Race: English Cup horse in track disaster

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: October 25, 2005 | Copyright information


AAP General News (Australia)

10-25-2005

Race: English Cup horse in track disaster

By Mike Hedge, Senior Correspondent

MELBOURNE, Oct 25 AAP - The Melbourne Cup campaign of English stayer Carte Diamond
came to a spectacular and bloody end today when the horse was involved in a freak training
mishap at Flemington.

Carte Diamond had been performing his final Cup gallop when jockey Weichong Marwing
fell from the saddle and the...

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