
1st August 2002, 09:18 AM
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Tie the Knot - melb duffer and backmarker
Sky heights - handicap horse
Ha Ha - 3yo fillie
Universal Prince - overrated & a backmarker, Crawl - rarely wins
Falvelon - sprinter who hates pressure
El Mirada - avg horse
Inaflury - over races & can't finish off
Shogun Lodge - backmarker who always runs 2nd
Defier - backmarker who runs 2nd a lot
Old Comrade - tired after Aust cup
Sports - old sprinter
Dash for Cash - 3yo
Cent home - avg horse
Desert Sky - Does he even race anymore?
Freemason - plodder
OC defeats of Northerly
1st time - Had a 7.5kg weight advantage, and Northerly was tired after the Cox plate.
2nd time - Broke 2 mins for 2000m. Sunline has never broken 2.02mins.
Add to that Northerly has beaten OC 3 times.
Corporate Bruce is a good horse who managed to catch Northerly early in the campaign when he was 50% fit.
According to trainer and jockey Sunline was as good as ever last year when she got beaten twice by Northerly. The 1st time was over 1600m at MV. Surely she should have won this one but couldn't because Northerly is a stronger horse!
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