Chris Waller believes the Armidale co-owned Yes, Yes, Yes has the biggest upside of his three runners in Saturday's $14 million The Everest at Royal Randwick.
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The colt will run in Waller's slot and was on Wednesday fourth favourite in the market ($9.50 with the TAB) after drawing barrier nine.
"It gives Glen Boss the option to find a bit of cover but also get out and get going when he needs to with his light weight (53kg). Let's hope he can win with a bit to spare and that says he's better than normal with that weight advantage he's got," Waller said, speaking after the three-year old strode out on the Rosehill course proper to wind up his preparations.
Boss forewent a chance to become just the eighth jockey to win the Melbourne Cup, Cox Plate, Golden Slipper and Caulfield Cup - racing's grand slam - to ride Yes Yes Yes, which is part-owned by Armidale's Jim Dedes, Harley Payne and Gary Russell through their Golden Table syndicate.
"I still haven't won a Caulfield Cup and it has been on my bucket list since the beginning of my career, but this colt is too good of an opportunity to turn down," Boss was quoted as saying in a metro newspaper story.
"Three-year-olds have certainly been very good to me in my career, but you have to be on the right ones and I think Yes Yes Yes is that horse in The Everest."
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He had a gallop on the colt between races at Randwick last Saturday, and remarked afterwards he had a "goosebumpy" feeling as he sailed over the ground.
The ride with Yes, Yes, Yes, who was second in the Group 1 Golden Rose at Rosehill Gardens last month, has been a welcome distraction for Dedes - the long-serving secretary manager of the Armidale Jockey Club, with the club having to transfer meetings because of the drought.
They have now had three meetings transferred after Racing NSW on Wednesday confirmed that the TAB meeting scheduled for Saturday, October 26, has been transferred to Gunnedah.
Mel O'Gorman's Suncraze meanwhile drew barrier 10 for his second crack at $1.3m The Kosciuszko.
Fellow Tamworth trainers Sue Grillis and Cody Morgan are also set for a metro assault. Grills has nominated Burning Crown and Morgan Screen Shot for the TAB Highway Handicap.
