BRAVE MONARCH LOOKING TO DEFY THE ODDS

By Graham Potter | Thursday, October 29, 2026

THE ONLY QUEENSLAND CHALLENGER FOR THE GOLDEN EAGLE

Got a ticket. Got a chance.

That’ what the busload of connections of the four-year-old chestnut gelding Brave Monarch will have as a motto going into the $10 million Golden Eagle at Randwick on Saturday with their horse currently marked up as an $81 long shot.

You can probably make that more than one busload, given the huge numbers involved in the ownership group, and you can perhaps take that $81 mark with a pinch of salt as well, as all of the fifteen rivals of the $1.75 favourite Sheza Alibi’s have been handed exaggerated odds in the belief that the main fancy is difficult to oppose … the same story as last time when Sheza Alibi was beaten as a $1.40 chance by, wait for it, a $61 bolter.

Brave Monarch, who will be ridden by Martin Harley who has been in the saddle in nine out of the gelding's ten starts, comes into the Golden Eagle with a fifty percent winning strike rate … five wins from ten starts … the third highest strike-rate in the race behind Sheza Alibi and Decorum.

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