17 days ago this was the story on Expensive Ego

Adam Hamilton reported that the camp said Expensive Ego hadn’t felt great in work this morning and his heart rate had been “up a bit”, prompting his scratching to instead prepare him for the Miracle Mile.

https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/art...ego-scratches/

and here he is $2.30 fav in the Newcastle Mile to be run in half an hour

http://www.harness.org.au/racing/fie...22#NRC18022202