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This Saturday in Melbourne the Gai Waterhouse-trained Hampton Court will jump clear favourite in the 2014 Victoria Derby but can the young gun break the historical hoodoo on the top fancies in the classic?
There is a capacity field of three-year-olds engaged for this year’s $1.5 million Group 1 AAMI Victoria Derby (2500m), which will be the 160th running of the staying test.
Recent history shows that in the past 10 years just two Victoria Derby winners jumped as favourite or equal favourite with Efficient (2006) and Plastered (2004).
Plastered started equal favourite in the race and was the third punters’ pick on the trot to salute following on from the success of Elvstorem (2003) and Helenus (2002).
Like Polanski did last year, Redoute’s Choice colt Hampton Court comes off back-to-back wins ahead of his Derby bid the most recent of which was in the Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) at Randwick.
He pays $2.80 sitting top of the latest Victoria Derby odds at Ladbrokes.com.au and is looking to emulate Monaco Consul (2009) who was the last Spring Champion Stakes winner to back up and take out the VRC Derby.
Waterhouse also achieved the Spring Champion – Derby double with her top galloper Nothin’ Leica Dane (1995) so can she do it again nearly 20 years on with Hampton Court?
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