Tycoons do cry...Veteran Zipping's Australian Cup win proved a highly emotional one for mega-rich owner Lloyd Williams.He admits he shed a tear or two for the 8YO who had threatened many times to win a Grp 1 race and after 14 attempts finally broke through in the Australian Cup. Williams says: 'It brought a tear to my eye.' What, just one?Bart Cummings wasn't crying but he was frustrated by Sirmione's nose defeat to Zipping in the Australian Cup. Bart says: 'I've missed something,...'In the old

Tycoons do cry...Veteran Zipping's Australian Cup win proved a highly emotional one for mega-rich owner Lloyd Williams.He admits he shed a tear or two for the 8YO who had threatened many times to win a Grp 1 race and after 14 attempts finally broke through in the Australian Cup. Williams says: 'It brought a tear to my eye.' What, just one?

Bart Cummings wasn't crying but he was frustrated by Sirmione's nose defeat to Zipping in the Australian Cup. Bart says: 'I've missed something,...'In the old days, he would have won that, so there's something I've missed...There's something that I haven't picked up about him but I'll figure it out. He had that race won today.'

Oh dear, decisions, decisions...Crystal Lily's owner David Moodie will take his time deciding if he'll cough up the $130,000 late entry fee to secure the filly a start in the Golden Slipper. Even her dynamic win in the Sweet Embrace Stakes at Randwick wasn't enough to make Moodie decide. He says: 'It's a very hard race to win, the Golden Slipper - I have had a couple of goes at it.'

Is this the first crack in the Chance Bye bubble? The flying filly was beaten in a gallop between races at Kembla Grange on Saturday. But what does that mean? Is it the beginning of the end of her Golden Slipper dreaming? Or was she just a bit lazy?

Oh, those crazy whip rules...Stewards fined winning rider Nick Hall $1,000 because they say he struck Zipping 10 times before the 100m, double the allowable whip use under those kamikaze rules introduced this season. But would Zipping have won if Hall hadn't used the persuader in such fashion? The answer, says the jockey, is NO. He says: 'I've won by a centimetre, and I probably wouldn't have won without it. I'm not a ferocious whip rider, I don't believe in it.'