#Ross McDonald

Part one of our Caulfield Guineas-week feature on Weekend Hussler certainly sparked a bit of (largely one-sided) debate around jockey Brad Rawiller's Winx-related quotes. For those who missed it, Rawiller claimed Weekend Hussler - at his peak - could have beaten Winx over a mile. "He wouldn't have beaten Winx over 2000m, no way. But over the…

Since the introduction of Group racing in Australia, only four horses have won six or more Group 1s in a single season. Three of those are legends of the sport - Kingston Town, Black Caviar and Winx - the other is the underrated superstar Weekend Hussler. The 2008 Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year put together one of the most extraordinary…

When Ross McDonald aimed Weekend Hussler up at the Caulfield Cup, no one bar Ross thought it was a good idea. "The Hussler" ran down the track and was never the same again. Other greats have been set towering tasks - Super Impose and Kingston Town in Melbourne Cups, Crisp lumping the grandstand at Aintree - and come up short. But at least they had…