Really enjoyed the whole experience of watching the Cup in a small town here in Queensland: everyone on the beer from about 11.30 till well into the night. Shouted on Pop Rock in a crowd of hundreds in the pub, and second was ok but so near to the Jackpot!<br>I thought the Japanese jockey rode a perfect race and outrode D Oliver in the finish: repeated views of the home straight show Oliver’s horse lugged in on the winner 3 times- in my view if he had changed his whip when coming upsides he’d have won.<br>Yeats had few excuses, but to me it shows that the ideal way to tackle this race is to ship in well before and take in one of the traditional preps, as the 2 Japs did.<br>I still reckon Yeats had had enough at the Curragh on Leger day.<br>Taqweet cant have been helped by all the messing around poulticing his foot and looked a little tetchy, kicking out at the handlers trying to load him. Off to Melbourne on Friday, hoping to go to Emirates day at Flemington on Saturday.
