Melbourne Cup Racing Odds: Silent Achiever Picks A Route To The Cup
August 20th, 2014 by Pom de TurfSilent Achiever is a horse that comes to the 2014 Melbourne Spring with a great Autumn campaign behind her, and trainer Roger James has already confirmed that she will be aimed at the Melbourne Cup this year. But he faces a choice of how the emerging star gets to the Melbourne Cup – the Cox Plate and the Caulfield Cup are both options, and you’d expect Silent Achiever to feature in the early Racing odds for both…
James is pleased with where Silent Achiever has ended up after a very successful Autumn, he told Racing Ahead: ‘she did have a nice hit-out this morning and it was her first hit-out in company this preparation. She has done a lot of good basic work and we had the course proper this morning; there hasn’t been a horse on it in three and a half months. She worked with Zonza and I was really happy with both of their work, more so because of the way they pulled up afterwards as well. I think that Silent Achiever is right where we want her. She had six weeks complete break and she has been in work about nine weeks. She has had a long build-up.’
But the question remains where she will go in the Melbourne Spring – after a failed campaign last year, James will want to make sure that he gives her the best possible chance in 2014: ‘it was going to be last year, but we had a hiccup the week before. I have always been confident that she would get the two mile and she was able to run out a mile and a half in our Derby here as a very weak and frail three-year-old. Those indications right from an early stage would be that she would get two mile. I might pull the blinkers off her when we are going the ultimate trip, but we can decide that as we go along. She will go to the Memsie (Stakes) first-up, as she did last year. It is fair to say that she looked a trifle unlucky in the Memsie and never really going a go at all in the straight. She will then go to the Underwood (Stakes) and I will make a decision once I see the weights as to whether we go to a Caulfield Cup or a Cox Plate on the way to the Melbourne Cup.’
Whether it’s the Cox Plate or the Caulfield Cup, it’s worth having an eye out for Silent Achiever amongst those Racing odds – she’s a great prospect with a strong Autumn performance behind her…
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