Toowoomba Cup Field – 2016

The Final Field has been released for the 2016 Toowoomba Cup which is to be run at Toowoomba racecourse on Saturday 16th, April 2016. View the Toowoomba Cup Field.

 

No Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight
1 IGGI POP (NZ) Peter Robl 0 59kg
2 VOLKHERE Robert Heathcote James Orman (a) 0 58kg
3 HONEY TOAST Ben Currie Jim Byrne 0 56kg
4 INSTRUMENTALIST (IRE) Dale Healey Ms Skye Bogenhuber 0 56kg
5 TRAKSTAR Tony Gollan Michael Cahill 0 54.5kg
6 UNO FIVE (NZ) Bruce W Hill Ric McMahon 0 54kg
7 COLLAR (NZ) Jeremy Sylvester Robert Thompson 0 54kg
8 MISHANI WARRIOR Les Ross 0 54kg
9 FUERZA Paul H Duncan Matthew McGillivray (a) 0 54kg
10 TOUCH OF BELLA Tony Sears Nozi Tomizawa 0 54kg
11 NISSILE Paul Grant Andrew Spinks 0 54kg
12 WESTERN HEIR Tony Sears Lee Attard (a) 0 54kg
13 GOLDONI (IRE) Jason Judge 0 54kg
14 RABASCO Bruce W Hill Paul Hammersley 0 54kg
15e PERISHA Kathy Stabe 0 54kg

News:

Australia’s representative on the International Panel of Handicappers, Greg Carpenter, believes Winx should be crowned the world’s best mare.

Carpenter, who is also Victoria’s chief handicapper, has given Winx a rating of 127 after her stunning Doncaster Mile victory.

“That’s an extraordinarily high figure for a mare,” Carpenter told Racing.com.

“When you think of the great mares of the last decade only horses like Black Caviar, Treve, Zenyatta, Rachel Alexander and Danedream have been able to run to figures of 127 and higher.”

The World’s Best Racehorse rankings will be revealed at the end of this week, but Carpenter is not sure if his international counterparts will agree with his assessment.

“It looks as though she may not be quite as high as that for some of the other international handicappers,” Carpenter said.

“I’m still pretty confident she’ll be at the top of the list of what we’ve seen in world racing in 2016.”

Carpenter said placegetters Happy Clapper and Azkadellia franked the Doncaster form by running second in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes and winning the Queen of the Turf Stakes respectively.

Carpenter has given Queen Elizabeth winner Lucia Valentina a career-high rating of 115-plus, while star sprinter Chautauqua has been rated as 121-plus following his TJ Smith Stakes triumph.

Chautauqua and fellow Australian sprint star Buffering will face off in the Chairman’s Sprint Prize in Hong Kong on May 1.

“Buffering won the Al Quoz Sprint during the Dubai World Cup carnival and for me ran to a career best figure of at least 118,” he said.

Carpenter said the presence of Hong Kong sprinter Aerovelocity and Japanese speedster Big Arthur in Hong Kong would make for an interesting contest.

“If those horses go there and Chautauqua can beat them I have no doubt he will confirm his current position as the highest rated sprinter in the world,” Carpenter said.

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