
<p>Matt Caserta was screaming at the top of his lungs.</p>
<p>Then he broke down in tears and sobbed uncontrollably.</p>
<p>It was when Far Too Easy powered to victory in the $2m The Kosciuszko on The Everest day at Randwick in Sydney last year.</p>
<p>It was a magic moment which Matt Caserta felt honoured the memory of his much-loved late twin brother Chris, the jockey who tragically drowned when going for a Surfers Paradise swim in 2021.</p>
<p>Chris Caserta rode Far Too Easy at the galloper's first two wins at Grafton in 2021 and told his twin brother that David McColm's horse was a future Group 1 star.</p>
<p>It hasn't eventuated yet, even though Far Too Easy has been a star and won almost $2.4m in prizemoney.</p>
<p>But it could come to pass on Saturday in the Stradbroke Handicap.</p>
<p>"I was in my car watching the race on my phone when Far Too Easy won The Kosciuszko, I was screaming at the top of my lungs to get him home and then I broke down in tears when he won," Matt Caserta said.</p>
<p>"It was Chris' favourite horse and from the first time he jumped on it, he told me it would be something very special.</p>
<p>"Every time the horse races, I watch it.</p>
<p>"I'll be watching on Saturday and hoping the horse can win again and win a Group 1 like Chris said he would one day."</p>
<p>Unbeknown to Matt Caserta until Racenet told him, there is a special memorial plaque in the Eagle Farm jockeys' room which honours the late Chris Caserta.</p>
<p>Sydney jockey Regan Bayliss will ride the Murwillumbah-trained horse Far Too Easy in the Stradbroke and there won't be a dry eye in the house if he wins.</p>
<p>Far Too Easy is the horse who has cheated death - surviving deadly floods which have swept through his stable and also battling serious illness - to become a racing miracle.</p>
<p>After a couple of uncustomary poor runs following his dazzling Kosciuszko triumph, Far Too Easy was back to form when finishing runner-up behind Stradbroke favourite War Machine in the Group 3 BRC Sprint.</p>
<p>It convinced McColm to set his stable star loose on the Stradbroke.</p>
<p>Far Too Easy is an outside chance in the Stradbroke and War Machine, who beat him by 2½ lengths in the BRC Sprint, is the raging favourite.</p>
<p>However, there is a weight swing in Far Too Easy's favour.</p>
<p>Far Too Easy carried 59kg in the BRC Sprint and plunges to 52.5kg for the Stradbroke.</p>
<p>War Machine carried 56.5kg in the BRC Sprint and drops to 53kg in the Stradbroke.</p>
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