Godolphin trainer James Cummings will get the chance to emulate his grandfather Bart in the Melbourne Cup after his imported galloper Avilius survived a stewards inquiry to take out the race named after the legendary Bart Cummings at the track with which his name is synonymous, Flemington.
Cummings senior was a master of understatement and didn’t like too many dramas where his horses were concerned.
But his grandson had to endure a nail biting finale to the theatre that was the 2500-metre Bart Cummings after Avienus and Jaameh, who finished a short half head behind him, came close and brushed in the final stages of the race as both Glyn Schofield, aboard Avilius, and Michael Walker, on the David Hayes-trained Jaameh, threw everything at their mounts.
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