Spring betting update: Tattsbet opened the Cox Plate and Caulfield Cup markets last week, and the Melbourne Cup will be opened just after the first nominations in the first week of September. Atlantic Jewel is out of the Cox Plate, and that has seen popular mare More Joyous backed in to clear favorite. More Joyous was posted at $7.00, but she was quickly in to $6.50 on the back of dozens of bets, including $1000 each way and another of $1000 at the $7.00. Stablemate Pierro is $7.00 ahead of Mosh

Spring betting update: Tattsbet opened the Cox Plate and Caulfield Cup markets last week, and the Melbourne Cup will be opened just after the first nominations in the first week of September. Atlantic Jewel is out of the Cox Plate, and that has seen popular mare More Joyous backed in to clear favorite. More Joyous was posted at $7.00, but she was quickly in to $6.50 on the back of dozens of bets, including $1000 each way and another of $1000 at the $7.00. Stablemate Pierro is $7.00 ahead of Mosheen ($9.00) and All Too Hard ($11.00, but two proven performers in Manighar and Rekindled Interest have proven popular at $15.00. One punter has backed Rekindled Interest to take out $20,000, and while he has been sparingly raced this year, he is proven at the Valley where he won the Feehan Stakes last year.

Green Moon and Mawingo are the $13.00 equal favourites to win the Caulfield Cup, but the betting has been quiet with so many unknown quantities. A lot of the other imports are not certain to start, and recent history shows that most of the European trainers prefer to give Caulfield a miss in preference of the Melbourne Cup. The Caulfield Guineas and the Thousand Guineas are also open, but before that we have the Golden Rose at Rosehill on September 15. We lost She's ┴ Fox from the field this week, but serious question marks hang over the first three in the betting. Boom horse All Too Hard is the $3.40 favourite after finishing third in his first up run last week. Prior to that we had taken close to $16,000 for him at $3.60 and $3.50, but he appears to be a horse who is always going to need his share of luck. Second favourite is Pierro at $6.00, and he is a doubtful runner, while third choice is the Victorian Samaready ($8.50) who failed badly first up on a heavy track at Flemington last week. Several runners have firmed up in the betting, with the most notable of those being Epaulette, now $13 after opening at $31. (info from www.tattsbet.com)