CARDINAL WIN

HISTORY POINTS TO TREBLE FOR McEVOY, DOUBLE F0R WOHLER

JOCKEYS

Glen Boss (Ventura Storm) has the best record with three Cup wins, ahead of two-time winner Kerrin McEvoy (Red Cardinal). The other jockeys who have won the race are Corey Brown (Rekindling) and Blake Shinn (Humidor).

HORSE COLOUR

Most horses are bay and that’s normally what the winner is. This year only the chestnut Single Gaze is not bay.

SILKS

Twenty-six of the past 50 winners have had white in their colours, and 23 blue. Blue is tomorrow’s dominant colour ahead of white and green.

WEIGHT

Horses carrying 54.5kg (Johannes Vermeer) have the best record, but anywhere between 53-56.5kg is fine as 30 winners have been in that range.

OWNERS

Lloyd Williams (Almandin, Bondi Beach, Gallante, Rekindling, Johannes Vermeer, US Army Ranger) has had five Cup winners. On the flip

side, Goldolphin (Hartnell) has never won despite numerous runners.

BARRIERS

Gate 11 (Single Gaze) has provided six winners since 1966, ahead of 14 (Almandin) with four wins. Then come 3, 5, 10 and 21.

AGE

Five and six-year-olds have the best records, followed by four-year-olds. Four seven-year-olds have won in the past 50 years, but no horse eight or older (Almandin, Max Dynamite, Wicklow Brave, Thomas Hobson).

TRAINERS

Darren Weir (Amelie’s Star, Humidor, Big Duke), Cismontane (Gai Waterhouse), Robert Hickmott (Almandin, Bondi Beach, Gallante), Andreas Wohler (Red Cardinal) and David Hayes (Boom Time, Ventura Storm) have won the Cup.

SADDLECLOTH NUMBER

No.6 (Red Cardinal) has the best record with six wins. Then come No.2 (Almandin) and No.8 (Bondi Beach) with five wins.

GENDER

Geldings (28) dominate stallions (16) in the past 50 years with mares a distant third.

3200M WINNERS

Hartnell, Almandin, Red Cardinal, Max Dynamite, Wicklow Brave, Gallante, Thomas Hobson.

AND THE WINNERS IS ...

1 Red Cardinal 2 Wall Of Fire 3 Almandin 4 Marmelo 5 Humidor