Consider this - if Bounding had gone two strides further at Randwick last weekend and Who Shot Thebarman had, well, we don't know what he did, and won the Sydney Cup, what would the Australians be saying about New Zealand racing.
The Championships, the greatest race meeting ever held in New South Wales, would have been more than half eclipsed by New Zealand.
As it is it was pretty much dominated at the top end by the Kiwis.
The pride of place Championship event, the A$4 million ($4.3 million) Queen Elizabeth, had three New Zealand bred horses in the field; It's A Dundeel (1st), Sacred Falls (2nd) and Silent Achiever (4th). Only English bred Carlton House prevented a 1-2-3 result. Not an Australian bred in sight.
The week previous Sacred Falls took the A$3 million Doncaster as the only New Zealand bred in the field.