6-3.05 SAN MIGUEL AJC AUSTRALIAN DERBY 2400 M
Of $1912500 Of $1900000 and $12500 trophies. First $1235000 and trophies of $11500 to owner $500 to trainer $500 to jockey, second $380000, third $171000, fourth $76000, fifth $38000. For Three-Years-Old. Set Weights. (GROUP 1). No allowances for apprentices. Field Limit: 18+4 EM
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No. Horse Trainer Jockey Barr Wgt Pen
1 ELVSTROEM Tony Vasil P Payne 5 56.5
2 NIELLO John Hawkes 6 56.5
3 STARCRAFT (NZ) Garry Newham G Boss 3 56.5
4 DELZAO Greg Kavanagh Steven King 1 56.5
5 UNDER THE BRIDGE Tony Vasil L Cassidy 7 56.5
6 PENITENTIARY (NZ) Richard Otto J Cassidy 2 56.5
7 KINGSIDE (NZ) Bart Cummings H Bowman 11 56.5
8 DANCING DAGGERS (NZ) Grahame Begg N Rawiller 12 56.5
9 LORD OF THE LAND Anthony Cummings C Brown 10 56.5
10 BRAELOCH (NZ) Guy Walter D Beasley 4 56.5
11 KIND ACT Bart Cummings D Nikolic 8 56.5
12 SPECIAL HARMONY Lee Freedman D Oliver 9 54.5
13 TIMBOURINA Tony Wildman 13 54.5

Prices at: 06:57:11, 7 Apr 2004
No. Selection Win Place
157 Starcraft $2.25 $0.00
154 Special Harmony $3.00 $0.00
143 Niello $4.25 $0.00
115 Delzao $12.00 $0.00
119 Elvstroem $17.00 $0.00
161 Timbourina $26.00 $0.00
164 Under The Bridge $26.00 $0.00
132 Kingside $51.00 $0.00
108 Braeloch $101.00 $0.00
135 Lord of The Land $101.00 $0.00
113 Dancing Daggers $126.00 $0.00
147 Penitentiary $126.00 $0.00
131 Kind Act $201.00 $0.00

Niello just, over Special Harmony & Starcraft.
Include Timbourina EW at 25/1.

If starcraft gets the 2400 and maybe even if he doesn't he wins, just incase delzao was doing his best work late on saturday and will be running on gamely a good each way bet IMO.

cheers ED

For me, Starcraft is a deffinate, has to be included also Special Harmony and Timbourina....but Can't have em all...or can we...lol

I'm with Mystic on Starcraft.

An out of the box champ. Big, rangy and bred for the distance.
Special Harmony, another champ but for this race, I think Starcraft's name might be written all over it.

Not much of a betting race though except for a straight out win bet if $3 + can be had for Starcaft [2nd. Special Harmony, 3rd. Niello]. Less than $3 for a race of this class would be poor value.

cheers.

Sticking with Elvstroem e/w@ 17 bucks,Vrc Derby winner so will get the distance.Query on Starcraft,if you dig right into his breeding he may not get the trip.As for Special Harmony being labelled a"champion",that's a joke.What has she beaten?Cast your mind back to the Bill Stutt Stakes at Moonee Valley,1600 open handicap,only time she has raced against males,beaten over two lengths by Casual Pass.

Well I have been on the Starcraft bandwagon for awhile now and I aint jumping off here his breeding from the dams side looks like he might get this trip and the way he has been winning I think he can to.

2) NIELLO and 12) SPECIAL HARMONY to fight it out.

Breeding smeeding, Starcraft is a freak i'm sure he's not bred to run as fast as he does but he proved breeding wrong there. We will just have to wait and see if he stays the trip and prove his breeding wrong again. Note Danehill sired perhaps the best 3yo sprinter in the land Exceed and Excel and also sired the quinella of the VRC derby Elvstroem and Kempinski over 2500.

Cheers Ed.