Blue Diamond Stakes Final Field – 2017

View the final field for the 2017 Blue Diamond Stakes. The Blue Diamond Stakes will be run on Saturday 25th February at Caulfield racecourse.

Time: 4:10PM

Distance: 1200m

Class: Group 1

No Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight
1 PROPERTY Robert Smerdon Joao Moreira 3 56.5kg
2 AZAZEL Tony McEvoy Kerrin McEvoy 1 56.5kg
3 JUKEBOX Ciaron Maher Luke Nolen 4 56.5kg
4 PARIAH Peter & Paul Snowden Blake Shinn 11 56.5kg
5 WAIT FOR NO ONE David & B Hayes & T Dabernig Regan Bayliss 10 56.5kg
6 ASPECT Tony McEvoy Luke Currie 14 56.5kg
7 CAO CAO Mick Price Mark Zahra 2 56.5kg
8 TAKING AIM Peter & Paul Snowden 6 56.5kg
9 MURAAHIB David & B Hayes & T Dabernig Steven Arnold 15 56.5kg
10 WILL’S BID David & B Hayes & T Dabernig Damian Lane 16 56.5kg
11 CATCHY David & B Hayes & T Dabernig Craig Williams 13 54.5kg
12 FORMALITY David & B Hayes & T Dabernig Ryan Moore 12 54.5kg
13 TULIP David & B Hayes & T Dabernig Damien Oliver 8 54.5kg
14 SPOILS Clinton McDonald Ben Melham 17 54.5kg
15 ROOMOOZ Tony McEvoy Dwayne Dunn 5 54.5kg
16 BLONDIE Brendan McCarthy 9 54.5kg
17e SHEER MADNESS John Salanitri Stephen Baster 7 56.5kg

 

Racing News:

Property will be given his chance to achieve a rare feat in the Group One Blue Diamond Stakes but connections of Limestone have decided not to pay a late entry fee to run the filly in the $1.5 millon race.

The owners of the Robert Smerdon-trained Property have paid the $55,000 late entry fee to put him in the Blue Diamond Stakes field.

Smerdon confirmed it was all systems go for the two-year-old to run.

“We had until today and we had to be happy and we were,” Smerdon said.

Property has already won the colts and geldings’ divisions of the Blue Diamond Preview and Prelude and can become just the fifth horse to make a clean sweep of the respective Blue Diamond series races.

Sepoy (2011) is the most recent while Bel Esprit (2002), Midnight Fever (1987) and Rancher (1982) also achieved the feat.

“He had to win the Prelude to warrant going on and he has done that so he earned his chance,” Smerdon said.

“And that’s what we’re doing, rolling the dice.

“Barriers and run of the race are going to separate a lot of these horses. There’s not much between half a dozen of them, so we need a barrier and we need a good run.”

The Darren Weir-trained Limestone won the fillies’ Preview and was runner-up in the Prelude to Catchy but connections decided against paying up.

Ahead of final acceptances on Tuesday morning and the barrier draw, Property is on the third line of TAB fixed odds betting at $7.

The unbeaten filly Catchy is at $5 ahead of the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained colt Pariah ($6).

Formality, Jukebox and Tulip are at $8.

Craig Williams rode Property in the Preview and Prelude but elected to stick with Catchy so champion Hong Kong jockey Joao Moreira is flying in on Friday to take the ride on Property who will gallop on the Caulfield course proper on Tuesday.

He unleashed an impressive turn of foot in the Prelude and Smerdon doesn’t see the rise from 1100m to 1200m as a concern.

“Nothing I have seen of him suggests that he lacks strength,” Smerdon said.

He said he didn’t believe the gelding had improvement from the Prelude but it was just a matter of keeping him ticking over for the Diamond.

Smerdon has won the Blue Diamond once, with Let’s Get Physical 32 years ago.

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