Deauville Legend needs “everything to go right” as he seeks to justify his status as the shortest-priced British-trained runner in Melbourne Cup history in the early hours of tomorrow morning.
The James Ferguson-saddled three-year-old is as short as 5-2 favourite for the ‘race that stops a nation’, due off at 4am at Flemington.
Ferguson, who worked for Charlie Appleby when Cross Counter became the first – and so far only – British winner of the Melbourne Cup in 2018, said: “It’s an extremely competitive race – a lot of really good horses – and everything has got to go right.
