geez dav you've made some big calls there. i havent seen northerly run in a race yet where he was five lengths off the winner including his second succesive cox plate victory against the best field EVER assembled in that particular race. He beat them all on their merits. sure grtandera changed stride a few times but would he have actually got past northerly on a bigger track. he didn't go past defier and had every right too. I dont know what Northerly must do to stop getting bagged by people. He continues to win and continues to defy citics and records alike.

People say he is all guts and not a fast horse. sure he has guts but he is deceivingly quick. He travelled 3 wide the trip and smashed the australian cup record he ran course record when defeated by patrick payne's ride and fremason and he won the caufield cup with 58kg's. he is one of the greatest of all time dont worry about that.