2010 Melbourne Cup
# 2010 Melbourne Cup

   With 250 meters to go, So You Think has raced up, Americain is a danger then Harris Tweed, Tokai Trick the rail. So You Think in front, Americain is coming at him hard. Americain raced past So You Think and then Maluckyday. Americain for France coming right away Americain. Americain is coming away, Americain Tres Bien!

Commentator Greg Miles describes the climax of the race

The 2010 Melbourne Cup, the 150th running of Australia's most prestigious Thoroughbred horse race, was held on Tuesday, 2 November 2010 at 3:00 PM. local time (0400 UTC).

It was won by Americain, a French-trained horse who had won the Geelong Cup at his only other Australian start. Second placing went to the lightly raced Lexus Stakes winner Maluckyday, while third placing went to dual Cox Plate winner and short-priced favourite So You Think.

The official winning time was 3:26.87 with the margins of 2.8 lengths and 0.5 lengths back to third. The race was run on a slow (6) track with persistent rain falling causing flooding and closure of the Cup Day car park.

## Field

Horses are bred and trained in Australia, unless otherwise indicated. All columns in this table can be sorted by clicking the icons in the top row.

| Saddle cloth | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Weight | Barrier | Placing |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Shocking | Mark Kavanagh | Michael Rodd | 57 | 24 | 18 |
| 2 | Campanologist (USA) | Saeed bin Suroor (UAE) | Kerrin McEvoy | 56 | 19 | 16 |
| 3 | So You Think (NZ) | Bart Cummings | Steven Arnold | 56 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Zipping | Robert Hickmott | Nicolas Hall | 55.5 | 16 | 4 |
| 5 | Illustrious Blue (GB) | William J Knight (GB) | Glen Boss | 55 | 9 | 9 |
| 6 | Mr Medici (IRE) | Peter Ho (HK) | Darren Beadman | 55 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | Shoot Out | John Wallace | Corey Brown | 55 | 17 | 13 |
| 8 | Americain (USA) | Alain de Royer-Dupré (FR) | Gérald Mossé | 54.5 | 12 | 1 |
| 9 | Tokai Trick (JPN) | Kenji Nonaka (JPN) | Shinji Fujita | 54.5 | 4 | 12 |
| 10 | Buccellati (GB) | Tony Noonan | Steven King | 54 | 21 | 20 |
| 11 | Descarado (NZ) | Gai Waterhouse | Nash Rawiller | 54 | 1 | 9998did not finish |
| 12 | Harris Tweed (NZ) | Murray & Bjorn Baker | Brad Rawiller | 54 | 13 | 5 |
| 13 | Manighar (FR) | Luca Cumani (GB) | Damien Oliver | 54 | 20 | 7 |
| 14 | Master O'Reilly (NZ) | Danny O'Brien | Vlad Duric | 54 | 18 | 15 |
| 15 | Monaco Consul (NZ) | Michael Moroney | Craig Williams | 54 | 14 | 14 |
| 16 | Profound Beauty (IRE) | Dermot K Weld (IRE) | Pat Smullen | 54 | 22 | 17 |
| 17 | Zavite (NZ) | Anthony Cummings | Michael Walker | 54 | 7 | 22 |
| 18 | Bauer (IRE) | Luca Cumani (GB) | Chris Munce | 53.5 | 2 | 9999scratched |
| 19 | Holberg (UAE) | Saeed bin Suroor (UAE) | Frankie Dettori | 53.5 | 10 | 6 |
| 20 | Precedence (NZ) | Bart Cummings | J M Winks | 53.5 | 15 | 8 |
| 21 | Red Ruler (NZ) | John Sargent (NZ) | Mark Du Plessis | 53.5 | 8 | 19 |
| 22 | Linton | Robert Hickmott | Brett Prebble | 52 | 23 | 21 |
| 23 | Once Were Wild | Gai Waterhouse | Jim Cassidy | 51.5 | 11 | 11 |
| 24 | Maluckyday (NZ) | Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes | Luke Nolen | 51 | 6 | 2 |
