Racing Victoria today released third declarations for the Caulfield Cup 2014 with 41 hopefuls still in the mix for the October 18 classic at Caulfield Racecourse. Tunbull Stakes winner Lucia Valentina (outside) is favourite to win Saturday week’s 2014 Caulfield Cup. Photo: Race Horse Photos Australia.
Worth a record $3 million in prizemoney this year, the Group 1 Crown Golden Ale Caulfield Cup (2400m) is shaping up as a crack showdown between a host of local and international stayers with seven raiders still in the mix.
The shortest priced of the international Caulfield Cup horses in the latest Caulfield Cup odds at Ladbrokes.com.au is Japanese raider Bande paying $7.50.
Japan will be dually represented in this year’s Caulfield Cup field too with Admire Rakti ($15) also set to make his Australian debut in the race, the pair heading towards the $6.2 million Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington on the first Tuesday of November.
Other notable international Caulfield Cup third acceptors include Group 1 performed UK mare My Ambivalent ($11) who will get in at a nice weight and the Marco Botti-trained Dandino ($15).
Dandino was runner-up behind Fawkner in last year’s Caulfield Cup and also finished fifth to Fiorente in the Melbourne Cup last spring so the bookies are keeping him safe in betting again in 2014.
The all-in Caulfield Cup odds at Ladbrokes meanwhile are led by Lucia Valentina ($5.50) out to become the first mare to win since Southern Speed in 2011.
Kris Lees’ Savabeel four-year-old earned her top spot in the markets after a nice start to the season with two wins from three starts this time in, most recently in the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m) at Flemington last Saturday.
That was her second Group 1 win as she also took out the Vinery Stud Stakes over the same distance in Sydney as a three-year-old in the autumn.
Chris Waller also has a strong hand in the Caulfield Cup third declarations with seven from his four time Sydney premiership winning stables.
His best fancied is Who Shot Thebarman at $11 who won the Group 3 The Bart Cummings in Melbourne over the weekend and has winning form over the two miles being an Auckland Cup winner back in New Zealand.
Also in the mix for Waller are the likes of Junoob and Opinion who ran one-two in the Group 1 The Metropolitan (2400m) over the same distance at Randwick on the weekend.
His other Group 1 Sydney winner form last Saturday, Epsom Handicap champ He’s Your Man meanwhile is a $41 Caulfield Cup chance but dropped out of Melbourne Cup contention with first acceptances for the world’s richest handicap also closing today.
Also paying $11 along with Who Shot Thebarman is Dear Demi for Clarry Conners, the mare finishing a close third in the Caulfield Cup last spring before her second in the Mackinnon during the Melbourne Cup Carnival.
Other notable Caulfield Cup third acceptors include ATC Oaks winning New Zealand mare Rising Romance, Gai Waterhouse’s Sydney Cup champ The Offer who is favourite for the Melbourne Cup next month, Marco Botti’s other hopeful Seismos coming off a Geoffrey Freer Stakes win at Newbury, John Sargent’s Crown Oaks winner Kirramosa and light weight chance Stipulate.
See below for the latest Caulfield Cup acceptances and odds.
The 2014 Caulfield Cup field is due out on Tuesday October 14.
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2014 Caulfield Cup Odds