These horses below paid up at Third Declarations of the Melbourne Cup today - October 24th. This is their order of entry for the Cup. The field will be whittled down to 24 horses. These horses will be declared after next Saturday's Flemington race meeting.
HORSE, AGE, SEX & TRAINER
1 MAKYBE DIVA (GB) 7M Lee Freedman
2 VINNIE ROE (IRE) 8H Dermot Weld
3 GREYS INN (USA) 5H Mike de Kock
4 DISTINCTION (IRE) 7G Michael Stoute
5 RAILINGS 4G John Hawkes
6 PLASTERED 4G Lee Freedman
7 HOLLOW BULLET 4M John McArdle
8 XCELLENT (NZ) 4G Michael Moroney
9 DIZELLE 4M John Hawkes
10 FRANKLINS GARDENS (GB) 6H M Tompkins
11 EYE POPPER (JPN) 6H Izumi Shimizu
12 PORTLAND SINGA (NZ) 6M Neville McBurney
13 VOUVRAY (NZ) 5M Peter G Moody
14 DEMERGER 5M Danny O'Brien
15 IRISH DARLING 4M Tony Vasil
16 SIR DEX 5G Gregory Hickman
17 LACHLAN RIVER (NZ) 4G John Morrisey
18 BAZELLE (NZ) 6M Paul Jenkins
19 CARTE DIAMOND (USA) 5H Brian Ellison
20 KINDJHAL (FR) 6H David Hayes
21 HUGS DANCER (FR) 9G David Hayes
22 SWIFT TANGO (IRE) 6G David Hayes
23 LEICA FALCON 4G Richard Freyer
24 UMBULA 6G Mick Price
25 ON A JEUNE 5G Peter Montgomerie
26 DON RAPHAEL 6G Kerry Parker
27 RIZON 6G Cliff Brown
28 ENVOY (NZ) 7G Ken Kelso
29 ZACIELO (NZ) 6G Peter G Moody
30 KAMSKY 4G Bart Cummings
31 SARRERA 5G Michael Moroney
32 SPECIAL SCENE 7G Dan O'Sullivan
Not yet fully qualified
33 CONFECTIONER 5G David Hayes
34 STRASBOURG 6G Bart Cummings
35 MR CELEBRITY (NZ) 5G Gai Waterhouse
36 LESTER THUNDERWING 7G Ken Keys
37 COMMAND 'N CONQUER (NZ) 6G Chris Wood
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