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When it comes to the Melbourne Cup, veteran trainer Gai Waterhouse says she bows to owner Lloyd Williams’ superior track record in deciding how to prepare Serpentine for the race.

Gai Waterhouse and Lloyd Williams are both Australian racing hall of famers, but Waterhouse says it’s clear who calls the shots when it comes to their Melbourne Cup contender Serpentine.Lloyd Williams, after Almandin won the Cup in 2016“You don’t have to worry because I get these detailed texts. I don’t have to think, I just act off the texts.

“I say, ‘well, you’ve won six or eight of them, and I’ve only won one, so I’m going to stick with you, Lloyd’. Lloyd Williams with Gai Waterhouse, back in 2011. They’ve reunited to enter Serpentine in this year’s Cup.But Waterhouse said the seven-year-old gelding was building in form, after finishing third in the Bart Cummings at his most recent start.

But Waterhouse said she had an “unsung hero”, who might be able to upstage its stablemate on the first Tuesday of November. That horse is Military Mission, who won the Herbert Power last month, after finishing fourth in the group 1 Metropolitan. “A lot of these other jockeys will be wasting to ride at the weights in the Cup, she does it with her eyes shut, and he’s already won for her.

 

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