Winning owner 'filthy' over Melbourne Cup ride

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One of the owners of Melbourne Cup victor Gold Trip has revealed helium was "filthy" with the mode the equine was being ridden during the race.

Starting from obstruction 14, Gold Trip was towards the process of the tract arsenic they passed the station for the archetypal time, and was trapped wide the full trip.

Jockey Mark Zahra was inactive 3 wide arsenic the tract turned for home, but recovered a tally down the extracurricular to instrumentality retired the 162nd moving of the race.

Speaking to 4BC's Wide World of Sports Radio, Noel Greenhalgh said helium was acrophobic astir the tactics.

"To beryllium honorable with you, successful the tally I was spewing. I was filthy. The information that helium was good back, 3 wide, though helium had cover, I conscionable find it truly hard erstwhile the equine is moving 3 wide.

"He was successful the aforesaid presumption successful the Caulfield Cup, (it) astir apt outgo america the race.

"The contention was tally astatine a genuine pace, to beryllium honorable with you, Zahra was the eventual professional. He knew what helium had nether him."

Gold Trip finished 2nd successful past month's Caulfield Cup, run down successful the shadows of the wining station by Durston.

The representation of that contention had Greenhalgh disquieted successful the last stages of the Melbourne Cup.

"At the 200 mark, he's kicked wide and the yellowish equine (Emissary) was getting aft him, I thought we were successful a spot of strife," helium said.

"But helium showed immoderate genuine resoluteness and truly stretched out, and was really going distant astatine the clip I think."

Speaking to Nine's Today, an "elated" Zahra said the feeling was hard to enactment into words.

"The past 100 metres seemed to consciousness similar it went for astir 5 minutes," helium joked.

"The Flemington consecutive is truthful agelong and I was like, wherever is that winning post, hurry up!

"It seemed to instrumentality forever.

"I was astir apt 50 metres retired erstwhile I realised I was going to triumph it. You conscionable fto it each out.

"It's precise hard to picture the feeling. It's amazing."

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