Racing: Wall Street to return for 2011 Cox Plate

Wall Street (purple colours) fights best to beat Dao Dao (orange) and Chasm (outer) in the Emirates Stakes. Photo / Getty Images

New Zealand's best racehorse Wall Street made up for his Cox Plate failure when he finished strongly for a determined win in the A$1 million Emirates Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.

Palmerston North trainer Jeff Lynds said the Montjeu 6-year-old's Cox Plate chances were dashed at the start when he had a slow getaway and finished seventh to champion So You Think.

"He lost it at the start and we wanted to attack More Joyous at the 800 or 900 [metres] and we never got the opportunity, but that's the way it goes in our game," Lynds said.

Lynds put blinkers on the gelding for the drop back to the 1600m on Saturday, as well as adding a tongue tie.

"Perhaps Bart [Cummings] should turn around and come and try and buy this bugger as a replacement for So You Think," said Lynds, referring to Cummings losing the dual Cox Plate winner after the sale of a 50 per cent share to Coolmore Stud.

"He's got a good turn of foot and it's a great pleasure to come and do this," Lynds said of Wall Street's fourth group one victory.

"We've come here many times before and I haven't had any luck but things have gone right this trip.

"We're going to spell him and bring him back for the autumn and see how he goes right-handed and come back and have another crack at the Cox [Plate]."

The win capped off a memorable Melbourne Cup carnival for jockey Hugh Bowman, who also won the Victoria Derby last Saturday aboard Lion Tamer for Cambridge co-trainers Murray and Bjorn Baker.

Bowman brought Wall Street ($6 fav) with a well-timed run down the outside from 12th on settling to score by a short half-head from Dao Dao ($15) with Chasm ($15) a nose away third.

Macau galloper Luen Yat Forever was only a short head away fourth in a tight finish with Trusting fifth.

"Jeff and I spoke about the horse, we expected to be in the first four or five but they seemed to go really hard early and I didn't want to stoke him up with those blinkers," Bowman said.

"He was pretty keen going to the barriers and I was able to settle him and that was the key to winning.

"I had a soft run early but there was a lot of interference in front of me, it wasn't bad ... just horses being shuffled back in front of me, and I just had to get him out into clear room.

"He actually got into a nice rhythm then and I was pretty confident at the furlong but they were coming from all sides at the post.

"He was certainly at his top and really fought on and that's what you need, a horse that really wants to win and there's no doubt that this guy's like that."

Unbeaten mare Black Caviar has produced what Racing Victoria chief handicapper Greg Carpenter declared a world-class performance to win the Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington on Saturday.

Carpenter said Black Caviar would almost certainly be promoted to "champion sprinter of the world" when global ratings were officially released in January after next month's Hong Kong Sprint at Sha Tin.

Her time of 1:07.96 was just eight-tenths of second outside the course record held by Iglesia since 2001.

Trainer Peter Moody was lost for words and as tried to find the appropriate superlatives for his super mare.

- AAP