2021 Kennedy Oaks Field & Betting Markets Wide-Open

November 2, 2021

2021 Kennedy Oaks Field & Betting Markets Wide-Open

After the 161st Melbourne Cup has been run and won at Flemington on Tuesday, attention turns to Thursday’s 2021 Kennedy Oaks where a wide-open field of fillies face off in Day 3 of the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

Willowy (Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos) | Races.com.au

Wakeful Stakes winner Willowy backs-up in Thursday’s 2021 Kennedy Oaks field. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

The Group 1 $1 million Kennedy Oaks (2500m) features 11 three-year-old staying features this season with the first four in the markets at single-figures for the win.

Currently sitting top of the Kennedy Oaks odds online at $3.80 through Ladbrokes.com.au is the Anthony & Sam Freedman-trained Elusive Express in gate eight for last year’s Melbourne Cup winning hoop Jye McNeil.

An ultra-consistent daughter of Jakkalberry, Elusive Express is bred to stay and has won her only other previous assignment at Flemington.

She won the Group 2 Edward Manifold Stakes here over a mile two back defeating Yearning before the latter turned the tables when the duo ran the quinella again in Caulfield’s Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m).

Elusive Express has been kept fresh since and, after making up late ground in the Guineas, looks well suited stepping-up in distance for her Grand Final.

Occupying the second line of Kennedy Oaks betting on the quick back-up is the James Cummings-trained Willowy ($4.40) who was brave on Derby Day taking out the Group 2 Wakeful Stakes (2000m).

The Wakeful Stakes – Kennedy Oaks double has been achieved twice in the past three years by Miami Bound (2019) and Aristia (2018), and there is money to suggest Willowy can repeat the feat this season.

Willowy is out to complete the Wakeful Stakes – Kennedy Oaks double for the third time in four years following Aristia (2018) and Miami Bound (2019)

Up notably in grade last time out, the Kermadec filly made it two wins on the trot when winning the Wakeful with McNeil aboard.

Master hoop Damien Oliver, who celebrated a Group 1 mile double in the Empire Rose Stakes – Kennedy Cantala on VRC Derby Day, takes over on Willowy in the Oaks from barrier two.

Oliver chases his third Kennedy Oaks victory in as many years and his fifth since 2002 having recently ridden Special Harmony (2003), Jameka (2015), Miami Bound (2019) and Personal (2020) to victory.

Following closely and also out of the traditional Oaks lead-up having run second in the Wakeful is the Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr-trained Daisies.

Drawn gate six for Thursday with in-form hoop James McDonald retaining the ride, the Sebring filly is the early Kennedy Oaks market mover backed in from $6 to $4.80 to return to winning form.

Two back she won the Group 3 Ethereal Stakes (2000m) on Caulfield Cup Day before being narrowly denied when a half-length second in the Wakeful.

She is one who prefers the give out of the track, so the predicted post-Melbourne Cup Day rain in Melbourne should see Daises get conditions to suit.

The last of the hopes under $10 for the win Biscayne Bay ($7) representing one of the season’s leading stables, Ciaron Maher & David Eustace.

Co-trainer Maher enjoyed back-to-back VRC Oaks wins with Set Square (2014) and Jameka (2015).

He is after his first in partnership with Eustace this weekend and Hugh Bowman, who won on Set Square for Maher, partnering last start Ethereal Stakes third placed Biscayne Bay.

The value meanwhile could like in Ethereal Stakes runner-up Glint Of Hope ($11), the Deep Impact filly drawn the rails as she looks to break her maiden status having finished eight second or third in all four of her career starts to date.

The Kennedy Oaks 2021 is set to run as Flemington Race 8 at 5:10pm (AEDT) on Thursday’s card with full markets courtesy of Ladbrokes.com.au available here.

2021 Kennedy Oaks Field & Barriers

No Last 10 Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight Penalty Hcp Rating
1 1×2312 ELUSIVE EXPRESS (NZ) Anthony & Sam Freedman Jye McNeil 8 56kg 95
2 35211 WILLOWY James Cummings Damien Oliver 2 56kg 92
3 45612 DAISIES Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr) James McDonald 6 56kg 88
4 5121×783 BISCAYNE BAY Ciaron Maher & David Eustace Hugh Bowman 3 56kg 75
5 9x521x80 GONNADANCEALOT Robbie Griffiths & Mathew de Kock Dean Yendall 4 56kg 65
6 1×6712763 DOUCEUR Patrick Payne Michael Dee 11 56kg 78
7 2332 GLINT OF HOPE (JPN) Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young Nash Rawiller 1 56kg 76
8 824×43356 TIZ MY BAY Robbie Griffiths & Mathew de Kock Luke Currie 5 56kg 63
9 4×52259 BLACKCOMB Danny O’Brien Damian Lane 10 56kg 64
10 74641 FABIOLA Ken & Kasey Keys Craig Newitt 7 56kg 61
11 43×444 MORRISSETTE Simon Ryan Declan Bates 9 56kg 63

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

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