Welcome to the Shouldabackedit podcast. It was a Lightning Stakes that lived up to the hype. In a blockbuster finish the world’s best sprinter Nature Strip went down narrowly to boom colt, and last year’s dominant Coolmore winner, Home Affairs.

Join Phil Georgios and Herald Sun tipster Chris Vernuccio as they dissect the weekend's racing. Find out who they shoulda, coulda and woulda backed if they had their time again.

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