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Melbourne Cup winner?


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Race order fore those on the same race multi places..

Winner: Knight's Choice
2: Warp Speed
3: Okita Soushi
4: Zardozi
5: Absurde
6: Circle of Fire
7: Fancy Man
8: Land Legend
9: Buckaroo
10: Kovalica
11: Vauban
12: Onesmoothoperator
13: Valiant King
14: Sea King
15: Interpretation
16: Sharp 'N' Smart
17: Trust In You
18: Mostly Cloudy
19: Manzoice
20: Positivity
21: The Map
22: Saint George
23: Just Fine
 
Not going to get over the beat Marbel Arch copped in the last for a while.

Jumped and landed exactly where i thought it would 1 out 3 or 4 back. Lost its position and came into the straight last on the fence.

Ran into backsides all the way up the straight and got beaten by under a length 🤮
 
Not going to get over the beat Marbel Arch copped in the last for a while.

Jumped and landed exactly where i thought it would 1 out 3 or 4 back. Lost its position and came into the straight last on the fence.

Ran into backsides all the way up the straight and got beaten by under a length 🤮
I was on it as well. Vomit inducing....
 

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Moreira goes close to winning on Soulcombe if he takes the runs as they present rather than having a predetermined idea of which horse he should be tracking, thought he would have learned a lesson there
 
Overall this is not a race I'm bothered in micro analysing too much. Strange results happen sometimes. Weak edition, poor rides, track favouring certain parts, a lot of horses underperforming and overperforming from their level that won't hold up.

Just going to put it in the that was ****ed box and moved on
How much does having the extreme roughie win work into the overall mood of this thread - not only this race but the overall ''vibe'' of the MC
 
Say what you want and I’m probably taking out of my pocket but Kah lost that. Was on the fence all the way then let’s Zardozi come up the inside, if she didn’t know fence was hot then she’s an idiot, she then has to go 3 wide around turn, running in quicksand, then the winners come down the inside of her, Zardozi even staying on even though she can’t run the 2 miles….
 

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Great story for the winner but awful day on the punt. A reminder not to spend too much time researching these things throughout the year when anything can happen on the day.

Pretty confident Buckaroo and Absurde (my futures tickets) could have been in the finish with better luck / rides (and barrier for Buckaroo) but not to be. Regardless of the luck in the straight, how on earth was Absurde in the last quarter of the field from barrier 6!?

At least most on here are coming of a big 2023 with WAF.

Thanks to regular contributors to this thread over the last few months, in particular Jug for his rankings. See you all next Spring.
 
Great story for the winner but awful day on the punt. A reminder not to spend too much time researching these things throughout the year when anything can happen on the day.

Pretty confident Buckaroo and Absurde (my futures tickets) could have been in the finish with better luck / rides (and barrier for Buckaroo) but not to be. Regardless of the luck in the straight, how on earth was Absurde in the last quarter of the field from barrier 6!?

At least most on here are coming of a big 2023 with WAF.

Thanks to regular contributors to this thread over the last few months, in particular Jug for his rankings. See you all next Spring.
If Zardozi stays one off the fence Absurde goes close to winning but as she tired she drifted back to the fence and blocked Absurde.
 
well, im still pretty bitter to be honest. Just a dog shit cup. 1st and 2nd both beaten a combined 21 lengths the start before. How on earth can you pick that.
Massive run from absurde which was my top pick, buckaroo goes close if it didnt have to grab a hot dog in the stands on the corner.
oh well, very big let down if you ask me. Feeling very flat after that, all the research and replay watching fellt like it was just for nothing.
Annoying because I had a small each way bet on knights choice in the bendigo cup because i thought it was a sneaky roughie, and it didnt have much luck in the straight but stepping up from a g3 to a g1 I just didnt think it had the class.

not sure if anyone else has said it but I think land legend was a big run as well, still wanted to over do it for most of the race, but yeah if it could actually settle, it goes very close. It just gassed out in the last 200.

funny because I said a couple times it feels like a bit of a prince of penzance kind of year but at least when you look back PoP ran a close 2nd in a MV cup that broke the track record. Bloody knights choice 2 starts back in the CC is about 17 lengths from the winner.

oh well, rant over.
 

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