WODONGA and District Turf Club has attracted a competitive field for tomorrow’s Wodonga Gold Cup after some of Melbourne’s biggest stables accepted for the $80,000 feature yesterday.
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Leading Melbourne trainers Mick Price, Mike Moroney, Mick Cerchi, alongside the training partnerships of David Hayes and Tom Dabernig and Leon and Troy Corstens, will all have starters.
But the Melbourne raiders will face some handy local talent with Brian Cox, Brett Cavanough and Sylvia Thompson flying the flag for Border trainers.
Cox has four runners in Minnie Downs, Full Hand, Smoken Cash and Grassini as he shoots for an amazing 11th win in his hometown feature.
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Cavanough will saddle up Prince Pedro and Price Of Glory as the rival trainers have almost half the runners in the final field of 13.
Picking the winner looks a nightmare for punters, with the Moroney-trained Saint Or Sinner the early pre-post favourite at $4.50 in TAB fixed-odds markets.
“Saint or Sinner is a deserving favourite after winning at Flemington during the carnival and is the class horse,” TAB’s Matt Jenkins said yesterday.
“Spacecraft is on the quick back-up and was crunched in betting before finishing third in the Sandown Stakes.
“Betting may again tell the story.”
The Cerchi-trained Sadaqa is on the second line at $5.50, from Sweet As Bro ($6.50) and Spacecraft ($7).
The Thompson-trained Allelu is considered the best local hope at $7.50, narrowly ahead of Cox’s Minnie Downs ($8.50), who drops significantly in grade after racing in group 2 and group 3 company at her past three starts.
Last year’s winner, Stratigraphy, is given only an outside chance of going back-to-back in the Wodonga feature and is quoted as a $13 chance.
