personally, i hope the best horse in oz over the last 12 months (beaten once when topweight under hcp conditions) can blitz them.

really, who else deserves to go down as a Cox Plate winner? Clangalang perhaps, but he lacks Lonhro's sprint.

Of course he can get beaten: wet track, only run at Valley was an inglorious one. But even the knockers have to admit, he's never performed better. and all the talk of a fast pace, personally i can't see it happening.

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On 2003-10-24 10:32, umrum wrote:
lonhro ... all his races over 2000metres bar the cox plate have been slowly run sit and sprints.
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La Mer: Umrum, you are attempting to perpetuate a myth re Lonhro only being able to win in sit and sprint races at 2000m. Go have a looksee at the 2002 Caulfield Stakes and you will see Lonhro and Sunline blitz the rest by six lengths in a time that was a mere 0.2seconds outside the track record.

Simply because he is seldom required to run times in his races, only ever needing to do what is required to win, does not mean his is not capable of doing so.

I hear ya Mr Logic. I reckon Fields of Omagh could upset and I will be taking Lonhro on

we'll see la mer.

also i think hawkes and beadman and quinn should have been outed for 6 months the way they rode freemason in the queen elizabeth. if thats not stable tactics i dont know what is.

The only way Lonhro won't win is if he doesn't turn up.

a lot of people said that last year but he couldnt keep up with champ

It only gets better for Lonhro - track officially upgraded to Good at 1.30pm this afternoon - it is a beautiful sunny day in Melbourne and although there may be some rain forecast tomorrow at the worst the track may end up dead and Lonhro is unbeaten on such conditions six wins from six starts.

Is it because the last couple have been spectacular, or is the worst overall field in a long time? If Lonhro wins, the knockers will say he beat nothing.

As an aside, can anytone tell me the name of the favourite who fell at around the 400m, pale green colours, Oliver, Freedman, was also unbeatable. This is not a quiz, and I'm not losing any sleep over it, but it is driving me nuts trying to think of this horses name. Started with U ??????

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was it naturalism

Yep, that would have been my guess too umrum :wink: