2006 Melbourne Cup

The 2006 Melbourne Cup was the 146th running of the Melbourne Cup, a prestigious Australian Thoroughbred horse race. The race, run over, was held on 7 November 2006 at Melbourne's Flemington Racecourse.
The winner of the 2006 Melbourne Cup was Delta Blues, ridden by Yasunari Iwata, which won by a nose ahead of Pop Rock, with Maybe Better coming in third place.
Field and barriers for the Melbourne Cup at Flemington on Tuesday 7 November after final declarations:

Field

Victoria Derby winner Efficient pulled out of the Melbourne Cup lineup early on Tuesday morning with a knee injury, reducing the field to 23 runners. Efficient was aiming to become the first three-year-old since Skipton in 1941 to claim the Derby-Cup double. Efficient returned a year later and won the 2007 Melbourne Cup.
Tawqeet was inspected by veterinarians early Tuesday after concerns had been raised he may have injured his hoof after pulling the shoe on Monday afternoon.

Saddle cloth	Form	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Weight	Barrier	Placing	Time
1	x112	Yeats	Aidan O'Brien	Kieren Fallon	59 kg	4	7th
2	30x3	Delta Blues	K Sumii	Yasunari Iwata	56 kg	10	1st	3:21.47
3	5800	Railings	John [Hawkes (horseman)\|John Hawkes]	Darren Beadman	55.5 kg	2	12th
4	5511	Tawqeet	David A. Hayes	Dwayne Dunn	55.5 kg	8	19th
5	7424	Geordieland	Jamie Osborne	Frankie Dettori	54 kg	9	18th
6	4607	Headturner	John Hawkes	Greg Childs	54 kg	18	13th
7	3600	Short Pause	D Hayes	N Callow	53.5 kg	16	14th
8	8324	Activation	Graeme Rogerson	Michael Rodd	53 kg	21	8th
9	5160	Land 'N Stars	J Poulton	J Egan	53 kg	6	5th
10	4960	Mahtoum	Kim Waugh	Corey Brown	53 kg	7	6th
11	5056	On a Jeune	P Montgomerie	Darren Gauci	53 kg	14	20th
12	11x7	Pop Rock	K Sumii	Damien Oliver	53 kg	11	2nd	3:21.50
13	1501	Zipping	Graeme Rogerson	Glen Boss	52.5 kg	19	4th	3:22.43
14	6948	Dizelle	J Hawkes	Blake Shinn	52 kg	20	17th
15	6400	Ice Chariot	R Maund	J Byrne	52 kg	1	22nd
16	x924	Kerry O'Reilly	Jim Gibbs	Cameron Lammas	52 kg	5	11th
17	x220	Zabeat	Donna Logan	Oliver Doleuze	52 kg	15	23rd
18	0045	Art Success	J Collins	A Pattillo	51.5 kg	12	16th
19	7998	Demerger	Danny O'Brien	Stephen Baster	51 kg	22	21st
20	2323	Glistening	Luca Cumani	Scott Seamer	51 kg	23	10th
21	2151	Mandela	Richard Yuill	Craig Williams	51 kg	13	9th
22	0306	Dolphin Jo	T and K O'Sullivan	A Spiteri	50 kg	17	15th
23	5811	Maybe Better	Brian Mayfield-Smith	Chris Munce	50 kg	3	3rd	3:22.18

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