Hall of Fame singer Daryl Braithwaite, champion jockey Hugh Bowman and a host of party-pooper security guards have triple dead-heated for the least-inspiring performance of Cox Plate day.

Bowman has won four Cox Plates and ridden more than a 100 group 1s, but he had a shocker on Aeliana.

He drove her straight into a speed trap, poking along the rails and into the rear end of a tiring Light Infantry Man – which on paper, looked to be one of the slowest horses in the race.

Sometimes the difference between champ and chump in a post-race analysis is a split-second gap.

Had one opened for Bowman, allowing Aeliana to burst through to fight out the finish, he would have been lauded as a genius.

Sadly, he had a lap full of horse and nowhere to go. Aeliana finished a disappointing sixth behind

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