Courtesy of racenet.com.au

Wednesday, 7 October 2009


The Dermot Weld-trained Profound Beauty is out of the Melbourne Cup.

The Irish mare was due to go into quarantine on Thursday night but the mare’s owners have made a last-minute decision to keep the five-year-old in Europe to race.

“Moyglare Stud [owner] made the decision not to send Profound Beauty to Melbourne so she’ll be staying at home,” Mark Weld, son of trainer Dermot, told the Irish Times.

“The plan is to keep her in training next year."

The decision means Weld, the two time Melbourne Cup winning trainer won’t have a runner in this year’s Cup.

Last year Profound Beauty finished fifth in the race behind Viewed and she was the early pre-post favourite for this year’s race.