2007 Melbourne Cup

2007 Melbourne Cup
	Melbourne Cup
Location	Flemington Racecourse; Melbourne, Australia
Date	6 November 2007
Winning horse	Efficient
Jockey	Michael Rodd
Trainer	Graeme Rogerson
Surface	Grass
Attendance	102,411[1]

The 2007 Melbourne Cup, the 147th running of Australia's most prestigious thoroughbred horse race, was run on Tuesday, 6 November 2007, going at 3:00 pm local time (0400 UTC). The race was sponsored by Emirates Airline. The winner of the race was Efficient, by a half a length, followed by Purple Moon and Mahler in third.[2]

Due to the 2007 Australian Equine influenza outbreak, believed to have been started by a horse brought into Australia from Japan, neither 2006 Melbourne Cup winner Delta Blues nor runner-up Pop Rock participated in the 2007 Melbourne Cup.

Field

These were the confirmed starters, with barrier positions, jockeys, and trainers, for the 2007 Melbourne Cup:[3]

Number	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Weight (kg)	Barrier	Placing
1	Tawqeet (USA)	David Hayes	D Dunn	57	3	14
2	Blue Monday (GB)	David Hayes	Nash Rawiller	56	14	7
3	Blutigeroo	Colin Little	Luke Nolen	55.5	12	19
4	Gallic (NZ)	Graeme Rogerson	S W Arnold	55.5	24	Scratched
5	Railings	Roger James	Greg Childs	55.5	18	20
6	Efficient (NZ)	Graeme Rogerson	Michael Rodd	54.5	10	1
7	Maybe Better	Brian Mayfield-Smith	C Brown	54	7	Scratched
8	Tungsten Strike (USA)	Amanda Perrett	Darryll Holland	54	2	21
9	Zipping	Graeme Rogerson	D Nikolic	54	22	4
10	Black Tom	David Hayes	P A Hall	53.5	21	17
11	Master O'Reilly (NZ)	Danny O'Brien	V Duric	53.5	17	8
12	Purple Moon (IRE)	Luca Cumani	Damien Oliver	53.5	15	2
13	Lazer Sharp	David Hayes	Blake Shinn	52.5	16	10
14	On a Jeune	Andrew J Payne	Kerrin McEvoy	52.5	4	6
15	Scenic Shot	Daniel Morton	Mark Zahra	52.5	19	16
16	Sarrera	Michael Moroney	S Murphy	52	23	18
17	Sculptor (NZ)	Peter Mckenzie	Lisa Cropp	52	8	9
18	Dolphin Jo	Terry & Karina O'Sullivan	Claire Lindop	51.5	1	5
19	Douro Valley	Danny O'Brien	J M Winks	51.5	13	11
20	Sirmione	Bart Cummings	P Mertens	51.5	20	12
21	The Fuzz (NZ)	David Hayes	Craig Williams	51.5	11	Scratched
22	Eskimo Queen (NZ)	Michael Moroney	C Newitt	51	5	15
23	Princess Coup	Mark Walker	Noel Harris	51	9	13
24	Mahler (GB)	Aidan O'Brien	S Baster	50.5	6	3

The favourites for this year's Melbourne Cup were:

1. Master O'Reilly 2. Purple Moon 3. Zipping 4. Sirmione 5. Princess Coup

Results

Place	Barrier	Horse	Race Time
1st	9	Efficient (NZ)	3:23.34
2nd	13	Purple Moon (IRE)
3rd	6	Mahler (GB)
4th	20	Zipping
5th	1	Dolphin Jo
6th	4	On A Jeune
7th	12	Blue Monday (GB)
8th	15	Master O'Reilly (NZ)
9th	7	Sculptor (NZ)
10th	14	Lazer Sharp
11th	11	Douro Valley
12th	18	Sirmione
13th	8	Princess Coup
14th	3	Tawqeet (USA)
15th	5	Eskimo Queen (NZ)
16th	17	Scenic Shot
17th	19	Black Tom
18th	21	Sarrera
19th	10	Blutigeroo
20th	16	Railings
21st	2	Tungsten Strike (USA)
-	-	~~Gallic (NZ)~~	Scratched
-	-	~~Maybe Better~~	Scratched
-	-	~~The Fuzz (NZ)~~	Scratched

References

"Track records and Attendances". Flemington.com.au. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
2007 Melbourne Cup result
"Melbourne Cup Entries". Flemington Racecourse Website. 3 November 2007. Archived from the original on 29 October 2007. Retrieved 3 November 2007.

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[1] "Track records and Attendances". Flemington.com.au. Retrieved 3 November 2019.

[2] 2007 Melbourne Cup result

[3] "Melbourne Cup Entries". Flemington Racecourse Website. 3 November 2007. Archived from the original on 29 October 2007. Retrieved 3 November 2007.