\u201cRacing Victoria contacted [Michael Kent] Junior late yesterday [Monday] and said on half of the test, the horse wouldn\u2019t pass. I\u2019ve contacted the owners and let them know.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s down the beach this morning [Tuesday].<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll come Thursday, have a look at it. They usually … say \u2018we might come Friday, we might leave it to Saturday morning\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe horse does have an irritation in the off-front fetlock. If that horse is not right, I\u2019m not happy with him, I\u2019m not going to run him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe X-rayed it. It\u2019s bone-clean, but the joint capsule has an irritation where it attaches to the bone. It\u2019s more a soft-tissue thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn Saturday morning, if the horse is not 100%, he won\u2019t run.\u201d<\/p>\n
Globe could be a key pace influence in a Cox Plate that lacks a natural leader at a good tempo and if he does come out, that will leave only eight starters and the potential for a messy race.<\/p>\n
The market for the great race is dominated by defending champion Via Sistina, who is $2 to win again on Saturday after smashing the race and track record in stunning fashion last year.<\/p>\n
Via Sistina galloped solidly at The Valley\u2019s Breakfast with the Stars on Tuesday morning with none of the drama of last season.<\/p>\n
On that occasion, she stumbled, dislodged New Zealand jockey James McDonald and galloped two full extra laps of The Valley before she was caught.<\/p>\n
Even after that, she was able to return four days later to record one of the most remarkable wins in the history of the Cox Plate.<\/p>\n
Via Sistina has drawn ideally at barrier five for Saturday, giving her room to settle into her stride without any concerns about getting locked away and McDonald will be able to move on her when he chooses, rather than having the tempo of the race dictated to him.<\/p>\n
Even if Globe has to be pulled out of the Cox Plate, the race will still have a strong New Zealand presence away from Via Sistina being ridden by McDonald and trained by Waller.<\/p>\n
Both the second- and third-favourites, Antino and Aeliana, are New Zealand-bred horses looking to double down for the local breeding industry after the enormous success at last Saturday\u2019s Randwick meeting.<\/p>\n
That was where the A$20m Everest was won by New Zealand-raised Ka Ying Rising, the A$5m King Charles saw a New Zealand-sourced trifecta and Linebacker won the A$1m Silver Eagle.<\/p>\n
Ladbrokes Cox Plate<\/p>\n
What: Australasia\u2019s greatest weight-for-age race.<\/p>\n
Where: The Valley, Melbourne.<\/p>\n
When: This Saturday.<\/p>\n
Distance: 2040m.<\/p>\n
The money: A$6 million<\/p>\n
Who: Many of Australia\u2019s best horses headed by defending champion Via Sistina<\/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 <\/b>Herald<\/b> as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the <\/b>Herald\u2019s<\/b> Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world\u2019s biggest horse racing carnivals.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cRacing Victoria contacted [Michael Kent] Junior late yesterday [Monday] and said on half of the test, the horse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[168690,14120,27616,25029,44230,67287,14381,65785,6454,130000,25052,168692,168688,21003,168687,168689,9348,30371,13685,25919,49971,168691,38388,16764,9641,87649,119722,20362,1071,14123,79,16,15,168686],"class_list":{"0":"post-517378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-68m","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-as","11":"tag-be","12":"tag-classic","13":"tag-connections","14":"tag-could","15":"tag-cox","16":"tag-drama","17":"tag-entry","18":"tag-even","19":"tag-fee","20":"tag-forced","21":"tag-from","22":"tag-galloper","23":"tag-hopefuls","24":"tag-horse","25":"tag-iconic","26":"tag-kiwi","27":"tag-ladbrokes","28":"tag-late","29":"tag-mammoth","30":"tag-million","31":"tag-miss","32":"tag-new","33":"tag-paid","34":"tag-plate","35":"tag-race","36":"tag-racing","37":"tag-saturdays","38":"tag-sports","39":"tag-uk","40":"tag-united-kingdom","41":"tag-zealandbred"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115413064485800848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}