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Best Japanese stayers eye Melbourne Cup
This year's $6 million Melbourne Cup is poised to become the direct beneficiary of a number of high quality stayers that competed in arguably the world's toughest 3200m race, The Tenno Sho, run at Kyoto in Japan on Sunday night.