Select field of seven for the $1million Group I BRC Doomben Cup (2000m) with a battle of tactics set to make it a must watch race.
This year Pride Of Jenni and She's A Hustler will attempt to join the select list of Doomben Cup winning mares. Four time G1 winner Jenni would be a VIP guest in the harem of any stallion on the planet, while the lightly raced She's A Hustler is yet to claim her first win at the highest level, but there's little doubt that it's only a matter of time.
She is flying the flag for the Kiwis as are Kovalica and the former NZ Derby winner Asterix.
Jenni is the undisputed queen, but She’s A Hustler is the up and coming star looking to step on her train.
The crowd gave Pride Of Jenni a standing ovation after the Hollindale. They’ll tear down the grandstand if she is first across the line here! Last year in this race the mare was out of gas halfway down the straight, but she had stepped from 1600 to 2000m on that occasion - will it be a different scenario this time? This is the fifth run of her preparation.
Looming large in her rear vision mirror will be the Caulfield / Melbourne Cup champion Half Yours. It may well prove to be a case of objects in the mirror are closer than they appear
Despite the fact we are left with a seven horse field this is a great contest lacking for nothing in class or intrigue!
With Doomben copping a deluge of biblical proportions early in the week, even with some sunshine and doubtless a couple of upgrades it’s going to be a genuinely rain affected track.
Top Pick: SHE'S A HUSTLER
Last Saturday Grahame Begg snared a coveted Melbourne Cup berth with his up and coming stayer Zakouma, who came home like a train to win the Listed Andrew Ramsden Stakes at Flemington.
Here the gifted horseman puts another rising star for his boutique stable - the current $10 Caulfield Cup chance, She's A Hustler - to an even sterner test.
In her short career this five year old daughter of Ace High has built quite a fan following. Count me in! She’s an absolute beauty, and I think she has what it takes to become the third G1 winner for her sire by taking out the 2026 Doomben Cup.
If successful She's A Hustler would join G1 NZ 1,000 Guineas heroine Molly Bloom and this season's G1 NZ Breeders Stakes winner She's A Dealer - both of whom have raced well in Australia on heavy ground - as winners at the highest level for Rich Hill Stud's beautifully bred Ace High.
Unlike those fillies, She's A Hustler had only one start as a 3YO and that patience has paid off in a big way. She's already proven adept on soft and heavy tracks, and on breeding at least the wetter the Doomben surface stays the better she will go!
Last prep the powerful mare went to a new level with her win in the G3 Tesio on Cox Plate day followed by second in the G2 Matriarch on the last day of the Flemington carnival, and topped off her spring with a great win in the G2 WFA Zipping Classic beating dual Australian Cup hero and Jenni - conqueror Light Infantry Man.
She's A Hustler returned with a meritorious fourth to Idle Flyer in the G1 Queen Of The Turf and followed it up with a good closing third behind tearaway Jenni in the Hollindale. Now she's ready to peak.
The now five year old has just 13 starts to her name for 7 wins, 4 seconds, a third and $929,456 in prize money.
She's A Hustler was bred by John Thompson and Greg Tomlinson, the respective principals of NZ nurseries Rich Hill Stud and Nearco Stud.
They had previously joined forces to secure Temolie, the dam of this Autumn's G1 heroine ( and pre-post Caulfeld Cup favourite) Aeliana.
She’s A Hustler was purchased out of Rich Hill’s draft at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale by agent Phill Cataldo for $70,000.
After just one start for Roger James in NZ she found her way across the ditch to Grahame Begg's stables at Cranbourne.
Her sire, High Chaparral's G1 VRC Derby/ ATC Spring Champion hero Ace High, stands at Rich Hill Stud and is proving to be a very, very good sire.
This handsome son of a brilliant sire of sires boasts Redoutes Choice and Sunday Silence as his first and second damsires - and like his relatives Danehill, Halo and Machiavellian he is linebred to the family of his ancestress, Blue Hen Almahmoud.
She's A Hustler is a daughter of the winning Bernardini mare Snow Petal, and is a granddaughter of the G1 New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes winning miler Zirna (Deputy Governer). That top performer left NZ and won multiple stakes races in Singapore, where she was crowned HOTY.
She's A Hustler is a half sister to stakes placed Freeze Frame (Vadamos), and to winning milers Platinum Road (Declaration Of War) and Platinum Petals ( Deep Field) and has a promising 3YO half sister Frozen Fortune (Proisir) on the rise.
A half brother by Proisir was picked up by Mick Price Racing and Breeding at Karaka 2025 for $100,000 and is named Snowpro.
Snow Petal has a filly by Cambridge Stud's exciting Frankel son Chaldean and was returned to him.
Snow Petal is a half sister to the very good race mare Crafty Irna ( Starcraft) who won the G3 Adrian Knox at Randwick and was placed in the G3 Kingston Town (twice), Millie Fox, Epona and Matriarch Stakes.
Another half sister, stakes placed Zing ( Zoustar) is dam of stakes placed filly Divine Diosa ( Teofilo) and has colts by Stay Inside and Russian Revolution yet to race for her.
G1 miler Zirna was a full sister to juvenile stakes winner Amazing Me and half sister to Listed winner Vandalo and to the dam of stakes winners Tavernelle and Flower Of Wanaka, all produced by the winning Gleam Machine mare Riverley Lass, dam of ten winners.
This interesting family descends from a fast, stakes winning daughter of the mighty Baguette by Rego, an undefeated Sydney juvenile Triple Crown winner who raced on to win the Newmarket and the Doomben 10,000 at three.
He left a host of fine daughters who shaped the breed, and is the grandsire of Rory's Jester.
His daughter Sparkle N Shine is She's A Hustlers ancestress, and was a half sister to Olympic Flame, dam of G1 sprinter Sports and Seika by Canny Lad who founded a successful family of her own.
This branch of family 11-d descends from the imported Irish-bred Gaterina by Prince Galahad.
She's A Hustler is bred
Seattle Slew x 4m,5m
Her damsire, the beautiful Bernardini was a champion and shuttled to Australia for Darley over eight seasons. He is a sought after broodmare sire worldwide, with his many G1 winners as a broodmare sire including the 2025 Kentucky Derby hero Sovereignty and this year's surprise winner Golden Tempo, who beat the fave Renegade by a neck - Renegade is the grandson of a Bernardini mare!
In Australia Bernardini shone as the damsire of the ATC Derby winner Angel Of Truth. His durable 5 x G1 winning sprinter miler Boban won the Doomben 10,000 and was runner up in the Stradbroke of 2015 when it was switched to this track.
We’ll get to Bernardini's grandsire the mighty Seattle Slew, but the number one influence in this outstanding pedigree is that of Blue Hen Almahmoud.
Ace High is linebred to his own ancestress Spring Adieu ( ex Natalma) through daughters and half sisters Razyana ( His Majesty) dam of Danehill, and You're My Lady (by Roberto by Hail To Reason), his fourth dam.
Ace High's second damsire is by Sunday Silence, - by Hail To Reason from Natalma's half sister Cosmah, and Cosmah's daughter Queen Sucree ( by His Majesty's sire Ribot) is the dam of Gleam Machine.
Bernardini contributes Spectacular Bid, a family relation (2-d) plus Natalma son Northern Dancer via a daughter, while his damsire Quiet American is another linebred to his own ancestress that being Cequillo, who like Almahmoud was a Mahmoud daughter.
Ace High's third damsire Local Talent was by Northern Dancer and from the 17-b family, which is also a strong presence in Roberto and particularly in the damlines of Sunday Silence - so this is a huge key as to how Ace High will breed on.
She's A Hustler's dam has plenty of this blood notably via Johnstown, the damsire of To Market ( x 2 in Spectacular Bid) and Mr Prospector (Fappiano).
In Seattle Slew the family appears via the sire Negofol who is also carried by Redoute's Choice.
Seattle Slew is important for his inbreeding to full sisters Striking and Busher from La Troienne daughter Baby League, and his dam's inbreeding to her own ancestress Frizette ( also Mr Prospector's, and Darshaan's)
Redoute's Choice sex balances with Busher's full brother Mr Busher and more. Ace High's linebred ancestress Spring Adieu is by La Troienne's great descendant Buckpasser.
This pedigree also features linebreeding to Promised Land (damsire of both Sunday Silence and Spectacular Bid), Hail To Reason (damsire of both Sadler's Wells and of Slew's sire Bold Reasoning, sire of Roberto / grandsire of Sunday Silence) and to Blue Hens Lalun ( Never Bend sex balanced, half brother Bold Reason) and Somethingroyal (Secretariat, Sir Gaylord) plus a whole lot more!
She's A Hustler is an imposing athlete who likes to sit just off the speed. She'll be waiting to pounce should Jenni falter, but should Jenni fight on - like she did in the Australian Cup - the big tough Hustler will have the superior stamina reserves at the end of 2000m.\
Jordie Childs has been aboard at every one of her Australian starts, and the dynamic duo will launch from barrier 3.
Next Best: HALF YOURS
The reigning Cups champion has returned with two excellent performances in the G1 All Aged and G2 Hollindale Stakes. He starts favourite here but he will go back, and there's the possibility that we see the same third up scenario as we did in the Spring - when he ran home hard for fourth in the Turnbull. From there he was unstoppable when stepped up in distance.
I think the small field and the wet track are his saving graces here ( the Turnbull had twice as many runners, and Half Yours has only once been unplaced on soft / heavy ground )
Trainers Tony and Calvin McEvoy will be hoping their grand galloper can write the next successful chapter in an Australian racing story for the ages.
It's got everything - the twists of fate, the fairytale highs and the crashing lows.
Just three weeks after that unforgettable triumph on the first Tuesday in November catapulted the sire of Half Yours into the national breeding spotlight, he was gone.
He was the beautifully bred but unheralded Teofilo son St Jean (IRE), a G3 Auckland Cup winner standing at owner Grant Dwyer's Brackley Park stud in Victoria since 2017.
After Half Yours began his meteoric rise to the top, breeders took a second look at this stallion who descended from one of the bluest of Blue Hens, Highclere.
Interest picked up, and after his son had stormed into Cup folklore St Jean had a fee increase and Dwyer had owners of Desert King mares ( Half Yours damsire) coming out of the woodwork. Everything was looking rosy and then the fates stepped in.
In late November, the tragic news broke of the death of St Jean resulting from a freak paddock accident, and it just seemed too bad to be true.
But life with horses can be like that.
St Jean was the first Victorian stallion to sire a Melbourne Cup winner since 1973.
Half Yours was his first and only stakes winner but interestingly, St Jean’s sire Teofilo got another horse to complete the rare Cups double, Without A Fight.
Only 13 horses in history have achieved this revered feat. Teofilo himself has sired three Melbourne Cup winners in all.
Half Yours was bred by Janice McKenna in Victoria from the placed Desert King mare La Gazelle, a half sister to the tough G3 winning stayer Moudre.
He was purchased for $305,000 from the 2024 Inglis Digital November (Late) Online Sale by Belmont Bloodstock/McEvoy Mitchell Racing when offered as part of the Halo Racing Unreserved Reduction Sale following the sad passing of Colin McKenna.
At the time of the auction, Half Yours had raced five times for two wins and earnings of $40,000.
His sale page described him as a “progressive miler to middle distance horse that has the ability to perform in Saturday metropolitan races”.
Since entering the McEvoy establishment, Half Yours has raced a further 12 times for an overall record of 17 starts for 8 wins which include the G1 Melbourne Cup, G1 Caulfield Cup, G3 Naturalism Stakes and Listed Caloundra Cup. His earnings top $9.2 million - and his place in Australasian turf history is cemented!
Half Yours is bred
Danehill 4f x 3m sex balanced
Bustino 5f x 5f
Northern Dancer 5m x 5m,5m,5m
His first four dams failed to win a race.
Half Yours descends from a sister to the G2 winning sprinter Touch Of Genius from the stakes placed Toolern Gold, a 1000m winner by Vain.
But this is a branch of the 7-d family - a family which has produced the likes of champions Prince Cortauld, Gurner's Lane, Veandercross, Sovereign Red, Mr Brightside, Ka Ying Rising and many more exceptional thoroughbreds including the mighty Better Loosen Up, who shares a direct ancestress Alecon (by the freakishly talented 1952 Melbourne Cup winner Dalray) with Half Yours.
Dalray's son Tails was one of the greatest of all Doomben Cup winners.
Alecon's dam Boot Maid was bred on a cross of full brother and sister Popingaol and the legendary imported sire Magpie, by Dark Ronald out of matriarch Chelandry. Their half sister Popinjay is the ancestress of Teofilo.
Linebreeding subject Bustino was out of a mare by Doutelle, from the same family as St Jean himself (2-f Alope) to which also belong Round Table - sex balanced in this pedigree by Grosvenor's three quarter brother Tristino - and Aureole, carried by Sharp Edge.
We know Half Yours is a freakishly gifted galloper, and that's what makes this such a fascinating race - I have Pride Of Jenni and also Vauban in the same category - really unique talents, each in their own very different way!
Jamie Melham and Half Yours will be poised to strike from barrier 7.
Roughie: VAUBAN
What is most appealing to me about Vauban here is his near-month between runs, after a gutsy (if distant) third to Aeliana in the Tancred when second up.
We know he is an excellent fresh horse, having placed in the G2 Chelmsford at 1600m and won the G3 Sky High 2000m twice at his three first up Australian appearances.
Last time he was third up ( no freshen), Vauban ran a mighty race under 58.5 in the Metropolitan - coming from well back to finish 1.4 lengths 5th, with the winner and placegetters all carrying 50.5kg or less. His Doomben Cup rival Birdman was well behind him, also carrying a mere 51.5. It was the run of the race in many respects. It was the run of the class horse in the race.
Then he went south for the Caulfield Cup and once again the Vauban faithful got burned, as the son of Galiway went home tamely for 13th behind the rampaging Half Yours, before running a distant sixth in the Melbourne Cup - albeit his best result in three attempts at our greatest race.
I just think Vauban dislikes the Melbourne spring carnival in general, and the Melbourne way of going in particular. He is a highly strung horse too and has been his own worst enemy at times in big raceday atmospheres, and there's none bigger than the first Tuesday!
Incredible that he started out as a really top class jumper and has run in three Cups and an Ascot Gold Cup, and yet this eight year old is showing no obvious signs of wear.
Vauban is such an unusual horse in every way, and he always has been.
A Listed winner in France at three in 2021, he then won a string of top hurdle races for Willie Mullins before the legendary trainer switched him back to the flat. He bolted in a handicap race at Royal Ascot by seven and a half lengths.
In the 2023 Cup he was a dripping mess before the race, but still hit the front at the 400m for Ryan Moore - only to hit a brick wall a few strides thereafter.
In the ‘24 Cup he was a million miles off the pace but came home okay to finish just out of the top ten for William Buick.
Enter Australian Bloodstock. They stepped in to purchase Vauban for $2 million and handed him over to Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott. The purchase was controversial and excited much comment among racing fans.
I freely admit to being one of the true unbelievers. The horse was a talent obviously, but surely his best days on the track were well and truly behind him - even if you could overlook his tendency to get stage fright at all the wrong moments.
Why not just throw a bag with two million bucks in it off a cliff and be done with it?
But Gai, Adrian and old Vauban have proved we doubters wrong.
It was the sort of challenge Gai in particular thrives on. Tackling Vauban’s performance anxiety was the centrepiece of her strategy. So off he went for outings and exhibition gallops at the races, where he could get more accustomed to the crowds and more relaxed about doing his job under our conditions, so different from the endless wide expanses of most European tracks.
With Gai and Adrian, Vauban has certainly calmed his nerves to a degree - but you're never going to put a kid on his back, or be surprised if he starts melting in the parade ring. He is who he is. If he turns up in the right frame of mind on Saturday, he's certainly got the class and the talent to figure in the finish!
Vauban is the veteran of 31 starts which have netted him 10 wins, 10 placings and more than $2.5 million.
He is the highest prize money earner for the Galileo stallion Galiway, a big and powerful bay stallion who stands at Haras de Colleville in France. No better than a Listed winner himself, the well bred Galiway has far exceeded his own modest race track performances.
Like Frankel, Teofilo and many other Galileo stakes winners Galiway is out of a Danehill mare, the twice G1 placed Danzigaway, and is a half brother to nine winners including dual US G2 winner Silent Name ( bred and at stud in Japan). His grand dam is the good Blushing Groom daughter Blushing Away, and he descends from the same American branch of the Chelandry ( 1-n) family as Never Say Die.
Galiway is the sire of two really classy European G1 flat winners - they are full brothers and bred 3f X 4m to Blushing Away - interesting!
Vauban is the lone stakes winner from his dam Waldfest, a long distance winning daughter of Montjeu's Arc / Irish Derby hero Hurricane Run, who won two more G1s at four and was rated the best horse in the world in 2005.
He descends from Chelandry's dam Illuminata ( family 1-l).
Waldfest is bred 3m x 6f to the great German stallion Surumu - his son Acatenango sired Vauban's ancestress, the German Champion 3YO Filly and Older Mare Wurftaube.
This is all genetic "home turf” for Galileo of course, boosted by the fact that Vauban's damline goes back to a German branch of the family (5-h) which produced Sadler's Wells, Fairy King, Nureyev etc.
Wurftaube became the dam of G1 winner Waldpark ( Dubawi) who raced here for Australian Bloodstock. Her daughter Waldmark ( Mark Of Esteem), Vauban's third dam, was G2 placed in GB and a multiple stakes producer - including Masked Marvel by Montjeu who won the G1 GB St Leger and raced successfully in Australia.
The 2019 Arc winner Waldgeist (out of a half sister to Vauban's second dam Gifted Icon) is yet another class animal from this female line, and Gifted Icon herself was sired by another Arc Hero, Nureyev's Peintre Celebre, who has featured in the pedigree of several Doomben Cup winners and placegetters - most notably as the damsire of back to back winner Huetor.
Vauban is bred
Sadler's Wells 3m x 4m
Northern Dancer 4m,5m x 5m,5m
Blue Hen Special 5f x 6f,5m
Special features as dam of Nureyev, sex balanced by her daughter Fairy Bridge the dam of Sadler's Wells.
Montjeu brings her relation Val De Loir, and then there's Vauban's own damline.
Blue Hen Belle Sauvage is carried by Galileo via Lombard and in Mark Of Esteem via Vaguely Noble.
Blushing Groom meets his relative Mill Reef through Darshaan, Sadler's Wells number one nick
Galiway's second and third damsires Blushing Groom and Raja Baba both trace to daughters of Umidwar.
Peintre Celebre descends from a daughter of Umidwar grandson Nordiste by Norseman and Darshaan carries two Umidwar daughters.
Blushing Groom's damsire Wild Risk is a grandson of Rabelais and another son of Rabelais, Biribi, appears twice in Peintre Celebre's dam.
Other notable duplications in Vauban's pedigree are Raise A Native and his sire Native Dancer (both sex balanced), Bull Lea, Deux-Pour-Cent, Prince Chevalier and Djebel via sons My Babu, Djeddah and Arbar, daughter Djebellica and half brother Hierocles the latter two both carried by Montjeu.
Lastly, Vauban descends from a mare bred x 2 to German Blue Hen Arjaman, out of the Hermit daughter St Alvere who was exported from GB and is also the ancestress of Galileo. Another couple of generations back is a mare by Alchimist, to whom Galileo is also bred x 2! All lines leading back to the one taproot mare, Maid Of Masham.
Vauban and Tim Clark will jump from barrier 6.
Blowout: KOVALICA
Waller warhorse Kovalica lines up for his fourth Doomben Cup, in which he has twice placed third (the first time on soft 5 as a 3YO, on his way to romping in the G1 QLD Derby)
He went winless in two years and 20 starts after that Derby triumph, but ran some brilliant races at the top level - second in the
G1 Epsom and G2 Hill Stakes third in the 2024 Doomben Cup, the G2 Tramway Stakes and two editions of the G2 Hollindale Stakes (1800m), fourth in another Epsom, fifth in the G1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes and sixth in the G1 Cox Plate before a top ten finish in the Melbourne Cup.
Finally, at Eagle Farm in June last year Kovalica cracked it for another win when motoring home to win the G2 Q22 Stakes after his Doomben Cup third. His spring campaign was disappointing and this year, having previously placed in both Hollindales before the Cup, it was an even performance.
So, is the son of Ocean Park past it? No, I think he can run well if the track comes up to a soft 7 / heavy 8 range - though he has placed on a heavy 10.
Another Q22 is doubtless Kovalica's target race, but he’s too good a horse to completely rule out of this. I can't believe a galloper with his record is the rank outsider in this field - ahead of 7YO Asterix at $14 whose sole G1 win was the NZ Derby of 2022 and who was nearly nineteen lengths off Dubai Honour in the Tancred last year.
The six year old Kovalica has been a marvel for his owners Neville Morgan and David Devine.
From 39 starts he has won seven races and placed in eight more for earnings of a tick over $4.4 million.
Bred by Nearco Stud and offered in Curraghmore’s 2021 Karaka Book 1 draft, Kovalica was purchased by Mulcaster Bloodstock for $110,000.
He was the second foal from the winning Makfi mare Vitesse, who has also produced the handy mare Rapid Cheval (Super Seth) a winner at Eagle Farm and the Gold Coast.
Her 2026 Karaka book 1 yearling, a full brother to Kovalica offered by Curraghmore was secured for $200,000 by Chris Waller Racing and Mulcaster Bloodstock.
The first foal from Vitesse was her unraced filly Serenella by Jimmy Choux. Unraced due to injury, she has had two colts by Savabeel’s G1 winning son Noverre sell at Karaka - Rothko, a $300,000 buy for Wexford Stables in 2025 is yet to race, and this year's offering sold for $90,000 to KPW Bloodstock Queensland.
Vitesse has a 2025 filly by Satono Aladdin on the ground and has been served by Auguste Rodin.
Her dam Keepa Cheval ( Keeper) produced the triple G1 winner The Bostonian (Jimmy Choux) who won the Doomben 10,000 and Kingsford Smith Cup and the G3 winner Cheval D'Or among her four winners from five to race.
Keepa Cheval was a half sister to one of the most memorable Kiwi warhorses, the NZ HOTY (King) Mufhasa by Pentire. What didn’t the great sprinter- miler win in his day? Ten G1 wins and a swag of G1 placings in his homeland and Australia, he had incredible durability and his last G1 wins were at the age of eight.
He also had two stakes placed brothers. They were all the progeny of Sheila Cheval, a daughter of expat Aussie Pago Pago's champion US-bred grandson Mi Preferido, who was exported back to NZ.
The next mare on the damline is the unraced Silver Sheila by Silver Dream dam of two stakes winners the G1 placed Commander Cheval and tough stayer Fort Cheval. She was a half sister to the dam of the fine mare Grey Invader, a dual G2 winner and G1 placed in Australia and NZ who produced dual G1 winning mare Pace Invader.
This illustrious family is that of the Limond mare Volimond, her Foxbridge daughter Volifox and Fairene ( Fair's Fair). It's the immediate family of the 1973 Caulfield Cup winning heroine Swell Time, the champion filly Samantha Miss and our current star of the turf, Tempted!
It's a branch of the 2-j tribe descended from the French-bred mare Rosamond ( Hermit) imported to Australia in 1907, tracing back to Queen Victoria's 1,000 Guineas / St Leger winning filly Imperieuse.
This female line is closely related to the family of the immortal NZ bred racer and sire Carbine.
The toughness and durability of its horses are legendary, which is why it may be too soon to say that Kovalica is a light of other days.
Kovalica is bred
Nureyev 4m,5f x sex balanced
Danzig x 5m,5m
The progeny of his grandsire Thorn Park have an almost uncanny affinity with Doomben and Kovalica himself is only once unplaced in four runs at the track.
Kovalica is linebred to Nureyev's relative Val De Loir with that sire's daughters producing mares who would become ancestress of both Zabeel and of Makfi - additionally, both stallions are members of the Little Agnes (16-c) branch of the famed Agnes family, and so is Thorn Park, while Dubawi's ancestress Sunbittern is strongly inbred to that clan.
The duplicated Val De Loir carries another branch of Agnes via Sunny Boy ( x 2 in Zabeel), as does Petition carried by Danzig, while on the damline of Kovalica we find the sire Resurgent sired by Sunny Boy's close relation The Phoenix.
Kovalica is sex balanced to both Riverman and his sire Never Bend as well as carrying a line of the sire's greatest son Mill Reef.
He is linebred to Pago Pago, Bull Lea , My Babu and his family, Round Table and his family, and to Blue Hen Somethingroyal (Secretariat, Sir Gaylord).
Kovalica and Ryan Maloney will be hoping Jenni goes out way too hard this time. Of course, it's possible she'll be no more than a distant blur in his vision from go to whoa. But If the great mare does falter - as she did last year - a swooper like Kova will get that old gleam in his eye.
Could the least fancied of the Waller trio give the trainer his 200th G1 win?
Kovalica and Ryan will jump from barrier 1
