Where your Melbourne Cup horse finished in the famous race

EVEN if your runner or runners didn’t cover themselves in glory and win in the Melbourne Cup, we still want to know where they finished.

The Irish raiders Rekindling and Johannes Vermeer fought out the finish of Australia’s great race, the Melbourne Cup.

Joseph O’Brien trained the winner, which was piloted to victory by Corey Brown ahead of Johannes Vermeer and Max Dynamite.

Big Duke finished fourth.

Find out where your horse finished and what the jockeys said after the race.

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1. REKINDLING ($16.30, $5.90)

Jockey: Corey Brown — “I’ve been back from overseas for about nine months, slowly but surely getting back to where I was, but I can’t believe it. Honestly it’s so special, I’ve got my family down here with me, the girls, they’re old enough to come to the races now and enjoy it. I’m lost for words, I can’t believe I did it again.”

2. JOHANNES VERMEER ($4.50)

Ben Melham: “We had a great run throughout. I was spending my money at the furlong, I thought we were home, but just the weight was the difference.”

3. MAX DYNAMITE ($5.60)

Zac Purton: “An excellent run. He was very brave. He took a tight run when I asked him to and when I got through there, I thought we were in for the fight but he’s a bit old now ... but he was terrific.”

4. BIG DUKE

Brenton Avdulla: “He was awesome. We had a perfect run and I was following Corey (Brown) through and I thought I was half a chance, the nerves started to kick up a bit ... a bit of excitement on the corner but he ran out of gas in the straight.”

5. NAKEETA

Glyn Schofield: “Super run. He just kept coming strongly.”

Rekindling (pink cap) powered home to win the Melbourne Cup.

6. THOMAS HOBSON

Ben Allen: “He just didn’t pick up the bridle at all early. I thought he ran really well.”

7. TIBERIAN

Olivier Peslier: “In the straight he was coming well but in the last 200 (metres) he was immediately beaten.”

8. LIBRAN

Dwayne Dunn: “He ran really well ... as good as he could run.”

9. MARMELO

Hugh Bowman: “I expected a bit more. I had to make a little bit of use of him early but I was in a nice position throughout and he relaxed well. The pressure built a little earlier than I would have liked but I thought he would have taken me a bit further.”

10. WICKLOW BRAVE

Stephen Baster: “He ran well. He just didn’t have any early speed at all so he got back last and he didn’t get going until the 650 (metres) but he ran home good.”

11. RED CARDINAL

Kerrin McEvoy: “We made nice progression round the corner then I got into the clear and he just probably felt the ground the last furlong and a half.”

12. ALMANDIN

Frankie Dettori: “I was stuck three-wide but the horse was flat. He never carried me today and ran like a flat horse.”

13. CISMONTANE

Beau Mertens: “Happy with the performance ... a lot of good horses finished in front of him but he did the best he could.”

Over 90,000 were trackside to watch Australia’s great race at Flemington.

14. AMELIE’S STAR

Dean Yendall: “I thought there’d be a more genuine tempo. I got stuck out a bit and I would have liked to have had a bit more cover. ”

15. BOOM TIME

Corey Parish: “It was probably just too slow a tempo for him. He’s probably better suited at a mile and a half.”

16. WALL OF FIRE

Craig Williams: “It was a bit of a muddling stop-start race and I thought my horse responded really well under those conditions. He came off the bridle at the 700 which is normally to his liking ... but he didn’t stay on at all today. He just didn’t run up to his European form.”

17. SINGLE GAZE

Kathy O’Hara: “She got knocked around a lot in the race and never had a lot of luck in running. She was brave enough to run on past a couple late but it was just too rough for her.”

18. US ARMY RANGER

Jamie Spencer: “He passed a few beaten ones but I never thought he’d win.”

19. HUMIDOR

Blake Shinn: “He just doesn’t run two miles. I gave him a nice run throughout but the pressure went on and he just didn’t respond.”

20. HARTNELL

Damian Lane: “He didn’t see it out today. He settled in a lovely rhythm and at the 400 (metres) I knew he wasn’t going to run (the distance) out.”

21. VENTURA STORM

Glen Boss: “Had a good run in the race but I expect he got his tongue over the bit at some stage in the race and he choked down and didn’t run it out.”

22. BONDI BEACH

Michael Walker: “I don’t think his mind really wants to be there at the moment. He tried to run through the fence for the first 50 metres of the race.”

23 & LAST: GALLANTE

Michael Dee: “He was very disappointing. The track was obviously a little bit too dry for him but I didn’t expect him to go that badly.”

Scratched: Who Shot Thebarman

OFFICIAL RESULTS

$15 REKINDLING (N C Williams, Mr & Mrs L J Williams, A L & B A Green, B N Singer, P Mehrten, J & Mrs F Ingham, M Gudinski, V Sammartino, G T Ryan, Bulla Thoroughbreds (Mgr: M Ruff) & Heffernan Bloodstock, Mgr: D Heffernan’s b h 4y High Chaparral (IRE) — Sitara (GB). Trainer: Joseph O’Brien) 51.5 (C W Brown) 1, $13 JOHANNES VERMEER 54.5 (B Melham) 2, $20 MAX DYNAMITE 54 (Z Purton) 3. Then followed: $21 Big Duke 53.5 (B Avdulla) $41 Nakeeta 53 (G Schofield) $21 Thomas Hobson 52 (Ben Allen) $31 Tiberian 55.5 (O Peslier) $61 Libran 53 (D Dunn) $7 eq fav Marmelo 55 (J Bowman) $71 Wicklow Brave 54 (S Baster) $16 Red Cardinal 55 (K McEvoy) $7 eq fav Almandin 56.5 (L Dettori) $41 Cismontane 50 (Beau Mertens) $21 Amelie’s Star 51 (D Yendall) $31 Boom Time 53 (C J Parish) $11 Wall Of Fire 53 (Craig Williams) $31 Single Gaze 53 (Ms K O’Hara) $71 US Army Ranger 53.5 (J P Spencer) $11 Humidor 56 (B Shinn) $26 Hartnell 57.5 (Damian Lane) $31 Ventura Storm 54 (G Boss) $71 Bondi Beach 54 (M J Walker) $91 Gallante 53 (M J Dee) last. Scr: Who Shot Thebarman. Margins: Lg nk, 2-1/2 len. Time: 3:21.19. (Last 600m 36.23).

VIC TAB DIVS

Race 7: 22 7 9. Win $17.10 place $5.90 $4.20 $5.20. Q: $96.90. E: $199.10. Duets: 22-7: $33.90, 22-9: $51.80, 7-9: $37.00. T: $3,025.10. D: $47.80. First 4: 22-7-9-13: $44,736.30. Sub: 5. Scr: 11.

NSW TAB DIVS

Race 7: 22 7 9. Win $16.30 place $5.90 $4.50 $5.60. Q: $102.30. E: $211.70. Duets: 22-7: $39.60, 22-9: $48.80, 7-9: $40.30. T: $3,410.20. D: $43.20. First 4: 22-7-9-13: $54,338.70. Sub: 5. Scr: 11.

QLD TAB DIVS

Race 7: 22 Rekindling $15.90 $5.70 7 Johannes Vermeer $4.40 9 Max Dynamite $5.50. Q: $99.40. E: $188.40. T: $2,863.40. A2: 7-22: $37.90, 9-22: $58.60, 7-9: $40.50. FIRST 4: (22 7 9 13) $52,665.80. Scr: 11.

Rekindling edges out Johannes Vermeer in a thrilling finish in the Melbourne Cup.