MELBOURNE - Champion New Zealand mare Sunline and Sydney's favourite galloper Tie The Knot head the latest market issued yesterday for the $A2 million Cox Plate (2040m) in Melbourne in October.
Sunline and Tie The Knot are quoted at 6-1 by leading Melbourne bookmaker Michael Eskander, ahead of the Irish-trained Greek Dance and last year's Caulfield Cup winner Sky Heights at 8-1.
Gai Waterhouse's three-year-old Assertive Lad and Fantastic Light, runner-up to French champion Montjeu in last Saturday's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes in England, are on the next line of betting at 10-1.
Dual Australian Horse of the Year Might And Power, on the comeback trail, is quoted at 12-1.
Meanwhile, New Zealand mare Showella retained her place at the top of the Melbourne Cup market at 12-1 and was equal favourite for the Caulfield Cup with fellow New Zealand-trained Kaapstaad Way at 10-1.
The latest markets from Eskander for the big three Melbourne spring features are:-
$A2 million CAULFIELD CUP (2400m) October 21
10 Kaapstad Way, Showella
12 Freemason
16 Shogun Lodge, Mutafaweq, Timahs
20 All The Way, Desert Rain, Fantastic Light, Farcry, Hill Of Grace, Muhib, Seawave, Yes I Will
25 Beat The Fade, Diatribe, Fairway, Georgie Boy, Inaflury, Padfoot Charlie, Sky Heights
33 Churlish Charm, Maguire, Might And Power, Mr Nelson, Persian Punch, Sarwatch, The Hind, Tie The Knot
$A2 million COX PLATE (2040m) October 28
6 Sunline, Tie The Knot
8 Greek Dance, Sky Heights
10 Assertive Lad, Fantastic Light
12 Might And Power, Mutafaweq, Shogun Lodge
20 Fairway, Seawave, Showella, Timahs, Testa Rossa
33 Adair, All The Way, Alrassaam, Beat All, Nowhere To Exit, Sagamix
$A3,3 million MELBOURNE CUP (3200m) November 7.
12 Showella
14 Far Cry, Freemason
16 Mutafaweq
20 Enzeli, Fantastic Light, Persian Punch, Streak, Timahs
25 All The Way, Bohemiath, Churlish Charm, Compton Ace, Kaapstad Way, Padfoot Charlie, Shogun Lodge, Sky Heights, The Hind, Tie The Knot, Vicious Circle, Zonda
33 Artic Owl, Desert Rain, Diatribe, Hill Of Grace, Oxford Dollar, Second Coming, Ta-Lim.
Racing: Sunline leads in Cox favouritism
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