The best roughies are Phelan Ready, King Mufhasa and Red Lord for mine.

Nice barrier for Ortensia , she needs to be outside of horses and she'll get her wish on Saturday , Hot Danish nice and fresh from a good barrier is suited.
The Fat and Whobe will need some luck . Mic Mac is coming into form and will have the drop on Hot Danish. Its also his grand final so he should run well.
I dont see a stack of speed in this , Hot danish could have it her own way leading or near the lead.

Horse Win Place
Ortensia 4.00 1.75
Whobegotyou 5.00 2.00
Hot Danish 5.00 2.00
Melito 7.00 2.50
Latin News (5e) 9.00 3.00
Mic Mac 11.00 3.50
Black Piranha 16.00 4.75
Paprika 21.00 6.00
Phelan Ready 21.00 6.00
News Alert 21.00 6.00
Albert The Fat 21.00 6.00
Carrara 26.00 7.25
Shellscrape 26.00 7.25
King Mufhasa 26.00 7.25
Russeting 31.00 8.50
Mr Unforgettable (4e) 31.00 8.50
Ghetto Blaster 31.00 8.50
Skiddaw Peak (2e) 41.00 11.00
So Anyway (3e) 61.00 16.00
Red Lord 61.00 16.00
Fritzy Boy (1e) 81.00 21.00

Phelan Ready has shortened from $26 - $17 on UniTAB.

I'm guessing the people who have backed PR want the showers we have had today to hang around.

The best roughies for mine are - Albert The Fat, Black Piranha & King Mufhasa

Dead4 as at 4pm today
I see blinkers are coming off
Interesting

The rain has come , Really like Ortensia , but Black pirahna and Phelan Ready move up the pecking order.

As of 10.15am Saturday, now a slow 6 and raining.

A very tricky race.
My top 3 are:
Hot Danish, Melito and Mic Mac.

Danger - Shellscrape (3 from 3 in the slow, won at the track and at the distance)

To be honest I think around 7 horses have a chance. If whobegotyou is fit enough and Rodd doesn't slaughter it in the running then it's always in the reckoning.

I know Phelan Ready likes the conditions but hasn't won over more than 1200m which is a concern for me. A few people think he'll run it out judged by his support this week.

Breakneck speed, Ortensia gobbles them up. It's a minefield!

Best of luck to all!!

The Schmile

I've backed King Mufhasa. If the rain continues, think Ortensia, Phelan Ready and Shellscrape the biggest dangers. Then you've got the other mares incl Russeting a rough place hope. Whobegotyou hates wet but classy and Red Lord should be running home well in prep for the Straddie