Australia's Greatest WFA Race - The COX PLATE on Saturday Oct 26th

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MOONEE VALLEY W.S. COX PLATE The premier Weight For Age race on the Australian racing calendar takes place this coming Saturday at Moonee Valley. This is the race that only the best horse's win and the final 600m sorts out the wheat from the chaff.

Race 7 - 03:50 PM - Moonee Valley 2040m
	CENTREBET ODDS
No	Runner	Win	Place	Jockey	Barrier	Wgt	Trainer
1	Casual Pass	34.00	8.50	N Rawiller	11	58	M J Ellerton
2	Fields Of Omagh	15.00	4.40	C Williams	7	58	D A Hayes
3	Grey Swallow (IRE)	10.00	3.20	S R King	1	58	D Sutton
4	El Segundo (NZ)	3.60	1.50	D Gauci	10	58	C W Little
5	Lad Of The Manor (NZ)	12.00	3.40	D Nikolic	2	58	R Hoysted
6	Honor In War (USA)	51.00	12.00	S W Arnold	13	58	D T O`Brien
7	Our Smoking Joe	13.00	3.90	D Beadman	5	58	D L Freedman
8	Racing To Win	3.60	1.50	G Boss	6	56½	J A O`Shea
9	Apache Cat	34.00	8.50	G J Childs	12	56½	G Eurell
10	Red Dazzler	17.00	4.80	J A Cassidy	3	56½	M G Price
11	Pompeii Ruler	13.00	3.90	C Newitt	9	56½	M G Price
12	Aqua D`amore	26.00	7.00	K Fallon	8	56½	Ms G Waterhouse
13	Miss Finland	10.00	3.00	Ms L Cropp	4	46	D A Hayes

THERE was mixed luck for the fancied runners at the Cox Plate barrier draw, with Sydney star Racing To Win faring well with gate six while El Segundo came up with an awkward alley 10.

The pair remain equal favourites for Saturday's race with TAB Sportsbet at $3.50. Miss Finland, who will be striving to become the first filly to win the Moonee Valley feature since Surround in 1976, will start from barrier four, one inside Darren Beadman's mount, Our Smoking Joe. Fields Of Omagh, lining up in his fifth Cox Plate, has gate seven while the Roger Hoysted-trained Lad Of The Manor drew favourably in two. The two horses making their Australian debuts, Grey Swallow and Honor In War, drew the inside and outside gates respectively in the field of 13. Meanwhile, Caulfield Cup runner-up Aqua D'Amore, who drew eight, will now be ridden by Kieren Fallon, who replaces Stephen Baster.

More to come…

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Re: Australia's Greatest WFA Race - The COX PLATE on Saturday Oct 26th Scare for Miss Finland Trainer David Hayes says Miss Finland will be ready for Saturday's Cox Plate despite being kicked during trackwork on Thursday morning. "A horse ran past her and stopped and ran back into her and kicked her," Hayes told the ABC. The three-year-old filly was about to begin trackwork at Flemington when the incident occurred. "It was a bit of a swing, swipe and half miss," said jockey Craig Williams.