For most of Saturday, the nation’s racing public will be Cox Plate-centric, but for a group of Sydney-based owners the pressure will be on for the first race, as John Sargent’s maiden colt Credible Witness lines up for the $250,000 RL Inglis Banner Race at Moonee Valley.
Macau Derby winner Elderly Paradise treated his opponents with contempt to win the final leg of the Macau Triple Crown, the Macau Gold Cup with an easy five and a half length victory in the $1 million dollar Group 1 event on Saturday.
Quality mare Ortensia is on track for a breakthrough Group 1 win in the Burswood Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) at Ascot on Saturday after drawing ideally in barrier two.
ON PAGE 109 of Friday's Herald Sun there was a full-page ad of the like rarely, if ever, conjured up by the racing industry and presented in the nation's biggest-selling daily newspaper.