Kingsford Smith Cup nominations – 2017

View the nominations for the 2017 Kingsford Smith Cup. The Kingsford Smith Cup will be run on Saturday 27th May at Eagle Farm racecourse.

Horse
1 ALL OVER BOSANOVA
2 ARTISTRY
3 ATTENTION
4 BASSETT (NZ)
5 BIG MONEY
6 BLACK HEART BART
7 BROOK ROAD
8 CLEARLY INNOCENT
9 COOLRING
10 COUNTERATTACK
11 DAL CIELO (NZ)
12 DANISH TWIST
13 DERRYN
14 ECKSTEIN
15 EGYPTIAN SYMBOL
16 EL DIVINO
17 ENGLISH
18 FAATINAH
19 FELL SWOOP
20 FUHRYK
21 GOOD PROJECT
22 GUARD OF HONOUR
23 HALL OF FAME (NZ)
24 HEAR THE CHANT
25 HEART STARTER
26 HEROIC VALOUR
27 HOPFGARTEN
28 IMPENDING
29 IN HER TIME
30 IN HIS STRIDE
31 JAPONISME
32 JUNGLE EDGE
33 KAEPERNICK
34 KEN’S DREAM
35 LE CORDON BLEU
36 LUCKY LIBERTY
37 MACKINTOSH (NZ)
38 MAHUTA
39 MALIBU STYLE
40 MISS GUNPOWDER
41 MUSIC MAGNATE (NZ)
42 PERFECT DARE
43 QUATRONIC
44 RAGEESE
45 REBEL DANE
46 REIBY RAMPART
47 ROUND MOUNTAIN GAL
48 RUETTIGER (NZ)
49 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
50 SAVOUREUX
51 SECRET AGENDA
52 SHEIDEL
53 SIR BACCHUS
54 SNOOPY
55 SOOBOOG
56 START WONDERING (NZ)
57 STRAWBERRY BOY
58 STREETS BETTER
59 TAKEDOWN
60 THE MONSTAR
61 TYCOON TARA
62 UNDER THE LOUVRE
63 VEGA MAGIC
64 VOODOO LAD

News:

The experienced Benzini and the up-and-coming Chocante will be out to uphold New Zealand’s reputation in the staying ranks at Eagle Farm.

The pair will contest Saturday’s Group Three Premier’s Cup (2200m) as a prelude to the Group Two Brisbane Cup (2400m) on June 10 won last year by Benzini.

The seven-year-old was withdrawn from the Doomben Cup on Saturday because of the wet.

“We didn’t want to run him on a heavy track,” owner Adrian Bull, who trains the gelding with his son Harry, told NZ Racing Desk.

“He’s done well and we’re happy with him.”

Benzini ran sixth in the Hong Kong Vase at the International meeting in December and has since been placed in the Group One New Zealand Stakes and Group Three Canterbury Gold Cup.

The Stephen Marsh-trained four-year-old Chocante is a Group Three winner at home and ran third in the Chairman’s Handicap at Doomben last Saturday week.

“I was rapt. I thought his run was outstanding,” Marsh said. “He’d gone from 1400 to 1600 metres and then up to 2000 at Doomben.

“He was still fresh and pulled a bit so it was a great effort and he’s done an absolute treat since.”

Marsh believes the 2400 metres of the Brisbane Cup will be ideal and he is looking even further ahead.

“We would like to be in Melbourne in the spring for some serious races,” he said.

“It’s not as if he’s having a lot of racing this autumn and he can be on a direct flight back from Brisbane and he won’t need a long time out in the paddock.”

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