Recap by phillip woo

Beauty King handed the front to Thanksgiving at the 1,250m, narrowly reclaimed the lead three deep at the 250m and just held off a flurry of challengers on both sides to register back-to-back wins. Double Glory enjoyed the box-seat run, stayed near the inside upon straightening and stayed on well to nip Expedite in a photo for the Quinella spot. Specked at odds, Expedite angled off heels five deep at the 300m following a one-off run in midfield and ran on nicely to make it close at the wire. Oscar Miracle made his run in fourth and one off the rails, rounded the final bend with three wider out and kept up a reasonable gallop to just missed a placing. Griffindor made his move 500m out after travelling fourth from the rear, straightened widest out and was doing some nice work late. Early favourite Starting Over stayed on the inside after travelling third from the rear and made some ground. without menacing. Forgive And Forget was rather one-paced over the final 150m after taking off at the 500m from behind midfield. Late-fancied favourite Lucky Hammer recovered to travel along the rails in midfield after a slow break, straightened three deep and made some progress without ever looking a threat.

Racing Incident Report

Race Six: (127)-POPLAR HANDICAP - Class 3 - 1650Metres

As the start was effected, LUCKY HAMMER lifted its front feet off the ground and consequently was slow to begin.

After this, LUCKY HAMMER was ridden along to make up lost ground and passing the winning post on the first occasion became unbalanced when being steadied away from the heels of DOUBLE GLORY.

Then making the turn approaching the 1300 Metres, LUCKY HAMMER had its head on the side and raced tight inside EXPEDITE which shifted in when awkwardly placed close to the heels of OSCAR MIRACLE.

AMAZINGLY was slow to begin.

GRIFFINDOR, which was leaning on the outside of its stall, began awkwardly.

From wide barriers, ENTRUSTING and STEP HIGH were shifted across behind runners in the early stages.

Passing the 1100 Metres, ENTRUSTING blundered and lost ground when momentarily crowded for room inside GRIFFINDOR which got its head on the side and shifted in marginally.

STEP HIGH and STARTING OVER were hampered in consequence.

Although this incident was one of some significance, the Stewards did not believe that there was careless riding involved and therefore no further action was taken.

Approaching the 600 Metres, LUCKY HAMMER raced in restricted room inside EXPEDITE which was awkwardly placed close to the heels of OSCAR MIRACLE.

Near the 200 Metres, EXPEDITE was shifted out away from the heels of BEAUTY KING after being awkwardly placed behind that horse.

At the 100 Metres, FORGIVE AND FORGET was bumped by AMAZINGLY which shifted out into tight running between that horse and OSCAR MIRACLE.

Over the concluding stages, AMAZINGLY was awkwardly placed outside the heels of OSCAR MIRACLE and consequently was not able to be properly tested.

Close to the finishing line, LUCKY HAMMER raced close to the heels of DOUBLE GLORY.

LUCKY HAMMER, BEAUTY KING and DOUBLE GLORY were sent for sampling.