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Cup Dream Alive For Shewan

Progressive stayer Shewan put himself in Melbourne Cup contention when winning today's Herbert Power Stakes at Caulfield and put some Caulfield Cup contenders out of business in the process.

The Group 2 Herbert Power Stakes was a last chance for a number of Caulfield Cups prospects to qualify but Shewan, prepared on the course by Robert Smerdon, ended those hopes with his win.

The lightly-raced gelding enjoyed a good run off the speed before putting himself into the race along with another leading fancy in Tanby.

That pair drew clear and settled down to fight the race out, with Shewan forging to the lead close to home to score a narrow win.

Tanby held second while one of the visiting stayers from the UK, Moyenne Cornich, hit the line well for third. Midnight Martini, who covered ground mid-race, battled on for fourth.

Shewan, a lightly-raced son of Blevic, was not among the third acceptances for the Caulfield Cup last week with connections believing the race had come around too soon for him.

But his win enables him to progress through the first ballot clause of the Melbourne Cup, keeping those aspirations alive.

“He is still alive in the Melbourne Cup, we'll be happy winning that,” assistant trainer Henry Dwyer said.

“We thought it would all come a bit quick, the Caulfield Cup, he probably wasn't going to get there unless he won this race and the Melbourne Cup would probably fit him better but that's still a long way off as well.”

“If anything, the horse will be six months time away. He is an autumn, spring next year horse. It's not a fait accompli that he'll go to the Melbourne Cup, we'll just give him a run between then, something like the Saab (Lexus Quality on Derby Day) and if he comes through it well we'll obviously go to it but he's still progressing and maturing and we'll just play it by ear.”

Shewan, who currently has just 50kg, has shortened to $41.00 for the Melbourne Cup with TAB Sportsbet, where Lion Tamer is the $9.00 favourite.


Racing and Sports

Caulfield Saturday, 08th October 2011

1m3f205y TURF DEAD
AUD $201,000

Sportingbet Herbert Power Stks (G2)

AUD $201,000
Type: OPEN
1m3f205y TURF DEAD
FP Horse, Age & Sex
Sire & Dam
Jockey
Trainer
SP
WT
1st 13. TANBY (AUS) 5yo G
GALILEO (IRE) - DANE BELLTAR (AUS)
NICHOLAS HALL
ROBERT HICKMOTT
$5
54.5kg
Mrs M M Ruff, Mrs B M C Rooney, P G Rooney, D Hawke, Mrs L Hawke & Bulla Thoroughbreds Pty Ltd (Mgr: M E Ruff)

Sales Information

2nd 2. MOYENNE CORNICHE (GB) 6yo G
SELKIRK (USA) - MISS CORNICHE (GB)
MARK ZAHRA
BRIAN ELLISON
$26
57kg
D Gilbert & M Lawrence

Sales Information

3rd 9. MIDNIGHT MARTINI (AUS) 4yo M
STREET CRY (IRE) - BENVENUTA (NZ)
GLYN SCHOFIELD
MARK KAVANAGH
$13
54.5kg
Mill Park Stud, T J Robertson, B H Perks & R B Fairclough

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4th 8. ANUDJAWUN (NZ) 6yo G
YAMANIN VITAL (NZ) - PERCEPTIBLE (NZ)
COREY BROWN
SHAUN DWYER
$13
54.5kg

Sales Information

5th 1. BAUER (IRE) 8yo G
HALLING (USA) - DALI'S GREY (GB)
DAMIEN OLIVER
LUCA CUMANI
$10
57kg

Sales Information

6th 6. MACEDONIAN (NZ) 6yo G
ZABEEL (NZ) - SOCIETY WALK (NZ)
LUKE NOLEN
PETER G MOODY
$11
54.5kg

Sales Information

7th 3. SAPTAPADI (IRE) 5yo G
INDIAN RIDGE (GB) - OLYMPIENNE (IRE)
KERRIN MCEVOY
BRIAN ELLISON
$21
57kg
8th 5. LUCKY EIGHTY EIGHT (AUS) 6yo G
LUCKY OWNERS (NZ) - BUKHOOR (AUS)
MICHELLE PAYNE
MATHEW ELLERTON & SIMON ZAHRA
$7.5
55kg

Sales Information

9th 16. PRUSSIAN OFFICER (AUS) 6yo G
KING OF PRUSSIA (AUS) - LET'S REMEMBER (AUS)
STEVEN KING
S J RICHARDS
$151
54.5kg

Sales Information

10th 10. LOPOV (NZ) 4yo G
SAVABEEL (AUS) - PRICKLE (NZ)
DWAYNE DUNN
DANNY O'BRIEN
$21
54.5kg

Sales Information

11th 12. MY SCOTSGREY (NZ) 6yo G
GOLAN (IRE) - MY CHAMELEON (NZ)
LISA CROPP
SHAUNE RITCHIE
$13
54.5kg

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12th 15. TWO FOR TEA (NZ) 5yo G
DRAMA CRITIC (USA) - SING (NZ)
CRAIG NEWITT
MS GAI WATERHOUSE
$26
54.5kg
13th 11. EXCEPTIONALLY (NZ) 5yo M
EKRAAR (USA) - SAHAYB (NZ)
DANNY NIKOLIC
TERRY & KARINA O'SULLIVAN
$61
54.5kg
14th 4. MASTER O'REILLY (NZ) 9yo G
O'REILLY (NZ) - WITHOUT REMORSE (NZ)
STEPHEN BASTER
MS J MAWER
$101
56kg
UNP 14. SHEWAN (AUS) 5yo G
BLEVIC (AUS) - ABERDEEN ROSE (NZ)
CHRIS SYMONS
ROBERT SMERDON
$3.5
54.5kg

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