With Jarrad Dooley
Danny O Brien says he is pleased with his double-pronged attack on this year s Andrew Ramsden Stakes, with a spot in the Melbourne Cup up for grabs to the winner of Saturday s race at Flemington.
The winner of the 2800-metre feature scores direct entry into November s Cup, and O Brien will saddle up Group 1 winner Miami Bound and talented three-year-old Salto Angel.
While Salto Angel ($18 Sportsbet) is the least favoured of the O Brien pair, the Melbourne Cup-winning trainer said she will relish the distance with 52kg and Damien Thornton aboard. She s quite a dour filly but she stays really well, O Brien said.
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ONLY 10 TAKERS FOR GOLD TICKET INTO CUP
May 12, 2021 6:05 pm
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
A half-capacity field in Saturday’s
Andrew Ramsden Stakes at
Melbourne Cup is too hard.
For the winner, the Ramsden provides a gold ticket into the Melbourne Cup, a race that has become increasingly dominated in both strength and number by internationals.
But the strict new veterinary rules off the back of the
Anthony Van Dyck review is expected to dramatically reduce the foreign army, making the Cup an easier race for locals to win.
2021 Andrew Ramsden Field Courtesy of Racing Australia
And the first ticket in is the Ramsden, a $400,000 race with a field limit of 18 but just 10 runners on Saturday.
The Championships 2021 closed with a truly world class performance by UK raider Addeybb in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.
Addeybb, racing in blinkers for the first time proved too strong for Australia’s best Group 1 performer Verry Elleegant.
Verry Elleegant’s trainer Chris Waller won two of the four Group 1s contested on the day with Hungry Heart winning the Australian Oaks and Selino giving former champion Sydney apprentice Ronnie Stewart his first Australian Group 1 victory in the Sydney Cup.
Last year’s Doncaster Mile winner Nettoyer won her second Randwick Group 1 mile when knocking off the hot favourite Probabeel in the Queen Of The Turf.
The time-honoured Sydney Cup turned into a boil-over at Royal Randwick on Saturday as 26-1 pop Selino won the race for a fifth time for trainer Chris Waller. Since arriving over from Europe during the spring, the five-year-old stayer had been a consistent customer in work running fifth in the Group 3 Manion Cup at Rosehill […]
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