbourne Cup. Earlier, Danny O’Brien celebrated the win of three-year-old filly Served Cold in the Geelong Classic, who would now press onto the VRC Oaks on the Thursday of Melbourne Cup week.

“We obviously had the tragedy of El Patroness two weeks ago now we had to pick ourselves up, and we were looking forward to getting this filly up to this distance,” O’Brien said.

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