Underwood Stakes 2012 Final Field & Barries Revealed

September 19, 2012

Underwood Stakes 2012 Final Field & Barries Revealed

The opening Group 1 race of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival is this Saturday’s 2012 Underwood Stakes, the final field and barrier draw for which has now been released.

Manighar

Manighar is likely to start favourite for the 2012 Underwood Stakes despite their wide draw for Saturday

Due to steal the spotlight at Caulfield as Race 7 at 3:40pm on Saturday, this year’s edition of the $400,000 Group 1 Underwood Stakes (1800m) has drawn a crack field of 14 final acceptors.

Leading the smart Underwood Stakes field is the Peter Moody-trained Manighar drawn in barrier 10 with the stable’s leading jockey Luke Nolen in the saddle.

The star European import was the most impressive autumn stayer last season becoming the first horse in history to win the Australian Cup, Ranvet Stakes, The BMW triple in their first preparation with Moody.

They resumed at Flemington two weeks ago when crossing a short half-head away second to Southern Speed in the Group 2 Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) and over the extra 200m on Saturday this Cox Plate-bound champion is the definite horse to beat.

Moody will also be represented in the Underwood Stakes 2012 field by another overseas import in Voila Ici who will be ridden by Vlad Duric from barrier nine.

The seven-year-old Daylami stallion has had just one start down under for Moody when sixth to Sincero in the Group 2 Memsie Stakes (1400m) at the start of the month at Caulfield, an effort Duric is confident they can improve on as they step up to a more suitable 1800m.

Along with Manighar the other big name Underwood Stakes hopeful this year is Makybe Diva Stakes winner Southern Speed.

The Leon Macdonald and Andrew Gluyas-trained South Australian star had the fitness edge over Manighar last start as she came off two earlier runs at home in Adelaide.

The reigning Caulfield Cup winner will now be out to prove the Makybe win was no fluke when she jumps from barrier 11 with Craig Williams aboard on Saturday.

Two other last start winners along with Southern Speed will shoot for more glory in the Underwood with the Stephen Farley-trained Sincero (barrier 12) and Gary Hennessy’s New Zealand raider Ocean Park (barrier five).

Dual Group 1 winning Umatilla gelding Sincero caught the eye first up when they beat home subsequent Dato’ Tan Chin Nam Stakes winner Happy Trails by an easy two lengths in the Group 2 Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on September 1 while Thorn Park four-year-old Ocean Park scored a Group 1 victory back home in NZ’s Makfi Challenge Stakes over the 1400m on the same day.

While Sincero has work to do from barrier 12 on Saturday trainer Farley remains confident that his horse can overcome the gate and give the favourites a run for their money.

“It’s probably not the best draw but we’ve got it now so we’ll have to stick with it,” Farley said. “But it probably is a better barrier than one or two, that’s one good way of looking at it, but ideally somewhere between five and eight would have been nice.

“He’s come through (the Memsie) in great order, he’s very well the horse and I couldn’t be happier with him just at the moment.”

It is shaping as an intriguing edition of the Underwood Stakes and one that is sure to serve as a good guide for the upcoming Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival majors including the Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate.

Just some of the more notable stayers heading towards either the Caulfield Cup or Cox Plate that will face off in the Underwood include John Sadler’s American import Winchester, 2012 Melbourne Cup runner-up Maluckyday who is again on the spring cups path, last year’s beaten Caulfield Cup favourite December Draw and the Hawkes-trained Niwot who was the best finishing of the Australian-trained horses when eighth in last year’s Melbourne Cup – just to name a few.

See below for the complete 2012 Hyland Race Colours Underwood Stakes field, barriers, jockeys and weights.

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2012 Underwood Stakes Final Field & Barrier Draw

Caulfield Race 7 – 3:40pm – 22/09/2012

# Form (Last 10) Horse Trainer Jockey Br. Wgt. Hcp. Rating
1 x1311123x2 MANIGHAR (FR) Peter G Moody Luke Nolen 10 59kg 116
2 2140x2153x WINCHESTER (USA) John Sadler Jamie Mott 7 59kg 111
3 8597x454x1 SINCERO Stephen Farley Michael Walker 12 59kg 114
4 1321x343x6 VOILA ICI (IRE) Peter G Moody Vlad Duric 9 59kg 110
5 12x447x8x8 MALUCKYDAY (NZ) Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes Dwayne Dunn 2 59kg 108
6 18x55441x0 NIWOT Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes Dean Holland 14 59kg 108
7 70x321230x DRUNKEN SAILOR (IRE) Michael Moroney Damien Oliver 3 59kg 108
8 11x21110x8 DECEMBER DRAW (IRE) Mark Kavanagh Michael Rodd 13 59kg 112
9 4x5x1313x0 MAWINGO (GER) Anthony Freedman Ben Melham 8 59kg 109
10 x71411x6x0 SANAGAS (GER) Bart Cummings Brad Rawiller 1 59kg 108
11 30x42870x0 ILLO (GER) Bart Cummings Steven Arnold 6 59kg 103
12 x6415116x9 ZABEELIONAIRE (NZ) Leon Corstens Craig Newitt 4 58kg 101
13 1121282×1 OCEAN PARK (NZ) Gary Hennessy Glen Boss 5 58kg 106
14 125255×311 SOUTHERN SPEED Leon Macdonald & Andrew Gluyas Craig Williams 11 57kg 115

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