Blake Shinn (Vauban): \u201cHe ran super. Big turnaround from the Caulfield Cup. Hit the line well but the winner and the other horse had a bit better turn-of-foot. Very proud of the horse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark Zahra (Al Riffa): \u201cIt was okay. I was four-wide and had to find a spot to get in and there was too much to do with that weight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kerrin McEvoy (Absurde): \u201cHe ran well. The pace wasn\u2019t that strong through the first part, had to give them a start. He picked up into it well, good honest run.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tim Clark (Changingoftheguard): \u201cI thought he ran really well. Just when Land Legend went around, we were in a position where we had to cart the field up, which probably cost him running a few placings closer up.\u201d<\/p>\n
James McDonald (Meydaan): \u201cHe ran well. Got into a lovely spot, switched off well but probably just found the 3200 a fraction far.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael Dee (Furthur): \u201cHe\u2019s very inexperienced still, he was a touch slow out, travelled very, very strong. We were getting knocked about the first time past the post but travelled strong, held up a nice gallop all the way to the line but his first half he\u2019s just raced a little bit ungenerously.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel King (Arapaho): \u201cReally brave. He hasn\u2019t had the best set up coming into today, but honest as ever.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thore Hammer-Hansen (Flatten The Curve): \u201cI found myself a lot further back than ideal, but he still ran a good race considering. Just probably went too quick early doors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ben Melham (Smokin\u2019 Romans): \u201cHe ran well, the old bugger. He\u2019s just had a prep where he\u2019s probably been running on firm ground. He\u2019s got a bit soft ground and he\u2019s just a bit over it. Proud of him anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robbie Dolan (Royal Supremacy): \u201cThe wide barrier wasn\u2019t in his aid today, once I couldn\u2019t get cover on him, he straight away just over-raced into the first bend, I had to flow with him to get him to relax and it just told late.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harry Coffey (Onesmoothoperator): \u201cHe had a lovely run but when the pressure came at the 600, he failed to quicken, the wheels were spinning on the soft going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jye McNeil (Valiant King): \u201cThey found their spots quickly inside me; I wasn\u2019t able to give him every chance today \u2013 he had to do it too tough three-wide facing the breeze. Initially, I had cover from Land Legend but when he went, I was stranded.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tommy Berry (More Felons): \u201cIt was a very muddling run race, and it made it sort of hard to move into it early enough from where we were and he\u2019s battled on okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephane Pasquier (Presage Nocturne): \u201cA bit disappointed because he was favoured in the odds.\u201d<\/p>\n
John Velazquez (Parchment Party): Declined to comment.<\/p>\n
Declan Bates (Athabascan): \u201cDisappointing. We got deleted early and it sort of put us further back earlier than we wanted. He just hasn\u2019t quite finished off as we would have liked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joao Moreira (Land Legend): \u201cNo manners, pushed too hard. He did a lot of things wrong in the race.\u201d<\/p>\n
Damian Lane (Chevalier Rose): \u201cDisappointing. Unfortunately, didn\u2019t race to his best today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Craig Williams (Buckaroo): \u201cIt was a shame we didn\u2019t get to see Buckaroo at his best. We know how good a horse he is, but in today\u2019s race he was not far away from the eventual winner, but he was three-wide on the back and basically put himself out of the race when they went slow.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2013 Racing.com<\/p>\n
Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the Herald as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the Herald\u2019s Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world\u2019s biggest horse racing carnivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Shinn (Vauban): \u201cHe ran super. Big turnaround from the Caulfield Cup. Hit the line well but the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[836,74,67650,10542,2964,26098,9519,14569,123,83192,83191,111,139,69,39429,31124,3048,213,9087,78287,6923,56727],"class_list":["post-117287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-836","tag-after","tag-beaten","tag-cup","tag-half","tag-heres","tag-jamie","tag-jockeys","tag-melbourne","tag-melham","tag-melhams","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-react","tag-riding","tag-said","tag-sports","tag-triumph","tag-tuesdays","tag-what","tag-yours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}