Who Shot Thebarman

He was beaten by a hurdler today. 

Bit of a stretch to say Polarisation is a hurdler when he has now had 24 starts of which only 1 has been over the hurdles.

Keep him going- love watching him run and thought he nearly had it today! Considering what happened last start he obviously bounced back perfectly to put in the run he did today..
He's still consistent so ???? if it ain't broke don't fix it..

I tend to think it is because Jumps racing in Australia is amateurish and basically for also-rans. 

Ahh dear old Crisp the Pharlap of Australian Jumps racing .... and yes the St Ledger winner has been mentioned a few times on here probably should have two Melbourne Cups to it's name

I was told today Beirne tipped him to win.

Sneck wrote: Karasi was a pretty good horse, ran 4th in the Melbourne Cup, who went over the jumps. At 12 years of age he won his third consecutive Nakayama Grand Jump.

Great old horse.

Van Der Hum won the Cup in 1976, won the feature Waikato Hurdle in 1982, and was still winning over the big jumps as late as 1984, 8 years after his Flemington success.

Agree, just keeps doing his best year in year out.

Fantastic to see WSTB win another big race.

He’s my favourite horse currently racing. Just puts in every Spring and every Autumn, year after year.

The type of horse every owner who actually enjoys the sport of racing dreams of owning.

Bring on Melb Cup run number 4!!   

I’ve won & lost on him over the years too and wasn’t on him today as I avoid races with fields of less that 8.

But as 3BM said, put punting aside and just appreciate a very honest, old school NZ stayer.

Well done WSTB

Good to see the old boy win again...the Waller stable outside the one superstar is a bit light on for big race winners of late.

Wish the weather was as predictable Mowie. You presumably missed the previous race and just looked at the 9 on his form. 

Was just announced...no penalty Melbourne Cup penalty for winning the Moonee Valley Cup, will carry 54kg in the Melbourne Cup.

I'm sure the owners would have been happy to hear Waller say yesterday that it was nice to have horses like Who Shot Thebarman as well as "good horses like Winx". Most trainers would think that a horse who has won $3 million is entitled to be called a good horse (or probably a damn side better).

Hopefully he'll recover in time to run in one of the stakes races at Sandown on 18 November, however it's unlikely if he's picked up a virus.