Newcastle trainer ‘wipes the floor’ with Australian rivals and sees star horse smashed in odds for £2.5m Melbourne Cup

A LITTLE-KNOWN trainer from Newcastle is eyeing up a life-changing £2.5million victor successful 1 of the world's astir celebrated races aft his superstar equine demolished his atrocious Aussie rivals.

The aptly named Onesmoothoperator made mincemeat of the oppo successful the £200,000 Group 3 Geelong Cup down under, booking his spot successful the Melbourne Cup.

The six-year-old has already fixed his Geordie trainer the play of dreams erstwhile winning the section Pitman's Derby (Northumberland Plate) astatine Newcastle earlier this play connected Ellison's birthday.

And helium has been present been smashed into 12-1 from 33-1 to onshore the contention that stops a federation connected November 5.

Speaking to Racing.com, Ellison said: "I've been present a fewer times and had a fewer bits of atrocious luck, but this equine has been brilliant.

"He came over, helium enactment value connected during the travel over, and Matt Brown, who rides him each day, has been great.

"He's not your mean stayer, he's got loads of velocity and he's ever had a bully crook of foot.

"I kept saying to the proprietor [Patrick Boyle] that we had to spell to Australia. The proprietor loves his racing and I said you person to spell to Australia astatine this clip of year, it's fantastic.

"I said this equine has a bully accidental if we get into the Cup."

Following his implicit demolishment of his Australian rivals successful the Geelong Cup, X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, began to get steamy.

One punter said: "Very bully show Lee, made hacks of them successful the Geelong race...but what does it accidental astir the Aussie staying ranks. And however would helium spell versus Vauban, Jan Breughel et al!"

Another added: "Lovely horse, large trainer, but Aussie racing..."

And an Ellison instrumentality said: "Wow! What a show by Onesmoothoperator!

"Thrilled for Brian Ellison and the team."

Unlike galore radical successful racing Ellison, calved connected Pitman's Derby time successful 1952, had nary inheritance successful racing.

One of 8 children, his begetter worked arsenic a Tyneside vessel builder and his parent a cleaner successful the section Newcastle hospital.

Always obsessed by athletics Ellison stared retired beingness hopeless to marque it arsenic a nonrecreational footballer, but astatine 4ft 9" helium was deemed excessively tiny and truthful turned his attentions to becoming a jockey.

At 14, helium sat connected his archetypal equine and a twelvemonth aboriginal helium abandoned schoolhouse to prosecute a vocation successful racing, taking retired his licence astatine 17.

After 20 years successful the saddle riding National Hunt horses, Ellison took retired his trainer's licence and has, since 1988, racked up implicit a 1000 winners.

With implicit a 100 horses - some level and jumps - the Yorkshire-based trainer is arsenic experienced arsenic they come, and is nary alien to travelling his horses to Australia either.

Carte Diamond ran impressively good successful the Caulfield Cup successful 2005 but was subsequently ruled retired of the Melbourne Cup owed to injury.

He besides trained the iconic chaser Definitely Red, who won 14 races and ran successful some the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand national.

And present helium could adhd an implicit whopper to his trophy cabinet, but helium indispensable archetypal surpass Aidan O'Brien's Jan Breughel and Willie Mullins' Vauban.

Melbourne Cup odds

Jan Brueghel 9/2
Buckaroo 5/1
Vauban 8/1
Onesmoothoperator 11/1
Duke De Sessa 12/1
Land Legend 14/1
Zardozi 25/1

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