MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien will hope for a long-awaited breakthrough at Flemington Racecourse on Tuesday, after being pipped for a maiden Melbourne Cup win by his son Joseph's horse Rekindling in last year's race.
The master trainer has saddled nine runners in the "the race that stops a nation" and came closest last year when Johannes Vermeer was run down late in the two-mile handicap.
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