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A Geelong Cup, a Bendigo Cup and a Lexus Stakes are already in the bag for English trainer Charlie Appleby in his first foray into Australian racing.Now he will try to claim Australias biggest race at Flemington on Tuesday when he saddles up two runners in the Melbourne Cup.Applebys runners in Victoria this spring have already done the Godolphin trainer proud and he has Qewy and Oceanographer in the Cup.Appleby sent five horses to Australia for the spring carnival and said so far things had gone fantastically well.Scottish was billed as the stables main carnival player and he ran second in the $3 million Caulfield Cup and will run again in Saturdays $2 million Emirates Stakes (2000m).Qewy won the Geelong Cup (2400m) with Oceanographer third. Francis Of Assisi won the Bendigo Cup, while Second Wave was unplaced in the Moonee Valley Cup.Oceanographer secured his place in the Melbourne Cup with a barnstorming Lexus Stakes win on Saturday.Appleby was pleased with how Oceanographer came through the race but also admitted he was heading into the unknown by running him in the Melbourne Cup three days later, his third start in 13 days.From my point of view its something weve not done. All I can tell you is the horse is thriving on it, Appleby said.He came out of Geelong well, he eats well, and hes got a good mind. And what weve seen this morning, theres no negatives. Hes eaten up. Hes had a jog around the track. I cant give a negative.Its a concern. Weve just never done it before, so we really are going into an unknown with him.Oceanographers Lexus win elevated him to second favourite at $6.50 while Qewy is at $21.People said yesterdays performance was obviously exciting and historically its been a race that can throw up a horse that can run very well in the Melbourne Cup, Appleby said.Personally I love Qewy. Hes a horse whos got a great profile.He ran very well back in two festival races at Ascot and at Goodwood and what he did at Geelong, I know it was a front-running performance and people will say thats what he should be doing, but that was a mile and a half and on Tuesday it sounds as though its going to be a genuinely run two miles.Thats going to suit him down to the ground.But again you just cant knock what Oceanographers doing at the moment.Appleby said the two horses had different profiles and racing styles.Qewy we know is an out-and-out stayer but I felt what he did in the Geelong Cup was impressive for a horse we bought back in trip, he said.He said Oceanographer was a horse who needed to be ridden colder and liked to come charging home as he did on Saturday.Hes stepping up in trip again which I dont see that being any problem, but hes doing the three-day back-up which I cant tell you how thats going to pan out, Appleby said. Ryan Tannehill Jersey . The injury bothered Bledsoe in the Suns victory over the Clippers on Monday and he sat out the teams home loss to Memphis on Thursday night. A.J. Brown Womens Jersey . Andreas Johnson had a goal and two assists while Jacob de la Rose also scored for Sweden (2-0-0). Esa Lindell and Rasmus Ristolainen replied for Finland (1-1-0) Lindell opened the scoring for Finland just 41 seconds into the game, but the hosts quickly regained their composure and tied the score less than four minutes later on Wennbergs first of the game. http://www.titansstoreonline.com/Black-11-Aj-Brown-Womens-Jersey/ . Ouellette, from Montreal, already has three Olympic gold medals since joining the team in 1999. Warren Moon Womens Jersey . Catch all the action on TSN2 at 11pm et/8pm pt. The nine-time Big 12 champion Jayhawks are positioning themselves for another title, as they have run out to a flawless 6-0 mark in conference play thus far. Kevin Byard Titans Jersey . -- Washington Redskins tight end Fred Davis was charged Thursday with driving while intoxicated, a day after he was suspended for an NFL substance-abuse policy violation. RIO DE JANEIRO -- Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 19 points and Serbia got its first Olympic basketball victory as an independent nation, beating Venezuela 86-62 on Saturday night.Miroslav Raduljica added 18 points on 7-for-8 shooting for Serbia, part of an international basketball power in the old Yugoslavia but absent from the Olympics since 2004, when it competed as Serbia and Montenegro. Serbia became an independent country two years later.The Serbians won a silver medal two years ago in the Basketball World Cup, but didnt qualiify for the Olympics until winning a qualifying tournament it hosted last month.ddddddddddddJose Vargas and Gregory Echenique each had 12 points for Venezuela, the surprise winner of last summers FIBA Americas championship to reach the Olympics for the first time since 1992. After a solid start, the Venezuelans managed just nine points in the second quarter.Venezuela plays the U.S. next on Monday. ' ' '