The 2009 Melbourne Cup

Melbourne Cup

The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races...

, the 149th running of Australia's most prestigious Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 horse race was run on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, starting at 3:00 PM local time

Time in Australia

Australia uses Standard time, i.e: the same well defined time for a region. The proper names of Australia's time zones are Australian Western Standard Time , Australian Central Standard Time , and Australian Eastern Standard Time...

 (0400 UTC).

The race was won by Shocking

Shocking

Shocking is an Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse, trained by Mark Kavanagh, who won the 149th Melbourne Cup on 3 November 2009 by three-quarters of a length.-Pedigree:...

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The 9-1 winner, trained by Mark Kavanagh and ridden by Corey Brown, won by three-quarters of a length

Length (horse racing)

A horse length, or simply length, is a unit of measurement that refers to the length of a horse from nose to tail, approximately 8 feet, It is commonly used in Thoroughbred horse racing, where it describes the distance between horses in a race...

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Participating Horses

Horses are from Australia, unless otherwise indicated.

Entry Order	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Weight (kg)		Placing
1	Viewed Viewed Viewed was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 148th Melbourne Cup on 4 November 2008. Prior to the Cup, Viewed won the AJC JRA Plate and qualified by winning the Brisbane Cup on 9 June 2008....	Bart Cummings Bart Cummings James Bartholomew 'Bart' Cummings, AM is one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers. He is known as the Cups King, referring to the Melbourne Cup, as the he has won the 'race that stops a nation' a record 12 times....	Brad Rawiller	58.0	9	7
2	C'est La Guerre C'est La Guerre C'est La Guerre is a New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse who on 1 March 2008 won the New Zealand Derby by four lengths, the largest winning margin of the race in ten years.... (NZ)	John Sadler (NZ)	Nicholas Hall Nicholas Hall Nicholas Hall is a young Melbourne Jockey originally from Brisbane, Queensland. He competed in the 2008 Melbourne Cup riding 'Red Lord" and rode in the 2009 Melbourne Cup on 'C'est La Guerre'. He won the 2009 Turnbull Stakes riding Efficient ....	55.5	7	8
3	Fiumicino(NZ)	M,W & J Hawkes	Steven King	55.5	24	22
4	Master O'Reilly Master O'Reilly Master O'Reilly is a New Zealand bred race horse trained by Judy Mawer. He was the 2007 winner of the Caulfield Cup when ridden by Vlad Duric.... (NZ)	Danny O'Brien Danny O'Brien Danny O'Brien is an English technology journalist and civil liberties activist. He wrote weekly columns for the Sunday Times and the Irish Times; and before that for The Guardian, and acted as a consultant in helping The Guardian formulate its online strategy. He worked for the UK edition of...	Vlad Duric	55.0	16	4
5	Mourilyan(IRE)	Herman Brown (RSA South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans... )	Glyn Schofield	54.5	14	3
6	Roman Emperor(NZ)	Bart Cummings Bart Cummings James Bartholomew 'Bart' Cummings, AM is one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers. He is known as the Cups King, referring to the Melbourne Cup, as the he has won the 'race that stops a nation' a record 12 times....	Hugh Bowman	54.0	15	21
7	Ista Kareem(NZ)	Colin Little	Luke Nolen	53.5	23	15
8	Crime Scene(IRE)	Saeed bin Suroor Saeed bin Suroor Saeed bin Suroor , is a horse racing trainer. Formerly a policeman, he took out his training license in 1994 and the following year was appointed as the trainer for Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin operation....  (UAE United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a... )	Kerrin McEvoy	53.0	11	2
9	Munsef(GB)	Ian Williams	Zac Purton	53.0	5	12
10	Zavite(NZ)	Anthony Cummings	Mark Zahra	53.0	3	19
11	Alcopop	Jake Stephens	Dom Tournuer	53.0	12	6
12	Harris Tweed(NZ)	Murray & Bjorn Baker	Craig Newitt	52.5	20	5
13	Kibbutz(NZ)	Jarrod McLean	Chris Symons	52.5	8	9
14	Newport	Paul Perry	Peter Wells	52.5	18	10
15	Warringah(GB)	Chris Waller	Damien Oliver	52.5	8	23
16	Gallions Reach(NZ)	Richard Yuill	Dwayne Dunn	52.0	6	13
17	Spin Around	Steven Cooper(NZ)	Mark Du Plessis	52.0	4	20
18	Basaltico(IRE)	Luca Cumani Luca Cumani Luca M. Cumani is an Italian thoroughbred horse trainer. He has trained at Bedford House Stables in Newmarket, England since 1976...  (GB)	Danny Nikolic	51.5	10	18
19	Capecover(NZ)	Alexander R Fieldes	Noel Harris	51.5	19	17
20	Daffodil(NZ)	Kevin Gray	Chris Munce	51.5	21	11
21	Shocking Shocking Shocking is an Australian bred Thoroughbred racehorse, trained by Mark Kavanagh, who won the 149th Melbourne Cup on 3 November 2009 by three-quarters of a length.-Pedigree:...	Mark Kavanagh	Corey Brown	51.0	22	1
22	Allez Wonder	Bart Cummings Bart Cummings James Bartholomew 'Bart' Cummings, AM is one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers. He is known as the Cups King, referring to the Melbourne Cup, as the he has won the 'race that stops a nation' a record 12 times....	Michelle Payne Michelle Payne Michelle Payne is an Australian jockey.-Early life:The youngest daughter of the eleven children of Paddy and Mary, Payne grew up on a farm at Miners Rest, a locality near Ballarat in central Victoria. Mary died in a motor vehicle accident when Michelle was six months old, leaving Paddy to raise...	50.5	13	16
23	Changingoftheguard(IRE)	David A. Hayes	Glen Boss Glen Boss Glen Boss is an Australian jockey, considered a champion, who is best known for riding Makybe Diva to victory in three consecutive Melbourne Cups - 2003, 2004, and 2005.-External links:***...	50.5	1	SCR
24	Leica Ding	Darren Weir	Craig Williams	50.5	2	14

Notes
Horses in barriers to the outside of the scratched horse will move inwards.