Racing: Kieren Fallon voiced concerns as to whether the Melbourne Cup on November 7th will be run to suit Yeats.
While the Ascot Gold Cup winner has his own track rider, Gosuke Motoki, Fallon has been keen to ride him in his recent work and feels the five-year-old partner is blossoming Down Under.
"I think he's enjoying being in Melbourne," said Fallon, after the pair enjoyed a spin on Sunday.
But having watched the former John Dunlop inmate Tawqeet win the Caulfield Cup on Saturday, Fallon added: "The way they seem to race here is not going to suit him because he needs a strong tempo all the way.
"He's not the sort of horse you can stop and start like they do here and I won't be riding him that way. No wonder they can run in the Caulfield Cup or that race on Derby day (the Mackinnon) and then back up in the Melbourne Cup because they hardly have a blow-out."
The Clare man hopes to ride plenty of trackwork at Flemington in order to grow accustomed to the track prior to the two-mile contest.
Fallon will also partner California Dane on Saturday before getting the leg up on Churchill Downs in the Ascot Vale Stakes on Flemington's Derby Day.