IT'S FINALLY HERE!

IT'S FINALLY HERE!Well, after all this time it's happening.Rain, rain, go away! (Please...)It would be a shame if the race were to be marred by losing the speed machines to a heavy surface. And of course regardless of what they say, this is Rosehill, meaning that there MAY be a fast lane.But where will it be? That's the big question, isn't it?My view is that horses drawn between, say, three and ten (inclusive) have the best opportunities to make what they can of what's been revealed in the six e

IT'S FINALLY HERE!

Well, after all this time it's happening.

Rain, rain, go away! (Please...)

It would be a shame if the race were to be marred by losing the speed machines to a heavy surface. And of course regardless of what they say, this is Rosehill, meaning that there MAY be a fast lane.

But where will it be? That's the big question, isn't it?

My view is that horses drawn between, say, three and ten (inclusive) have the best opportunities to make what they can of what's been revealed in the six earlier races. Of course that takes in half the field, but I don't like to imagine how those in the inside two barriers will go unless they jump like gazelles, and as you know I hate the wide barriers, regardless of the fact that Phelan Ready created an anomaly last year.

It's hard, this race. The fave was available at tens a few weeks back. She was a dream bet then.

And speaking of dreams, I suspect that there's something inside all of us that quietly hopes little Chance Bye can do it for Michael Tubman and Kathy O'Hara. Chance Bye and Military Rose are the two unbeaten runners, and nobody really knows if one of them will turn out to be another Wenona Girl, or a Gold Edition. Realistically, they both could!

Ten girls and five boys. Unusual in itself.

Good luck, however you decide to play it.