Quote Originally Posted by Raybo View Post
watching the Group 1 race at Flemington just now, I can see why Russian Camelot is favourite for the Melbourne Cup.
RC looks more like a Cox Plate horse to me. No reason why he can’t win both though!

Correction, just found out that Russian Camelot’s grand sire was Montjeu, who has already sired a Cup winner in Green Moon, plus two recent Sydney Cup winners and two Ascot Gold Cup (4,000 metre) so there should be no question he can run the trip.