This Saturday January 16th the esteemed Rosehill Gardens will host their next race meeting. The day will feature eight fantastic races, the highlight event of the meeting being the $100 000 Listed Schweppes Frank Underwood Cup (2000m).
Gaining much attention is five-year-old Rainbow Styling trained by the Hawkes team including Hall Of Fame inductee John Hawkes, the Zabeel gelding is attempting his third successive victory. Rainbow Styling has drawn wide with barrier nine in the ten-horse field but is still highly fancied to take out the Frank Underwood after his solid last start win in the Listed Tattersalls Cup over the same 2000m distance.
Rainbow Styling will be ridden by Jim Cassidy, who partnered the horse for his Tattersalls Cup victory and is back from suspension just in time for Saturday.
The Anthony Cummings-trained Adelaide Cup winner Zavite has been allocated the heaviest weight of 59kg, the seven-year-old due to be ridden by heavyweight hoop Glyn Schofield from barrier five.
Starting on the inside of Zavite is Rabbuka, trained by Gai Waterhouse and ridden on Saturday by Nash Rawiller.
Meanwhile the Peter Snowden’s ever consistent Spinney has secured barrier one.
The Listed Frank Underwood Cup is scheduled as race six on Saturday.
Rosehill Gardens Race Programme – Saturday January 16, 2010:
Race # |
Race Name |
Distance |
Stakes |
Conditions |
| 1 | SPRING VALLEY SMART ENERGY HCP | 1100m | $70 000 | 2YO C&G |
| 2 | SCHWEPPES SPARKLING MINERAL WATER HCP | 1100m | $70 000 | 2YO F |
| 3 | SCHWEPPERVESCENCE HANDICAP | 1400m | $70 000 | 3YO |
| 4 | AGRUM COLLECTION HANDICAP | 1500m | $70 000 | 3YO&Up F&M |
| 5 | SPRING VALLEY SMART WATER HCP | 1500m | $70 000 | 3YO&Up |
| 6 | LISTED SCHWEPPES FRANK UNDERWOOD CUP | 2000m | $100 000 | 3YO&UP Quality |
| 7 | SOLO STRING HANDICAP | 1200m | $70 000 | 3YO&Up |
| 8 | COOL RIDGE HANDICAP | 1800m | $70 000 | 3YO&Up |
2010 Schweppes Frank Underwood Cup Final Field & Barrier Draw:
# |
Horse |
Trainer |
Jockey |
Barrier |
Weight (kg) |
| 1 |
ZAVITE |
Anthony Cummings | Glyn Schofield | 5 | 59 |
| 2 |
RABBUKA |
Gai Waterhouse | Nash Rawiller | 4 | 57.5 |
| 3 |
SPINNEY |
Peter Snowden | - | 1 | 56 |
| 4 |
RAINBOW STYLING (NZ) |
M, W & J Hawkes | Jim Cassidy | 9 | 55.5 |
| 5 |
THEOPHORUS |
Gary Nickson | Hugh Bowman | 7 | 54.5 |
| 6 |
HAIRY |
Gary Portelli | Corey Brown | 6 | 53 |
| 7 |
DELAGO STAR |
Kim Waugh | Jay Ford | 10 | 53 |
| 8 |
DELTONA |
Kevin Moses | Tim Clark | 2 | 53 |
| 9 |
WALK IN THE PARK (NZ) |
Andrew Scott | Tye Angland | 3 | 53 |
| 10 |
PREDOMINANCE |
Nick Olive | - | 8 | 53 |
