That's if they actually survive the "elimination process" and get to start in the big race.
Perhaps Scorpion was a "smokie" and the stable elect was always going to be Mahler. We know what those canny Irishmen are like and the fact that trainer O'Brien has made his first-ever journey to Australia may suggest he is supremely confident of taking the major spoils home with him to Blarney.

Cheers.