2010 Melbourne Cup

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.
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 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	18th
2	Campanologist	Saeed bin Suroor	Kerrin McEvoy	56	19	16th
3	So You Think	Bart Cummings	Steven Arnold	56	3	3rd
4	Zipping	Robert Hickmott	Nicholas Hall	55.5	16	4th
5	Illustrious Blue	William J Knight	Glen Boss	55	9	9th
6	Mr Medici	Peter Ho	Darren Beadman	55	5	10th
7	Shoot Out	John Wallace	Corey Brown	55	17	13th
8	Americain	Alain de Royer-Dupré	Gérald Mossé	54.5	12	1st
9	Tokai Trick	Kenji Nonaka	Shinji Fujita	54.5	4	12th
10	Buccellati	Tony Noonan	Steven King	54	21	20th
11	Descarado	Gai Waterhouse	Nash Rawiller	54	1	9998did not finish
12	Harris Tweed	Murray & Bjorn Baker	Brad Rawiller	54	13	5th
13	Manighar	Luca Cumani	Damien Oliver	54	20	7th
14	Master O'Reilly	Danny O'Brien	Vlad Duric	54	18	15th
15	Monaco Consul	Michael Moroney	Craig Williams	54	14	14th
16	Profound Beauty	Dermot K Weld	Pat Smullen	54	22	17th
17	Zavite	Anthony Cummings	Michael Walker	54	7	22nd
18	Bauer	Luca Cumani	Chris Munce	53.5	2	9999scratched
19	Holberg	Saeed bin Suroor	Frankie Dettori	53.5	10	6th
20	Precedence	Bart Cummings	J M Winks	53.5	15	8th
21	Red Ruler	John Sargent	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	Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes	Luke Nolen	51	6	2nd