This Saturday January 23 Rosehill Gardens will run their next race meeting, the prestigious Racing Rewards Inglis Classic Race Day.
The major drawcard of the day is the $250 000 Inglis Classic (1200m), which is restricted to two year old horses purchased at the Inglis Classic sale last year, and has a field of ten impressive youngsters ready to make their mark.
Only two fillies are contesting the event, Chance Bye and Boomshakalaka. The Marc Conners-trained Boomshakalaka has drawn the coveted barrier one and will be ridden by Tye Angland.
But it is Chance Bye, drawn wide with the far outside barrier ten that has been named as the one to beat. Trained by Michael Tubman, the undefeated daughter of Snitzel is coming off a thrilling win in the Inglis Nursery (1000m) at Randwick and has been installed as the odds-on favourite for Saturday.
She is sure to face some formidable competition as the high calibre of rivals includes the Grahame Begg-trained Ilovethiscity (br. 6) due to be ridden by star hoop Nash Rawiller, and Rick Worthington’s Third Man, drawn ideally in barrier two.
Third Man is by the same thriving first season sire as the warm favourite Chance Bye, Snitzel.
The Mark de Montfort-trained Travaldo has finally had some success with the barrier draw, the young gelding jumping from barrier four. Travaldo has drawn poorly in the majority of his starts, but on Saturday with Mitchell Bell aboard he will be making the most of his natural gate speed and hopefully find a forward position early on.
The Racing NSW Rewards Club Inglis Classic is scheduled to run as race five at the meeting’s cracker eight-event programme and will jump at 3:50pm (NSW time).
2010 Inglis Classic Final Field & Preview:
# |
Horse |
Trainer |
Jockey |
Br. |
Weight (kg) |
| 1 |
TRAVALDO |
Mark de Montfort | Mitchell Bell | 4 | 56.5 |
| 2 |
ILOVETHISCITY |
Grahame Begg | Nash Rawiller | 6 | 56.5 |
| 3 |
TESTARHYTHM |
Kris Lees | Jim Cassidy | 5 | 56.5 |
| 4 |
THIRD MAN |
Rick Worthington | Tommy Berry | 2 | 56.5 |
| 5 |
INADEQUATE |
John P Thompson | Peter Robl | 8 | 56.5 |
| 6 |
GALLANT SPUR |
Kevin Moses | Tim Clark | 9 | 56.5 |
| 7 |
SPOT THE ROCK |
Tim Martin | Corey Brown | 3 | 56.5 |
| 8 |
CELESTIAL CHARGER |
Tony Crane | Glyn Schofield | 7 | 56.5 |
| 9 |
CHANCE BYE |
Michael Tubman | Kathy O’Hara | 10 | 54.5 |
| 10 |
BOOMSHAKALAKA |
Marc Conners | Tye Angland | 1 | 54.5 |
