Saturday Speed Clash
The world’s three highest-rated sprinters threaten to scare off rivals and produce the smallest field in 141 years of the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on Saturday
9th March 2015
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The world’s three highest-rated sprinters threaten to scare off rivals and produce the smallest field in 141 years of the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on Saturday
To win the Newmarket Lankan Rupee will have to be probably be better than before and the signs were there on Saturday that he may be
The economies of scale may differ, but do the Aussies make our Equus selection look pedestrian? They have an electorate of 60 – the chief handicappers from the nation’s race clubs were augmented by selected members of the racing media
A second straight defeat for Lankan Rupee has taken the gloss of his rating as the world’s best sprinter, a title that does not sit well with some of his rivals
“Even though you geld a horse, it doesn’t improve them close to the 10 lengths I would say he has improved. He’s touted the best sprinter in the world, which I think he is and I think he will show that tonight”
That will blow the cobwebs out, if ever he was going to beaten, this was the day. But it still sucks.
Labelled the new generation Black Caviar, the world’s top-rated sprinter Lankan Rupee returns to action on Saturday.”I’ll be pretty smashed up if he doesn’t perform right up to his best. I think he’ll win,” says his trainer
Alan Greeff’s recent Eastern Cape ‘Triple Crown’ star My Best Shot and the Lucky Houdalakis galloper Musical Score, a 3yo son of Oratorio, and a winner of his last two starts, are the two newbies
