Homegrown gelding Right You Are is literally following in his parents’ footsteps as he heads to the barrier for the 163rd running of the Melbourne Cup.
, the seven-year-old gelding is one of just two Australian-bred horses in this year’s race.That fact doesn’t matter as much now. The slight discontent that was emerging five years ago about the internationals dominating dissipated after Vow And Declare’s 2019 victory.
His trainer Ciaron Maher is certainly aware of that fact, musing when assessing the horse’s chances after the barrier draw that “there are not too many horses in the race where both their mother and the father ran in the Melbourne Cup”. In August 2016, however, the pair’s union produced a leggy foal that part-owner Michael Wilson decided to name after an old English expression – one of his grandfather John’s favourite sayings.Right You Are gradually worked through the grades before having a huge summer and autumn campaign where he won five out of six races including a Mornington Cup, his only defeat coming on a heavy track in the Easter Cup.
“He’s had a brilliant prep. midfield, get a bit of cover and I think he is a great chance,” Maher said.
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