Very harsh I think Reaper. Take a look at replays of his two Sydney wins against, in my opinion and with no disrespect meant, considerably lesser opposition. On each occasion was back at least in the second half of the field or worse early/mid-race and was strong to the line, just like tonight.
First go in Melbourne under race conditions, Godolphin horses don't have the record in Melbourne of late that they do in Sydney. He drew wide so with his racing pattern, only option, again in my opinion, was to drop out and have one crack at them late - unfortunately was not good enough. The winner ran second to Tulip two starts back - I think Tulip would have made a mess of these.
$2.60 into about even money is certainly a good crack - maybe they all got it wrong and it is easy to review thus with the result in front of us but I find it hard to bag the jockey. It is a horse that I will be following and the ride will certainly not stop me backing anything that I like with D Lane aboard.
For the record I didn't find the winner either in virtual bet here or in cash.
Good punting tomorrow - for my two bobs worth am maintaining faith in Oohood ew in the slipper and with very very minor ownership connection to Gollan stable will have to have something small each way on Ef Troop.
No offense meant and I have had a crack at jockeys in the past as well
