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
Australian racing
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.
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.
What price was the favourite last year?