Jye McNeil\/Ciaron Maher & David Eustace (Barrier 5)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\nThe lone 3-year-old of the field, Grandslam certainly brings an interesting dimension to this year\u2019s Cox Plate. The full brother to Caulfield Cup winner Jameka, Grandslam was last seen running a very brave third in the Caulfeild Guineas where he rolled along in front at a brutal tempo (almost 16 lengths faster than benchmark to the 600m). Loved his fight there which signals a step to 2000m won\u2019t pose any problems. First go on rain affected tracks is a query but you would think Jye McNeil would attempt to roll along in front here with the light weight Shamus Award\/So You Think style and turn it into a catch me if you can scenario. 3-year-olds have a very strong record in the race and with that positive racing pattern, he has to be somewhat of a hope but there\u2019s no way I could take $21 about him especially coming off a $61 SP in the Guineas. That was an incredibly taxing run so how he bounces through it will be interesting to note from a mounting yard perspective. Certainly can\u2019t doubt the camp but not for me.<\/p>\n
PICKS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n- RUSSIAN CAMELOT<\/li>\n
- ASPETAR<\/li>\n
- ARMORY<\/li>\n
- ARCADIA QUEEN<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Absolutely lottery of a Cox Plate this year with the weather to have a big say on the final market but sticking fat with Russian Camelot. Think he peaks here 4th up off a very strong campaign. Simply unsuited by the race shape last start. Think he\u2019ll relish a fast run race and whereas a few others may be disadvantaged by any cut in the ground, he should relish it. Don\u2019t think the wide draw will be an issue by this stage of the day and we get the services of Damien Oliver for Danny O\u2019Brien. Happy to be with him. Aspetar is the international that interests me the most off two very strong runs this time in, the latest in the G2 York Stakes where he put away a good field with ease. The form around him stacks up and with a positive map and rider, he simply looks over the odds. Armory\u2019s no doubt the one I\u2019m most scared of. Brings a huge last start run into Saturday that if he could replicate would just about see him too good. Just whether or not the track is too wet for him will be the question. Same goes for Arcadia Queen.<\/p>\n
Backing Russian Camelot & Aspetar<\/em>.<\/p>\nGood luck punters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
COX PLATE 2020 RUNNER BY RUNNER PREVIEW MOONEE VALLEY RACE 9 \u2013 16:15 AEDT 3YO+ OPEN 2040m AUD $5,000,000 Good4 Rail True Entire # Form Horse Trainer Jockey (barrier) Weight (kg) Current Price 1 x0211 KOLDING C WALLER J B MC DONALD (10) 59 $13 2 5×123 HUMIDOR C WALLER […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horse-racing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447","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=12447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16537,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12447\/revisions\/16537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prdextblog01.bluebet.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}