Weld double-handed for Melbourne Cup

DERMOT WELD plans to run defending champion Media Puzzle and stablemate Lowlander in the Melbourne Cup on November 4.

Weld is the only northern hemisphere trainer to win Australia's richest and most famous horse race, thanks to Media Puzzle last year and Vintage Crop in 1993.

Media Puzzle's owner Michael Smurfit bought Lowlander last year. "It did surprise us when he beat Media Puzzle (at The Curragh in September) so when he came on the market, which was before the Melbourne Cup, we bought him," said Dermot Cantillon , Smurfit's stable manager.