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French horse wins Australia’s Melbourne Cup

A French stayer became the fourth international winner of Australia’s Melbourne Cup Tuesday by two and three-quarters of a length in the 3.2km race. Americain beat the heavily-backed race favourite So You Think about 200m from the finish line.

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"I was a bit nervous when I saw the favourite starting to cruise between horses at the 700m and I was a bit stuck and I didn't want to let him get too far away," said French jockey Gerald Mosse after the race. "I was sure that my horse was very strong and that he would give me a special turn of foot and that's what he did.”

Six-year-old Americain, by US sire Dynamformer out of Irish mare America, is the fourth international winner, after Vintage Crop and Media Puzzle from Ireland, in 1993 and 2002, respectively, and Japan’s Delta Blues in 2006.

The Melbourne Cup is the world’s third richest horse race, behind Paris’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and the Japan Cup. This year was the Melbourne Cup’s 150th anniversary.

Americain will return to France but the owners and trainer Alain De Royer-Dupre agreed that he could try for the 2011 Cup.

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