I like having a go at the trifecta in the big cups. And this year I’ve decided to add one more selection, which makes eight horses. That’s 336 combinations, so I’ll do a flexi and box them for $200 which will give me 59.5% of the dividend. The first horse to check out is Duke De Sessa, a horse I have previously observed with a perfect attitude, and my selection for a place bet. The horse looks fine in the subterranean stalls, keeping an eye on the strapper. Then the favourite Buckaroo, who has an unusual splayed stance in the stall, and his chestnut stable mate Land Legend. Circle Of Fire is lonely tucked up in his corner stall and I can’t leave out my favourite trainer Peter Snowdon’s Huetor. Gai’s Eliyass is not in the stalls but doing laps of the parade ring as you would expcct and Godolphin’s Zardozi seems OK. I toss in Savedaty Sadaty to make up the eight. Two obvious lays are Warp Speed, with this head up and pawing, and a restless, head up and shivering Warmonger. It was no surprise to see Warmonger break though the barrier.

The Duke puts his foot down at the 600 and Buckaroo can’t catch him. As the trainer Ciaron Maher said post-race, it was an easy watch. The trifecta paid $346.10 which flexed down to $205. The Parkinson’s is slowing me down and I find that just checking out the stalls is lot of walking for a measly $5. So I’ve pretty much decided to give up the blog after The Cup but I’ll leave the site up for a bit longer since the archives go back some 14 years!

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