IT'S not often you want rain on your parade, but for Newcastle's Tony Price and his fellow owners of Gold Trip, that's exactly what they are hoping for in the $8 million Melbourne Cup (3200 metres) on Tuesday.
Price, who steered Wests to a hat-trick of Newcastle rugby league grand final wins in the late 1990s, has been involved in thoroughbred racing as an owner or breeder for three decades but will have his first Melbourne Cup runner on Tuesday.
