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Melbourne Racing Tips Moir Stakes

          Moir Stakes Friday night

MELBOURNE RACING TIPS – FRIDAY AFL GRAND FINAL EVE

It is a Melbourne Racing Tips bonanza this Saturday Racing Tips weekend of the AFL Grand Final. Our Expert Melbourne Racing Tips analyst Pete Brinky will feature the big Underwood Stakes meeting at Caulfield SUNDAY after the AFL Grand Final. This will replace the Saturday AFL Grand Final meeting at Mornington. Caulfield Sunday meeting form sheet and tips will be sent out Saturday morning.

We will also cover the 3 primary Group races on the Friday night including the Melbourne Racing Tips Group 1 Moir Stakes at Moonee Valley. It is a capacity field for the Moir Stakes of 15 acceptors and is going to be a real highlight of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. Form sheets and tips for the Moonee Valley Moir Stakes meeting will be sent Friday morning of race day.

Melbourne Racing Tips – MOIR STAKES

The Moir Stakes is a Group 1 1000m race run at WFA at Moonee Valley Racecourse as a night meeting on the eve of the AFL Grand Final. The race was formerly a Group 2 event run at 1200m but in 2015 the race was reduced to 1000m and had Group 1 status applied.

It gives the perfect lead in to the Group 1 Manikato Stakes run at Moonee Valley on Cox Plate Eve run a month later. The meeting also hosts the Group 2 Stock takes for the mares at WFA over 1600m, the Group 2 Stutt stakes for the 3 YO over the 1600m run at set weights and penalties, there are also two Group 3 races run on the night as well the Scarborough Stakes a race for 3 YO Fillies run at set weights over the 1200m and the Group 3 JRA Cup run over the Cox Plate distance of 2040m under handicap conditions.

Winner heads to The Everest

The race was won last year by Viddora who with that win was able to earn a start in “The Everest” as part of the Sydney Racing Tips Spring Racing Carnival. Many horses will be attempting to take a similar path again this year. this race is now also an ideal lead in for the topline sprinters into the Group 1 Manikato Stakes run on Cox Plate Eve at Moonee Valley. The race itself is named after Sir Alan John Moir the former chairman of the Moonee Valley Racing Club.

Inside barrier crucial

This race over the scamper means horses have to be at top speed the whole way particularly on the tight turning Valley track. inside barriers can be crucial and historically it’s the 1st up horses who have the best record, the next best are horses who come through the McEwen run earlier in the Melbourne Racing Tips Spring Carnival.

Melbourne Racing Tips – Stock Stakes

This is a Group 2 race for the mares over the 1600m and is used as a stepping stone by some toward the Group 1 Myer Classic on Derby Day at Flemington over the Melbourne Racing Tips Spring Carnival. Generally the mares filter into the race from a run in the mares only Group 2 Lets Elope Stakes earlier in the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival with both last years winner (I Am A Star) and 2016 winner (Don’t Doubt Mamma) doing the double. The Group 1 Memsie stakes has also been a lead in for some mares contesting this, apart from the Group 1 Myer Classic the mares also go on to a race like the Blazer stakes on Turnbull Stakes day at Flemington or the Group 2 Tristarc Stakes on Caulfield Cup Day.

Melbourne Racing Tips – Stutt Stakes

This is the first 1600m Group race of the Melbourne Racing Tips Carnival and it really starts to sort the “men” out from the “boys” for those on the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas trail or even possibly the Group 1 Victoria Derby. The Stutt Stakes doesn’t really attract the absolute topliners as they generally line up in the Guineas Prelude. However it gives us a good indication of whether these horses are likely to be strong at a mile and beyond because for a lot of them this will be the first time they have gone to that sort of distance range.


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