Title looms...If she wins next Saturday's Grp 1 Haydock Sprint Cup (1200m) Aussie sprint star Ortensia will be crowned European Champion Sprinter of the Year. The Paul Messara-trained mare came from 10 lengths off the pace to zoom home and win last Saturday's Nunthorpe Stakes at York.How much weight will Dunaden be asked to carry in the Melbourne Cup? His connections reckon 58kgs is the right weight - a rise of 3.5kgs on the 54.5kgs he carried to a narrow victory last year. Of course, if he happ
Title looms...If she wins next Saturday's Grp 1 Haydock Sprint Cup (1200m) Aussie sprint star Ortensia will be crowned European Champion Sprinter of the Year. The Paul Messara-trained mare came from 10 lengths off the pace to zoom home and win last Saturday's Nunthorpe Stakes at York.
How much weight will Dunaden be asked to carry in the Melbourne Cup? His connections reckon 58kgs is the right weight - a rise of 3.5kgs on the 54.5kgs he carried to a narrow victory last year. Of course, if he happened to win the Caulfield Cup on the way to the first Tuesday in November he'd cop a penalty which would take his impost to probably 60kgs! David Redfers, who manages the Dunaden racing campaigns, says: 'If we thought he would get any more than 58kgs, I don't think we would bring him. Weight stops trains and any more than that I think is unrealistic...Americain (topweight last year with 58kgs) is a horse you would like to go to war with...He's a big, strong horse who is at least a hand bigger than Dunaden and much better able to carry that weight.'
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Zara Phillips MBE, eventing team Olympic silver medallist in London 2012 and former European and World Champion, has been announced as the first Magic Millions Racing Women Ambassador, an appointment that will see her visit Australia in early January 2013 for the week-long Magic Millions Carnival. An internationally accomplished equestrienne, Zara is the daughter of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips. She holds a number of elite sporting accolades - earlier this month she won a silver medal in team eventing at the London Olympic Games.