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Lankan Rupee To Face Eight In McEwen

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Lankan Rupee has drawn the outside barrier for his first up outing in the Group 2 McEwen Stakes at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Lankan Rupee
Lankan Rupee Picture: Racing and Sports

Nine runners will contest the McEwen Stakes with Lankan Rupee jumping from the widest alley.

The champion sprinter is expected to have no issue accounted for his eight rivals with his main opposition in the loosest sense of the word including Unpretentious and Eloping.

Lankan Rupee has opened up as the $1.25 favourite for the McEwen Stakes with TAB Sportsbet Fixed Odds.

It will be the first run of a spring campaign in which Lankan Rupee will contest the Moir Stakes, the Manikato Stakes and the Darley Classic at Flemington.

A trip to Hong Kong for their international sprint in December is also on the agenda.


Racing and Sports

Moonee Valley

Saturday, 06th September 2014

5
14:45
(local)

Mitty's Mc Ewen Stakes (G2)

Type: OPEN
AUD $201,000
1000m TURF GOOD
5
14:45
(local)
AUD $201,000
1000m GOOD

Mitty's Mc Ewen Stakes (G2)

Type: OPEN

Angelic Light settled in an ideal position, third on the rails, from her inside barrier (1). She then travelled nicely behind a solid pace before moving up at the home turn. She challenged strongly at the 100m and proved a bit too good to win by a short head in a surprise result, but it was a smart performance nevertheless. Lankan Rupee was quickly away from his outside barrier (9) and raced outside the leader (Eloping) at a good tempo. He got the better of that filly shortly after turning for home but could not hold off the late-closing winner after his early efforts at his first run since April to finish second. Eloping showed her customary pace to lead and led the field into the straight and then fought on quite well for third, beaten two and a quarter lengths. It Is Written made good ground from a distant fifth on the rails to finish (2.7 lengths) fourth. Three-year-old colt Orujo was fourth, one out and one back, to the turn and battled on in this strong class for (3.7 lengths) fifth. Cauthen was a distant seventh on the rails to the turn and kept battling on quite well for sixth, beaten five and a half lengths, at his first run since January. *ANZ

FP Horse, Age & Sex
Sire & Dam
Jockey
Trainer
SP
WT
1st 7. ANGELIC LIGHT (AUS) 5yo M
HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (IRE) - FLASHED (AUS)
RYAN MALONEY
ROBBIE GRIFFITHS
$21
56.5kg
Browns & Kirks, Flash Empress, J S H Racing, Roman Flash Racing, The Boom, A M Lamshed, C G Charteris, B M Pitt, H J Allen, J Armstrong & O Kysela

Sales Information

2nd 1. LANKAN RUPEE (AUS) 5yo G
REDOUTE'S CHOICE (AUS) - ESTELLE COLLECTION (NZ)
CRAIG NEWITT
MICK PRICE
$1.22
58.5kg
Teeley Assets Ltd Syndicate (Mgr: I O'Farrell)
3rd 9. ELOPING (AUS) 3yo F
CHOISIR (AUS) - RUNAWAY JESSE (AUS)
LINDA MEECH
P MORGAN & C WIDDISON
$9
50kg
Miss S M Miller, Segenhoe Thoroughbreds Australia (Mgr: K W Maloney)

Sales Information

4th 2. IT IS WRITTEN (AUS) 6yo G
WRITTEN TYCOON (AUS) - WINNING TEAM (AUS)
MATTHEW ALLEN
ROBBIE GRIFFITHS
$101
58.5kg

Sales Information

5th 8. ORUJO (AUS) 3yo G
EXCEED AND EXCEL (AUS) - RUM CRUISE (AUS)
TOMMY BERRY
JOHN O'SHEA
$41
52kg

Sales Information

6th 6. CAUTHEN (NZ) 4yo H
DARCI BRAHMA (NZ) - MINORI EXPRESS (AUS)
STEVE ARNOLD
TRENT BUSUTTIN
$21
58.5kg

Sales Information

7th 3. UNPRETENTIOUS (AUS) 6yo G
STRATUM (AUS) - ALISA FREE (AUS)
CRAIG WILLIAMS
MS N M BURKE
$21
58.5kg

Sales Information

8th 5. ACADEMY JACK (AUS) 7yo G
ROYAL ACADEMY (USA) - GDANSK DANZER (AUS)
NICHOLAS HALL
DALE SHORT
$101
58.5kg

Sales Information

9th 4. OUR NKWAZI (AUS) 8yo G
ARAZI (USA) - NKWAZI (AUS)
DWAYNE DUNN
SHAWN MATHRICK
$301
58.5kg

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