News » Sheikh’s drought ends: Cross Counter wins the 2018 Melbourne Cup by Michael Lynch

Sheikh’s drought ends: Cross Counter wins the 2018 Melbourne Cup by Michael Lynch

Godolphin-owned Cross Counter storms to victory in the 2018 Melbourne Cup. Image: Racing Photos

Sheikh Mohammed has broken his 30-year Melbourne Cup drought with the victory in Australia’s greatest race of lightly-weighted three year old Cross Counter, trained at Newmarket in England by Charlie Appleby and ridden by Sydney-based jockey Kerrin McEvoy.

Second home was another English trained galloper in Marmelo, ridden by Winx’s regular rider Hughie Bowman, for trainer Hughie Morrison.

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