Gold Coast owners enjoy Melbourne Cup experience with Tiberian and say they are ready to go again

Malcolm Lynch enjoyed his taste of the Melbourne Cup and is determined to do it all again. The Gold Coast resident and part-owner of Melbourne Cup runner Tiberian watched on at Flemington.

Malcolm Lynch enjoyed his taste of the Melbourne Cup and is determined to do it all again.

The Gold Coast resident and part-owner of Melbourne Cup runner Tiberian watched on at Flemington as the horse finished seventh in the race that stops the nation.

Four-year-old Rekindling won the Cup ahead of Johannes Vermeer and Max Dynamite.

A Tiberian connection is seen as the Melbourne Cup Parade travels down Swanston Street in Melbourne, Monday, November 6, 2017. (AAP Image/Julian Smith) NO ARCHIVING

It wasn’t the dream win Lynch and Gold Coast friend Shaun Frost had hoped for the outsider, but Lynch said his first involvement in the Melbourne Cup was one to savour.

“Seventh in my first Melbourne Cup, it’s not too bad,” Lynch said.

“It was very exciting. Tiberian was just a bit too wide. When the jockey (Olivier Peslier) hit the top of the straight he actually thought he had it but he got boxed in a bit.

“We were in the mounting yard and the high was amazing. It was a once in a lifetime experience.

Everything is roses for owners of Melbourne Cup fancy, Tiberian, Shaun Frost and Malcolm Lynch at Gold coast Turf Club, talking about their horses chances in the great race. Picture Glenn Hampson

“Just being in a race of this magnitude, the excitement is hard to put in to words.”

It was Frost’s fourth runner in a Melbourne Cup – he had runner-up Heartbreak City in 2016 – and Lynch said he was eager to return in 2018 with Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock syndicator Darren Dance.

“I’m overwhelmed. I definitely want to come back. It’s hard not to have such an experience and not want to do it again. It’s intoxicating.

“There was a 100,000 people here and the adrenalin when they jump, you get caught up in it.”

Gold Coast real estate agent Richard Keeley is a part-owner of Single Gaze who came 17th.