Melbourne Cup Odds: Signoff On Shortening Odds
November 1st, 2014 by Pom de TurfHe’s no guarantee to make the final field just at the moment, but that hasn’t stopped the odds for Signoff in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup shortening and shortening over the course of the last week. A glance at the Racing odds as the stand at the moment will tell you that he’s at odds of $15.00 just at the moment, and he’s getting plenty of backing at that price, too.
Entry for signoff into the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday will depend on a win in the Lexus Stakes today, but he is the overwhelming favourite to come home in that one, and a win there will buy him a ticket to The Race That Stops A Nation. Once he’s there, then he’s legitimately worth a look, and he could be a real chance for the race. Trainer Darren Weir was playing things down when he spoke to the press, but it must be an exciting prospect for him to sneak a runner into the 2014 Melbourne Cup: ‘he has drawn well, he is very fit and well and he has had a great preparation. Glen (Boss) got off him last start and suggested he needed blinkers and Johnny Allan who rides a lot of work for us here has been saying that for a quite a while and we thought this was a good time to put them on. I would have thought that he would be in the first four or five. It would be pretty hard not to (back-up in the Melbourne Cup), but we will just see how the horses pulls up and all those sorts of things. We will just get through Saturday first and worry about Tuesday when that comes.’
Well, Tuesday isn’t that far off now, and you’ll want to get yourself up to speed with all the Racing odds by hitting the link there – it could well be that there’s a fairytale run in the Melbourne Cup for Signoff, who would be winning his first Group 1 race to get there, and he’s proving popular with the punters…
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