Ladbrokes Cox Plate 100 - Saturday 24th October 2020

3 For a scribbler casting around pearls, the Cox Plate has become a tease. The problem is: how do you write about the race without appearing to slobber? I’ll explain. The Moonee Valley Racing Club, rather like that good colt Shakespeare in his Classic year, insists on staging masterpiece after master- piece. They gave us the Kingston Town trilogy; that used up a few pearls. Then as a variation, they staged the Bonecrusher – Our Waverley Star slugfest. And how do you follow that? - Les Carlyon “ ”