Chad's Award-winning performance

Shamus Award, ridden by apprentice Chad Schofield, (rails) holds out a fast-finishing Happy Trails (outside), ridden by Dwayne Dunn. Picture: Michael Klein Source: Michael Klein / HeraldSun

TEENAGER Chad Schofield engineered a Group 1 boilover at Moonee Valley as Shamus Award today became the first maiden to win the Group 1 $3 million Cox Plate.

Carrying just 49.5kg, Shamus Award beat Happy Trails and Fiorente in a memorable running of the weight-for age classic.

The Danny O'Brien-trained galloper was the first maiden to contest the nation's weight-for-age championship since Oxberry Way ran last as a 200/1 bolt in Red Anchor's 1984 Cox Plate.

Winless after nine starts, Shamus Award ($22.60) took to one of racing's biggest stages to register his first win, going straight to the front in the 2040m race, sharing the lead at different times with fellow three-year-old Long John and then Fiorente before sprinting away in the straight to hold off Happy Trails, while Fiorente battled on well for third.

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Schofield himself created a piece of history, the 19-year-old becoming the youngest winner of the Moonee Valley feature since Brent Thomson won the 1975 Cox Plate aboard Fury's Order.

The Chris Waller-trained Fiorente finished brilliantly for fourth, as favourite It's A Dundeel couldn't overcome a disrupted preparation and one-time Melbourne Cup favourite Puissance De Lune fell away badly at the turn.

Cox Plate winner Shamus Award steals a decent break on his rivals as they motor down the home straight. Picture: Michael Klein Source: HeraldSun

Fiorente put in a massive Melbourne Cup run. He came from barrier 14 but got caught wide, with Blake Shinn forced to work the six-year-old extra hard to get into second, behind eventual winner Shamus Award.

The former European galloper held on remarkably well for third, and bookmakers reacted immediately, with the TAB slashing his price for the Melbourne Cup into $5.50 outright favouritism.

Puissance De Lune, once a $5.50 Melbourne Cup favourite, has blown to $19 for the race that stops a nation.

Jockey Chad Schofield gets a hug and kiss from mum Tiffany. Picture: Michael Klein Source: HeraldSun

2013 COX PLATE
1 $21 SHAMUS AWARD 49.5 (C Schofield)
2 $12 HAPPY TRAILS 59 (D Dunn)
3 $8 FIORENTE 59 (B Shinn)
4 $21 Foreteller 59 (C Newitt)
5 $18 Super Cool 57.5 (C W Brown)
6 $41 Side Glance 59 (Craig Williams)
7 $31 Seville 59 (J Bowman)
8 $4 fav It's A Dundeel 57.5 (J B Mc Donald)
9 $12 Green Moon 59 (B Prebble) and
10 Dead heat: $7 Long John 49.5 (K Mc Evoy), $41 Mull Of Killough 59 (S W Arnold)
12 $5.50 Puissance De Lune 59 (B Melham)
13 $31 Masked Marvel 59 (M Rodd)
14 $51 Rekindled Interest 59 (M Zahra) last

Scratched: Atlantic Jewel
Margins: 1/2 hd, lg nk.
Time: 2min 05.27sec (Last 600m 36.17).

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