The Henry Dwyer Racing stable has two runners today with UNDER OATH at Great Western and HONORABLE MENTION at Geelong.
Great Western – Soft (5)
With the hot weather forecast, this meeting has been brought forward to try and avoid the worst of the heat. They have put heaps of water on the track in the lead up to racing with 12mm applied today and 48mm in the week to have the track currently in the Soft 5 range.
Race 5 (1.05pm) Seppelt Great Western Cup
No.1 UNDER OATH – Jack Hill (Barrier 2)
UNDER OATH heads to Great Western today where he will tackle the 1950m Great Western Cup. He has drawn gate two and Jack Hill will ride.
UNDER OATH should be cherry ripe for the 1950m with two runs under his belt and while the form card doesn’t read too well, his run in a high rating Koroit Cup at Warrnambool last start had merit, especially dropping back into what is a weaker contest today. He has the winkers going on and the key for Jack Hill will be to get him out of the gates a little cleaner, as he has been tardy in his past two starts.
He ran second in this race last year and probably should have won, if he gets a really nice run in transit and get out in time, then he is a winning chance today.
TAB WIN Fixed Odds – $5.50 as at 8am)
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Geelong – Good (4)
The rail at Geelong is back to the true position having been out 8m at the most recent meeting so that inside section of the track will be in good order. With light winds forecast, expect horses on speed to be hard to run down.
Race 7 (4.55pm) Batman Management Group Bellarine Cup
No.1 HONORABLE MENTION – Zac Spain (Barrier 6)
HONORABLE MENTION heads to Geelong today where he will contest a 1400m BM64. He has drawn gate six and Zac Spain will ride.
HONORABLE MENTION was eight weeks between runs heading into Stawell last start where he got back to last in the early stages before hiking home in the second best last 600m split of the entire meeting. He’s never won at 1400m from nine attempts, but it looks the right distance progression the way he is racing. The key to HONORABLE MENTION’S chances could be being more prominent in the run as he was simply left with too much to do last start.
He will improve fitness wise from his last run and if he can hold his position more today in the run that will work in his favour, he is probably over the odds here and can fill the placings today.
TAB WIN Fixed Odds – $10 (as at 8am)