No excuses were possible after Dark Felt’s runaway Melbourne Cup success. At every stage of the race he was travelling like a winner, and although a run on the rails on the inside of Saul making the home turn simplified his task, he moved right away from his main challenger, Counsel, in the last furlong.
Counsel was three lengths behind Dark Felt at the judge, with Claudette a neck away, just beating three-year-old Precept for third place. Equal favourite, Skipton, was fifth, but he was never close enough to look a possible winner. The big majority of Queenslanders stuck to Dark Felt, and although 7/2 was still on offer here at
