Willie Mullins has endured years of frustration in the Melbourne Cup but will hope for better fortune in another of Australia’s most famous races when Absurde lines up in Saturday’s Caulfield Cup.
The Aus$5 million (€2.8 million) mile and a half handicap is the first leg of Australia’s famed ‘spring treble’ and no Irish-trained horse has ever won it. Mullins tried before in 2017 when Wicklow Brave was out of the money but goes again with another doughty dual-purpose performer.
Absurde has finished fifth and seventh in the last two editions of the Melbourne Cup and is on course to try again at Flemington on the first Tuesday in November.
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