Shannon Stakes 2017 Field Features Epsom Bound Dawn Wall

September 20, 2017

Shannon Stakes 2017 Field Features Epsom Bound Dawn Wall

One of the possible Epsom Handicap runners for trainer Chris Waller in Saturday week’s feature, Dawn Wall is accepted for the 2017 Shannon Stakes this weekend at Rosehill Gardens.

Good Project

Good Project carries the top weight in Saturday’s Shannon Stakes 2017 field at Rosehill Racecourse. Photo: Steve Hart.

The Group 2 $200,000 Schweppes Shannon Stakes (1500m) offers gallopers a final shot to gain a ballot and penalty free ride into the Group 1 $1 million Epsom Handicap (1600m) field seven days later at Randwick.

Set to run as Rosehill Race 5 at 2:35pm (AEST) on Golden Rose Stakes Day on Saturday, this season’s Shannon Stakes field is already down to just nine runners.

Two of the original 11 final acceptors have been scratched out in favour of a run in the Group 2 $400,000 Golden Pendant (1400m) at the same meeting: the Bjorn Baker-trained Bonny O’Reilly and Waller’s Omei Sword who had the inside Shannon Stakes barrier draw.

Waller will still be dually represented in the Shannon Stakes however with the 59kg top weight Good Project and Dawn Wall who gets in on the 53kg minimum.

Dawn Wall holds an Epsom Handicap nomination for Saturday week and in futures markets on the classic the four-year-old daughter of Fastnet Rock is rated a $17 chance.

She is the shortest-priced of the Shannon Stakes runners in those pre-field Epsom Handicap odds at Ladbrokes.com.au and needs to win to make the Group 1 field currently sitting 69th on the Epsom order of entry.

Her stablemate Good Project is also Epsom Handicap nominated, the six-year-old entire equal 24th on the ballot and at a quote of $26 to make the line-up and score the upset.

Hugh Bowman rides the son of Not A Single Doubt this weekend as Good Project, runner-up to Scales Of Justice in Perth’s Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600m) last November, looks to improve on a second last (sixth) to Deploy a fortnight ago in the Group 2 Theo Marks Stakes (1300m).

Two other mares meanwhile are dually accepted in the fields for the Golden Pendant and Shannon Stakes with the Hawkes Racing-trained Theo Marks Stakes runner-up Euro Angel and Bjorn Baker’s four-year-old daughter of Snitzel Lubiton.

Baker is likely to keep Lubiton in the line-up however having already withdrawn her stablemate Bonny O’Reilly and the Warwick Farm-based horseman also has Imposing Lass in the Shannon Stakes field.

Both Lubiton and Imposing Lass are on a short turnaround having run eighth and fifth respectively in last Friday’s Group 3 Tibbie Stakes (1400m) at Newcastle in a close finish behind the winner Zanbagh.

See below for the full Shannon Stakes 2017 field and barriers, the markets to reopen shortly at Ladbrokes.com.au.

2017 Shannon Stakes Final Field & Barrier Draw

Rosehill Race 5 (2:35pm) – 23/09/2017

# Form (Last 10) Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight Hcp. Rating
1 7x0472x5x6 GOOD PROJECT Chris Waller Hugh Bowman 10 59kg 104
2 60x57864x7 MIGHTY LUCKY Fred Cowell Chris O’Brien 2 57kg 100
3 1x11130x15 BONNY O’REILLY (NZ) Bjorn Baker Jason Collett 9 56kg 102
4 0x20407x23 EURO ANGEL (NZ) Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes Brenton Avdulla 5 55.5kg 101
5 7x1215x141 WASHINGTON HEIGHTS Gerald Ryan Kerrin McEvoy 8 55kg 96
6 9x12x27x56 OMEI SWORD Chris Waller Tommy Berry 1 54.5kg 99
7 515141105x DARK EYES Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Adam Hyeronimus 4 54.5kg 95
8 x55250x118 LUBITON Bjorn Baker TBA 7 53kg 91
9 5111619×2 DAWN WALL Chris Waller Corey Brown 3 53kg 90
10 x4285x0x15 HEARTLINGS Kerry Parker TBA 6 53kg 76
11 36x621x325 IMPOSING LASS (NZ) Bjorn Baker TBA 11 53kg 95

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