Hugh Bowman is confident Profiteer will run out the 1200m, but it might come down to whether the favourite settles in Saturday’s Golden Slipper.

As Lance Franklin returns from his 18-month injury hiatus to begin his penultimate AFL season, his successor Logan McDonald is just beginning his own journey.

In isolation, the actor’s routine was hilarious to read. But for health professionals, it has subtle murmurs of a long-running predicament.

Irish trainer Willie Mullins will be out to repeat history, not with star Addeybb, but with travelling stablemate Favourite Moon in Saturday’s 2400-metre Manion Cup at Rosehill.

At 17, Lech Blaine was in a car accident in which three of his friends died, and one was left with a permanent brain injury. He walked away, physically unharmed. Mentally however, it was a different story.