Everest 2019

If they go hard up front - which you'd think they will - I really feel Alizee can run right over the top of them. Shes really good at Randwick, has won over the 1200 there and if she gets the chance to balance up and have the last shot at them she'll be storming home. 12/1 decent value also

Trekking to finish over the top of them off a hot pace.

It’s a race without group one status and without a soul. It will never be the race they want it to be.

" In gambling the many must lose in order for the few to win"

Congratulations to the winner , what an awful watch Classique Legend, seen more bums than Clarke Gable everywhere he went.

Yes Yes Yes had a gun run, good ride

Santa was stiff

Trekking ran great

Nature Strip ran huge considering all the work he did at the start

EAD

Apparently all it takes is a colt winning and the race automatically becomes a stallion making race.

"There was a question mark over was this a stallion-making race and this colt has gone and beaten the best horses in Australia," Magnier said.

""It's a stallion-making race now."

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how is it a stallion making race if it isn’t even Listed class. Back away Tom.

This might be a little disrespectful for some older memebrs, but I am just saying.

If winning a 1200m 2yo race, and then not winning anything else in your career (Marscay, Rory's Jester, Marauding and Star Watch)gives you a leg up to be standing at stud, then this race certainly qualifies.

Remember, it might take intelligence to be smart , but it takes experience to be wise

monty1 wrote:

how is it a stallion making race if it isn’t even Listed class. Back away Tom.

Group classifications are only for the benefit of the uneducated or ignorant. Unnecessary for a race that the whole racing world knows is the top sprint race in Australia.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Simon Cameron

About tenth

Remember, it might take intelligence to be smart , but it takes experience to be wise

VOYAGER wrote:

This might be a little disrespectful for some older memebrs, but I am just saying.

If winning a 1200m 2yo race, and then not winning anything else in your career (Marscay, Rory's Jester, Marauding and Star Watch)gives you a leg up to be standing at stud, then this race certainly qualifies.

How so?...if it's fact it's not being disrespectful in my eyes, it will go on till the sun stops shining imo, bird in the hand worth two in the bush and all that .

Place	Horse	Jockey	Comment
1st	YES YES YES	Glen Boss	I had a very good plan in my head what I wanted to do and Chris (Waller) was in my corner how I wanted to ride the horse. I just wanted to be behind the grey horse (Classique Legend), somewhere around Nash, that was my plan. He was taking me everywhere I wanted to go and when I peeled out three wide on the turn, when I asked him, his turn of speed was Group I quality only. Gee he sprinted quickly and his sectional will back that up. He was off and gone, he was like a startled gazelle. He was electric. That is an experience. I promise you that is one hell of an experience. You get here, you stand on the blocks for 100m and you have to get gold. I swear, that is just an unbelievable experience I’ve just had there. That was very surreal.
2nd	SANTA ANA LANE	Mark Zahra	He went super. The winner surprised me a bit how quickly it went. With the weight he put a little break on me. He ran really gallant my guy but I just couldn’t reel him in.
3rd	TREKKING	Joshua Parr	That was so much fun. He ran really well - well done to the team, they prepared him in fantastic order. I’m really excited and I didn’t even win the race.
4th	NATURE STRIP	Tim Clark	Wonderful effort. Obviously, he ran them along and did a good job to be still kicking late. I just had to do a little bit of extra work early to clear them but he ran very well.
5th	PIERATA	Tommy Berry	Just got held up until probably the 200m. Once he got out he was doing his best work late but the race was all over - all the horses in front of him already had their momentum. He’s run very well.
6th	CLASSIQUE LEGEND	Nash Rawiller	I was pretty luckless. I never got a run at all when I needed it. I was in a beautiful spot down the back . When Hughie (Alizee) came up outside me it was too soon to come out and they were sort of pushing from the inside out. So I rode for luck as you would and I just didn’t get any.
7th	ALIZEE	Hugh Bowman	She was a bit free in the early stages. I was hoping to follow Yes Yes Yes but I was going to have to wrestle to follow him. All credit to the winner, but she ran a race.
8th	REDZEL	Kerrin McEvoy	I travelled nice but I was a little bit worried as soon as we straightened. When I asked him for an effort he was just even paced. He’s shown better than what he did today but it was still a gallant run.
9th	IN HER TIME	Brenton Avdulla	The result was a little bit disappointing but I didn’t think she ran too bad. We ended up in a good spot early but midrace James (Arcadia Queen) wanted to force the issue and it just got us both out of our rhythm - we both struggled from then on.
10th	SUNLIGHT	Luke Currie	Disappointing. She was in a nice spot but didn’t come on.
11th	ARCADIA QUEEN	James McDonald	I was wrapped the way she presented. She jumped well and got into a lovely position. I got a severe check at about the 300m mark and that put her out of business. Obviously she is a mare that needs a bit of space to wind into her race.
12th	TEN SOVEREIGNS	Ryan Moore	He was disappointing. He was never comfortable.

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reductio ad absurdum

Overseer wrote:

Classique Legend was a moral beat - he has to be hard to beat in the Golden Eagle

With you there Overseer, never really got a look in , there's a nice race in this bloke before we loose him to honkers, but we knew that if he lived up to his promise.

The more I look at that race, the more I think the owners of Wallers other two horses wouldn’t be too happy (I wouldn't).

He puts a 3yo with a significant weight advantage in his own slot who also took advantage of two on-pace runners from his own stable, along with Redzel, to ensure a fast run race and set it up for Yes Yes Yes, Santa Ana Lane and Trekking who all came from the back of the field.

A master set up takes the prize this year…