Racing: Rivals scared of favourite

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Rival trainers fear odds-on favourite Whobegotyou will be too classy for their horses as he shoots for his first Flemington win in the Blamey Stakes.

Mick Price dodged today's Group One Australian Cup (2000m) with Spacecraft to run him in the Group Two Blamey.

But he doesn't think the Galileo 4-year-old is up to beating Whobegotyou who is being prepared for another crack at the A$2 million Group One Doncaster Mile at Randwick on April 16, a race in which he ran third as a 3-year-old in 2009.

Peter Moody will saddle up Doubtful Jack in the 1600m set weights plus penalties event.

"He's four for four at Flemington. He loves the big track there and he'll race on or about the speed," Moody said.

"It looked a perfect race until we saw who the [equal] topweight was.

"Whobegotyou is the class horse. He's probably the only genuine Group one horse in the race and with even luck it's hard to see him being beaten."

Whobegotyou is A$1.70 favourite with TAB Sportsbet ahead of Dao Dao, third in the Futurity, at A$5 and Spacecraft at A$7.50 with Doubtful Jack at A$12.

- AAP