{"id":83703,"date":"2022-11-01T15:42:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T04:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/surfcoasttimes\/?p=83703"},"modified":"2022-11-01T15:43:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T04:43:22","slug":"gold-trip-claims-the-2022-melbourne-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/surfcoasttimes\/news\/gold-trip-claims-the-2022-melbourne-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Trip claims the 2022 Melbourne Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Trip has brushed aside an international challenge to win the\u00a0<span class=\"es-highlight\">Melbourne<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"es-highlight\">Cup<\/span>, giving one of Australia&#8217;s biggest stables a breakthrough in the race.<\/p>\n<p>One of five runners for co-trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, Gold Trip defeated 2022 Geelong Cup winner Emissary and stablemate High Emocean.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-race favourite Deauville Legend had loomed ominously in the back straight before being overrun late to finish fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Gold Trip was given a perfect ride by Mark Zahra, who also celebrated his first win in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Maher has now completed a career sweep of the\u00a0<span class=\"es-highlight\">Melbourne<\/span>\u00a0spring carnival&#8217;s most important races.<\/p>\n<p>He trained Jameka to win the 2016 Caulfield\u00a0<span class=\"es-highlight\">Cup<\/span>\u00a0and teamed up with Eustace for Cox Plate glory in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>It was triumph for an old-fashioned approach to Australia&#8217;s greatest race &#8211; as well as perseverance.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the\u00a0<span class=\"es-highlight\">Melbourne<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"es-highlight\">Cup<\/span>\u00a0runners, none has been as busy during the spring as Gold Trip.<\/p>\n<p>The import went agonisingly close to winning the Caulfield\u00a0<span class=\"es-highlight\">Cup<\/span>\u00a0before taking his place against the elite in the Cox Plate and finishing unplaced.<\/p>\n<p>But under the urging of Zahra, Gold Trip delivered only the second win of his career and his first in Australia,<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; with AAP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Trip has brushed aside an international challenge to win the\u00a0Melbourne\u00a0Cup, giving one of Australia&#8217;s biggest stables a breakthrough in the race. 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