Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott’s dual Group 1 winner Global Glamour suffered a blow in her bid to stop odds-on favourite Winning Rupert from taking out the 2017 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas drawing out wide for the Gold Coast feature.
Dual Group 1 winning filly Global Glamour is drawn out wide in the 2017 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas this weekend at the Gold Coast. Photo: Steve Hart.
A capacity field of sixteen starters plus five emergencies are engaged for this weekend’s $2 million Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas (1400m).
The official Magic Millions 3YO Guineas barrier draw took place live from Surfers Paradise on Tuesday morning and Global Glamour has work to do from the second widest alley on Saturday.
She is tipped as the only three-year-old to give the undefeated favourite Winning Rupert a run for his money, but has eased out post-barriers in Magic Millions Guineas betting at Ladbrokes.com.au.
The Flight Stakes – Thousand Guineas winning daughter of Star Witness, to be ridden by Tim Clark, is out to $5.50 to return to winning form after a luckless first-up ninth over 1200m at Eagle Farm on New Year’s Eve.
All the money in the updated Magic Millions 3YO Guineas odds is on Bjorn Baker’s Written Tycoon colt Winning Rupert who is set to get things his way this weekend from a gun barrier six draw.
He could jump from five if the second emergency Billy The Kid (1) fails to gain a run and has Jeff Lloyd retaining the ride.
Lloyd has been aboard Winning Rupert for all five career runs so far producing five impressive wins, the latest of which was a three length effort in the Group 3 Vo Rogue Plate (1300m) on December 31.
No other horse in the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas field is at single-figures for the win with the next best in betting being Eckstein ($14) and Arbeistam ($18) drawn in barriers 10 and eight respectively.
Kurt Goldman’s I Am Invincible filly Eckstein from Goulburn chases a fifth straight win after a string of nice runs including a Listed Mode Plate (1200m) Eagle Farm win two back and a narrow 1200m Gold Coast victory last Saturday.
Arbeistam represents is the other Waterhouse & Bott-trained runner in the race, the son of Snitzel last seen saluting by a smart three and a quarter-lengths over 1400m at Warwick Farm on January 7.
Other chances drawn well for the Gold Coast Magic Millions Guineas this Queensland Summer Racing Carnival include: the consistent Tony Gollan-trained Captain Sonador filly Tiyatrolani (2), Lindsay Park’s Wyong Magic Millions Stakes third placegetter Dam Ready (3) and the Les Ross-trained Vo Rogue runner-up River Racer (4).
Check out the official 2017 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Barriers below and then head to Ladbrokes.com.au for the best markets across the Gold Coast Magic Millions Racing card this Saturday!
2017 Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Barrier Draw
Gold Coast Race 7 – 14/01/2017
| # | Form | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Barrier | Weight | H. Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11×111 | WINNING RUPERT | Bjorn Baker | Jeff Lloyd | 6 | 58kg | 96 |
| 2 | 1x3611x9 | GLOBAL GLAMOUR | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Tim Clark | 20 | 57kg | 106 |
| 3 | x21970x426 | CRACK ME UP (NZ) | Liam Birchley | Damian Browne | 15 | 56.5kg | 71.5 |
| 4 | 224x4x1100 | NICCOLANCE | Peter & Paul Snowden | TBA | 21 | 56kg | – |
| 5 | 14×2535723 | DAM READY | David & B Hayes & T Dabernig | Mark Zahra | 3 | 56kg | 73 |
| 6 | 3×1331 | ARBEITSAM | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott | Joshua Parr | 8 | 56kg | – |
| 7 | 38336×1268 | MR MARKOU | Ben Currie | Blake Shinn | 18 | 56kg | – |
| 8 | 321×006047 | FLYING JESS | John Moloney | Tye Angland | 5 | 55kg | – |
| 9 | 8x2x41111 | ECKSTEIN | Kurt Goldman | Brenton Avdulla | 10 | 54.5kg | 88 |
| 10 | 13x3648x25 | CANDIKA | Steven O’dea | Paul Hammersley | 13 | 54kg | 76 |
| 11 | 6x534x3948 | FARAWAY TOWN | Matthew Smith | Kerrin McEvoy | 19 | 54kg | 78 |
| 12 | 72x221x252 | RIVER RACER | Les Ross | Robbie Fradd | 4 | 54kg | 74 |
| 13 | 42201×5851 | RARE OCCURRENCE | Stuart Kendrick | TBA | 16 | 54kg | 72 |
| 14 | 115×5144 | TIYATROLANI | Tony Gollan | Jim Byrne | 2 | 54kg | 75 |
| 15 | 3266x213x3 | HEART SKIPT A BEAT | Liam Birchley | Glen Colless | 17 | 54kg | 74 |
| 16 | 1×312 | MISS WONDERLAND | Ciaron Maher | Craig Williams | 9 | 54kg | 74 |
| 17e | 133×15 | PIPELINE | Gerald Ryan | Damian Lane | 12 | 56kg | – |
| 18e | 23×113 | BILLY THE KID | John & Chris Meagher | Luke Dittman | 1 | 56kg | 70 |
| 19e | 2×11 | ALTER CALL | Mick Price | Dwayne Dunn | 7 | 54kg | – |
| 20e | 35×132715 | VOLPINO | Les Kelly | TBA | 11 | 56kg | 68 |
| 21e | 332×1 | SPENDING TO WIN | Peter & Paul Snowden | TBA | 14 | 56kg | – |
