[1] He came close to winning Australian racing's greatest prize on three occasions, with seconds in the Melbourne Cup on Chagemar (1984), Super Impose (1989) and On A Jeune (2005).
Gauci won five races on trainer Lee Freedman's champion Super Impose, including an Epsom Handicap (1990), and rode Lonhro to victory in the Caulfield Guineas (2001) and the St George Stakes (2004) in his two rides on the "black flash".
[3] At the 2005 and 2006 Spring Carnivals in Melbourne, Gauci won a feature race on El Segundo, and was narrowly beaten in the Cox Plate.
[4] In June 2011, at Mornington racecourse, the horse he was riding had a heart attack under him, crashed through the running rail, collapsed and died.
At his final race meeting, Gauci rode a $17 winner, the aptly named Goodwill, for owner Lloyd Williams.