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Big Mac for hoop Mertens

18/07/2008

Cranbourne jockey Peter Mertens achieved the biggest result of his almost 30-year career on Saturday when he piloted Bart Cummings’ stayer Sirmione to win the Group 1 Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington on Victoria Derby day. The win catapulted Mertens and the four-year-old gelding into Tuesday’s $5 million Emirates Melbourne Cup, but the task of winning the ‘race that stops a nation’ proved too great for the pair.

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