Northerly beat the best ever field assembled in a cox and if he had stayed sound would have ended up with at least 4 cox plates. Unbeaten at the valley, beat sunline over 1600m here, beat her twice at 2000m here as well as types such as viscount, lonhro, universal prince, defier, grandera and fields of omagh to name a few. Plus he is clearly the best 2000m horse of the 5.