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With doubts starting to arise whether 2010 Melbourne Cup winner Americain will even take their spot in the 2012 Caulfield Cup field this Saturday, below the team at Races.com.au take a look at the chances they have of winning the mile and a half classic assuming they do run.
The French-trained champ is a Group 1 winner down under having taken out our biggest race of the year winning the Melbourne Cup at just their second start on Aussie soil during the spring of 2010.
Also a Group 1 champ in the Hong Kong Vase that December the Alain de Royer Dupre-trained Dynaformer stallion returned down under last spring and enjoyed another stellar season taking out the Group 2 Moonee Valley Cup (2500m).
While they ultimately failed to successfully defend their Melbourne Cup title in 2011 Americain was far from disgraced when they worked their way from the back of the field to cross just a length and a half away fourth to another French-trained Melbourne Cup winner in Dunaden.
Americain recorded their fourth turf triumph down under next start in the Group 2 Zipping Classic (2400m) and also spent the autumn in Sydney under the care of David Hayes posting two Group 1 minor placings.
They haven’t run since their sixth in the Group 2 Prix Kergorlay (3000m) in France on August 19 but return to the track on Saturday for their Caulfield debut in the $2.5 million Group 1 BMW Caulfield Cup (2400m).
Connections however are saying there is a cloud of doubt over whether Americain will in fact run in the race with the likely firm track conditions at Caulfield a potential problem for the veteran who could jar up if the surface is unsuitably hard.
“If it is not soft enough we might not run him, why take the risk?” Americain’s handler Stephanie Nigge said on Thursday.
Caulfield was a Good (3) for Wednesday’s Thousand Guineas meeting with track manager Jason Kerr planning to apply 8mm of water to the track to get it to a Dead (4) for Caulfield Cup Day.
While the Dead track would be ideal for Americain there is every chance that by the time the Cup jumps at 4:05pm it could be back up into the Good range.
That said Americain is currently in the Caulfield Cup field and paying $16 to win through bookmaker.com.au.
So what chance do they have of adding yet another prestigious spring cup to their trophy cabinet if they jump with the rest of the field?
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