Two in succession is the tip from race caller from Warwick
RACING: WARWICK race caller Anthony Collins tips last year's winner Almandin
to win Tuesday's Melbourne Cup.
Collins calls an average of four meetings each week for Sky Channel on the New South Wales mid-north coast, Northern Rivers and Toowoomba but is based in Warwick.
He called the grand final of country racing in Australia, The Country Championships Final at Randwick, in April, a $500,000 race which is the pinnacle of country racing in Australia.
At times, Collins travels as far south as Muswellbrook for gallops and Newcastle for the trots but was back at Allman Park in October to call the Warwick Credit Union Warwick Cup.
"I am tipping last year's winner Almandin as he has performed well in the lead- up races, including a win at Flemington, and wasn't beaten by much in the Bart Cummings Group 3, a race he won last year in the lead- up to the cup,” Mr Collins said.
Last year in a Daily News story, Collins tipped a roughie, Heartbreak City, for a place and the horse finished with second money.
For a roughie this year, Collins was going with Who Shot Thebarman who has now been scratched.
He has replaced Who Shot Thebarman with Irish horse Johannes Vermeer in his tips.
"I rate Max Dynamite and Irish horse Thomas Hobson as roughies,” he said.
"I think interest in the Melbourne Cup is increasing, it is almost the fashion to be a Melbourne Cup fanatic.”
He will be calling the races at Toowoomba on Melbourne Cup day after travelling to Ballina for a Monday TAB meeting.
