hi crash
Yeah, i would like to see the horse in some form in its second last start (placed or not too far away from winner,no hard or fast rule), but if we want/need a hard n fast rule then yes places second last start..

And since it was well favoured in the market last start, it hopefully just had a bad ounce of luck, or 3 wide,etc ...

and agree with duritz's call that it backs up within the next fortnight..

cheers