RACING:DERMOT WELD has got the green light to launch an attempt on a third Melbourne Cup success next month as Profound Beauty tries to emulate Vintage Crop and Media Puzzle in the race that stops a nation, writes BRIAN O'CONNOR.

The Moyglare Stud-owned mare entered quarantine almost a fortnight ago but a final decision on her participation was only made over the weekend.

Profound Beauty didn’t make the trip down under last year but ran a creditable fifth to Viewed in the 2008 Melbourne Cup.

“She is in good order and will leave for Australia on Sunday,” Moyglare spokesman Stan Cosgrove said yesterday.

Profound Beauty is a 16 to 1 shot where she is set to renew rivalry with the English-trained San Frontieres, who beat her into second in last month’s Irish St Leger.

Weld created history when Vintage Crop became the first Northern Hemisphere-trained horse to win the race at Flemington in 1993.

Nine years later he followed up with Media Puzzle.