MAHER ON PERSAN - HIT AND HOPE
The Ramsden winner gains a free ticket into the Melbourne Cup and prior to his last start flop, Persan would have appeared the obvious of the 10 Ramsden runners to sweep through Saturday and be competitive in the first week of November. Persan had a marathon 11-run campaign last year finishing either first or second leading up to his Melbourne Cup fifth, after a first-up third over 1400m in Wangaratta last April. Maher said Persan was among about eight horses currently in Australia that Maher/Eustace would be targeting for the Melbourne Cup, including his three Ramsden runners Persan, Gran...
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