Godolphin stayer Holberg has been passed fit to run in the Melbourne Cup but Bauer remains under a injury cloud.
Legendary trainer Bart Cummings remains in Melbourne's Epworth Hospital where his condition is reported to be stable.
Jockey Mark Zahra is in an awkward position riding against his Melbourne Cup mount Alcopop who needs to win Saturday's Group Three The Lexus Stakes to get a start in next Tuesday's big race.
The man entrusted with delivering Hong Kong a historic Melbourne Cup win is afraid his plans will be brought undone by a horse he describes as "a phenomenal creature''.
A world champion. A superstar. The next Phar Lap. That's what the racing world thinks of So You Think after he secured back-to-back Cox Plates on Saturday.
So You Think's Cox Plate triumph has propelled him to outright favouritism to give trainer Bart Cummings his 13th win in the Melbourne Cup.
Cox Plate hero So You Think heads 47 horses still in the running for a Melbourne Cup start.
Australia's new superstar So You Think will have to take on the biggest contingent of international runners ever assembled in next week's Melbourne Cup.
Hopes of Melbourne Cup starts for Godolphin-owned stayers Holberg and Eastern Aria are fading.
New Zealand's Caulfield Cup runner-up Harris Tweed has recovered from a colic attack which threatened his Melbourne Cup ambitions.
Gai Waterhouse admits to losing direction last season but she has regrouped and has her sights on the main prize with three runners in next week's Melbourne Cup.
Dunedin's weather Gods smiled on the thousands of people who turned out for a fine day of fashion, fillies and fun at the Wingatui racecourse today.
The New Zealanders had to bow to the superior staying ability of Shocking in today's rich Melbourne Cup, but there were some hard luck stories among them.
Images from the Melbourne Cup festivities around Otago.
David Hayes' comments that vets who scratched Changingoftheguard from the Melbourne Cup were knuckleheads has cost the trainer $A2000 ($NZ2536).
More than 700 New Zealand punters got at least some of the $8762.90 Melbourne Cup trifecta yesterday.
When Noeline Stoddart joined a lengthy queue for a job operating the then new tote machines at Forbury Park in 1951, she had no idea she would still be doing the job nearly 60 years later.
Angry trainer David Hayes has slammed vets who ordered Changingoftheguard out of the Melbourne Cup.
It may be a Melbourne Cup for the oldies tomorrow - and not necessarily Bart.
A trial in the High Court at Timaru will adjourn early tomorrow to allow jurors and counsel to watch the Melbourne Cup on television.