Seville Plans; Streama Spells; Dundeel Update; Hay List Decision; Travel Injury; Waller Worries; Lidari Injury; Commanding Jewel
* ATC Metropolitan winner Seville will take the Cox Plate route to the Melbourne Cup at Flemington on November 6.
Owner Lloyd Williams is a great fan of the Cox Plate as a key lead-up race to the Melbourne Cup. He has used it successfully as the prep race for his Cup winners Efficient and Green Moon.
Craven Plate runner-up Masked Marvel will also return to Melbourne with Williams yet to decide if he runs next in the Caulfield Cup on October 19 o or is also saved for the Cox Plate at Moonee Valley on October 26.
Sydney Cup winner Mourayan will have his next start in the Moonee Valley Cup after finishing eighth behind Seville in the Metropolitan at Randwick on Saturday.
* GUY Walter is sending his top mare Streama for a spell after her nose defeat in the Epsom Handicap but third placegetter Toydini will press on to Melbourne.
Toydini wil target the big mile races at Moonee Valey (Crystal Mile) and Flemington (Emirates Stakes).
Gai Waterhouse is also sending Epsom plunge horse Ecuador for a spell.
* The Murray Baker stable is upbeat about the recovery of It’s A Dundeel from a foot abscess that threatens to upset his spring program.
The participation of the last start Underwood Stakes winner in next Saturday’s Cauldfield Stakes is in doubt due to the foot issue.
The abscess had been under treatment since Thursday and burst when the Kiwi was exercising on Saturday morning.
"We're poulticing it and trying to get it right but it's a day-by-day thing,” said Baker's stable representative Emily Murphy.
“We want to get him 100 per cent before we press on with anything. It's just in the foot which is treatable. I'm pretty positive about it.”
* THE owners of jaded sprinter Hay List will decide on Sunday if the gelding is to be retired following his failure in the Saturday’s Premiere Stakes at Randwick.
A post-race veterinary examination of Hay List revealed the gelding to be displaying an intermittent respiratory noise.
Trainer John McNair has told the owners Hay List he would not be the trainer is they decided to keep the eight-year-old racing.
Stewards have asked McNair to advise them of the owner’s decision on their future plans for the multiple G1 winner.
"The owners are coming to talk about it but I have told them we don't think it is worth the risk going on," McNair said. "If they want to continue it won't be with us."
* PLANS to start Sydney three-year-old Aussies Love Sport in next Saturday’s Caulfield Guineas hinge on his recovery from an injury on the float while travelling to Melbourne on Friday.
Aussies Love Sport sustained a laceration to his near hind leg while being transported to Melbourne and will be checked by Racing Victoria vets
Waterhouse hopes to have two starters in the Guineas with Stutt Stakes winner Divine Calling a definite runner withb the mount open to Nash Rawiller.
* IT wasn’t all beer and skittles for champion trainer Chris Waller at Randwick on Saturday when he won three races including his first Epsom Handicap.
The spring program of classy stayer Kelinni is under a cloud and he lost another good stayer Lucripetous in tragic circumstances after he broke down in the ATC Metroplitan.
Stewards questioned Waller and jockey Glyn Schofield after Kelinni struggled behind Honorious in the Craven Plate, his first start for a month after a recent colic attack. A vet examination found Kelinni had sustained a cut to the off hind pastern.
Waller suggested Kelinni may have been flattened by the amount of work the gelding has been given and undertook to have the stayer scoped and report back to stewards.
Jim Cassidy was dislodged when Lucripetous broke down badly in the off foreleg 1200m from the finish of the Metropolitan.
Lucripetous sustained a fractured humerus and had to be euthanased.
* THE Peter Moody-trained import Lidari had to be scratched from the Epsom Handicap when he suffered a cut leg when he straddled a fence at Randwick on Saturday morning that required stitches.
Moody also reported that Strawberry Boy was still in work despite pulling up sore over the hind quarters and in the hocks after he raced at Caulfield on September 29.
* LAST spring’s Thousand Guineas winner Commanding Jewel has a muscle strain in her upper near hind leg that will require at least four weeks rest and probably rules her out of the rest of the spring carnival.
Commanding Jewel, a three-quarter sister to Atlantic Jewel, underwent tests at the Werribee Vet Clinic where scans found she had 'tweaked' a muscle that forced her to miss last Sunday’s G1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield.
Commanding Jewel came back to her best at her last start when she won the G2 Let's Elope Stakes second-up after almost a year off as the result of a joint injury.
