The Neptune Team normally ran with #2 for Manton, #3 for McKeown and #4 for Beechey at all circuits except Warwick Farm.
You can see from the above that it numbered strictly down the page in order. Only the unlucky #13 was omitted.
If there was a Division 2 race the numbers continued from Division 1. Not that they really liked Division 2 races.
It was no place for favourite numbers. You had to have a good supply of peel off numbers.
It was very "pukka" and English, the influence of Geoff Sykes. It was not for nothing it was called "Aintree Down Under".