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Bart should be back trackside for Cup

29th Oct 2010

Bigpond Sport - Friday, 29 October 2010

Bart Cummings is expected to be back where he belongs next Tuesday, at Flemington for the Melbourne Cup.

The legendary trainer of 12 Cup winners was admitted to a Melbourne hospital on Wednesday night with a recurrence of a respiratory problem.

His son and fellow trainer Anthony says Cummings is expected to remain in hospital for the next few days and won't be attending tomorrow's Derby meeting, expected to be held in wet conditions with a top temperature of 17 degrees.

A lifetime asthma sufferer, Cummings was hospitalised earlier this year with pneumonia and missed his first Sydney autumn carnival in decades.

At 82, Cummings is Australia's most successful living trainer with 263 Group One wins.