This Saturday the action of the Adelaide Autumn Racing Carnival continues with the 2015 The Goodwood Day where the Group 1 sprint feature on the eight-race card features a quality line-up of local and interstate hopefuls.
A total of five Group races headline the Morphettville program for the May 16 meeting starting with the opening race and finishing with the marquee event, the $500,000 Group 1 Darley Goodwood (1200m) running as Race 7 at 3:48pm (SA time).
In our The Goodwood markets we’ve got the Emirates Stakes winner Hucklebuck as the $4.40 favourite, and we’re also running an exclusive Bonus Bet offer if your first fixed odds win selection runs second or third!
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Feature Race
Race 7 – 3:48pm Group 1 Darley Goodwood (1200m)
A final field of 17 sprinters is assembled for The Goodwood this year including the Phillip Stokes-trained Hucklebuck drawn a treat in barrier three with Dom Tourneur in the saddle. Out from $4, Hucklebuck currently pays $4.40 for the win with the Elvstroem four-year-old having his first start since a Group 1 Emirates Stakes (1600m) win at Flemington last November. Has had two starts over Saturday’s track and distance for two wins, and has won two recent trials leading up to his return. Also at single figures for the win with us are the market mover Black Heart Bart ($5.50 into $4.80) who has own his past four on the trot in WA, Darren Weir’s recent William Reid Stakes winner Lucky Hussler ($6.50) and the super-consistent Under The Louvre ($9).
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Supporting Races
Race 1 – 11:55am Group 3 National Stakes (1200m)
Kicking off the day is the set weights race for two-year-olds where 10 juveniles are facing off including the Leon Macdonald & Andrew Gluyas-trained Hard Spun two-year-old Counter Pulse who has won two of his four starts to date. His latest run was a fifth in the Listed Queen Adelaide Stakes (1050m) at the track on May 2. Winner of that black type, Strykum, also backs up in the National Stakes, the Lee & Anthony Freedman-trained filly coming up trumps with the inside alley this weekend. She won last time out at just her second career start and gets the chance to go back-to-back. The other last start winners in the line-up are Evil Dreams who won on debut on May 6 and the David Hayes & Tom Dabernig-trained Shining Brooke who won at Geelong on April 28.
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Race 3 – 1:08pm Group 3 SA Fillies Classic (2500m)
A staying showdown for the three-year-old fillies, this year’s Classic has 15 lining up with the Dan O’Sullivan-trained Bahamas wearing the number one saddlecloth. She’s run top three in all but one of her six starts to date including her brave third to subsequent SA Derby winner Delicacy in the Group 1 Schweppes Oaks (2000m) at the track on May 2. Some of the top fancies are drawn wide in this including the Robert Smerdon-trained Ungrateful Ellen (15) coming off an Oaks fifth and the Andrew Noblet-trained Kiwi Colleen (14) who won over 2200m at Bendigo at the start of the month. Stokes also has Okahu Bay in the mix and Robbie Laing brings over his Al Maher filly Cinnamon Carter.
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Race 5 – 2:28pm Group 3 Proud Miss Stakes (1200m)
Fourteen fillies and mares are on show in the Proud Miss this year, the sprint clash shaping up as a cracker with one of the top hopes I Love It drawn wide in barrier 14 with jockey Vlad Duric riding the John Salanitri-trained four-year-old. She comes off a string of good interstate runs and a brave third when beaten only a length by the former Blue Diamond winner Miracles Of Life when she blitzed her homecoming with a win in the Group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m) here on May 2. Plenty of quality female gallopers who come off nice form including the Michael Kent-trained Miss Steele who ran fourth in the Robert Sangster and Commands mare Minaj who ran third in the Group 3 DC McKay Stakes on Sangster Stakes Day. Minaj is prepared in Victoria by Lee & Anthony Freedman who have also accepted for Hazard, the last start Caulfield winning five-year-old drawn in gate two for Saturday.
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Race 6 – 3:08pm Group 3 RA Lee Stakes (1600m)
One run before the day’s feature, the RA Lee Stakes has attracted a final field of 13 milers including two last start winners. Phillip Stokes lines-up Dylanson in gate 10 with Clare Lindop to ride, the ultra-consistent Dylan Thomas five-year-old having won two of his past three starts. Both of those were Adelaide black types including the Listed City Of Adelaide Stakes (1400m) last time out on April 25 at Morphettville Parks. The other horse after successive victories is Robert Smerdon’s The Bowler drawn well in barrier four with Mark Zahra in the saddle. The Testa Rossa four-year-old has won three from four since late February and comes off a 1700m Flemington win from Anzac Day in the wet. The weights are led by Lee & Anthony Freedman’s German import Our Ivanhowe (60kg), while the Peter Moody-trained Metaphorical and John Sadler’s recent Nitschke Stakes winner Japhils are both livewire hopes on the 54kg minimum drawn in barriers two and one respectively.