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. Saddlecloth Horse Trainer Jockey Weight Barrier Placing 1 Shocking Mark Kavanagh Michael Rodd 57 24 18th 2 Campanologist (USA) Saeed bin Suroor (UAE) Kerrin McEvoy 56 19 16th 3 So You Think (NZ) Bart Cummings Steven Arnold 56 3 3rd 4 Zipping Robert Hickmott Nicholas Hall 55.5 16 4th 5 Illustrious Blue (GB) William J Knight (GB) Glen Boss 55 9 9th 6 Mr Medici (IRE) Peter Ho (HK) Darren Beadman 55 5 10th 7 Shoot Out John Wallace Corey Brown 55 17 13th 8 Americain (USA) Alain de Royer-Dupré (FR) Gérald Mossé 54.5 12 1st 9 Tokai Trick (JPN) Kenji Nonaka (JPN) Shinji Fujita 54.5 4 12th 10 Buccellati (GB) Tony Noonan Steven King 54 21 20th 11 Descarado (NZ) Gai Waterhouse Nash Rawiller 54 1 9998did not finish 12 Harris Tweed (NZ) Murray & Bjorn Baker Brad Rawiller 54 13 5th 13 Manighar (FR) Luca Cumani (GB) Damien Oliver 54 20 7th 14 Master O'Reilly (NZ) Danny O'Brien Vlad Duric 54 18 15th 15 Monaco Consul (NZ) Michael Moroney Craig Williams 54 14 14th 16 Profound Beauty (IRE) Dermot K Weld (IRE) Pat Smullen 54 22 17th 17 Zavite (NZ) Anthony Cummings Michael Walker 54 7 22nd 18 Bauer (IRE) Luca Cumani (GB) Chris Munce 53.5 2 9999scratched 19 Holberg (UAE) Saeed bin Suroor (UAE) Frankie Dettori 53.5 10 6th 20 Precedence (NZ) Bart Cummings J M Winks 53.5 15 8th 21 Red Ruler (NZ) John Sargent (NZ) Mark Du Plessis 53.5 8 19th 22 Linton Robert Hickmott Brett Prebble 52 23 21st 23 Once Were Wild Gai Waterhouse Jim Cassidy 51.5 11 11th 24 Maluckyday (NZ) Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes Luke Nolen 51 6 2nd
References
External links 2010 Melbourne Cup result