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MELBOURNE, Australia -- Bondi Beach was named after a quintessentially Australian place, but is among the many foreign raiders targeting victory in the countrys most famous race.The 5-year-old Irish galloper, prepared by Irish trainer Aidan OBrien and ridden by champion English jockey Ryan Moore, is one of four entries from Australian owner Lloyd Williams, who will be chasing a fifth Melbourne Cup on Tuesday. Only Godolphin, Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoums racing enterprise, will have more starters in the 24-horse field.Godolphin has been sending horses to the Melbourne Cup for 18 years without winning the southern hemispheres most prestigious race, which this year yields prize money of 6 million Australian dollars ($4.6 million).This year, Sheikh Mohammed has five horses starting in the 2-mile race at Flemington, including favorite Hartnell, trained by Australian John OShea. English trainer Charlie Appleby (Oceanographer and Qewy) and Saeed bin Suroor (Beautiful Romance and Secret Number) are handling the other four.Godolphin chief executive John Ferguson said all his trainers are determined to be the drought breaker.Sure theyd like to win for themselves but also at the end of the day its the team, team Godolphin, and they all appreciate what Sheikh Mohammed has done, Ferguson said. I dont mind who wins. All I care about is that Sheikh Mohammed, who has put so much into the world of horse racing and has committed so much time, energy and finance into creating this global team, I personally and all the team would just love to do it for him.Williams, 76, has three other contenders apart from Bondi Beach: Assign, Gallante and Almandin.Im as happy as you can be going into the Melbourne Cup, Williams told Melbourne radio. Its a very hard race to win. 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Andrew Bogut had 10 points and 15 rebounds for Golden State, which rebounded from a loss a night earlier in Oklahoma City and snapped a two-game skid.Co-captain Kieren Jack wants Sydney to reproduce the pressure that singed the Cats in their last meeting, as the Swans move closer to resolving their injury issues leading into Fridays AFL preliminary final at the MCG.Forward Gary Rohan (knee) and ruckman Kurt Tippett (jaw) both ran with the main group at the start of training on Wednesday before the session was closed, while defender Callum Mills (hamstring) and midfielder Jarrad McVeigh (calf) did handball drills.By mid-afternoon Wednesday, Rising Star winner Mills had been ruled out of a second straight match due to the injury he suffered in the qualifying final loss to GWS.While Mills won t travel to Melbourne on Thursday, McVeigh, Rohan and Tippett will catch the team flight and all retain some hope of playing after training to various degrees on Wednesday.Rohans rate of recovery was significant given he was stretchered off the ground last Saturday and was sighted on crutches after the game.Initially we all probably feared the worse when you see him off on the medicab, midfielder Jack said.Hes obviously had some dark times with that leg in previous years, so to get the scan and come back positive is great. So hes up and about now and hes a chance.Given their injury queries and coming off a six-day break against a rested Geelong side who have won eight straight, minor premiers Sydney will start as unnderdogs.dddddddddddd.We dont care what position were in on the medical side or form side or what the betting is sort of saying, weve got a chance to play in a grand final, Jack said.Sydney overwhelmed Geelong at Simonds Stadium in round 16, walking away with a 38-point win after what was probably their finest performance of the season.Geelong suffered their biggest loss of the season and were held to 60 points, by far their lowest tally of the year.Our attitude and our desire to put pressure on the ball was top notch, probably some of the best weve done for the year, so its pretty simple. It is what we have to bring (on Friday), Jack said.I think the way we played, our mindset going into that game, our attitude on the field, thats what we need to capture again.Sydney have an excellent 5-1 record in matches coming off a six-day turnaround this season and their only loss in those circumstances was a last-gap defeat at home to Hawthorn.Its all about recovery and rehab. We think weve got that process down pat, Jack said.We train solidly today and go in with some confidence that weve done it during the year a few times on six-day breaks.We just need to make sure our mindset and our attitude is spot on heading into Saturday night. ' ' '