Always watch betting moves
Isn't it interesting.....you have a race with an odds on favorite who is drawn to lead and only one other runner backed. What do you think transpires?????
Check out race 6 at Menangle on 24 May. The 1.40 odds on favorite (Yankee Ideal) clearly wins the start but is attacked all the way by Robert Morris's horse (Will I Am), the drifting second favorite who stated at 6-1.
The classic scenario unfolds. Yankee Ideal has to eventually surrender the lead and sits up in the death from the 800 so not to get boxed in by a tiring horse. It bravely hits the lead at the top of the straight only to be piped on the post by the well backed Shanocon (who previously had not won in over 25 starts, so it really had no form to be backed in to 7-1.
Oh where did Will I Am finish....a tailed off last (beaten by 2 horses starting at 80-1, one who started at 120-1 and one who started at 150-1)!!!
And the stewards action over the Robert Morris drive....stay tuned!!
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...22#MEC24052210
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