{"id":11323,"date":"2016-02-25T01:28:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T01:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bb-auae-prd-ext-blog-01.azurewebsites.net\/more\/g1-futurity-stakes-and-g1-oakleigh-plate-preview-caulfield\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T09:53:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:53:04","slug":"group-1-futurity-stakes-and-oakleigh-plate-preview-caulfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/horse-racing\/group-1-futurity-stakes-and-oakleigh-plate-preview-caulfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Group 1 Futurity Stakes and Oakleigh Plate Preview &#8211; Caulfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The scene is set for Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes day with two stellar Group 1 races in the Oakleigh Plate and Futurity Stakes playing support to Victoria\u2019s premier juvenile race.<\/p>\n<p>A full field of 18 will line up in the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate providing plenty of value for punters. The Hayes &amp;amp; Dabernig trained Keen Array has opened $4.20 favourite at BlueBet with progressive 3-year-old filly, Heatherly ($4.80) and the Snowden-trained mare, Bounding ($6), third in line in betting.<\/p>\n<p>Trainer Robert Smerdon is gunning for back-to-back victories in the race following the win of Shamal Wind in the race last year. He saddles up Reldas and Atmospherical in the year\u2019s edition.<\/p>\n<p>In the $500,000 Group 1 Futurity Stakes, eight of the eleven starters have won Group 1 races in the past. Nigel Blackiston trained mare Suavito will be aiming for back-to-back Group 1 victories following her slashing win the CF Orr Stakes a fortnight ago. She\u2019s the currently the $6 second pick.<\/p>\n<p>Kiwi-trained Turn Me Loose heads the betting at $2.90 and will no doubt be out to atone his last start defeat in the CF Orr. The South Australian Hucklebuck ($6.50) came from well back in the field to run an eye catching 3rd in the same race and should be well supported after drawing barrier 4 for this week\u2019s feature.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the Group 1 CF Orr Stakes run and won by Suavito a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yHU-Up1deXw\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The scene is set for Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes day with two stellar Group 1 races in the Oakleigh Plate and Futurity Stakes playing support to Victoria\u2019s premier juvenile race. A full field of 18 will line up in the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate providing plenty of value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horse-racing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15413,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions\/15413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}