Journalists Wandering Eyes Posted November 15, 2023 Journalists Share Posted November 15, 2023 Far Too Easy has opened as the favourite for the $1 million Hunter at Newcastle this weekend. Metropolitan racing heads to Newcastle on Saturday afternoon, with a competitive 16-horse field set to line up in The Hunter (1300m). After running third in The Kosciuszko (1200m), Far Too Easy has opened as a +340 favourite with online bookmakers. The son of All Too Hard was impressive making inroads from near-last on October 14, leaving punters keen to latch onto the David McColm-trained five-year-old. Mazu brings an element of class to the $1 million race as the only Australian Group 1 winner engaged and shares the second line of betting at +500. His form behind 2023 Everest (1200m) winner Think About It prior to a mid-field finish in the Giga Kick Stakes (1300m) reads well heading into Saturday. I Am Me (+500) is yet to have a jockey assigned but has been racing in terrific order, finding success in the Group 3 Sydney Stakes (1200m) before running into Imperatriz in the Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on October 28. The Joseph Pride-trained Coal Crusher (+500) beat home Mazu in the Giga Kick and has been respected as an equal-second elect in the market. King Of Sparta heads the double-figure hopes at +1000 after finishing mid-field in the Sydney Stakes and will need to overcome another awkward draw in barrier 10. Opal Ridge and Dajraan share that quote and will be considered strong chances with only 53kg on their backs. The Hunter is scheduled as race eight on the Newcastle program on Saturday and is set to get underway at 4:45pm AEDT. The Hunter 2023 field No. Silks Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight 1 Mazu Peter & Paul Snowden Nash Rawiller 6 59kg 2 Vilana James Cummings Adam Hyeronimus 16 58kg 3 King Of Sparta Peter & Paul Snowden Chad Schofield 10 57.5kg 4 I Am Me Ciaron Maher & David Eustace TBC 4 57kg 5 Street Acer Edward Cummings N/A 5 57kg 6 Coal Crusher Joseph Prider Tyler Schiller 2 56.5kg 7 Rustic Steel Kris Lees Sam Clipperton 18 56kg 8 Dark Destroyer John O’Shea Tom Sherry 17 55.5kg 9 Excellent Proposal Michael Freedman Joshua Parr 11 56kg 10 Ayrton Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr) Brett Prebble 9 55kg 11 Far Too Easy David McColm Jason Collett 1 54kg 12 Rocketing By David Pfieffer TBC 12 54kg 13 Sinawann Joseph Pride Reece Jones 15 53.5kg 14 Opal Ridge Luke Pepper Dylan Gibbons 14 53kg 15 Dajraan Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Tim Clark 13 53kg 16 Gravina James Cummings Zac Lloyd 7 53kg 17 Military Expert (1E) Annabel Neasham Rachel King 3 52kg 18 Umgawa (2E) Leon & Troy Corstens Liam Riordan 8 52kg 19 Much Much Better (3E) Sara Ryan TBC 19 52kg More horse racing news View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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