Selections:
#1 - Lavish Empire - $5.25
#4 - Silentsar - $6.25
#3 - Shipshape (ROUGHIE OF THE DAY) - $10.00
#12 - Thunderlips - $8.00
BEST BET - #1 - Lavish Empire
Lavish Empire is a Snowden trained horse after coming here from Mark Newnham and has to be given another look here. He ran a very good second over this trip at Kensington when resuming before stepping out in Saturday grade at Rosehill over the 1100m where he couldn’t really get a spot to come on and was forced to stay back from the wide gate but also pulled up with a couple issues. Worth another look third up here.
THE DANGER - #4 - Silentsar
Big fan of the Ryan and Alexiou Silentsar who won first up off a break of 21 weeks before having six weeks off from racing and not really appreciating that break when stepping back out at Kensington over this distance. He was then turned around a lot quicker for the next start at Rosehill where he ran a great placing behind a progressive looking type in Felix Majestic. He looks well placed in a softer field now with hard fitness.
VALUE BET - #3 - Shipshape (ROUGHIE OF THE DAY)
Shipshape looks to make big improvements here for Godolphin only second up here. He resumed from a 17 week spell at Rosehill in a strong 1200m race, the same one as the aforementioned Silentsar when he wasn’t really able to fully get into it, being crowded out at the 600m and becoming unbalanced but he will be fitter now, sharper and ready to hit hard here.