The Caulfield Cup is a Group 1 open handicap race that takes place each year at Caulfield racecourse during the Melbourne spring racing carnival in October. The race is run over a distance of 2400 metres and worth $2,500,000 in prizemoney. The 2011 Caulfield Cup was won by Southern Speed from Green Moon with Tullamore third.
The Caulfield Cup is become one of the world's richest handicap races over a distance of 2400 metres and is Australia's second biggest Cup race after the Melbourne Cup. The race itself is the premier race of the three day Caulfield racing carnival, with the Gr1 Caulfield Guineas for three-year-olds held on the preceding Saturday, while the Thousand Guineas for fillies takes place on the middle Wednesday prior to the Cup.
The Caulfield racing carnival in October, especially the Caulfield Cup, signals the beginning of big time racing in Melbourne, as spring carnival racing only gets bigger and better with the running of the Gr1 WS Cox Plate one week later and the AAMI Victoria Derby the following week.
The Caulfield Cup also combines with the Melbourne Cup to form the major Cup's double of the Spring carnival. Bookmakers provide doubles betting markets well in advance of the Caulfield Cup and punters outlay huge amounts of money trying to find the winner of both races to score a big multiple double result.
The Caulfield Cup has been won by some of our very best thoroughbreds including the brilliant Might and Power who streeted the field to win as he liked in 1997, and the great Western Australian galloper Northerly who carried 58 kilograms to win in 2002.
Southern Speed (2011) finished fourth in the Gr1 Turnbull Stakes before winning this event and recent Caulfield Cup winners include Descarado (2010) and Viewed (2009).
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The Caulfield Cup is an important lead up race to the Melbourne Cup and often those horses who win or run well over the 2400 metres of the Caulfield race will feature prominently when they contest the great race on the first Tuesday in November.
In recent times four horses who have won the big Cup's double, including Let's Elope (1991), Doriemus (1995), Might and Power (1997) and Ethereal (2001) and it will pay to keep a keen eye on those horses contesting the Caulfield Cup as there may be a potential Melbourne Cup winner running around.
Descarado (2010) contested the 2010 Melbourne Cup and did not finish the race, while Viewed (2009) won this race after taking out the Melbourne Cup the previous spring.
2011 Caulfield Cup result
1. $10.00 Southern Speed 52.5 C Williams
2. $11.00 Green Moon 53.0 N Hall
3. $20.00 Tullamore 54.5 C Newitt
then followed
4. $13.00 Manighar 56.5 D Oliver
5. $15.00 Lucas Cranach 56.0 C Brown
6. $61.00 Unusual Suspect 56.5 N Rawiller
7. $26.00 Drunken Sailor 56.5 D Dunn
8. $51.00 Macedonian 53.0 L Nolen
9. $31.00 Shootoff 55.0 K McEvoy
10. $26.00 Precedence 56.0 S Arnold
11. $21.00 Absolutely 54.0 B Rawiller
12. $41.00 Niwot 53.5 D Yendall
13. $21.00 Hawk Island 55.5 G Schofield
14. $21.00 Saptapadi 54.5 M Zahra
15. $91.00 Dream Pedlar 53.5 C Symons
16. $151.00 Domesky 53.0 B Avdulla
17. $8.00 Mighty High 57.0 D Beadman
18. $3.30 December Draw 54.5 M Rodd
Margins: 1 1/2 len, 1/2 len Time: 2:28.44
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