2017 Hawkesbury Gold Cup Field & Barrier Draw

A talented and capacity field of sixteen runners plus two emergencies has been confirmed for Saturday’s featured Group 3 Hawkesbury Gold Cup (1600m); highlighted by the inclusion of several previous black type winners and some of the Autumn Carnival’s standout performers.

Mighty Lucky will carry topweight in Saturday’s Group 3 Hawkesbury Gold Cup. Photo: Daniel Costello

Second in last year’s edition of the Hawkesbury Gold Cup, Mighty Lucky has been charged with overcoming a race-high 59kgs and will require luck in running after drawing into the field in barrier 13.

Posting a career total of nine wins and fourteen minors through forty-six starts, Mighty Lucky resumed last year for a smart win in the Royal Randwick BM100 (1400m) a fortnight prior to the Hawkesbury Gold Cup.

Having progressed to sixth in the Listed Scone Cup (1600m), the son of Casino Prince capped his preparation with a smart win in the Group 3 Lord Mayor’s Cup (1615m) in Brisbane.

While failing to make much of an impact through four starts in spring, Mighty Lucky is sure to have taken benefit from a first-up run for fifth in the Group 3 Hall Mark Stakes (1200m) and will be partnered by regular hoop Chris O’Brien on Saturday.

Godolphin will launch a strong a multiple-pronged attack in the feature race after John O’Shea confirmed four runners in the Hawkesbury Gold Cup field, including Havana Cooler and Spectroscope.

Kept to light duties in 2016, Havana Cooler resumed for a smart win in the Group 3 Doncaster Prelude (1500m) before placing third in each of the Group 3 JRA Plate (2000m), Listed Lord Mayors Cup (2000m) and Listed McKell Cup (2400m).

Spectroscope has made only three starts in Australia so far, but is more than up to the class of the 2017 Hawkesbury Gold Cup field and should prove extremely tough to beat.

Delivering a smart field a comfortable defeat in the Schweppes BM89 (1350m) on March 11^th, the son of Medaglia D’Oro repeated the effort in the Doncaster Prelude, but got too far back to make anything of an impact in the Group 1 Doncaster Mile (1600m) last time out.

Chris Waller has confirmed three representatives in the Hawkesbury Gold Cup field, including Vanbrugh.

A Group 1 winner having taken out the 2015 edition of the Spring Champion Stakes (2000m), Vanbrugh produced a number of strong results between lacklustre runs in 2016, but won the Group 3 Coongy Cup (2000m) most notably on October 15^th.

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2017 Hawkesbury Gold Cup Final Field and Barrier Draw

No	Last 10	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Hcp Rating
1	261x7060x5	MIGHTY LUCKY	Fred Cowell	Chris O’Brien	13	59kg	105
2	x8390190x8	FAMOUS SEAMUS (NZ)	Noel Mayfield-Smith	Jay Ford	14	58kg	103
3	0633x1333x	HAVANA COOLER (IRE)	John O’Shea	Joshua Parr	4	58kg	103
4	9x549169x6	VANBRUGH	Chris Waller	Hugh Bowman	9	58kg	103
5	x1410110x0	FABRIZIO	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Jason Collett	1	56.5kg	100
6	x13433x110	SPECTROSCOPE (USA)	John O’Shea	Brenton Avdulla	5	56.5kg	100
7	1782×16330	TESTASHADOW	Gary Portelli	Ms Deanne Panya (a)	7	56.5kg	100
8	1223x460x4	PAJARO (NZ)	Peter & Paul Snowden	Blake Shinn	11	56kg	99
9	4132x70x30	MARENOSTRO (NZ)	Chris Waller	Tye Angland	16	55.5kg	98
10	4740x0080x	AUVRAY (FR)	Richard Freedman	Grant Buckley	8	54kg	95
11	65x782675x	BEYOND THANKFUL (IRE)	Chris Waller	Christian Reith	6	54kg	95
12	x046741x09	JESSY BELLE	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Corey Brown	15	53.5kg	98
13	1x821141x8	MOHER	John O’Shea	Kerrin McEvoy	2	53kg	92
14	x9x39906x5	RULING DYNASTY	James Cummings	Ms Kathy O’Hara	10	53kg	92
15	0013x70x31	KELLYVILLE FLYER	Jason Attard	–	18	53kg	91
16	41x52493x2	DUCA VALENTINOIS (IRE)	John O’Shea	Tommy Berry	17	53kg	87
17e	1139366×9	BELIEVE	Anthony & Edward Cummings	–	3	53kg	85
18e	0x2231824x	REIBY THE RED	Jason Attard	–	12	53kg	74