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Annavisto | Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos | Races.com.au

Annavisto Heads 2023 Coolmore Classic Field & Betting Markets

Lucy Henderson March 10, 2023

Annavisto Heads 2023 Coolmore Classic Field & Betting Markets

The money continues to roll in for the Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr-trained Annavisto to win the 2023 Coolmore Classic in Sydney on Saturday despite the favourite’s wide draw.

Annavisto | Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos | Races.com.au

Annavisto is favourite to win the 2023 Coolmore Classic in Sydney on Saturday. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

The field for this year’s Group 1 $600,000 Coolmore Classic (1500m) is down to 16 with the early withdrawal of Excelida (18) and Zougotcha (14).

Excelida will instead contest an easier assignment at Flemington in the Group 3 Matron Stakes (1600m) on Newmarket Handicap Day.

Zougotcha remains in Sydney but instead sticks to her own age taking on the boys in the Group 2 Phar Lap Stakes (1500m) earlier on the card.

Updated Coolmore Classic odds online at Ladbrokes.com.au have firmed on Annavisto to make it two-from-two this campaign.

The five-year-old Reliable Man mare is into $5.50 after her big 3.5 length return at Flemington on February 18 winning the Group 3 Frances Tressady Stakes (1400m) for the second time.

Her latest Sydney run was in April last year when runner-up to Nimalee on a Heavy (10) Randwick track in the Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m).

She had been off the scene for eight months prior to her runaway effort fresh in Melbourne and is now tipped to build on that rising back up in grade for the Coolmore.

Annavisto has work to do however drawing out in gate 16 (into 15) with Nash Rawiller to ride.

The dangers occupying the equal second line of Coolmore Classic betting at $7.50 each are Hinged in gate 12 from the Chris Waller stable and the Kerry Parker-trained Hope In Your Heart drawn well in barrier nine for Tim Clark jockey.

Premier hoop James McDonald partners Hinged third-up with the four-year-old daughter of Worthy Cause looking to break a notable winning drought.

She hasn’t won since taking out last year’s Group 1 Surround Stakes (1400m) over 12 months ago, but has been a perennial Group 1 place-getter since.

Hinged was runner-up in last year’s Coolmore Classic behind Lighthouse and second also to her stablemate Fangirl in the Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes (1850m), held in 2022 at Newcastle, before a brave fourth in the Group 1 ATC Oaks (2400m) run in the mud.

Her spring was equally as strong with Group 3s in the George Main and Epsom Handicap results, before things went amiss in Melbourne.

This prep she kicked off when second to Godolphin hero Anamoe in the Group 2 Apollo Stakes (1400m), and she was last seen running a mid-field sixth to the same horse in the Group 1 Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m) ahead of a somewhat easier assignment in the Coolmore.

One-time favourite Hope In Your Heart is now out to a backable price and looks a genuine winning chance on the back of an impressive first-up win in Randwick’s Group 2 Guy Walter Stakes (1400m) from the Dundeel four-year-old.

She brings in some excellent Sydney form lines from last campaign having run fourth to one of Saturday’s Newmarket Handicap favourites, I Wish I Win, in the $10 million Golden Eagle before a second in The Gong over the Kembla Grange mile.

In a wide-open market a further three female gallopers are also at single-figures to win with lightly-raced Tavistock filly Ruthless Dame ($8) from the Maher/Eustace stable coming off a devastatingly close Group 1 Surround Stakes second, the Waller-trained last start Group 3 Mannerism Stakes winner in Melbourne Espiona ($9) and Team Hawkes’ market mover Yearning ($15 into $9.50) who hasn’t won a race since the 2021 Thousand Guineas.

The Coolmore Classic 2023 is set to run as Rosehill Race 8 at 4:40pm (AEDT) with full markets thanks to Ladbrokes.com.au available by clicking here.

2023 Coolmore Classic Final Field & Barrier Draw

No Last 10 Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight Probable Weight Penalty Hcp Rating
1 4x53358x26 HINGED Chris Waller James McDonald 12 57kg 110
2 53x142x0x1 ANNAVISTO (NZ) Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr) Nash Rawiller 16 56kg 108
3 0x811142x1 HOPE IN YOUR HEART Kerry Parker Tim Clark 9 56kg 108
4 x211210xL3 MUSTANG VALLEY (NZ) Andrew Forsman Chad Schofield 11 55kg 106
5 125x111x4 ZOUGOTCHA Chris Waller Kerrin McEvoy 14 54kg 105
6 268x9722x6 MIRRA VISION Peter & Paul Snowden Tom Sherry 3 54kg 104
7 13x6155x6x PURPLEPAY (FR) William Haggas Regan Bayliss 5 53.5kg 103
8 159x9707x2 EXPAT (NZ) Mark Newnham Tyler Schiller (a) 1 53kg 102
9 11×32 RUTHLESS DAME (NZ) Ciaron Maher & David Eustace Dylan Gibbons (a) 10 52.5kg 102
10 0311x81x78 SHEEZA BELTER Peter & Paul Snowden William Pike 7 52.5kg 102
11 33x5163x73 EXCELIDA Ben & JD Hayes Brett Prebble 18 52.5kg 53kg 101
12 x332631x02 LARKSPUR RUN James Cummings Ms Rachel King 17 52kg 100
13 x356x370x5 YEARNING Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes Zac Lloyd (a) 8 52kg 100
14 381x640x61 ESPIONA Chris Waller Michael Dee 6 51kg 98
15 32x7307x1x TIMES SQUARE (FR) Ciaron Maher & David Eustace Jay Ford 13 51kg 98
16 98x8649x44 MORE PROPHETS John Thompson Brock Ryan 15 51kg 92
17 191x112x2 TOREGENE (NZ) Matthew Williams Dean Yendall 4 51kg 91
18 50x71537x4 PRIDE OF JENNI Ciaron Maher & David Eustace Robbie Dolan 2 51kg 90

Table Credit: Racing Australia. 

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