South Australian Derby Day

The South Australian Derby Day

The Adelaide Racing Tips Winter Carnival continues this week with the Group 1 SA Derby Day. SA Derby Day will be the feature race of our Expert Adelaide Racing Tips analyst Value Victor. We also have the Group 3 Sires Produce and the Adelaide Guineas to round out a big day of Adelaide Saturday Racing Tips at Morphettville.

The South Australian Derby is when the 3 year olds are on show over the Adelaide Racing Tips Winter Carnival with the running of the gruelling 2500m event for the  stayers. We also see those horses in action who may not have made it to the staying trip and they battle it out in the Listed Adelaide Guineas (1600m) for the 3yo’s. It is also a day that we also see the youngsters stretch out over a little more ground as the 2yo’s go to battle in the Group 3 Sires Produce Stakes.

South Australian Derby – Group 1 2500m

The South Australian Derby is a Group 1 race run over 2500m for the 3YO’s at Morphettville racecourse during the Adelaide Racing Tips Winter Carnival. It presents the late maturing 3 year olds with one last chance to gather some Group 1 glory before the conclusion of the racing season that sends them into their 4 year old year.

The Derby is no doubt one of the greatest endurance tests for any 3 year old 2500m for the yet fully matured horse is a big test. There is no doubt those that handle it well can go on to make their names in some of the nations biggest staying races like the Caulfield and Melbourne Cup.

Derby past winners

Recent history maybe doesn’t reflect this point however with names like Subzero (1992), Mapperly Heights(1984), Shivas Revenge (1991) Count Chivas (1995) and Mummify (2003) shows that the top class staying races are not beyond the winner of this race.

Last years winner was filly Quafila but Mr Quickie ran a super race and he went on to win the Queensland Derby holding off the subsequent Melbourne Cup Winner Vow And Declare. So when you dig a little deeper the form lines are there.

Lead up races to the Derby

Horses engaged in the South Australian Derby follow one of 3 roads there. There is the traditional 3 race program that incorporates the horse running in the Port Adelaide Guineas (listed 1800m) followed a fortnight later by the Chairman’s Stake (Group 3 2000m) and then the Derby a fortnight later.

The second road is competing in mile/2000 metre restricted age races in Melbourne as the lead up to the Derby.

The third option is left to those who perhaps failed to measure up to the top liners over “the Championships” and are sent to Adelaide as at times a bit of an “afterthought” but still do have a reasonable rate of success.

South Australian Derby Betting Odds market

$3.00 Dalasan
$4.00 Warning
$4.40 Russian Camelot
$13.00 Moonlight Maid
$19.00 Zayydani, Miyake, The Moonlitegambler
$21.00 Saint Eustace
$23.00 Silent Sovereign
$30.00+ all other runners

SA Sires Produce Stakes 2 yo’s 1400m

The SA Sires Produce is a Group 3 race for the 2YO’s run at set weight conditions over 1400m at Morphettville racecourse worth $120,000. Horses generally come into this race following a run in the SA Breeders Stakes over 1200m a fortnight earlier over the Adelaide Racing Tips Carnival. It is the first race run beyond 1200m for the 2YOs over the Adelaide Carnival.

In the last 5 years 4 SA Sires winners have either won or been placed in the Breeders a fortnight earlier. Rebel Raider is probably the most famous horse to win the Sires Produce over the last 20 years going on to win the Victoria Derby in the same year.

Adelaide Guineas 3 yo’s 1600m

The Adelaide Guineas is a Listed race for 3yo’s run over 1600m at Morphettville Racecourse worth $100,000. The Guineas attracts 2 different styles of horses. It will be either those horses stepping up in journey from the Listed Nitschke Stakes (1400m) run 2 weeks earlier over the Adelaide Racing Tips Winter Carnival or you will find horses dropping back in trip from possibly the Chairman’s Stakes (2000m) and failed to stay hence they don’t press on toward the Derby. What this tends to do is make it a tremendously tactical race. The horses dropping back in trip hold the fitness advantage however those going to the mile the first time may have a speed advantage. In these 2 scenarios we always prefer backing fitness over speed, so we will generally be on the horse dropping back in trip.

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