Sepoy: will be racing for a initial time given his win on Oct 29
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Australia: Sepoy’s extraordinary alleviation in a final dual weeks has assured tutor Peter Snowden to try a weight-carrying record with a Dubai-bound three-year-old in a Oakleigh Plate.
Snowden pronounced a colt, who has been degraded usually once in 11 starts, was leaner than ever before for a first-up run in Saturday’s 1100-metre aimless scurry with 58kg on his back.
Sepoy has a kilo some-more than final year’s leader Eagle Falls and will be giving as most as 6 kilos to 8 of a other 16 runners.
Snowden pronounced a weight disproportion between Sepoy and a comparison horses had been a regard though in a finish a star colt was primed to run.
“He has softened so most in a fortnight we can’t trust it,” Snowden told Radio Sport National.
“Normally he is turn and rugged first-up though to me he looks like he’s had a run and tightened adult unequivocally nicely.”
Snowden pronounced a Flemington jumpout dual weeks ago and successive trackwork had brought on Sepoy some-more than he could have imagined.
“He looks in good sequence and I’m unequivocally happy with a approach he’s been working,” Snowden said.
“To my eye a approach a equine looks like he needs to run.
“The work he did on Tuesday morning unequivocally flush him off and we feel he is going to run unequivocally good on Saturday.”
Sepoy would be a highest-weighted three-year-old to win a Oakleigh Plate, eclipsing a 57kg record set by Fastnet Rock in 2005.
Doubts about him environment a new weight symbol flush when Sepoy eased from $2 to $2.30 following clever support for a Jason Warren-trained Bel Sprinter who was corroborated in from $4.40 to $3.20.
The leader of 5 of his 6 starts, Bel Sprinter has 54kg in a Oakleigh Plate and is a usually other equine in a marketplace underneath double-figure odds.
Early punters also jumped on house a Peter Moody-trained Curtana who has firmed from $31 to a fourth line of betting during $18.
Facile Tigre, First Command and African Pulse are $15.
Kerrin McEvoy will float Sepoy, who is resuming after an dominant open debate with his final of 5 wins entrance in a Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes over 1200m during Flemington on Oct 29.
McEvoy will also float Sepoy when he runs in a $2 million Golden Shaheen in Dubai on Mar 31.
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