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I had missed the sad news about Sir Dragonet this morning until they mentioned it just now on Racing.com's coverage:

https://www.racing.com/news/2021-10-16/ ... euthanised
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PDC wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 6:13 am
Just the £3.5 million to the winner of the Everest :shock:

The entire prize money for the winners at the whole of the UK's Champions day at Ascot today is just £2.3million!

Tell me again which country has the better funding model ;)
Everest has a fair degree of round robin funding.
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gazuty wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 6:36 am
Everest has a fair degree of round robin funding.
Fair point.

The prize money in Australia though is just a different universe compared to ours. I don't understand why more foreigners don't have horses run over there with the prize money so good any additional travel expenses would be easily covered.

The Caulfield Cup has a cool £1.7m to the winner which isn't far off the Champions Day total.
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PDC wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 6:39 am
gazuty wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 6:36 am
Everest has a fair degree of round robin funding.
The Caulfield Cup has a cool £1.7m to the winner which isn't far off the Champions Day total.
There is a big specialisation in bringing European 2000+ metre raiders for these races. Of course covid19 has killed it off for the moment.

The Australian classic races (which copy uk classic races) are mostly longer distances and yet we’ve really focussed our breeding on sprinting. Everest is a nod to the sprinting obsession.
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Some odd movement on this favourite in the big race at Caulfield.
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Odd market. Didn't quite catch light at any point.
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Managed a good result but checking back on last year I was about £100 down on last years result. I got myself into a bit of a muddle late on which is a good reminder for the Melbourne Cup that things can get a bit manic late on.
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Don't forget they were offering 0% last year. So that really set the markets alight.
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Euler wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 7:23 am
Don't forget they were offering 0% last year. So that really set the markets alight.
I forgot about that. Also we had the Irish runners, that's where I got the majority of my profit last year.
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Euler wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 7:23 am
Don't forget they were offering 0% last year. So that really set the markets alight.
I just checked back and the amounts matched at the off were almost identical in 2021 v 2020. Both about £1.3 million.
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Between innings on the lasses cricket the big race was broadcast on 5 Live Xtra

They just had some time on their hands to fill a gap - it's the Australian ABC feed. :D
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Was going to review the numbers later. So that's interesting.
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PDC wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 7:33 am
Euler wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 7:23 am
Don't forget they were offering 0% last year. So that really set the markets alight.
I just checked back and the amounts matched at the off were almost identical in 2021 v 2020. Both about £1.3 million.
What price was the favourite last year?
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Verry Elleegant BFSP was 4.85
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Euler wrote:
Sat Oct 16, 2021 7:35 am
Was going to review the numbers later. So that's interesting.
My figures are a bit after the off so not perfect but:

2020 = £1,332,521
2021 = £1,314,374
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