Subpoenaed typically races well fresh and she can fight out the finish of the Millie Fox Stakes.
The four-year-old daughter of Rip Van Winkle was a typically good horse during her spring campaign and won the Group 2 Golden Pendant here most notably.
She has had the benefit of a couple of trials and should be able to navigate to a nice position in transit from barrier 6 under Hugh Bowman.
Young Werther was a bit luckless, but he also clearly needed the run when resuming in the Autumn Stakes two weeks ago, and I think he’ll take plenty of beating in the Autumn Classic.
The Tavistock gelding enjoyed a meteoric rise to prominence in the spring, winning in dominant fashion on debut at Geelong before finishing a luckless second in the Listed Super Impose Stakes and ending his prep third in the Derby.
The rise in trip is obviously ideal, he strips fitter and I simply cannot wait to see him in action.
A quality list of stayers has been taken for the Parramatta Cup, but Sacramento has returned to the races in outstanding form and he harbours a fitness edge over the majority of his key rivals.
Sacramento stripped fitter for a decent first-up effort for third behind Amica when resuming on Boxing Day and he simply hasn’t looked back, winning each of his two subsequent starts in impressive fashion.
He is drawn and weight well and is my best bet of the day.
Gordon Richards has a few very handy sprinters is his care and Garner is a live chance of delivering the stable another Group 1 win in today’s Oakleigh Plate, at a big price ($18 at publish).
It’s fair to say that his career has been slightly overshadowed by that of his sprinting stablemate Gytrash, but Garner has been a strong and consistent performer since debuting, and his picked off plenty of quality races of his own.
I thought that there was a lot to like about his resuming effort for third in the Group 2 Rubiton Stakes, for which he clearly needed the run, and he’ll enjoy plenty of improvement for that effort.