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.

Hugh Bowman at the rear of the field wearing purple silks with white stars and a white helmet found himself boxed in riding Aeliana in Saturday’s Cox Plate. Credit: racing.com

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

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