AUSTRALIA'S champion jockey Damien Oliver will attempt to equal the record number of wins when he partners international visitor Cima De Triomphe in Saturday's group1 $2,555,000 BMW Caulfield Cup.
This year marks the 132nd running of the BMW Caulfield Cup and Oliver has won Australia's premier 2400-metre event four times (Mannerism (1992), Paris Lane (1994), Doriemus (1995) and Sky Heights (1999).
He is second only to the late Scobie Breasley, who won the race five times between 1942 and 1952.
Cima De Triomphe is one of the most intriguing runners in this year's BMW Caulfield Cup. That is even more so following the brilliant win of Sea The Stars in the group 1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamps in Paris.
The Stars is now being hailed as the world's best thoroughbred and the best seen in Europe since Dancing Brave, the 1986 Arc winner.
Three-year-old Sea The Stars has won six successive group 1s, including the treble of the English 2000 Guineas, English Derby and Arc.
Another of that winning sequence was the Eclipse Stakes in July at Sandown in England and Cima De Triomphe ran fourth, beaten 10 lengths but conceding 5kilograms to the Irish champion.
Speed Gifted, now trained by Lee Freedman, comes strongly into contention following his Metropolitan Handicap win in Sydney.
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