30th October 2005, 03:09 AM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
Location: Queensland
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Dundas
I couldn't agree more he was a horse who was either loved or hated over here and I think it had more to do with Makin than anything else, Now if this was Elvstroem doing this you would see it almost everywhere if it was Makybe Diva doing it, it would be plastered all over everything I mean hell look at how much attention there was just to whether she would run in the cup.
I remember the 1st time I saw this horse he had me right away the big gangly chestnut with socks he raced so erratically and yet was still to good for most he came against. Not to bash Gary Newham to much here but if someone with the profile of Luca Cumani had trained him here in Australia he would have been given alot better chances to have succeeded and most likely would have taken home the Cox Plate last year.
If he wins this race tomorrow for me it would be the biggest thing ever in racing the QEII bought a tear to my eye that is how much I loved this horse here in what will be his swansong I hope he just gets a chance to show the americans how good he is because quite honestly at his top he was the best mile-mile and a quarter horse in Australia IMO.
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