Wall Street hot-shot in next NZ Triple Crown event
Thursday, 9 September 2010: The NZ TAB has Wall Street at a $2.00 favorite for that race, but it says the price has not stemmed a continuous flow of money for the son of Montjeu.
The winner of the initial race in the series, Keep The Peace is at $5.50 chance and the TAB says success for the Mudgway winners looms as another bad result.
It says there was plenty of early season money for My Keepsake (now $15), but that has dried up since her disappointing eighth, as favourite, in the open 1600m handicap on Mudgway day.
Surprisingly there has been little money for Katie Lee ($8.00), suggesting her trainers, Graeme and Debbie Rogerson, might favour an Australian trip over the Hastings race. The four year-old mare is entered for Ruakaka on Saturday.
In the final of the triple crown, the $250,000 Spring Classic, on October 2, the TAB reports a constant flow of cash for Ginga Dude ($8.00). The 2009 runner up's opening odds were $21 before strong backing, and two trial wins, saw him paying $10 before his fresh-up win at Ellerslie on Saturday.
He is the worst result for the TAB bookies in the Group 1 2040m feature.
Jeff Lynds' runners Vosne Romanee ($3.50) and Wall Street ($4.50) head the market, but support in the Spring Classic has largely fallen on the side of defending champion Vosne Romanee. Keep The Peace's ($8.50) trainer Shaune Ritchie has suggested that she is likely to contest the Yalumba Stakes at Flemington, in Melbourne, a week after the Classic, so is unlikely to run in the third leg of the triple crown.
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