Stradbroke Thrown Open after Favourites Draw Double Digits

June 8, 2011

Stradbroke Thrown Open after Favourites Draw Double Digits

Three of the four top fancies for this Saturday’s Stradbroke Handicap have suffered an early blow drawing double-digit gates for the $1 million Eagle Farm feature.

Beaded

Stradbroke Handicap favourite Beaded has drawn wide in barrier 17 for Saturday

Peter Snowden’s classy mare Beaded was the pre-draw favourite following her gallant win in the Doomben 10,000 last start, but the price on the four-year-old is likely to blow out after she came up with barrier 17 for the $1 million Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m).

The Hawkes-trained Love Conquers All, coming off three elite level second placings including behind Beaded in the 10,000, will also face a tough test on Saturday drawn one inside the favourite in barrier 16.

Dual defending Stradbroke champion Black Piranha is the best draw of the early favourites, Con Karakatsanis’ rising eight-year-old to vie for an unprecedented third straight Stradbroke success from barrier three.

One of the big winners from the Stradbroke Handicap barrier draw was former favourite Sincero.

Stephen Farley’s promising three-year-old was at the top of the Stradbroke odds prior to last Saturday having won six races on the trot.

The pressure is now off Sincero and his connections after the Umatilla gelding was a flop in the Group 2 QTC Cup (1300m) on Oaks Day, the galloper unable to come within four lengths of winner Varenna Miss when finishing 11th.

Sincero was on the border of making the Stradbroke field but was an eleventh hour starter following the withdrawal of Varenna Miss and Torio’s Quest .

Having gone from Stradbroke favourite to a horse that top jockey Glen Boss snubbed for the Straddie ride, Wyong horseman Farley is bullish over his chances of an upset on Saturday.

“We can’t leave anything in the tank,” Farley said.

After performing well in an early morning workout today wearing blinkers, Farley expects Sincero to thrive with the gear change and was over the moon with the horse’s barrier four draw and the predicted wet weather for Brisbane on Saturday.

“He travelled very good in the blinkers,” Farley said.

“We’re very happy.

“It’s good that the pressure’s off and we can just go there and run our race.”

After Boss opted to stay in Singapore and rejected the chance to ride Sincero in the Stradbroke, Farley has engaged the services of local lightweight Queensland hoop Jason Taylor.

“I think he’ll do the job, he knows the track up here,” Farley said of Taylor.

2011 AAMI Stradbroke Handicap Final Field & Barrier Draw

# Form (Last 10) Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight
1 4568009X53 BLACK PIRANHA Con Karakatsanis Hugh Bowman 3 57kg
2 X05X504X86 ALL SILENT Grahame Begg Nash Rawiller 8 56kg
3 3800280X85 SNIPER’S BULLET Tracey Bartley Michael Rodd 22 56kg
4 104X252222 LOVE CONQUERS ALL Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes Chris Munce 16 54.5kg
5 43X2X132X1 BEADED Peter Snowden Kerrin McEvoy 17 54kg
6 16X356X144 BORDER REBEL Sue Grills Timothy Bell (a) 9 53.5kg
7 21X037X485 ALVERTA Paul Messara Glen Colless 23 53kg
8 2X64121330 BOLD GLANCE Norm Hilton Scott Seamer 21 53kg
9 X18X1727X0 RIGHTFULLY YOURS Mick Price Jim Byrne 15 53kg
10 X83390X451 WOORIM Robert Heathcote Corey Brown 18 53kg
11 4735412X0X RAFFAELLO Patrick F Ryan Ms Lisa Cropp 5 52.5kg
12 1X1211X243 THANKGODYOU’REHERE Patrick & Wayne Webster Rod Quinn 11 52.5kg
13 122124X137 BUFFERING Robert Heathcote Glyn Schofield 10 52kg
14 X615X60X64 CULMINATE (NZ) Darren Weir Michael Walker 12 52kg
15 11228X2824 LISTEN SON Tony Gollan Ryan Wiggins 1 52kg
16 11X0X05903 STAR OF OCTAGONAL Todd Howlett Eddie Wilkinson 6 52kg
17 X11152X622 ZERO ROCK Kelso Wood Tim Clark 14 52kg
18 2X1111X110 SINCERO Stephen Farley Jason Taylor 4 50.5kg
19e 7113X42914 LADYS ANGEL Joseph Pride 20 52kg
20e 10X34X6315 BEETHOG Les Kelly Joe Bowditch 13 52kg
21e 1305X010X7 DRENALIN James Lyons 19 52kg
22e 945008X304 FIFTEEN CARAT Howard Wilson 2 52kg
23e 35512X5173 MR UNFORGETTABLE Kevin Moses 7 52kg

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