JYE McNeil is making every post a winner with just a week left in the racing season, including wins at three successive metro meetings.

But the race he really wants to win – the Deane Lester Flemington Cup – has eluded him for the second year running.

Lester, a leading form analyst in Victoria, and close friend of, and mentor to, McNeil, died aged 54 early in 2023 and had been instrumental i...