The Lloyd Williams team will concentrate on the Melbourne Cup with imported stayer Mourayan, winner of the Bart Cummings at Flemington.
Mourayan missed Saturday’s Group One Metropolitan at Randwick in favour of Sunday’s 2500m Listed race and Williams’ son and part-owner Nick Williams said he would also bypass the Caulfield Cup.
Williams was also full of praise for Hugh Bowman’s ride, describing the Sydney rider as the best jockey in Australia after he gave the six-year-old the run of the race from barrier one.
“(He’s) Australia’s best jockey, Hugh Bowman, you can see why Chris Waller is wining all those races up there (Sydney), with Hughey on board, he’s seriously in form Hugh Bowman,” Williams said of Bowman who won Saturday’s Group One Flight Stakes at Randwick aboard Streama.
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