Handicapper Greg Carpenter is keen for punters to know why he gave Precedence a 1.5kgs penalty for his impressive Moonee Valley Cup win. He says: 'Precedence gave a strong staying performance to win yesterday's Cup defeating Above Average, a Group winner in England, and this year's Adelaide Cup winner Capecover. With the penalty he now meets both those horses on 1.5kg worse weight terms in the Melbourne Cup should they make the final field...Of the runners from yesterday's race who are safely in
Handicapper Greg Carpenter is keen for punters to know why he gave Precedence a 1.5kgs penalty for his impressive Moonee Valley Cup win. He says: 'Precedence gave a strong staying performance to win yesterday's Cup defeating Above Average, a Group winner in England, and this year's Adelaide Cup winner Capecover. With the penalty he now meets both those horses on 1.5kg worse weight terms in the Melbourne Cup should they make the final field...Of the runners from yesterday's race who are safely in the final Melbourne Cup field, Precedence now meets Master O'Reilly on 2kg better weight terms. He had 1.5kg more than Master O'Reilly in the MV Cup and now is weighted 0.5kg below Master O'Reilly (54kg) in the Melbourne Cup. Precedence carried 0.5kg more than the Sydney Cup winner Jessicabeel in yesterday's Cup and now has 1kg more than her in the Melbourne Cup...With 53.5kg Precedence is 6kg below weight-for-age in the Melbourne Cup and on the same level as Bauer, Red Ruler, Mourayan, Herculian Prince, Alcopop, Linton and Holberg.'