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2022 Premiere Stakes Winner Lost And Running

Lost And Running Leads 2022 Nature Strip Stakes Field & Odds

Lucy Henderson October 27, 2022

Lost And Running Leads 2022 Nature Strip Stakes Field & Odds

After being scratched from the $15 million The Everest a fortnight back, Lost And Running is the well-supported favourite to atone with a consolation win in Saturday’s 2022 Nature Strip Stakes field at Rosehill.

2022 Premiere Stakes Winner Lost And Running

Lost And Running is favourite to win the 2022 Nature Strip Stakes in Sydney this weekend. Photo: Steve Hart.

Registered as the Winners Stakes and renamed annually in honour of the previous spring’s The Everest champion, this year’s $3 million Nature Strip Stakes (1300m) features a typically top-class and open field of sprinters.

The John O’Shea-trained Lost And Running was second in the event last year on the back of his The Everest fourth to Nature Strip.

The now six-year-old son of Per Incanto was on track for another good run in world’s richest turf race, subsequently won in an upset by three-year-old Giga Kick, after winning the Group 2 Premiere Stakes (1200m) in a fighting finish in early October.

He was scratched however after failing a vet inspection, but is expected to bounce back and salute for the punters from barrier five with Hugh Bowman aboard on Saturday.

Current Nature Strip Stakes odds at Ladbrokes.com.au have Lost And Running on top at $2.60, while three of his rivals are also under double-figures for the win.

Occupying the second line of Nature Strip Stakes betting at $4.20 is the rails-drawn Mazu for Peter & Paul Snowden.

He comes off an eye-catching last start third in The Everest when only a length off the winner at a big price.

The Maurice four-year-old was outstanding last preparation stringing together a picket fence of wins that included a Group 2 Arrowfield 3YO Sprint (1200m) win on a Heavy (10) at Randwick and his Group 1 Doomben 10,000 success over the same distance in Brisbane.

He is rock hard fit this weekend fourth-up and was beaten the barest of margins in his Everest lead-up behind Lost And Running in the Premiere with the benefit of that subsequent run ahead of their rematch.

The other best out of The Everest results in Saturday’s lucrative feature sprint is Joe Pride’s runner-up Private Eye at $5.50 with Brenton Avdulla to ride from the outside alley.

The Al Maher gelding has been racing in career best form his last two when winning Flemington’s Group 2 Gilgai Stakes (1200m) fresh on a firm Good (3) track by over two lengths with 60kg before his narrow defeat on Soft going in The Everest quinella.

The defending Winners Stakes winner, Eduardo, rounds out the hopes at single-figures paying $8 to become the first two-time champion of the event at its fourth running.

The veteran nine-year-old, also prepared by Pride, is out in gate 11 with Nash Rawiller riding the Rosehill track specialist (5:4-0-0) who is looking to atone for his disappointing 11th in The Everest.

Eduardo was in good form prior to that winning the Group 3 Concorde Stakes fresh on a Heavy (9) and his close fourth to Nature Strips in the Group 2 The Shorts, and he always goes to another level at Rosehill Gardens.

The Nature Strip Stakes 2022 is scheduled to run as Rosehill Race 7 at 4:00pm (AEDT) on Saturday’s big 10-race card in Sydney with full markets from Ladbrokes.com.au available here.

2022 Nature Strip Stakes Final Field & Barrier Draw  

No Last 10 Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight Probable Weight Penalty Hcp Rating
1 31x312x140 EDUARDO Joseph Pride Nash Rawiller 11 58.5kg 118
2 5x35082x12 PRIVATE EYE Joseph Pride Brenton Avdulla 12 58.5kg 115
3 x11111x523 MAZU Peter & Paul Snowden Sam Clipperton 1 58.5kg 114
4 26x579x639 MASKED CRUSADER Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes Tommy Berry 6 58.5kg 113
5 x0480032x0 KOLDING (NZ) Chris Waller Frankie Dettori 8 58.5kg 108
6 1770×70970 SHELBY SIXTYSIX Danny Williams Jason Collett 4 58.5kg 95
7 4421x10x31 LOST AND RUNNING (NZ) John O’Shea Hugh Bowman 5 57.5kg 115
8 10x103x547 KEMENTARI James Cummings Ms Jamie Kah 10 57.5kg 110
9 2450548×76 BRUTALITY Joseph Pride Regan Bayliss 9 57.5kg 97
10 4x40x73891 ROCKETING BY David Pfieffer Ms Rachel King 2 56.5kg 105
11 x11x15x133 WEONA SMARTONE (NZ) David Vandyke William Pike 7 56kg 101
12 208x0790x0 RIODINI (NZ) Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Tim Clark 3 56kg 95

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

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