"No comments about the ex Stoute listed G3 runners doing well at the top level out in oz???"

Brisbane winter is a long long way from the top level in Aus.

Brisbane racing is rubbish, Glass Harmonium will struggle to make the frame in when he gets down to Melbourne in the spring....

Brisbane would be to Melbourne racing what Italy is to England, send ol' Campagnologist over there for a cheap CV filler.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/superracing/aidan-obriens-crazy-for-so-you-think/story-fn67r1j3-1226073892021

"But we haven't stepped up his work because we feel he is doing it comfortably and doing it within himself. We are very happy with how he is going at the moment.

"As I said, we haven't done that much with him in training because we feel he is such a natural horse.

"We are just hoping we have done enough with him for Royal Ascot. I'm confident we have."

I recall reading this a few days ago and for a fleeting moment I thought it might be a problem, but then I thought nah. Not even sure it's worth noting this - although it does show that he had, albeit very small, misgivings about the light prep.

FYI this is from Paul Hanagans blog, fwiw.

Like all the jocks not riding in the Prince of Wales's Stakes I was glued to the TV in the changing room.

I had a good look at them going down and although I had been very impressed by So You Think in his previous races he didn’t look a particularly nice ride going to post and in the race proper he always seemed to be doing too much and despite all Ryan did, the choke was permanently out.

No matter how good a horse is — and you can’t do what that horse has done and not be — it’s impossible to expend the amount of energy that he did. In my opinion if he’d relaxed he’d have won.

Having said all that, he very nearly got away with it and it took a brilliant ride from Frankie to take the race aboard Rewilding.

But there was a serious sting in the stewards room afterwards when he was given a nine day suspension for frequent use of the whip.

It’s a wake up call for all of us. If we break the rules then we can expect to get a hefty ban and make no mistake, this will be a very costly one for Frankie because it knocks him out of the Eclipse meeting at Sandown and comes on top of the suspension he got for easing down at Epsom which means he misses the end of Ascot.

But we don’t have an excuse because we all know that the whip is now a very sensitive subject — there was a feature on it on BBC News on Tuesday night — and the image of racing has got to be protected.

We are all walking a very  fine line and we’ve got to do our best not to step off it. The message to us is very clear.

Ginga Dude is a wet tracker for NZ who has not been in Brisbane at all??

Shoot Out is running lengths below his best as it appears a very heavy schedule has caught up with him. He has been around that many times he is getting dizzy...