Horse of the Year honours could well be decided at Rosehill on Saturday where Typhoon Tracy and Theseo battle it out in separate races.Typhoon Tracy is leading the charge with three Group One races this season and is the overwhelming favourite to make it four in the Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1500m).The BMW will be a staying test over 2400 metres for war horse Theseo who is gunning for his third successive Sydney Group One this autumn.Theseo missed the spring through injury but many of the spring
Horse of the Year honours could well be decided at Rosehill on Saturday where Typhoon Tracy and Theseo battle it out in separate races.
Typhoon Tracy is leading the charge with three Group One races this season and is the overwhelming favourite to make it four in the Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1500m).
The BMW will be a staying test over 2400 metres for war horse Theseo who is gunning for his third successive Sydney Group One this autumn.
Theseo missed the spring through injury but many of the spring stars failed to come back for the autumn with one notable exception.
The Peter Moody-trained Typhoon Tracy won the Myer Classic against her own sex in October and her two starts this year have produced victories against all comers in the C F Orr and Futurity Stakes.
Although she has no experience on the rain-affected ground predicted for Saturday, Typhoon Tracy has been steadily backed since Wednesday from $2.50 to $1.95.
Punters believe three-year-old More Joyous is the logical challenger and she was at $3.20 on Friday.
More Joyous has won two stakes races since her return from her Group One spring victory in the Flight Stakes but more importantly all three of those wins have been on slow tracks.
Trainer Gai Waterhouse was her usual upbeat self about the John Singleton-owned filly.
"I couldn't be happier with her, her work on Tuesday on the course proper was excellent, it was a testing gallop," Waterhouse said.
"I'm targeting this race because it's against her own sex and I think she'll be very dominant."
Singleton and Waterhouse have decided More Joyous is most likely to miss the Doncaster with Typhoon Tracy now the equal favourite for that race with Rangirangdoo.
The wet track is a plus for 2009 Queen Of The Turf winner Neroli who was unlucky not to finish closer than fourth behind Alverta in the Coolmore Classic two weeks ago.
Although she has gone up against Typhoon Tracy three times and not looked like beating her, Neroli's record of three wins from four starts on slow and heavy tracks is something jockey Kerrin McEvoy says will help her cause this time.
"I'd say she's going just as well as she was last year," McEvoy said.
However, it seems Typhoon Tracy is going even better.