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Cadeaux bit tender after pulling shoe

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Red Cadeaux is "a bit tender" after pulling off a shoe in a gallop at Werribee on Sunday morning.

Ed Dunlop's popular stayer is on course to run in his fifth Melbourne Cup, having finished second in it an incredible three times.

Now a nine-year-old, he showed he was still up to competing at the highest level when second in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes in April to Criterion.

While it is hardly ideal preparation for the race, Dunlop's assistant Robin Trevor-Jones does not see it causing a serious problem.

"It's nothing new, just a pain in the backside as he's galloped on it with no shoe or no pad," Trevor-Jones told www.aapmegaform.com.au.

"It will be a bit tender, but we know what to do and we can get him through it.

"If he's feeling good, his back is good, he reaches too far and he catches under those pads.

"But he has to have those pads on because he's got big flat feet."

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