Warrior down for the count
The early casualties for the Melbourne Spring Carnival continue to mount with one of last year’’s star 3YOs Shamoline Warrior the latest to go astray.
Trainer Mark Kavanagh has advised Racing Victoria stewards that Shamoline Warrior has a mild tear to a ligament above its sesamoid bone and will be sent for a two month spell.
The highly promising stayer had only one start back from a long spell since he was the pre-post favourite but scratched from the 2009 Victoria Derby on the morning of the race.
Before that he had scored impressive wins in the UCI Stakes (1800m) and the Norman Robinson stakes (2000m).
He raced handy for most of the way in the Liston Stakes at Caulfield on August 14, before his condition gave out and he finished well back.
Kavanagh has advised Stewards that Shamoline Warrior will not be an acceptor for the BMW Caulfield Cup, Tatts Cox Plate or Emirates Melbourne Cup when first declarations close on Tuesday, 7 September.
Kutchinsky out of the Cups
Tony Noonan’’s promising galloper Kuchinsky has fallen victim to a virus and will not be an acceptor when the first declarations are taken next Tuesday, 7 September for the Emirates Melbourne Cup, BMW Caulfield Cup and Tatts Cox Plate.
The Queensland Derby runner-up may be back for other features races late in the Spring but Noonan has decided that his preparation would not warrant a challenge for the big three of the Melbourne Spring.
Before his Derby placing Kutchinsky had flashed home to win the Grand Prix Stakes over 2200 metres at Doomben and he was considered a serious Cups contender .
Japs set to attack us again
The 2010 Melbourne Cup is now a tempting target for Japanese stayers after the Federal Government gave the all clear to two pre-export quarantime facilities in Japan.
This has cleared the hurdle erected by the 2007 equine influenza outbreak both here and in Japan.
The last time any stayers from the land of the rising sun contested the Cup they took home the quinella in 2006 with Delta Blue edging out stablemate Pop Rock.
Racing Victoria General Manager of Racing Operations Leigh Jordan said: “This now paves the way for Japanese horses to travel to Australia. The approval of pre-export facilities at Toyo Nakayama was the final piece in the jigsaw puzzle with Tokyo the preferred venue for Spring racing aspirants.
Jordan added that Jaguar Mail and Meiner Kitz, the first two horses home in this year’s Group 1 Tenno Sho, Japan’s premier two mile handicap, are eager to target the Melbourne Cup and are now favoured to travel to Australia.
Ballarat Cup changes date
WITH the possibility that Ballarat may lose it’’s local public holiday status on the third Wednesday each November, the Club have been forced to move the Cup to a Sunday.
This year’’s Cup will be contested on Sunday, November 21, which will make it a fitting end to the Victorian Spring Carnival.
The change in dates for the local holiday has not been set in concrete but with the State Goverment’’s record of stuffing things up the Club decided to act first.
In fact they are treating it as a bonus.
BTC Chief Executive Shane Brennan said his club was pleased with the change and is looking forward to bringing down the curtain on this year’s Spring Racing Carnival in style.
“The club is most appreciative of Racing Victoria and Country Racing Victoria for facilitating the date change and the club will now work diligently with Ballarat City Council and the local community to ensure its success,” Brennan said.
“The move to a Sunday provides the club with an opportunity to not only welcome continued local support, but further encourage people in metropolitan Melbourne and other sectors of the state, who were not privy to the public holiday, to attend this great event.”
Bart - Bart - Bart - Bart
IT was that man again at Moonee Valley today where Bart Cummings chalked up another Group 1 victory when So You Think led throughout to claim the W S Cox Plate.
If he was in the stables of any other trainer it is doubtful that So You Think would have been given a place in the field but when it is Bart Cummings you don’t think twice.
Having only his fifth race start and with only two previous wins next to his name, So You Think quickly worked to the front and set a smart pace throughout.
With only 49.5kg on his back he never looked like tiring and while the more fancied runners were battling to make ground he kicked clear at the top of the home straight and held on to win clearly.
Fellow three-year-old Manhattan Rain held on gamely for second while Zipping kicked back after looking gone to hold on to third, just ahead of the fast finishing El Segundo.
Race favourite Whobetgotyou settled well back and looked a rough as he made ground from the 100 metre mark but failed to maintain that burst and only struggled to the line.
So You Think is Cummings’ fourth Cox Plate winner after Taj Rossi in 1973 and successive wins with Saintly in 1996 and Dane Ripper in 1997.
Melbourne Cup hopeful Speed Gifted (GB) was outclassed under the WFA conditions and was never in the hunt.
2009 TATTERSALL’S COX PLATE – 2040m (Saturday, October 24)
Group 1. WFA of $3,000,000 plus $50,000 trophies. First: $1,800,000 plus trophies; Second: $440,000; Third: $220,000; Fourth: $130,000; Fifth: $110,000; Sixth: $100,000; Seventh: $100,000; Eighth: $100,000.
$14.00 SO YOU THINK (NZ) (Dato Tan Chin Nam & Tunku Ahmad Yahaya. B/br c 3y, High Chaparral (Ire..) - Triassic (NZ), by Tights (USA). Tr: Bart Cummings. 495.kg. Glen Boss 1
$19.00 MANHATTAN RAIN (Teeley Assets Ltd syn. (Mgr: Ms I O”Farrell). B c 3y, Encosta De Lago - Shantha’’s Choice, by Canny Lad). Tr: Ms Gai Waterhouse. 49.5kg.
Craig Williams 2
$12.00 ZIPPING (Mr & Mrs L J Williams. B g 8y, Danehill (USA) - Social Scene (Ire.), by Grand Lodge (USA). Tr: John Sadler. 57kg. Steven Arnold 3
Then followed:
16.00 El Segundo (NZ) (b g 8y, Pins - Palos Verdes (NZ) 59 L Nolen 4
20.00 Scenic Shot (b g 7y, Scenic (Ire.) – Sweepshot) 59 S Scriven 5
2.80 f Whobegotyou (Street Cry (Ire.) - Temple Of Peace (Japan) 57.5 D Oliver 6
7.50 Heart Of Dreams (b g 4y, Show A Heart - Academy Of Dreams) 57.5 C Newitt 7
16.00 Rock Kingdom (ch g 4y, Rock Of Gibraltar (Ire.) - Happy Empress) 57.5 N Rawiller 8
21.00 Black Piranha (br g 6y, Clang – Jazztrack) 59 T Angland 9
21.00 Road To Rock (b h 5y, Encosta De Lago - Trewornan (GB) 59 G Schofield 10
21.00 Vision And Power (NZ) (b g 7y, Carnegie (Ire.) - Escada (NZ) 59 H Bowman 11
11.00 Speed Gifted (GB) (b g 6y, Montjeu (Ire.) - Good Standing (USA) 59 D Dunn 12
71.00 Nom Du Jeu (NZ) (b h 5y, Montjeu (Ire.) - Prized Gem (NZ) 59 M Rodd 13
Scratched: Sir Slick. Won by: 2-1/2 lengths, long neck. Time: 2:03.98. (Last 600m: 35.31). Track: good (3).
Barriers: 7-13-2-12. Judge’s numbers: 14-13-2-1.
SuperTAB Divs: Win: $9.50. Place: $3.00, $4.10, $2.90. Quinella: $54.20. Exacta: $132.80. Trifecta: $1569.30. First Four: $10,928.30.
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