Cosmic Crusader spins shock WA arrival and is set for the Railway Stakes after catching early flight

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In an unbelievable twist, Cosmic Crusader has secured an early flight back to WA and is readying himself for a tilt at next week’s Group 1 $1.5 million Railway Stakes (1600m).

In an unbelievable twist, Cosmic Crusader has secured an early flight back to WA and is readying himself for a tilt at next week’s Group 1 $1.5 million Railway Stakes (1600m). Bob Peters had said he would run the Cox Plate winner in the Railway if he could, though the late travel of Monday’s Pinnacles flight was making it impossible. However, connections have performed a remarkable retrieval mission on the six-year-old, and he frolicked at a Perth beach on Friday morning. “He’s here and will run in the Railway,” Peters told The West Australian on Friday morning. “He flew in early this morning on his own flight and went to the beach straight away.

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