Brian McKnight of Oakford Thoroughbred Farm – where today’s Inglis Dash winner Perpetual Crisis was raised – tells the galloper’s story better than anyone.
So, allow him.
With arguably some of the best Weight-For-Age form in the Group 2 MVRC Australia Stakes field, Inglis Classic graduate Mourinho surprisingly started one of the outsiders of the field, but was simply too good, securing his fourth black type victory.
Having to survive a protest from the runner-up, VOBIS Horse of the Year Trust In A Gust gave trainer Darren Weir his first Victorian Group 1 win with victory in the MRC Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield.