In the horse racing world, spring starts this weekend with a crackerjack meeting at Randwick.
In fact, in the racing media we've been talking like it's already spring for the last week or two because all the horses that are likely to be stars during the spring carnival are returning to racing.
This weekend is no exception and, as I said, marks the unofficial start of spring. For example, in the Warwick Stakes (run over 1400m) at Randwick on Saturday both the Cox Plate favourite (a horse called Eremein) and the Melbourne Cup favourite (a horse called Headturner) have their first runs for the spring.
Now, it's more than likely that neither horse will win the Warwick Stakes but they will probably finish strongly at the end of the race and do enough to maintain favouritism for their respective races.
Spring is always an exciting time and, really, once we hit October everything becomes a blur. You've got the run-up to the Cox Plate, which in my view is the best race in Australia, then when that's over you have Derby Day and the Melbourne Cup. Unfortunately, this years Cup risks being a bit of an anti-climax because there's no way it's going to top last year's historic occasion. But, you never know a good story always comes out of it.
The problem is, no horse will EVER win 3 Cups again.
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Headturner and Eremein both ran well in the Warwick Stakes, certainly well enough to retain favouritism for the big races ahead.
I'm hoping for some good news during the week with regard to a slight change in job at News.
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