New-Zealand bred horse, Efficient, came with a huge late run to down Purple Moon and Irish-trained Mahler to win the coveted 2007 Spring Melbourne Cup.

Ridden by Michael Rodd, Efficient will enter the history books as the first galloper since Phar Lap to win the VRC Derby and then follow-up with the Melbourne Cup the next year.
This no doubt makes Sir Patrick Hogan a very happy man. Efficient’s win marks the third time Hogan’s sire Zabeel has produced a Melbourne Cup winner.
But more remarkably for Hogan, Zabeel has outdone his own father, super sire Sir Tristram who produced two Melbourne Cup winners.