It certainly hasn’t attracted the hype of its Victorian counterpart in 2020, but a strong edition of the Group 1 Randwick Guineas will be run and won on Saturday.
The early scratching of Super Seth has blown the Randwick Guineas wide open from a betting perspective and there is now a case to be made for plenty.
I give several runners a real shot and you can find my 2020 Randwick Guineas tips below.
Suggested Bets
- 2 Units straight out #1 Castelvecchio
- Boxed Trifecta of the selections below
Castelvecchio is a Group 1 winner at this track and trip and is sure to enjoy sharp improvement from his first-up run in the Hobartville a couple of weeks ago. Another progeny of Dundeel, Castelvecchio stamped himself as a horse to follow when he stormed home to win the Inglis Millennium last autumn and has only continued to improve with racing and as the bar has been raised. If not for a genuine world class star, he would have won the Cox Plate in the spring and that is the kind of form I want to be following into a race for three-year-olds.
Mark Newnham is absolutely flying, and Shadow Hero could be the best horse currently at his disposal. The Pierro gelding enjoyed a meteoric rise to prominence in 2019, culminating in a maiden Group 1 win in the Spring Champion Stakes. He hit the line well when fifth in the Hobartville first-up and is another horse that will relish getting out to a mile on Saturday. There’s absolutely no doubt that he is up to winning the Randwick Guineas, but I think that he’ll take further improvement from this run and will give a race like the Rosehill Guineas a serious shake in a fortnight.
It completes a pretty obvious Randwick Guineas first four, but Microphone is an outstanding racehorse and even out to the mile for the first time, I can’t find a reason why he won’t be in the finish again. The Exceed And Excel colt was a star during his two-year-old campaign, failing to finish worse than second in six starts and winning the Group 1 Sires’. His first-up win in the Autumn Stakes this time could hardly have been more impressive and he’ll be ready to peak third-up on Saturday.