He has had good horses. He knows.

Most of these boys have raced horses for so long and never had a filly this good.

Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.

I ran Brockman's Lass against some of the better colts last week on unsuitable ground and she was competitive, and this filly has certainly got the score on the board.

He does look a Melbourne Cup horse - a Flemington horse. But I don't know about him taking her on in the Cox Plate.

All week I was worrying about tacking that race on to the end of a six-race preparation. He had been in work for a long time.