27th October 2003, 03:17 PM
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On 2003-10-26 18:54, La Mer wrote:
Your comments re Lonhro not liking the Valley are well off the mark - nothing at all to do with the Valley, the fact was Lonhro moved up to challenge at the turn yesterday and once again could not sustain his run in a pressure race
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Just because Lonhro moved up to challenge at the turn does not mean he handled the track...as people have already mentioned it was one of the weakest Cox Plate fields and so we would expect Lonhro to be close up to the winner even if we knew 100% that he didn't handle track.
E.g - If Lonhro raced over 2040m at M.V against Class 6 horses and we knew 100% that he doesn't handle M.V surely we would expect him to still win the race!!!!!
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- it has happened twice now, yesterday and in the Doncaster Handicap when Grand Armee clearly outsprinted him in the run home.
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Notice how both races were run just after rain had fell and that Lonhro was 3 wide in the Doncaster and still finished 5th or 6th and that day at Randwick was totally bias towards leaders.
I wouldn't call the last 600m of those 2 races as sprints home, both were one of the slowest 600m's in both races previous history.
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the facts are that in probablity he will retire to stud next year without ever winning one of the major races in Austrlia and therefore will not go down as a memorable champion. Good he may well be, but champions are made of sterner stuff.
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Correct me if i'm wrong but i thought every Group 1 race in Australia was a major race regardless of the amount of prizemoney on offer.
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