Incentivise will be the favourite for the Melbourne Cup after romping home in an absolute demolition to claim the 2021 Caulfield Cup.
Despite no fans in the stands, the favourite romped home, thrashing the field to win by three lengths in an incredible performance.
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Incentivise had to go around the outside but at the top of the straight the 5-year-old gelding hit the lead and didn’t look back, streaking away to a dominant win.
After the race, jockey Brett Prebble said this is just the beginning.
“Look out Melbourne Cup, he’s going to eat the 3200m,” Prebble said on Channel 7.
Bruce McAvaney was excited by what he had seen, comparing him to the greatest horse of all time.
“He’s done a Phar Lap,” Bruce raved. “I am so thrilled that Pete’s here. They spent $1.2 million. Steve will be unbelievable. A wonderful ride. Trapped early. We said he had to go early on this horse. He did. He asked a lot of the horse. But what we have seen today, we’ve seen a horse that we thought was going to be a champion. And he is a champion. This is one of the great Caulfield Cup winners of all-time.”
While The Everest had 10,000 fans making plenty of noise, it was eerie in Melbourne as fans weren’t allowed with only a few owners, trainers, jockeys and media mingling around.
It comes after the Melbourne racing community was left in shock after it was revealed last year’s Cox Plate champion Sir Dragonet had been euthanised on Saturday morning after a “catastrophic” training accident.
Speaking on Channel 7, trainer Ciaron Maher was clearly devastated as he revealed how it happened.
“He was just doing a routine gallop at the Valley, his preparation was going very similar to last year and Ben Allen, who knows the horse quite well, was sitting off another horse and they hadn’t really got into their work yet,” he said. “Between the 1000m and the half mile, just starting to increase, he said whether he put his foot down a bit funny, he sustained a catastrophic injury to his front fore leg. It’s a pretty hard pill to swallow.
2021 Caulfield Cup Day race schedule
Race 1 – 12.15pm Magic Millions Grand Handicap (1700m)
1st: Saltpeter
2nd: Mimi’s Award
3rd: Trodaire
4th: Seiners Express
Race 2 – 12.50pm Tile Importer Trophy (1400m)
1st: Vianello
2nd: Stern Impulse
3rd: Morioka
4th: Lady Adelaide
Race 3 – 1.25pm Polytrack Gothic Stakes (1400m)
1st: Extreme Flight
2nd: Prince Alexander
3rd: Sandy Prince
4th: Corkscrew
Race 4 – 2.00pm Schweppes Ethereal Stakes (2000m)
1st: Daisies
2nd: Glint of Hope
3rd: Biscayne Bay
4th: Morrisette
Race 5 – 2.35pm Neds Classic (2000m)
1st: Gunstock
2nd: El Patroness
3rd: Teewaters
4th: Sebastian The Fox
Race 6 – 3.10pm Neds Moonga Stakes (1400m)
1st: Buffalo River
2nd: King Magnus
3rd: Justacanta
4th: Zoutori
Race 7 – 3.45pm Lexus Tristarc Stakes (1400m)
1st: Colette
2nd: Steinem
3rd: Aidensfield
4th: Nimalee
Race 8 – 4.30pm Carlton Draught Alinghi Stakes (1100m)
1st: Mileva
2nd: Bless Her
3rd: Never Talk
4th: Emanate
Race 9 – 5.15pm Carlton Draught Caulfield Cup (2400m)
1st: Incentivise
2nd: Nonconformist
3rd: Persan
4th: Montefilia
Race 10 – 5.50pm McCafe Caulfield Sprint (1000m)
1st: Oxley Road
2nd: Malkovich
3rd: Curran
4th: Free Of Debt
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