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Godolphin's All The Good to miss Melbourne Cup
Five-year-old horse ruled out of Tuesday's big race with hairline fracture of the cannon bone
- Godolphin's Melbourne Cup jix continued after much-fancied All The Good was ruled out of Tuesday's race with a hairline fracture of the cannon bone.
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Dubai: Godolphin's Melbourne Cup jix continued after much-fancied All The Good was ruled out of Tuesday's race with a hairline fracture of the cannon bone.
The five-year-old was bidding to give Godolphin their first ever win in Australia's most famous race, run over 3,200 metres.
"All The Good was unsound three days ago and missed his work on Thursday. The last round of x-rays have shown up a tiny hairline fracture of the cannon bone," Godolphin trainer Saeed Bin Surour said on the stable's website from Australia.
"He was the perfect horse. I believed in my heart that this was the horse that would run very well in the Melbourne Cup.
"He won the Caulfield Cup and he was improving all the time. When he won at Newbury, he won easy and then he won the Group One in Australia - we just have no luck in this race."
The chief executive of the Australian Racing Board, Andrew Harding, said All the Good's scratching is a blow for the event.
"Of course we're all very disappointed, especially for the connections," he said. "But if there is a silver lining it's that because the decision's been made at this relatively early stage, it will give another horse a chance."
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