Racing: Wall Street ready to return profit

Miraculously, no latent injuries have become obvious from when Wall Street was knocked off his feet in Saturday's $1 million The Oaks Stud Telegraph at Trentham.

Which is a wonderful result for those who have taken the $2.80 about him winning this Saturday's $200,000 Harcourts Thorndon Mile.

Wall Street was knocked sideways and went down on his head when badly checked and forced to clip a heel at the top of the home straight on Saturday.

Kelly Myers, rider of third-placed Stupendous, was suspended for two weeks and fined $1200 for causing the interference.

A fit and well Wall Street looks a standout over his favourite 1600m distance this time.

He was originally carded to carry a luxurious 54kg, but will move to 55kg with the weights about to be raised 1kg to take into account the withdrawal of the two joint topweights on 58kg: Sir Slick and O'Cartier. When a race is weighted it cannot have a topweight of less than 57kg.

Culminate, Eel Win and Run Like Al will now be joint topweights on 57kg.

The TAB yesterday suspended betting on the major Trentham races until Final Field options become available with the drawing of the fields at noon today.

No matter how short the TAB brought Wall Street into, punters wanted to take the short odds.

It will be interesting to see what the TAB opens him up at for Final Field betting today.

Willy Smith was yesterday withdrawn from the nominations for the $250,000 Century City Wellington Cup, almost certainly allowing heavily-backed Fiorano into the field.

Fiorano was No 20 in the order of entry but with Willy Smith withdrawn and Arlington almost certain to run in the Douro Cup instead, Fiorano will sneak into the 18-horse field.

The $70,000 Little India Desert Gold Stakes has drawn a top line-up of fillies, headed by Katie Lee and Adaline, who fought out great finishes to the Eight Carat and Royal Stakes at the Ellerslie carnival.

This time the talented pair face Eileen Dubh, Keep The Peace, Obsession and Pazzaglia.