'Magician' doesn't quite convey the sheer enormousness of CT's stopping power.
He is a veritable Force of Nature, a Global Titan of Stoppingness, the Zeus of Cease, the Da Vinci of Da Stoppers.
That Multi ticket wouldn'tve been a winner if they'd been Top 4 instead of Win.
As for Flemo "laying it on " weather-wise, I froze my Weasely buns off the first three days and hightailed it back to Godzone before the hail froze over - the worst Cup week weather since Subzero won in 1992. Great city, though. Love the place, esp the Course of History, the slick TV presentations and Racing.Com previews/reviews, the on-course Racebooks (about 260pp of info! per raceday) and the feeling that this is an important industry/business/entertainment/spectacle - unlike NZ, where you slink onto a decrepit racecourse wearing dark glasses in case someone recognises you having a punt and pots you to the tut-tutting, virtue-signalling Powers That Be.
Photos from Oaks Day 5/11/22 herewith.