THE Ger Lyons-trained Nickajack Cave has been purchased by a Robert Roulston-led syndicate that will see the Irish-bred Kendargent four-year-old transfer to Peter Moody for a tilt at Spring’s biggest prize.

“The Melbourne Cup is our sole target,” said Moody. “There was a suggestion that he would run in the Irish St Leger but we were worried that if he won that it might have given him too much weight in the Melbourne Cup, so we’ve decided to bypass that race.