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It is not often that I get up at 3.45, in fact I actually don't. However this morning was the Melbourne Cup, "the race that stops a nation", and it managed to start this one. As some of you may recall, I have been singing the praises of Septimus all year and even without any rain I still felt he'd put in a big run. We have been developing an excellent relationship with Terry Henderson in recent months - he recently took a share in an Encosta de Lago yearling we bought in Ireland - and he had a couple of runners including Bauer (pictured below) in the big race, so we had plenty of interest. In summary, Septimus and his stable mates had their own race in which they all lost and Bauer won while actually coming second. I have watched the race 4 times and each time Bauer gets home in front and yet loses the photo. Tough on Terry but he put it right by winning the very next race! I have yet to make it out to the cup but hopefully we'll have a runner or two there in the years ahead.
After saying last week that we were aiming to take advantage of the last few turf meetings of the flat season, we were forced to rethink as Nottingham went heavy last Tuesday and Catterick followed suit today prompting us to withdraw Yvonne Evelyn and El Diego respectively from their races. Yvonne is a nice filly who we didn't want to risk on very soft going and her pedigree hints that she wouldn
