Viewed dashed to the front now, Viewed raced away from them, from Moatize, here's Profound Beauty running home, Bauer coming down the outside and C'est La Guerre.
Viewed is clear though, 200 meters to go, Bauer ran to second, C'est La Guerre coming home hard.
The 2008 Melbourne Cup, the 148th running of Australia's most prestigious Thoroughbred horse race, was run on Tuesday, 4 November 2008, starting at 3:00 pm local time (0400 UTC).
On 3 December 2008, Luca Cumani, trainer of second-place Bauer, announced that an inquiry was underway into treatment Bauer received on the Thursday prior to the race.
[3] However, Racing Victoria announced on 4 December that Bauer would not be disqualified.