Horse Racing: Think about it has hung on to claim the 2023 Everest after leading for the majority of the journey home.
It’s the Caulfield Cup, the history-steeped 2400m handicap test that’s not just the most important lead-up to the first Tuesday of November, but a fantastic, engrossing race in its own right.
And then there’s the dark horse of the field in Breakup . Japan can produce a very tough stayer or two, and have won this race twice in its past nine runnings. Breakup is one of the leading fancies for the Melbourne Cup as well, and may be better suited to that longer trip, but wouldn’t spring a huge surprise if he can collect this on the way through.
He then went missing a bit during the Sydney autumn carnival, with three pretty ordinary runs, but at Flemington at his last start, in his second run of the spring, he unleashed another supremely powerful finish to win the Turnbull Stakes by almost two lengths. He’s entered for next Saturday’s Cox Plate and the Melbourne Cup again, and could just be about to become a superstar.
Without A Fight is another former Brit who showed his class winning back-to-back races at the Brisbane winter carnival. Soulcombe was imported from England last year into the Chris Waller stable and has caught the eye in his three runs this spring. FOR: Is a Japanese stallion and they’re notoriously tough beasts. Has won at stakes level over 2500m back home, and was a strong fourth in the prestigious G1 Tenno Sho two starts back, before a spell. Has an ideal barrier from which he’ll likely take up a forward position.
FOR: Likes this track, where he’s had three wins and three seconds, including in this race two years ago, when beating all but the superb winner Incentivise. Super fit, having run second to Without A Fight in a Brisbane G2 in mid-June, before only a short spell and three runs this spring, the latest a solid-enough fourth last Saturday over 2000m G1 here.
FOR: The Maher-Eustace touch and Michael Dee in the saddle, who won this race last year on Durston at another juicy price , when he started proving himself as a big race rider. Was a form horse of last summer and autumn, working through the restricted staying grades with six wins from seven starts, ending in the Mornington Cup over 2400m which earns a start in this race. AGAINST: Looked out of his depth last start with 11th in the G1 Turnbull, fading out from the turn and beaten eight lengths.
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