Viewed (4 October 2003 – 18 April 2010) was an Australian Thoroughbred

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who won the 148th Melbourne Cup on 4 November 2008.

Racing record

2008 Melbourne Cup

Prior to the Cup, Viewed won the AJC Listed Japan Racing Association (JRA) Plate on 30 April 2008 and two months later he qualified by winning the Group 2 Brisbane Cup on 9 June 2008. In the

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on 4 November, Viewed defeated the Luca Cumani-trained Bauer in a photo finish. The finish was so close that the electronic timing devices, which are placed inside the saddle cloths, recorded that Bauer had completed the course one-hundredth of a second faster than Viewed. Viewed was trained by

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and was ridden by Blake Shinn. It was Shinn's first Melbourne Cup winner and the 12th for Cummings. It was the fourth time Cummings had won the Cup in partnership with

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, the owner. Viewed's Melbourne Cup was the 250th Group 1 training victory for

. Viewed was an outsider in the Melbourne Cup, and paid $41.00 on the totalisator in New South Wales.

2009 Caulfield Cup

Following the Melbourne Cup, Viewed failed to break through in four starts during the autumn however these runs included: * 4th in the Group 2

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to Tuesday Joy. * 4th in the Group 1 Chipping Norton Stakes, again to Tuesday Joy. * 2nd in the Group 1 Ranvet Stakes to Thesio. * 3rd in Group 1

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to Fiumicino. Viewed returned in the spring to win the Group 1 Caulfield Cup on 17 October 2009. He was ridden by Brad Rawiller, and came from the tail of the field. Viewed was the first original topweight in history to win the Caulfield Cup, and the first Melbourne Cup winner to win the following year's Caulfield Cup since

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in 1955. Viewed defeated one of his stablemates, Roman Emperor, who was second and Vigor was third. Viewed's win was Cummings's seventh Caulfield Cup.

2009 Melbourne Cup

After his victory in the Caulfield Cup, Viewed then ran in the Group 1 Mackinnon Stakes on Victoria Derby Day and finished 3rd behind Scenic Shot and Miss Maren. Viewed then finished 7th in the

2009 Melbourne Cup The 2009 Melbourne Cup, the 149th running of Australia's most prestigious Thoroughbred horse race was run on Tuesday, 3 November 2009, starting at 3:00 PM local time (0400 UTC). The race was won by Shocking. The 9–1 winner, trained by Mar ...

behind the eventual winner Shocking.

Death

On 18 April 2010, Viewed was euthanised following complications from a twisted bowel.2008 Melbourne Cup winner Viewed put down
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References

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External links

Viewed's racing record

Viewed's pedigree and partial racing stats
2003 racehorse births 2010 racehorse deaths Racehorses bred in Australia Racehorses trained in Australia Melbourne Cup winners Thoroughbred family 9-h Caulfield Cup winners