I for one don't give Weekend Hussler a hope in aaaa of winning this race on the weekend and I reckon i'll go as far as saying he won't run a place either, His stamina is nowhere near what most of the stayers are in this field but outside of that as has been pointed out his type of horse doesn't win these tough grueling staying test, He is a sit sprint miler who can probably get the 2000 in a slowly run WFA event.

it is a completely different story in the handicaps and almost always in ones of this magnitude there is almost always pressure galore in these races with stamina making a massive difference over the concluding stages of the race when the dash is gone.

I am a big fan of the kiwis in this race and alot of people say that they haven't done anything here in melbourne for so long but they haven't had the talent they have bought out here this year either.