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Melbourne Cup weights: Vow And Declare gets 57kg for tilt at back-to-back Cups – Racenet
Vow And Declare will need to carry another 5kg if he is to repeat his 2019 Melbourne Cup triumph on the first Tuesday of November at Flemington.
Vow And Declare will need to carry another 5kg if he is to repeat his 2019 Melbourne Cup triumph on the first Tuesday of November at Flemington.
The Danny O’Brien-trained stayer carried 52kg to victory last year but received 57kg when Racing Victoria’s chief handicapper released the weights for the 160th running of the Melbourne Cup.
Carpenter said 3.5kg of Vow And Declare’s increase was a penalty for last year’s win while the fact he will compete as a five-year-old this year accounted for the…
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