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Cameo Appearance By Efficient
Story By Chris Scholtz
Tuesday, 11 March 2008: While Melbourne Cup winner Efficient
makes a cameo appearance at Flemington on Saturday his younger half brother Guillotine
will attempt to build on his burgeoning reputation at Rosehill.
Efficient will have his first outing since his Melbourne Cup victory in November in the Blamey Stakes at Flemington before he returns to the paddocks ahead of another spring campaign.
Efficient's owner Lloyd Williams said the decision to give the four-year-old only one autumn start is part of his plan to win the Cox Plate- Melbourne Cup double in the spring with the grey.
"I like to dream a bit,” Williams said.
“He will have just the one run and have up to eight weeks out in the paddock as I only have one thing in mind for him in the spring."
Efficient will be ridden by Steven Arnold on Saturday, an ironic reunion with the horse he could have ridden in the Melbourne Cup.
Arnold preferred the Melbourne Cup mount on stablemate Gallic, a subsequent late scratching from Australia's richest race.
He was left to watch Michael Rodd win the Cup on Efficient but gets back on the grey on Saturday as Rodd is still recovering from an illness.
In Sydney trainer David Payne will start Guillotine's AJC Derby campaign in a low class 3YO ratings race over 1500m.
Guillotine was nominated for Saturday's $1 million Golden Rose but the three-year-old does not have sufficient prizemoney to make the final field, a good result for jockey Hugh Bowman.
Bowman is free to ride Guillotine and retain the mount on the Bart Cummings filly Mimi Lebrock in the Golden Rose. Payne will be represented in the Golden Rose by Vecchia Roma (Damien Oliver).
Guillotine, a grey like Efficient, recorded his second win from just five starts when he blitzed older horses by six lengths over 1900m at Rosehill in December.
He is set to follow Saturday's race with starts in the Randwick Guineas, Rosehill Guineas and AJC Derby.