Gold Trip (Fr) provided jockey Mark Zahra and trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace with their first Melbourne Cup (G1) on November 1 in Victoria, AUS.. The 5-year-old horse by Outstrip (GB) – Sarvana (Fr) by Dubai Destination became the first top weight to win the 2 mile race at Flemington since Makybe Diva in 2005.
Gold Trip’s sire Outstrip won the 2013 Breeders’ Cp Juvenile Turf (G1).
Owned by a host of shareholders – Ecurie Jean-Louis Bouchard, Australian Bloodstock, J Woodbridge, Whitegate Pastoral, Roth Brogan Syndicate, Gold Trip, Cup Racing Crew Syndicate, S Pellegrino, B Taylor, M Belford, J Garvey, N Greenhalgh, Mrs M Greenhalgh, C Madden, Mystery Downs, C Cook, B Nally, Werrett Bloodstock, L Caminiti & J Simmons – Gold Trip had won just a single race coming into the Melbourne Cup, the Prix Gruffuhle at Lyon Parilly in June 2020.
