Djebel

Melbourne Cup weights released today.

Edited by djebel - 08 Sep 2020 at 8:40pm

Leave it be I say, this is a race that allows owners to dream , to tamper with the structure to suit the whims of a few is sacrilege, when it comes to the crunch this is one race that should never bow to the blinkered view who whinge and whine, I would change one thing though, limit the final o/s accepters to 5. 

The N/H 3 Y/Os that have won or been placed have had a tough time recuperating from this race , of the unplaced brigade I can't recall them turning into stars, Skipton to my knowledge was our last 3Y/O to win and that was very early 40s, I hope Danny waits one more year with Russian Camelot, imo at such an early age is too good to risk, he'd make a beautiful WFA horse at this stage of his life.

I am a bit of a show off.

Legend in your own mind ???  

Wayne Hawkes has apparently said the 1200m straight races at Flemington need a 1400m horse to win.

minimum weight spreads is one of the main causes of congestion in Straight sixes these days , that with a lack of intuition and jocks not allowing their mounts to strike a rhythm, no wonder so many throat ops, imo anyhow.

They win plenty of prizemoney, a good compensation.

I wouldn't want you to taint your innocent eyes 

Everyone is very friendly 

Going through the pedigrees of the debutants over the next 3 days and it reinforces my thoughts on our trainers and their methods.

Carioca might be able to answer that in more detail.

Why do we not see that in the Japanese or European horses ?

Bart trained his horses not to Pull that is why starting in sprints and gradually increasing distances they settled far better, they also weren't geared up with hot feed crap pellet feed like today so their metabolism remained steady, he had the innate ability to look inside the horse not many could do that , pop up races in the last 15 years has skewed our trainers right off the page in regard to the many dimensions of training , imo the best have passed us by but I'm heavenly biased as you all know, there will never be another Bart, just like a Bradman, Clarke Gable , Marilyn or Elvis.

Many of my friends did Jamal, the couple of trainers I worked for stripped at the track in stalls 20-30 feet away from Bart every morning, we drank together in the evening and many a friendship was made, they were good times, I imagine far different from today as jockeys stayed and rode work till the track shut .