It's the most wonderful day of the year

[my miss storm cat]

Nice picks... good luck!

My only one so far is Xtension in the Mile.

I thought this was fun:

Excerpt from a blog by (THE) Steve Moran.

However, (trainer Jake) Stephens went on to say that Alcopop does not like Dunaden at all. 'He's not happy when that horse is nearby,' Stephens said referring to Dunaden.

So, maybe that indicates that Alcopop is intelligent and that somehow he knows that Dunaden is the horse who beat him in the Group 1 Caulfield Cup in Melbourne in October.

Ironically, Dunaden and Alcopop were the first two horses out on the track this morning - in the same order as they finished in the Caulfield race. Alcopop was well behaved but was just starting to appear a little irritated as he had to wait for jockey Craig Williams to finish galloping Dunaden before he could climb aboard Alcopop - on whom he won the Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington.

With too much contact between the visiting horses discouraged. for quarantine reasons, Williams was sprayed with some sort of disinfectant after riding Dunaden and before he mounted Alcopop.

Then again, maybe it was just to make sure that Alcopop didn't smell any trace of Dunaden on the jockey.