In a year where he’s had 10 starts for six wins and risen through the grades from a Benchmark 64 to a Caulfield and Melbourne Cups hero, Half Yours is now set for a well-earned break.
The Tony and Calvin McEvoy-trained stayer has pulled up well from his Melbourne Cup triumph and won’t be rushed back to the races in the new year.
“The autumn’s going to be very quiet for him,” Tony McEvoy said on Wednesday. We’ve had him in all year; to think we can get him back in the autumn’s probably unfair.
“We haven’t made a decision, but we’ll probably go back to Queensland, there’s a race up there called the Q22 or the Doomben Cup and then probably target a Cox Plate, which can still open up the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.
“First thing we want to do is get the horse to a paddock, just reward him for what he’s done for us.”
Should Half Yours win next year’s Cox Plate at Flemington, he would be following in the footsteps of Might And Power, who completed the Cups double in 1997 before taking out the Cox Plate the following spring.
Half Yours is at $15 in Sportsbet’s market for the 2026 Cox Plate and is the $11 favourite to defend his Melbourne Cup title.
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