An old-fashioned approach has given a new-age racing partnership its finest moment, with top-weight Gold Trip winning the Melbourne Cup.
In a triumph for spring perseverance, Gold Trip defeated Emissary and stablemate High Emocean in Australia’s greatest race.
Gold Trip made light of his 57.5kg under jockey Mark Zahra, revelling in the soft ground to provide co-trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace with a Melbourne Cup breakthrough.
Maher and Eustace are renowned for employing a sports science slant to their training methods, using data and technology to fine-tune a team of thoroughbreds that are spread across multiple Victorian stables and a satellite operation in Sydney….