Wide draw for favourite in G1 Goodwood

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 11:17am

A capacity field of 20 will contest South Australia's premier sprint race, The Goodwood at Morphettville.

Topweight, and favourite, Vega Magic will on Saturday attempt to become the first horse since Musket Belle in 1911/12 to win the race in successive years.

In victory last year Vega Magic became the first horse to win the race first-up and he will be attempting to do the same 12 months later.

He will carry 59kg, 2.5kg more than last year and has barrier 14 after jumping from gate six in 2017.

After Tuesday's barrier draw Vega Magic remained the solid $2.60 favourite for the $1 million Group One sprint in which he will be ridden by Damien Oliver.

After being a late scratching from last week's Doomben 10,000 after striking his head when being saddled, stablemate Thronum has been flown to Adelaide to take his place.

He has drawn barrier seven and has firmed from $26 into $13.

Champion trainer Darren Weir will saddle three runners as he attempts to replicate Black Heart Bart's win in 2016.

He has Voodoo Lad (barrier 1), Stellar Collision (17) and Handsome Thief (12) engaged.

Melbourne mares Missrock and Secret Agenda, second and fourth respectively behind Vega Magic last year, are back again with Secret Agenda a $10 chance and Missrock quoted at $26.

– AAP

Latest News

Prime Thoroughbreds - We have a Host of Leaders in our Team

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Prime Thor­ough­bred’s cur­rent rac­ing team is putt­ing to­gether quite a re­cord. We have 22 hors­es that have raced in our team at pre­sent. Six­teen of th­ese are win­n­ers in­clud­ing the Stakes win­n­ing trio Ru­bisa­ki, Fituese and Xtreme­time with Miss Di­vine Em and Miss In Charge run­n­ing 4th in Stakes races. This sees a stakes win­n­er to win­n­er ra­tio of 18.75% with a stake’s per­formed to win­n­er ra­tio of 31.25%. Th­ese are ex­cep­tio­n­al fig­ures.   More »

Freedmans land maiden Group One win

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Un­der-rat­ed fil­ly For­bid­den Love has emerged as an au­tumn car­ni­val smokey with a bril­liant per­for­mance to win the Sur­round Stakes at Rand­wick.  More »

Capriccio completes Damian Lane treble

Saturday, 27 February 2021

In a big day for coun­try-trained hors­es, War­r­nam­bool fil­ly Capric­cio has tak­en out the In­glis Dash for Daniel Bow­man.  More »

More news headlines »