Yes excellent topic EI, although I am talking from the other side of the equation with Northerly. I've never backed him in WA as he is usually weighted out of it eg. last year's Railway. The big difference ths time in has been Fred's decision to take the blinkers off, I think. It now appears the running style is to get to the front and defy the overtakers. Without blinkers he sees them coming up and digs that much deeper. As Damien Oliver said aftere the Caulfield Cup, "It's one thing to get him Northerly,another thing entirely, to get past him".
Forgotten horse of the Cox Plate?? - Fields Of Omagh at $17 - he was only a neck from Northerly last week.