It's a shambles of a race this year, it's getting worse each year.
- multiple foreigners 6 of which have never run in Oz,
- Lloyd's fetish to win the MC again sees him with 6 runners, a few of which don't deserve to be in the field.
- spot the Australasian-bred horse, there are 5 left
- OS jockeys, some of whom do not have a good record on Oz, including mad Frankie.
How can one possibly have a serious bet in the race, really!
I'm a died-in-the-wool punter though, so will play around with exotics hoping for a result, a big one. I can visualise Cismontane and Boom Time being 4 lengths in front of the pack at the 350ms. Will they hang on? Big Duke, Wall of Fire and Marmelo flash late, but too late. It's a local quinella, Boom Time by a lip over Cismontane! YBB!
