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Via Sistina and star import given top weight in Melbourne Cup
SENTrack • September 16th, 2025 3:24 pm
Superstar mare Via Sistina will carry the top weight if she runs in this year’s Melbourne Cup (3200m).
Chris Waller’s 10-time Group 1 winner has been allotted 59kg for the race that stops a nation to be run at Flemington on the first Tuesday in November.
The reigning Australian Horse of the Year, who ran third in the Makybe Diva Stakes on the weekend, will carry the top weight if she heads that way after she attempts to defend her Cox Plate crown.
She shares the top weight with import and current Cup favourite Al Riffa.
The prized Australian Bloodstock purchase, trained by two-time Cup winner Joseph O’Brien, is an Irish St Leger (2800m) winner.
Aidan O’Brien’s raider Scandinavia will carry 55.5kg, while emerging mare Treasurethe Moment (54kg), Buckaroo (57kg) and Arapaho (56.5kg) all sit high in the order of entry.
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott’s Sir Delius, the race’s current second favourite, has 55.5kg and two-time Cup runner Vauban has been assigned 56.5kg.
Deakin (52kg), Parchment Party (52kg), Revelare (51.5kg) and Basilinna (51kg) are all assured a Cup start after winning ballot exempt races.
