There were 78,500 people at Flemington on Melbourne Cup day 1976. Those still living, hold indelible memories of their visit to the historic course on the day mother nature threw a tantrum.
“To use Rugby League jargon he needed a full season of first grade under his belt to make a real horse of him,” was John O’Shea’s assessment of Lost And Running after the gelding’s gutsy win in Saturday’s Premiere Stakes.
In the minutes after the win by It’s Somewhat in the 2017 Doncaster Mile, John O’Shea knew he was coming to the end of his three year tenure as head trainer for Godolphin’s Australian racing empire.
