It's A Dundeel plays second fiddle to import French import Reliable Man has beaten hot favourite It's A Dundeel in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick today. The son of Dalakhani strode to a two-length win from $1.28 chance It's A Dundeel, who couldn't produce his renowned acceleration. However, Reliable Man was quickly pulled up by Hugh Bowman after he was found to be lame shortly after the finish. Bowman said Reliable Man had pulled up quite sore, souring what was a top win for trainer Chris Waller who said his horse was the real deal. I've got no idea [what the injury is], but he's clearly lame. It mightn't be career threatening, it might be. We'll see what the vets have to say," Bowman said. He came to Australia as the highest rating horse to come from Europe so the writing was on the wall. It's a terrible shame it's ended the way it has. Hopefully there's a bright report at the end of it. We'll let him cool down and let the vets have a look at him, but he should be right. His action changed and obviously not to the extent of a serious injury. His action did change a bit and wasn't until I stopped riding him out and slowing him down that I realised he was a bit short. He's a wonderful horse and his form in Europe is outstanding. He showed Australia what he's capable of this afternoon. Waller, coming off one of the toughest weeks of his training career following a stewards inquiry into contaminated feed at his stables, said it was good to race a "serious horse." "The last 24 hours have obviously been tough, but I haven't looked forward to a day's racing as much as I did today," Waller said. Just to have all that relief behind me .. knowing that we're innocent also makes it a better feeling. We're not hiding anything. It's just good to be able to race good horses and welcome them to A-grade. This horse is a serious horse. We don't listen to the rumours and we know what the truth is. You have a look at the premiership and see who's there, no disrespect to anyone else, but we've got a team that works well and we've proved it.