Horse racing-Profile of ‘Cups King’ Bart Cummings (Reuters)
Factbox on Australia’s most successful horse trainer Bart Cummings, who died on Sunday aged 87. * Worked for his father as a strapper, helping him prepare Comic Court for the 1950 Melbourne Cup with the stallion, carrying 59kgs, winning the 3,200m handicap race by three lengths in an Australasian record of three minutes, 19.5 seconds. MELBOURNE CUP * Entered his first horse, Asian Court, in the Melbourne Cup in 1958, though it finished a distant 12th to winner Baystone.