Journalists Wandering Eyes Posted October 13, 2022 Journalists Share Posted October 13, 2022 The Ciaron Maher & David Eustace-trained Smokin’ Romans is clear favourite drawn ideally in gate five to extend his winning streak and salute for the punters in the Group 1 $5 million Carlton Draught Caulfield Cup (2400m) on Saturday. Impressive 2022 Turnbull Stakes winner Smokin’ Romans is favourite to take out the Caulfield Cup 2022 this weekend. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos. A capacity field of stayers faces off in this weekend’s Caulfield Cup and markets at Ladbrokes have the airborne Smokin’ Romans on top at $4.50 and firming. Ms Jamie Kah comes aboard the in-form six-year-old who has won his past two on the trot. He was good on a Heavy (8) Caulfield track two back winning the Group 3 Naturalism Stakes (2000m) and franked that form with his 1.5 length upset at $20 in the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m). The Kiwi-bred galloper has won up to 2500m previously and should appreciate getting back up to a mile and a half as he looks to become the third horse in as many years to complete the Turnbull Stakes – Caulfield Cup double. Even with a 1.5 kg penalty the favourite gets in favourably weight-wise carrying 51.5kg and looks a genuine chance with plenty working in his favour. There are two other last start winners in the Caulfield Cup field this spring with the James Cummings-trained Alegron ($11) and the Chris Waller-trained No Compromise ($20) drawn alongside each other in barriers 14 and 13 respectively. Alegron, who will be ridden by Smokin’ Roman’s regular hoop Ethan Brown on 53kg, was last seen taking out the Group 3 Kingston Town Stakes (2000m) with 55kg second-up. He is improving each run and was good at his last 2400m performance when third under a length off Hitotsu in the Group 1 ATC Derby (2400m) in the autumn. Pins six-year-old No Compromise posted his seventh career win at start number 30 a fortnight back on Epsom Day at Randwick, the gun wet tracker improving on a sixth in the Kingston Town Stakes to narrowly take out the Group 1 The Metropolitan (2400m). Waller won the Caulfield Cup two years ago with his great mare Verry Elleegant and also saddles-up Great House ($21) and Crystal Pegasus ($61) along with having the first emergency Durston ($20) in this year’s field. Occupying the second line of Caulfield Cup betting behind Smokin’ Romans this season is Benaud ($9) for John O’Shea racing on successive Saturdays. The classy grey is drawn the far outside alley and is out to join Incentivise (2022) and Dunaden (2012) as the recent Caulfield Cup winners from barrier 18 of 18. Benaud was runner-up in April’s ATC Derby on a Heavy (9) and has had four runs this prep for mixed results. Two back he was second in the Kingston Town Stakes before a sixth to Cox Plate favourite Anamoe here last Saturday in the Group 1 Might And Power (2000m) when only 2.45 lengths off the winner. Other notable Caulfield Cup hopefuls this year include Smokin’ Roman’s Melbourne Cup-bound stablemate Gold Trip ($12) carrying the 57.5kg top-weight, Edward Cummings’ multiple Group 1 winning mare Duais ($13) and the market mover Knights Order ($12) for Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott. The Caulfield Cup runs as Race 9 at 5:15pm (AEDT) on Saturday’s big 10-race Caulfield card. 2022 Caulfield Cup Final Field & Barrier Draw No Last 10 Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight Penalty Hcp Rating 1 4x52x3x335 GOLD TRIP (FR) Ciaron Maher & David Eustace Mark Zahra 12 57.5kg 115 2 x96117x068 DUAIS Edward Cummings Joshua Parr 9 55.5kg 116 3 0x3521x134 KNIGHTS ORDER (IRE) Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Tim Clark 18 55.5kg 114 4 214x718x43 MONTEFILIA David Payne Jason Collett 16 55.5kg 116 5 7x60211x22 NUMERIAN (IRE) Annabel Neasham Tommy Berry 10 55.5kg 113 6 64122×8767 NONCONFORMIST Grahame Begg Jordan Childs 15 54.5kg 116 7 0x8x00x535 VOW AND DECLARE Danny O’Brien Blake Shinn 17 54kg 110 8 32510×5361 NO COMPROMISE (NZ) Chris Waller Craig Newitt 13 53.5kg 1.0kg 108 9 2x80314x71 ALEGRON James Cummings Ethan Brown 14 53kg 114 10 62542×6426 BENAUD John O’Shea Regan Bayliss 20 53kg 115 11 x438240x30 GREAT HOUSE (IRE) Chris Waller Brett Prebble 3 53kg 110 12 x5x6160x27 INSPIRATIONAL GIRL (NZ) Danny O’Brien Jye McNeil 1 53kg 109 13 6x00x25x82 MAXIMAL (GB) John O’Shea Ben Melham 19 53kg 112 14 7321763×46 SOUND (GER) Michael Moroney Blaike McDougall 4 53kg 110 15 0x0036x840 CHAPADA Michael Moroney Daniel Stackhouse 11 52.5kg 108 16 211119×900 CRYSTAL PEGASUS (GB) Chris Waller Damien Thornton 2 52kg 108 17 12219×9211 SMOKIN’ ROMANS (NZ) Ciaron Maher & David Eustace Ms Jamie Kah 5 51.5kg 1.5kg 114 18 4x33219x70 TRALEE ROSE (NZ) Symon Wilde Dean Yendall 8 51.5kg 106 19e x4x1x70116 DURSTON (GB) Chris Waller Michael Dee 6 51.5kg 1.5kg 105 20e 21x01x9142 MAKRAM (IRE) Ben & JD Hayes 7 50kg 104 Table Credit: Racing Australia. 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