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Peter Moody's Report on Incentivise - Morning After the 2021 Cup


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Tell you one funny thing that made me laugh.

At the post race interviews on our free to air channel 7 broadcast, jockey Prebble was just beaming with delight and just the emotion pouring out was so heart warming, (pressure of riding favourite to win release i think) normal jock interviews sort of 'matter-of-fact, and so cliche.

Then Mood's comes along with this Big Cup and is cuddling and harrassing Prebble while he is still talking and beaming away,  and virtually photo-bombing him hahahaha so good !!

AND the win by the horse !!! my goodness , near most impressive win I've seen. What a Win that was. 

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Melbourne Cup favourite Incentivise is back at his Pakenham home after a couple of days at the beach, fully recovered from his Caulfield Cup win and with trainer Peter Moody declaring him a certain starter for the biggest race of his career.

Moody said on Sunday morning the horse ‘certainly knew he’d had a run’ and would see how he recovered before confirming his place in the Melbourne Cup. He has since ticked all boxes.

“Sunday morning was quite daunting because, for the first time ever, I saw him ever so slightly jaded, but then Monday morning he was ‘tickety boo’ and licked the feed bin our from Sunday night and he was bouncing and ready to get his work over and done with yet again,” Moody said on his podcast, Moody On The Mic.

Incentivise had his compulsory scans ahead of the Melbourne Cup on Monday morning with Moody taking the no news, as good news.

“I’m presuming you only hear something if there’s an issue and we haven’t heard anything at this point in time and it’s full steam ahead,” Moody said.

“It was very simple; an hour and a half float ride from Pakenham to Werribee, the horse was there for about an hour and a half and an hour and a half later he was grazing in a paddock at the beach property that we send him to.

“He’s enjoyed his little beach holiday for two and a half days, back at Pakenham and what are we 12 or 13 days into the Cup.”

The 59-time Group 1-winning trainer, who is yet to win a Melbourne Cup, said Incentivise will have relatively light work heading into the race given his residual fitness and remarkable recovery powers.

“I don’t think he’ll need a lot of work at all on the training tracks because he’s a very fit horse (and) he pulled up and recovered very quickly post the Caulfield Cup,” he said.

Incentivise is a $2.50 favourite to win the Melbourne Cup despite the horse having never extended beyond 2500m, nonetheless Moody believes distance won’t be an issue for the son of Shamus Award.

“There’s always that question mark until you’re out there and proven, but the strongest part of all his races seems to be through the line,” Moody said.

“It was interesting there in the Caulfield Cup, Brett Prebble went right up to the 1200m mark, he went another 800 or 900 metres post the Caulfield Cup finish and actually had to steer him toward a fence to inevitably stop him before he brough him back to the enclosure.

“He seems to have an unbelievable capacity to build and keep running, this horse”

Sportsbet has already paid on Incentivise to win the race for all bets placed before October 19, a figure the company says was in excess of $5.5 million.

 
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