I will not be alone in stating Kutchinsky is a Caulfield Cup - Melbourne Cup prospect after one of the most amazing finishes I have ever seen from a budding stayer. Normally horses running home strongly are not my type of horse as often their runs are an optical illusion. Horses normally do not get faster at the end of races, as a study of sectionals generally shows, and it is really the leaders tiring quickly which flatters the run on horses. I don't know the sectionals Kutchinsky ran last Satu

I will not be alone in stating Kutchinsky is a Caulfield Cup - Melbourne Cup prospect after one of the most amazing finishes I have ever seen from a budding stayer. Normally horses running home strongly are not my type of horse as often their runs are an optical illusion. Horses normally do not get faster at the end of races, as a study of sectionals generally shows, and it is really the leaders tiring quickly which flatters the run on horses. I don't know the sectionals Kutchinsky ran last Saturday but I have the feeling The Hombre is a fair sort of stayer yet Kutchinsky gave him a decent start and a beating. It was some effort and the finishing burst reminded me, dare I say it, of the type of finish Makybe Diva could produce over ground.

No sooner had we witnessed Kutchinsky's great effort than we were treated to the awesome win by the mighty mare Hot Danish. Gee whizz, if only all the horse we backed could run as consistently. If all things are equal we will see her racing in Melbourne in the Spring: let's hope so.

I will add Love Conquers All and Bejewelled to my list of horses to follow. I know the field had a number of runners that failed to handle the heavy conditions, notably Pinwheel, but the way LCA accelerated in the last 100m signaled a horse of above average ability. Bejewelled only just fell in but I thought the run was a power packed effort and more wins are on the cards.

My list stands at The Jackal, Phelan Ready, Stryker, Graceful Anna, Gold Water, Khas Kura, Pinwheel, Love Conquers All and Bejewelled. Both Pinwheel and Khas Kura did not seem to handle the heavy conditions last Saturday while Phelan Ready seemed disappointing on face value behind Hot Danish.

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