Horseracing: The favoured runners - Amelia's Jewel, Hawaii Five Oh and Legarto - have all drawn favourably for Saturday's $10 million Golden Eagle at Rosehill on Saturday.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 21: John Allen riding Sunsets after winning Race 2, the Neds Classic, during Melbourne Racing at Caulfield Racecourse on October 21, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia.
And aside from being studded by three Group 1s, it’s also the day on which the field for Australia’s greatest race - the Melbourne Cup next Tuesday - is settled, with the Archer Stakes the last chance for horses to qualify for the big one.While Cup Day is king, and the Cox Plate the country’s top quality race, Derby Day is where it’s at for racing purists.
There’s a strong support card of two G2s and four G3s including the Archer, named after the Melbourne Cup’s first winner, and the Wakeful Stakes, a last trial for fillies aimed at Thursday’s G1 VRC Oaks. Top chances: ATHABASCAN is a French import who won two 2400m races in Sydney in September but needs to pick up from moderate runs in two 2500m Melbourne Cup lead-up races, an eighth in The Bart Cummings, and a seventh in the Moonee Valley Cup. KALAPOUR is an Irish import who’s been working into form after five runs this campaign, with third placings in his past two. LADIES MAN adds intrigue as a Kiwi raider. He won NZ’s prestigious G1 the Livamol Classic last start.
Not just one of the oldest races in Australia but the world. It’s for three-year-olds at set weights and is a boys-only affair again this year. Though derbies the world over are usually 2400m, or a mile-and-a-half, Flemington’s is 100m further, because 2400m would mean starting pretty too close to the first bend for the sake of safety and common sense.
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