Edmonds’ 2 fight for favouritism in 2018 Ramornie Handicap

The Toby Edmonds trained Tyzone and Havasay look set to fight for favouritism for the Listed $160,000 GDSC Ramornie Handicap (1200m) at Grafton on Wednesday.

Havasay, above in blue and white colours with starts, is challenging stablemate Tyzone for favouritism in the 2018 Ramornie Handicap at Grafton. Photo by Daniel Costello.

In pre-post betting at Ladbrokes.com.au for the Ramornie Handicap, Tyzone at $3.70 holds a slight advantage over Havasay at $4.60 while Edmonds’ third runner, Siegfried, is one of the outsiders of the field at $31.

Tyzone has drawn barrier seven in the original barrier draw and will be ridden by Glen Colless who replaces Jeff Lloyd who has been aboard the gelding for his last three starts for wins at the Gold Coast and at Doomben in restricted grade followed by a nose second to I’m A Rippa in the Listed $175,000 City Of Ipswich Eye Liner Stakes (1350m) at Ipswich on June 16.

“He’s coming back from 1350m to 1200m, so the month between runs is ideal,” Edmonds told The Courier-Mail.

“He doesn’t take much training and he’s in a good spot. Havasay is going good and he looks great. Looking from afar, his last-start effort looked very good.”

Regular rider Matt McGillivray has retained the mount on Havasay (barrier 2) who is a recent acquisition to the Edmonds stable as his former trainer Liam Birchley is banned from running his horses in New South Wales pending the outcome of a one year disqualification appeal arising out of the Aquanita inquiry.

Havasay is coming off a last start third to Spright in the Group 3 $175,000 W.J. Healy Stakes (1200m) at Doomben on June 23 while Siegfried (Craig Newitt, barrier 11) has had one run back from a spell for a first up eleventh in the Listed $100,000 Makers Mark Hinkler Handicap (1200m) at Doomben on June 9.

On the third line of betting at $6 is the Kris Lees trained Zestful who has drawn barrier twelve with Corey Brown booked to ride.

Zestful will be having his first run back since running second to Faraway Town in the Group 3 $150,000 Robrick Lodge Triscay Stakes (1200m) at Randwick in mid February.

Final field for the 2018 Ramornie Handicap (1200m)

No	Last 10	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Hcp Rating
1	234430×510	THE MONSTAR	Brett Cavanough	Skye Bogenhuber	15	59.5kg	104
2	x77204102x	ZESTFUL	Kris Lees	Corey Brown	12	56.5kg	102
3	000x376x7x	BIG MONEY	Rodney Northam	Robert Thompson	17	56.5kg	98
4	3120x750x0	SIEGFRIED	Toby Edmonds	Craig Newitt	11	55kg	95
5	15×1778112	TYZONE	Toby Edmonds	Glen Colless	7	54.5kg	94
6	1x336x7153	HAVASAY	Toby Edmonds	Matthew McGillivray	2	54kg	90
7	00x190205x	MIGHTY LIKE	Zach Hatch	Josh Oliver	10	54kg	90
8	20x380x249	SNOOPY	Chris Munce	Mark Du Plessis	4	54kg	90
9	015978x70x	GOT UNDERS	Jay Hopkins	James Innes Jnr	16	54kg	89
10	0121034162	AKASAKI	Stephen Jones	Michael Cahill	18	54kg	87
11	6x111132x0	MALVERN ESTATE	Desleigh Forster	Jim Byrne	5	54kg	86
12	x11x283162	EXECUTED	Krystle Johnston	Les Tilley	9	54kg	85
13	23x152x470	NOTONYOURLIFE	Tony Gollan	Ron Stewart	1	54kg	85
14	11316×1380	BELFLYER	John Shelton	Ben Looker	3	54kg	82
15	x63616x127	EVER SO NATURAL	Tracey Bartley	Josh Adams	14	54kg	76
16	2180x4570x	MISHANI SLEUTH	Shane Edmonds	Scratched	19	54kg	75
17e	1122522×30	KNIGHT TEMPLAR	Jason Reilly	–	13	54kg	75
18e	x820x70168	MURVATE	Mark Hatch	–	8	54kg	72
19e	6x48x01516	MORE PATASI	Julie Hodder	Ms Belinda Hodder	6	54kg	67