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The peerless Peter Moody stable does look to have yet another fresh up winner but bettors will have to wait until the last event of a nine race card at Sale to partake.
Cosmic Causeway resumes in the Country Showcase up to a Benchmark 72 over 1200m and is one of just three runners at Sale today for Moody, with the other pair already having raced this campaign.
The four-year-old gelding by Shamardal may have been better suited at 1400m fresh up but if you second guess Moody you lose, as he is churning out winners en masse.
I see the weight of 56.5kg and the already shown ability of Cosmic Causeway as being the standout indicators of his superior prospects today and a good draw and some other proven factors also stack up.
He is the highest rated horse both over the last twelve months and in fact lifetime of the field he meets, with the lightly tried galloper clearly still maturing but with many more wins ahead.
An in form apprentice in Daniel Stackhouse rides and its half brother Cosmocrat won both its races on slow or dead ground plus they each came in a fresh up state.
I do not envisage the footing posing any problems for the natural off pacer Cosmic Causeway and he has already shown he is more than adept at a fresh up stage of a preparation.
Last campaign he resumed as a heavily backed hotpot over 1200m at Cranbourne and finished third beaten heads under 57.5kg from an awkward gate eight.
The relevance of this result is more meaningful than most when it comes to the ninth race today at Sale because the two horses that beat him home, Jugahlation and Reassemble, are in the field again as rivals.
Jugahlation and Reassemble are both logical chances again, as each will handle the rain-affected footing and the former is fit and racing well plus won its only Sale outing and the latter has won before fresh up.
However we find Cosmic Causeway meets Jugahlation 2.5kg and Reassemble half a kilo better off although each of them has deserved it winning two more races apiece.
I cannot over emphasize the worth of Cosmic Causeway form since that close up resumption third, which in itself has turned out to be a super source of winners with seven successes spread over four separate runners to date.
Cosmic Causeway second up last preparation won a Restricted 68 event for three-year-olds on dead ground from gate fourteen at Sandown Hillside over 1400m and what a golden source this race has been since.
He defeated by a lip Means A Lot and Speediness was close up in third, with the former a then filly that in three runs afterwards has won once, placed in the city and then got checked at Flemington and has not run since.
Speediness since has raced three times for a win and two seconds and made the step up to blacktype level, with the promise of a super spring to come.
This gelding finished second in the Listed Hawkesbury Guineas (1400m) and was a good thing beaten freshened up wearing blinkers for the first time.
Some decent names since finished behind him at the finish at Hawkesbury
The last time Speediness raced he finished second in the Inglis Scone Guineas (1600m) behind Sincero, which would two starts later capture the G1 Stradbroke (1400m) and is shaping as a very serious big race player in the spring.
Cosmic Causeway has tremendous form threads and is untapped, with eight individual winners coming out since from his second up win event.
The winner of the Listed VRC St Leger (2800m) in Right Of Refusal came through the Cosmic Causeway race too.
As I mentioned earlier Jugahlation and Reassemble narrowly beat home Cosmic Causeway in his resumption race and the former at its very next start finished third to a real rising sprint star in Kulgrinda.
Jugahlation has also run into a certain Bel Sprinter since, so has met a couple of big spring hitters along the way.
Reassemble won his next start afterwards and defeated the handy Meredith, with the addition of blinkers for the first time the key gear change to remember that day.
Just to show that form begets form we find Meredith when winning at debut and heavily backed, the runner up was a certain Cosmic Causeway on the synthetic Geelong circuit.
I consider other chances for your multiples today in the last at Sale as So Nonchalant, Uno No and Chatrang.
So Nonchalant is the best drawn of the quartet and the best weighted for mine, with Uno No the second best drawn and on his home track.
Chatrang is strong enough to cope with the 58kg and is another by Bel Esprit delivering once fully matured but would want the footing to be on the better side of slow if possible.
He has been freshened up a tad and Nick Hall has won on him before, while it needs to be pointed out this gelding has always been well backed his entire career.
I do see So Nonchalant as a serious eachway chance and she is a mare third up today and ready to deliver again.
She won her first two starts and in the second success defeated the useful Minnie Mah, which won at its next start and Listed placed the following outing plus has come up well this campaign with two placings and a fourth in three outings.
Enjoy the race.
