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Melbourne Cup runner-up Red Cadeaux departs the Werribee Quarantine Centre bound for another tilt at the Hong Kong Vase on December 14.

He will be accompanied by Mackinnon Stakes third Farraaj, who is likely to line up in the Hong Kong Cup on the same day.

Before his departure Racing Victoria honoured the veteran stayer for the mark he has made on Melbourne Cup folklore.

He will be forever be remembered for his four successive Melbourne Cup placings at the Werribee quarantine complex he has used as a base for his more recent Cup missions.

The Ed Dunlop-trained marvel now has a barn named after him at the Newminster stables.

Barn B, which has housed Red Cadeaux during his 2013 and 2014 Melbourne Cup campaigns when he has finished second to Fiorente (2013) and Protectionist (2014), will now be known as the Red Cadeaux Barn.

The extraordinary nine-year-old leaves Werribee on Monday afternoon for Hong Kong.

Red Cadeaux will be bidding for his second Hong Kong Vase (2400m) win at Sha Tin. He hasn’t won since his victory in the 2012 HK Vase.

Racing Victoria’s Greg Carpenter noted that Red Cadeaux is the first international horse to run in four Melbourne Cups, surpassing 1993 winner Vintage Crop who ran in three — and is the only horse to have run second three times.

Red Cadeaux was beaten a nose when second behind Dunaden in the 2011 Melbourne Cup.

“He’s such a popular horse in Victoria,” Carpenter said. “Maybe he will be back for a fifth shot at the race.”