Is there a more courageous racehorse in Australia than Zipping? Yes, the winner is exceptional and for that reason alone we need to pay homage to Zipping for another gutsy effort to record his third consecutive placing in Australia's best race. His earnings are now just over four million dollars and it would be a foolish person who would suggest his winning days are numbered. If the same pattern is followed from last year he will attempt to win an amazing 4th Sandown Classic on November 13 and y
Is there a more courageous racehorse in Australia than Zipping? Yes, the winner is exceptional and for that reason alone we need to pay homage to Zipping for another gutsy effort to record his third consecutive placing in Australia's best race. His earnings are now just over four million dollars and it would be a foolish person who would suggest his winning days are numbered. If the same pattern is followed from last year he will attempt to win an amazing 4th Sandown Classic on November 13 and yours truly will be cheering like a man possessed when he makes his run. The history of horseracing seldom has a horse winning a major race four times but if any horse can it will be Zipping.
Will Bart send So You Think to the Melbourne Cup? He will certainly have a crack at the Group 1 MacKinnon Stakes but I am not sure for the Melbourne Cup. It is quite an ask for a horse having only his 12th race start to be fronting up to a tough 3200m of the Melbourne Cup but if there is a trainer in this universe that can train a horse to achieve this task it is JB Cummings. I backed So You Think a few weeks ago at $14.5 for the Cup based on odds alone and I laid off earlier this week as I have a niggling doubt in the back of my mind about So You Think this year. If I am wrong my wallet will at least be right.
I must admit I am, at times, a hard man to convince about a horse being called a champion, as that term is bandied around prematurely far too many times in the horseracing world, but Black Caviar is something special. If she beats Hay List in their much awaited clash in the Patinack Farm Classic at wfa over 1200m on Emirates Stakes day the connections can start checking all passports and start inoculation proceedings for all overseas visits. In fact, I see no reason why the connections of Hay List should not be doing the same.
Again, as each year, the Flemington carnival just has us keen punters on our toes and the words "bring it on" are our catchcry.
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