It's that time of week again. Wayne Hawkes, bet or forget? Mr Brightside will turn the tables on Pride Of jenni in the Australian Cup. Forget and forget. I'm going a new one this week. I'm giving you the double forget on both. You don't think either of them can win? I'm actually laying both horses this week. I think neither of them can win. I think 2000m is going to push both horses to their limit. Did you watch the Cox Plate last year? He ran extremely well. I knew you'd say that, he ran second
but that's at Moonee Valley. Do you need to see the photo finish again? He's a much, much better horse at Moonee Valley. This is 2000m at Flemington on a hard deck. He's won at Flemington before. Yeah but not over 2000m. Then you look at Jenni. Well, I just think she's going to roll along and Declan Bates knows how to ride her one way and I just reckon he’ll get to the 600m and I just reckon he’ll push the button too fast, too soon. So who wins? Legarto's going to be the interesting runner beca
use she's got great form in New Zealand and you can't line that up in Australia until she actually comes and does it. But I'm actually probably in the Atishu fan. Scheww! Bless you Wayne. No, I think Mr Brightside will turn the tables. I think he deserves this. Second in a Cox Plate second in the Champions Mile second in the All-Star Mile. It's time he's not the bridesmaid. Craig will not let Pride Of Jenni out of his sights. He's a tough old bugger who just never lets you down. Ride to instruct
ions Craig. Brit, the Manikato Stakes was Cox Plate Eve, they moved it to Cox Plate Day Now they're going to move it to Grand Final Eve. Bet or forget, good move or not? Bet, I like this. I think that the Manikato was being really badly impacted by The Everest and now you move it three weeks before and it’s the perfect lead in. Well the thing about this is, if you remember last year it was I Wish I Win & Giga Kick. Both camps were unsure where they were going to run first up. Maybe this is a gre
at first-up race for the Melbourne/Adelaide horses to head towards The Everest. And if you think back to last year as well we were lucky to see Imperatriz in the Manikato. That's not going to happen every year. Without her it’s I Am Me and Uncommon James who ran second and third. They're not the headline acts. True. Grand Final Eve gets a big crowd as well. That's the biggest thing I think is the scope to get outside racing people footy fans who have gone to Melbourne just for a footy weekend an
d there's a good correlation between you know, people who like going to the footy and they like to have a bet at the races as well. So you get them there on the Friday night. They're making a whole weekend out of it. It's perfect, I think. This is worrying me Brit. I'm agreeing with you here. Whoaah, would you look at that? Bet or forget? All states should have racing on Good Friday. No, I'm going to put my trainer’s hat on here Brit. Forget it. Too much racing already. I think in the states tha
t have it, it’s working though. Is it? Well, I know in WA it was met with so much criticism and now it's one of the better racedays. It's very family friendly, it's free entry they get a huge crowd. The Easter Bunny’s there for the kids. There's children just running everywhere on the lawn. It's a really nice raceday. I reckon enough's enough and you know what's going to happen next. Let's just jam in three or four quick ones on Christmas morning while we're opening our presents. You wouldn't wa
nt to be late for Christmas lunch Wayne. I won't be nominating any on Christmas Day that's for sure. Well, we've agreed on a few things today, Wayne. Way too many. We’ll try and argue a little bit more next week on Bet Or Forget.
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