David Shortte: Great To See That International Flavour

TABtouch Racing Expert David Shortte phoned in to chat all things Melbourne Cup. Tune in to hear his pointers, insights and more. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today is the day that all the horses and all
the punters celebrate. There we go and time for our
annual chats with David shot from top to Hello. Hi there,
Litha Russell. However, happy Melbourne Cup Day to you. Yes,

(00:20):
thank you very much. Exciting day and big race in
store later on today. Lots of festivities around town. All right,
who's the favorite? Favorite and the well backed favorite? Lisa
is the top weight for today, the visitor from Europe,
our riffa. It was ten dollars on Sunday nights, now
crunched into six dollars. It's clear cup favorite in front
of half yours. Who's an eight dollar chance? Right? A

(00:43):
bit of a family affair this year between a couple
of competing jockeys. Yeah, absolutely, it's always great. There's a
lot of links in different families that are tied up
in racing and that's the case once again today. We
get to see plenty of horses that are visiting from overseas.
We get the locals. There's visitors from the US of

(01:04):
A this year as well that are coming to join
the party. So it's great to see that international flavor
and also plenty of big name trainers and jockeys involved
in the big race this year. Yeah, well it will
still be half yours Jamie's husband if she wins. I
guess it's half yours. The only Australian horse, so well,

(01:26):
there's a few, quite a few horses that have been
bred overseas but raced in Australia. So they've been bred
over there and then brought to race here in Australia
and accordingly so the pedigree is international. But a lot
of these horses are now been based in Australia for
a pretty significant period of time, so they have their citizenship. Yeah, yeah,

(01:48):
we own them now. Yeah along, Yeah, a bit like
Bryce Cotton took a while, but eventually it did take
a while. Actually, funnily enough, from a funny enough there
is an American trained horse for the very first time. Yeah, absolutely,
and that's really something very different. So this horse has

(02:09):
done most of it's racing on the dirt in the US.
Parchment Party is the name of the horse, so it
brings a little bit of a different angle. I can
also let you guys and the punners know that there's
been really solid downfall of rain over the last thirty
six hours. There in Melbourne. So heavy operating. Yeah, soft
at the moment soft six, but there is potential for

(02:30):
that rain to continue on and if that's to be
the case, that you're certainly looking for some horses that
can get through that ground. David. So we've got the
favorite al riffer. But have you got a roughie? Have
you got anything that maybe we might slide a couple
of dollars on? Yeah, big time. I like gray horses,
particularly when there's a bit of sting out of the ground.
And one horse that's had the flashing lights on it
as last couple of runs is number twenty four Valiant King.

(02:53):
It gets in with a nice lightweight. It was charging
home in the Corfield Cup one running third and I
think it's set to today it's around the ten dollar mark.
I thought it was worth a little each Toway bet
number twenty four Valiant King. All right. Buckaroo, however, lacks
a wet track, does do they not? Buckaroo's had two
starts on heavy and it has one on the heavy

(03:14):
surface in the past. So you've done your form. Well
there we've got to big sweeping. See there's a lot
riding on it. Ten bucks on the sweep right, excellent.
You drawn one out? Have you drawn a horse down yet?
We are early. That'll happen after we get off air,
but we're in it. We're in it. No scratchings yet

(03:34):
at this stage, no touch wood. Hopefully this year we
can get through. At this stage though we are scratching free. Good.
That's hope that stays that way. As always, I most
look forward to Fashion Confidential later in the day. See
girls faced down in a plant somewhere. That's my favorite.
Bin to the to the finish line. Slippery, slippery day

(03:59):
on a high heel today today also got a sink.
Have a fantastic David, thank you so much. All right,
that's great,