No Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight

1 WEEKEND HUSSLER Ross McDonald Brad Rawiller 11 57
2 MALDIVIAN (NZ) Mark Kavanagh Michael Rodd 18 56.5
3 MASTER O'REILLY (NZ) Danny O'Brien Vlad Duric 13 56.5
4 FIUMICINO (NZ) Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes Steven Arnold 4 56
5 KIBBUTZ (NZ) David Hayes Nash Rawiller 5 55.5
6 NOM DU JEU (NZ) Murray Baker Jeff Lloyd 20 55.5
7 MAD RUSH (USA) Luca Cumani Damien Oliver 17 55
8 ALL THE GOOD (IRE) Saeed Bin Suroor Kerrin McEvoy 8 54.5
9 DOURO VALLEY Danny O'Brien James Winks 3 54.5
10 ICE CHARIOT Ron Maund Glyn Schofield 2 54.5
11 VIEWED Bart Cummings Blake Shinn 14 54.5
12 LITTORIO Nigel Blackiston Steven King 10 54
13 RED RULER (NZ) John Sargent Corey Brown 1 54
14 BOUNDLESS (NZ) Stephen Mckee Dwayne Dunn 6 53.5
15 DOLPHIN JO Terry & Karina O'Sullivan Clare Lindop 12 53
16 RIVA SAN Peter G Moody Luke Nolen 9 53
17 ZAGREB David Hayes Glen Boss 7 52
18 GUILLOTINE (NZ) David Hayes Craig Williams 21 51.5
19e BARBARICUS Danny O'Brien Stephen Baster 22 52
20e NEWPORT Paul Perry Peter Wells (a) 16 53 1.5
21e RED LORD Anthony Cummings 19 53
22e MOATIZE Bart Cummings Chris Symons 15 51.5

Very open race

I reckon anyone who wants to back the Hussler is kidding themselves...would love to know the plans for Master O'Reilly and Littorio, whether the Melbourne Cup is the main aim....Don't mind the look of a few, maldivian, nom de jeu, red ruler, mad rush, guillotine should be a good race

Littorio is the obvious favourite but doesnt look to be suited by the way the race should be run. I like Nom du Jeu, would be very happy if it took out the CC MC double. These two are my top 2 with Douro valley in there for a place. You could make an arguement for almost the whole field.

Master O'reilly to go back to back?

Like Littorio and Gulliotine aswell, & don't think the Hussler's as out of it as some want you to think.

I have been saying to a few mates the kiwis will win atleast one of the cups this year and I feel this is a good one to start with.

I am a massive fan of Nom Du Jeu (used to back his mother alot) but I think he has a few things against him and the barrier might not be his biggest worry, he has apparently travelled over here a bit average which is never good but he may get over that before saturday, The barrier may actually be a blessing in disguise he has run his best races when being ridden dead cold I have a feeling they didn't want to do that in NZ because the didn't want to try and outsprint Princess Coup (no disgrace there) saturday I think he goes to the back and makes one big run at them not easy to do at caulfield though. I think he runs a cracking cup trial and finishes close to the place getters if not in them.

Red Ruler is the one for me has been for a couple of weeks now he is weighted well on his NZ form has more of a turn of foot than Nom Du Jeu and barrier 1 probably gives him the chance to settle about mid field on the fence where Corey Brown can then just bide his time and give him one final crack at them up front late alot of caulfield cups are won by horses just getting there the last 50 metres and I can see this bloke getting that run here.

others I like are Littorio, Boundless, Zagreb, Guillotine and maybe Ice Chariot

Throw a dart?

thats narrowing it down to much crash. I think you would need to throw 3.

My money will be on Master O'Reilly again. Was on him last year and watching his 2nd place in the Turnball am confident he can go back to back. Carrying 6kgs more this time around is the only worry I have. The barrier shouldnt be a concern as he will be back near the end of the field anyway.

Like to see what Mad Rush does... having something small on an each of two basis.

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Boundless interests me,,,still work to do but the speed map looks devoid of alot of pace up front,,,boundless atleast the type that will be handy ..