Rain threat to Moon hopes

Heavy rain is threatening to dash the Luca Cumani-trained Purple Moon’s hopes of winning Tuesday’s Emirates Melbourne Cup.

Rain threat to Moon hopes
Sun, 04 Nov, 2007 - 10:37

Heavy rain is threatening to dash the Luca Cumani-trained Purple Moon’s hopes of winning Tuesday’s Emirates Melbourne Cup.

Nearly 20 millimetres of rain fell on Flemington racecourse on Sunday morning, resulting in the track easing from good to the worse side of slow.

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