With 300 meters to go now, Precedence hit the lead but Manighar challenges strongly, Lucas Cranach and getting up on the inside Lost in the Moment with a challenge, Here's Red Caudeaux starting to flash home on the outside now.
[2][3] The winning jockey, Frenchman Christophe Lemaire, had arrived in Australia less than a day previously as a late replacement for Craig Williams.
Third placed Lucas Cranach was the best locally trained finisher and fourth placed was the pre-race favourite, the 2010 winner, Americain.
In related events the federal government's parliamentary question time was brought forward half an hour in order that it would conclude before the race began.
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