The Cox Plate
 

A shame about Atlantic Jewel as ed had posted on the retirements thread.

Ben Melham gets the Puissance De Lune mount (Bossy suspended).

Moonee Valley Racecourse – 26/10/2013

1 GREEN MOON Robert Hickmott Brett Prebble 12 59kg
2 HAPPY TRAILS Paul Beshara / Byron Cozmanis Dwayne Dunn 2 59kg
3 FIORENTE (IRE) Gai Waterhouse Blake Shinn 15 59kg
4 FORETELLER Chris Waller TBA 9 59kg
5 SIDE GLANCE (GB) Andrew Balding Craig Williams 1 59kg
6 SEVILLE (GER) Robert Hickmott Hugh Bowman 10 59kg
7 REKINDLED INTEREST Jim Conlan Mark Zahra 6 59kg
8 PUISSANCE DE LUNE (IRE) Darren Weir Glen Boss or TBA 8 59kg
9 MASKED MARVEL (GB) Robert Hickmott Nick Hall or TBA 5 59kg
10 MULL OF KILLOUGH (IRE) Jane Chapple-Hyam Steven Arnold 4 59kg
11 IT’S A DUNDEEL Murray Baker James McDonald 13 57.5kg
12 SUPER COOL Mark Kavangh Corey Brown 14 57.5kg
13 ATLANTIC JEWEL Mark Kavanagh Michael Rodd 7 57kg :(
14 LONG JOHN Peter Snowden Kerrin McEvoy 11 49.5kg
15e SHAMUS AWARD Danny O’Brien Chad Schofield 3 49.5kg


http://www.races.com.au/2013/10/22/2...#ixzz2iQNRxAGM

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/horserac...#ixzz2iQKbPGwh

Terrific field. Ben Melham's picked up a great ride in PDL. I think he's a huge chance. Worried about It's A Dundeel's interrupted prep. Long John and Shamus Award are interesting runners with the tiny 3yo weight.

He did!

He was the one who rode Black Caviar in her first G1 under the same kinda conditions, right?

Any word on who gets the Foreteller mount?

edit - Nick Hall fails in appeal and is out...Michael Rodd picks up the Masked Marvel mount.

Nice card... happy to see my good old boy Precedence entered.

I had wondered what happened with The Peak (he's in R3)! He had a couple of nice races in HK... be interesting to see him here.

Ed if you're around what do you think of Hugh Bowman on Ruud Awakening? A good fit?

http://risa.com.au/FreeFields/Form.a...0Valley#Race10

I think I might go with Fiorente...

Honestly, the way she's been running, she just hasn't been herself at all. I don't know why. She's had a different jockey each time, but it's made no difference. The problem seems to be with her, not the jockey, so I don't see it making any difference, sadly. :(

:(

It would be great to see her do really well this time. Fingers crossed.

For the Cox Plate, I was thinking...

Fiorente
It's a Dundeel, Super Cool (he's at 20/1 and I think it might go higher)
Puissance de Lune, Seville, Rekindled Interest, Foreteller (Foreteller is my one concession to silliness... I just flat out like this horse and will do a very small win bet on him because I'm a moron)

.... but you know what, ed, I just keep looking at Dundeel and everything aside he could do it so am wondering if I should switch out those top two and thinking I probably will.

Leaving out Long John who is a nice horse but who I don't think has a chance here (wouldn't be the first time I'm wrong).

TVG needs to get a grip and stop listing Atlantic Jewel (at 8/5).

Still time to mull this over... the more I look at Super Cool the more I think he's a must use just wish I knew where.

Drago is at 30/1? :eek:

Well I can't pass that up...

edit - :rolleyes:

Good luck the rest of the way if you're playing.

I'd like to see big race from Green Moon.

Good luck all.

:D :$:

God I love him.

Good luck to you!

Hope you played him!