tate Of Rest comes to Newgate Farm this season as the controversial winner of the 2021 Cox Plate. He, some would say rather fortunately, was able to see off the challenge of boom colt, Anamoe both on the track and in the stewards’ room. State Of Rest laid in down the straight which those who watch the replay will clearly see. Quite remarkably, the three placegetters in the race at Moonee Valley were the last three in running. Verry Ellegant was to run third in the race but was also a hard luck story having to go around the field while the other two gained runs on the inside. Nonetheless, the quality of the three placegetters is enough to suggest that State Of Rest was a top line galloper, and few could argue about the difficulty of travelling to Australia for such a campaign. He goes to stud backed by some of
