Racing Odds: Where Is Messene Heading In The Spring Season?
July 29th, 2014 by Pom de TurfHere’s another name for you to take note of ahead of the Spring Season, and a horse who might be in the picture for both the Emirates Stakes and the Cox Plate: Messene. He’s not featuring yet in the Racing odds for either the Cox Plate or the Emirates Stakes on Sportsbet as of right now, but he’ll no doubt appear as we get closer – and by then we’ll have a better idea of where he’s heading, too.
Messene has a strong record behind him: nine wins in 13 race starts and a streak of seven wins going into the Doncaster Mile in April. He didn’t win that race in heavy going, but there’s no reason at all why he wouldn’t be right in the mix for the Emirates Stakes – and time will tell if he’s to be aimed at the Cox Plate, according to trainer Wayne Hawkes: ‘he had a barrier trial on Monday in Sydney and he went super. He has only had one blemish this horse in his whole career; he hit a Doncaster Handicap on a bottomless 15 and he didn’t handle it. Corey Brown rode him and got off and said ‘is this some sort of horse’ and that was all he said. He ran out of his skin even though he ran seventh or eighth in that race. I don’t know where we are going to end up with him, but probably an Emirates. Is he a Cox Plate horse? Not at the moment because he isn’t weight-for-age and there is a big difference from handicaps to weight-for-age, but if he can make the step-up to weight-for-age we might have to recess it. He is another one that keeps jumping big hoops every time that we ask him to do it.’
So, with the right improvement heading into the Melbourne Spring, we could see a Cox Plate run for Messene on the cards, but time will tell – in the meantime, look out for the Racing odds as Messene heads for the Emirates Stakes…
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