Winx Leads 2016 Cox Plate Third Acceptances

October 4, 2016

Winx Leads 2016 Cox Plate Third Acceptances

The Cox Plate 2016 field is beginning to take shape with the reigning champion Winx headlining the 29 third acceptances for the Moonee Valley classic running on Saturday October 22.

Winx

Reigning champion Winx is the headline 2016 Cox Plate third acceptor for the October 22 classic at Moonee Valley Racecourse. Photo: Steve Hart.

Up from 24 hopefuls at the same stage last Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, the $3 million Group 1 Cox Plate (2040m) is on track to provide the punters with a star-studded field for Australasia’s weight-for-age classic.

Last year Winx won the race in devastating style posting nearly five lengths on her closes rival Criterion.

Since crowned Australia’s Racehorse of the Year, the daughter of Street Cry is doing everything right to suggest she can go back-to-back having won her past 11 races on the trot.

The latest was in the Group 1 George Main Stakes (1600m) in Sydney, and she’ll be out to make it a dozen straight this weekend in Melbourne’s Group 1 Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes (2000m) in a final Cox Plate tune-up.

Waller has also paid the third acceptance fee for Preferment, who ran ninth to his star stablemate in the race last year and who is also still entered for the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup on either side of the Caulfield Cup.

Winx is already the odds-on favourite in pre-field Cox Plate betting at Ladbrokes.com.au at a current post-third acceptance quote of $1.95.

The only other runner under double-figures in the all-in Cox Plate odds and perhaps the sole chance to challenge Winx for the win is Hartnell ($3.80).

The John O’Shea-trained Authorized six-year-old featured in the Caulfield Cup third acceptances and Melbourne Cup first declarations, connections keeping spring options open after the horse’s runaway Group 1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m) victory last Sunday at Flemington.

O’Shea also has last Saturday’s narrow Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m) winner Hauraki in the mix, the Reset five-year-old having run second to Winx in the George Main Stakes in his other latest start.

The international Cox Plate contingent is down to just two possible runners with the Aidan O’Brien-trained Sir Isaac Newton and Andre Fabre’s Group 1 winning French raider Vadamos.

Just two international Cox Plate entries remain with Sir Isaac Newton and Vadamos

O’Brien prepared the last Cox Plate winning international two years ago with the then Irish-trained Adelaide (2014), Sir Isaac Newton only rated a $26 chance to get the job done this season.

Vadamos is higher up the markets at $15 after the Monsun stallion’s latest elite level win back home over the mile in France on September 11.

Along with Winx the best fancied mare still in Cox Plate calculations is the Kris Lees-trained Lucia Valentina ($15), the Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner last seen running third in the Group 1 Underwood Stakes (1800m).

The Underwood Stakes winner on September 24 was the Darren Weir-trained Black Heart Bart, the ultra-consistent galloper at $17 to win the Cox Plate.

He has an earlier clash with Winx this weekend in the Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes where he sees the distance for the first time on the back of his 2.5 length Underwood success.

Weir has also accepted for his Makybe Diva Stakes champ Palentino and former Japanese-trained Tosen Stardom.

The best of the 29 three-year-olds out to be the first youngster to take out the Cox Plate since Shamus Award (2013) include the David Vandyke-trained filly Yankee Rose who is nominated for a Sydney run in this Saturday’s Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes (1600m) and Sacred Elixir running in Melbourne in this weekend’s Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m).

Final 2016 Cox Plate acceptances revealing the field close at 8:30am (local time) on Tuesday October 18.

Before then check out the third declarations below and the updated markets open on all the Spring Group 1 feature races now at Ladbrokes.com.au – home of Odds Boost (T&Cs apply).

2016 Cox Plate Third Acceptances

Moonee Valley Racecourse – 22/10/2016

# Form (Last 10) Horse Sex Age Trainer Weight
1 1x0420x015 AWESOME ROCK H 5 Leon & Troy Corstens 59kg
2 x21212x121 BLACK HEART BART G 6 Darren Weir 59kg
3 217x20x983 EXCESS KNOWLEDGE (GB) H 7 Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott 59kg
4 0069x031x2 GALLANTE (IRE) G 6 Robert Hickmott 59kg
5 1x4523x564 HAPPY CLAPPER G 6 Patrick Webster 59kg
6 08x0775x85 HAPPY TRAILS G 9 Paul Beshara 59kg
7 650x5x2111 HARTNELL (GB) G 6 John O’Shea 59kg
8 332722×121 HAURAKI G 5 John O’Shea 59kg
9 5x2018x732 HE OR SHE G 6 David & B Hayes & T Dabernig 59kg
10 7x4110x454 PREFERMENT (NZ) H 5 Chris Waller 59kg
11 x4x2311440 SIR ISAAC NEWTON (GB) H 5 Aidan O’Brien 59kg
12 x21377x056 THE CLEANER G 9 Peter Gelagotis 59kg
13 610x5212x6 THE UNITED STATES (IRE) H 7 Robert Hickmott 59kg
14 x0x51709x4 TOSEN STARDOM (JPN) H 6 Darren Weir 59kg
15 10×2014121 VADAMOS (FR) H 6 Andre Fabre 59kg
16 8x41211x11 HE’S OUR ROKKII (NZ) G 4 David & B Hayes & T Dabernig 57.5kg
17 x7212x4510 PALENTINO H 4 Darren Weir 57.5kg
18 108x461x26 TIVACI H 4 Michael Moroney 57.5kg
19 8915x41x43 LUCIA VALENTINA (NZ) M 6 Kris Lees 57kg
20 0x3419x103 MISS ROSE DE LAGO M 6 Danny O’Brien 57kg
21 11x1111x11 WINX M 5 Chris Waller 57kg
22 45324×4712 JAMEKA M 4 Ciaron Maher 55.5kg
23 53x110x224 THAMES COURT M 4 David Brideoake 55.5kg
24 5x13x142 DIVINE PROPHET C 3 Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes 49.5kg
25 216x161x1 SACRED ELIXIR (NZ) G 3 Tony Pike 49.5kg
26 1216×454 SEABURGE C 3 David & B Hayes & T Dabernig 49.5kg
27 1×16 SWEAR C 3 Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes 49.5kg
28 139x1x66 MISSROCK F 3 Robbie Laing 47.5kg
29 11x21x62 YANKEE ROSE F 3 David Vandyke 47.5kg

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