Bart Cummings is resigned to relying on Dandaad to break his Sydney Cup drought with emerging stayer Joe Blow named second emergency for Saturday's distance feature at Randwick.The field is restricted to 16 runners with the rail out six metres from the 1600 metres to the winning post with the Guy Walter-trained Speed Dubai first reserve and Joe Blow also entered in a 2000-metre rating 85 race on the program.Glen Boss has been booked for Joe Blow in both races and will ride Glistening in the Cup

Bart Cummings is resigned to relying on Dandaad to break his Sydney Cup drought with emerging stayer Joe Blow named second emergency for Saturday's distance feature at Randwick.

The field is restricted to 16 runners with the rail out six metres from the 1600 metres to the winning post with the Guy Walter-trained Speed Dubai first reserve and Joe Blow also entered in a 2000-metre rating 85 race on the program.

Glen Boss has been booked for Joe Blow in both races and will ride Glistening in the Cup if the former doesn't gain a start.

"It's a shame Joe Blow hasn't got a run but there's not much we can do about it," Cummings said.

"He's an up-and-coming stayer but Dandaad should go very well.

"He has proven he can run over the long distance."

Cummings hasn't won a Sydney Cup since Trissaro in 1984 but thinks Dandaad has all the right credentials.

"He's very good, I'm very happy with him," Cummings said.

"I think he will run a pretty good race. I've let some of the younger ones (trainers) win for the last few years so it might be my turn again."

Dandaad won the Lavazza Long Black (2800m) at Flemington on the same day Viewed gave Cummings his 12th Melbourne Cup.

The race Dandaad won is generally considered a consolation for horses that don't make the Cup field and one that is a pointer to the following year.

Cummings would also like to think Joe Blow could be a Cup horse but a few things would have to change in the four-year-old's make-up over the next few months.

"We can't take him to Brisbane because he doesn't travel well," Cummings said.

"He didn't even travel well to Warwick Farm."

Two starts back Joe Blow finished third in a 2200m race at Warwick Farm won by Speed Dubai before he finished out of the placings in the Chairman's Handicap.

Fiumicino, winner of The BMW, displaced 2007 Caulfield Cup winner Master O'Reilly as the Sydney Cup favourite when the field was declared on Wednesday with the pair at $6.50 and $7 respectively while Dandaad was a $9 chance.

The David Hayes-trained Zagreb was not among the acceptors following his failure on a wet track in The BMW on April 4.

A close third to stablemate Niconero in the Australian Cup in March, Zagreb had been high in markets but the prospect of another wet track prompted his withdrawal.

New Zealander Mr Tipsy, a noted mudlark, was at $7.50.