Melbourne Cup Odds: Silent Achiever Sweats On Turnbull Stakes
October 2nd, 2014 by Pom de TurfThere’s little doubt that Silent Achiever is a classy addition to the 2014 Melbourne Spring, and she’ll be popular with punters when she appears in the Racing odds for big races – but will the Melbourne Cup be one of those races? Silent Achiever has always been more of a likelihood for the Cox Plate than for the Race That Stops A Nation, according to trainer Roger James, but her run in this weekend’s Turnbull Stakes is an important part of her Spring Festival, and will go a long way to deciding which races she targets as the season goes on.
The problem for James and taking Silent Achiever to the Melbourne Cup will be the weights allocated for the 2014 race – with the weights being that much higher, the odds could well be stacked against a mare like Silent Achiever. But the Melbourne Cup is still on the table, it sounds like: ‘the Cox Plate is probably more my leaning now that I’ve seen the weights for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, but no decision will be made on that until after Saturday’s race. We’re taking one race at a time. With the weight she’s got in the Melbourne Cup, I was pretty excited about getting there with her but I’m not quite as excited about it now. And we have the Autumn to think of. The Melbourne Cup is not a certainty. I saw where you had to go back to 1942 since a mare carried more than 54.5 to win it. So the odds are stacked against us a bit. If she happened to go to a Cox Plate and win it, we might look at completely different options. I’ve got enormous respect for her but she’s a good mare without being a great mare in my book. The great mares are your Makybe Divas and your Sunlines and those sorts of mares. We beat some pretty nice horses in the Autumn in the Ranvet and BMW and those races are going to be there again but those horses aren’t. And sometimes smaller fish are sweet, and the Ranvet and BMW are not exactly small. I always said that Saturday’s run will be pivotal on her preparation and that’s still how I see it.’
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