Now it looks like he will...After 24 hours of doubt, there's renewed hope that Irish St Leger winner Sans Frontieres WILL be a starter in the Melbourne Cup. A final decision has yet to be made but trainer Jeremy Noseda says: 'My gut feeling is that the Melbourne Cup is still No. 1 on everyone's agenda...'I've had a chat with the owner Sir Robert Ogden and all our plans with the horse are all arranged to go to Melbourne. We're going to give ourselves a few days to talk it over and think about it.
Now it looks like he will...After 24 hours of doubt, there's renewed hope that Irish St Leger winner Sans Frontieres WILL be a starter in the Melbourne Cup. A final decision has yet to be made but trainer Jeremy Noseda says: 'My gut feeling is that the Melbourne Cup is still No. 1 on everyone's agenda...'I've had a chat with the owner Sir Robert Ogden and all our plans with the horse are all arranged to go to Melbourne. We're going to give ourselves a few days to talk it over and think about it.' Sans Frontieres has to go into quarantine by Sep 23 if he's to race in the Melbourne Cup. The problem for connections that they can also aim the horse at the French St Leger or the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, or November's Japan Cup.
Joy fades...Gai Waterhouse and owner John Singleton may miss the Epsom with the $5.00 (4/1) fav More Joyous if she has to carry the topweight of 57kgs. The impressive mare is handicapped on 55.5kgs but all the horses above her in the weights are likely to miss the big mile on Oct 2 - and this means weights would have to be raised.