“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.”

Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

What do you give the man who has won the Melbourne Cup four times (Just a Dash 1981, What a Nuisance 1985, Efficient 2007 and Green Moon 2012)? For Lloyd Williams, the emphatic answer was a fifth from German galloper Almandin on the first Tuesday in November.