Franklins Gardens is in a race against time to be fit for Tuesday’s Emirates Melbourne Cup after pulling up lame following exercise on Friday morning.
Initial reports suggested the Mark Tompkins-trained Yorkshire Cup winner was out of Australia’s most famous race.
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