Racing Victoria's chief handicapper David Hegan issued the Ciaron Maher-trained stayer a 2kg penalty for his dominant 1-3/4-length win over Aethelwulf under 56.5kg in the 2400-metre event at Randwick.
The penalty takes his weight for this year's Melbourne Cup to 53.5kg, which has him up to 34th position in the order of entry for the Lexus Melbourne Cup (3200m), which is restricted to a field of 24.
Juja Kibo was also penalised for the Caulfield Cup, but only 1kg owing to the different weight scales of this year's spring features.
"Juja Kibo's Metropolitan performance was worthy of a handicap reconsideration after strongly defeating several key Cups rivals in impressive fashion and thus he advances 2kg in both races against both the weight for age scale and a number of runners from Saturday," Hegan said.
"Due to the different weight scales in the Cups, he takes a 1kg penalty in the Caulfield Cup and a 2kg penalty in the Melbourne Cup.
"In the Caulfield Cup, he moves from a true weight of 50kg to 52kg, which is an actual weight penalty of 1kg above the minimum, and he will now carry 52kg.
"In the Melbourne Cup he rises from 51.5kg to 53.5kg which puts him 0.5kg below The Euphrates, who conceded him 2.5kg on Saturday when finishing third.
"Juja Kibo progresses significantly in the order of entry for both races, climbing 11 places to 30th in the Caulfield Cup and 12 places to 34th in the Melbourne Cup."
