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Green Moon ... Brett Prebble guides the six-year-old home at Flemington. Source: JULIAN SMITH / AAP
Green Moon has won the $6.2m Melbourne Cup with Brett Prebble on board in a race run under the shadow of a betting scandal.
1 - Green Moon
2 - Fiorente
3 - Jakkalberry
4 - Kelinni
Super TAB Dividends:
Green Moon - $22.50 win $7.40 place
Fiorente - $11.80 place
Jakkalberry - $16 place
Quinella: $506.90
Exacta: $765.30
Trifecta: $45941.60
First four: $969406.60
The win gave Melbourne owner-breeder Lloyd Williams his fourth Melbourne Cup and was a win for an Australian-trained horse in a field crowded with European-based stayers.
The Hong Kong-based Prebble said after the race it was his "life dream" to win the Melbourne Cup and now felt as though he had now won racing's pinnacle on the former English stayer.
Shocking a field of foreign stars, Green Moon, trained by Robert Hickmott, won the 3200m classic by a length from Fiorente and Jakkalberry, with Kelinni fourth.
Green Moon started at $20. Fiorente started at $31 and was the third Cup runner-up for trainer Gai Waterhouse. The unfancied Jakkalberry started at $81.
Dunaden ($7) finished 14th after travelling near the back of the field for most of the journey. Americain ($8) was 11th. Mount Athos ($7.50) finished hard into 5th place.
Green Moon atoned for his failure in last month's Cox Plate, where he started as favourite and finished seventh.
"I was very confident they weren't going to pick him up - he ran all the way through to the wire," Prebble said.
Williams, who won previous Cups with Just A Dash (1981), What A Nuisance (1985) and Efficient (2007) was not on course to see his horse win.
"He puts a lot into racing and he's a very good supporter of mine," Prebble said of Tuesday's run.
News_Module: FS Racing SEM Melbourne Cup Blog"He's never here. He's going to be at home enjoying it. It's lovely."
Williams's son Nick was ecstatic after accepting the trophy from Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
"We put a lot of money in and a heck of a lot of effort so to get this result today is terrific," he said.
"God bless everyone who wrote him off."
The Cup was a race run under the shadow of a betting scandal, with Australia's top jockey Damien Oliver, on board the hightly-favoured Americain, reportedly admitting to racing authorities last month that he bet $10,000 on a rival horse in a race two years ago.
Three jockeys, including Oliver and Jim Cassidy, rode in the Cup despite being under investigation by racing authorties.
Racing Victoria Limited chief executive Rob Hines would not comment on the ongoing affair but said he expected the investigation to be completed soon.
Victorian racing minister Denis Napthine said in a statement that Racing Victoria operated separately from the government and it would be inappropriate for him to comment.
Opposition racing spokesman Martin Pakula has accused the government of "prevarication bordering on negligence" by refusing to grant racing authorities the power to suspend jockeys.
For admirers of European horses, it was the best Melbourne Cup field ever assembled, with 18 of the 24 starters bred in Europe. Only two - Niwot and Ethiopia - were bred in Australia and only Ethiopia, which placed last, was bred from Australian horses.
Last year's winner, Dunaden went into the race carrying a modern weight record 59kg, and it proved to big an impost for the Caulfield Cup winner.
The $175,000 Cup was presented by the Duchess of Cornwall.
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