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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 03: General view of crowds in race 7, the Emirates Melbourne Cup on Melbourne Cup Day at Flemington Racecourse on November 3, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images)

Flemington played host to the Black Caviar Lightning on Saturday

  PICTURE: Getty  

 By Sam Walker 12:39pM 22 FEB 2016 

ROYAL ASCOT hopeful Chautauqua got up late in a thrilling finish to the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes at Flemington on Saturday, but there was a distinct draw bias on the straight track which might have made a big difference to the result.

With five Group 1 winners in the line up the Lightning could have been the most informative sprint of the year, but when the six runners split into two groups it effectively left a four-runner race on the stands’ side, won by Chautauqua, and an uneven match race on the far side, won by Exosphere.

Winning rider Dwayne Dunn played his hand right. He was drawn on the far side but switched around the back of runners to track the near-side group and came home widest of all, rattling up the rail to earn an RPR of 124. He covered a lot of ground but he ran on the best of it.

Exosphere, on the other hand, raced on the worst of it. He was beaten a length and a half by the winner, but the disadvantage in running up his side of the track looked huge in the other two races up the straight track and he probably did well to finish as close as he did.

It is tough to say based purely on the way the track was riding that he definitely would have won, but the evidence is striking.

One-sided affair

Earlier on the card in the juvenile Listed race just three of the 15 runners came up the stands’ side, but two of those finished a cosy first and second. The winner beat the far side dozen by 4.75 lengths and the second was over three-lengths ahead of them.

By the time of the final race up the straight track jockey Craig Newitt had seen enough. He described his manoeuvre as “a little switcheroo,” effectively matching Dunn’s move on Chautauqua by taking a right-hander to track the stands’ group before charging up the near rail.

Newitt was well beaten on the far side in both earlier sprints and later described that part of the track as “far inferior.” Newitt’s last race winner We’ve Got This beat the first horse home on the far side by five-lengths, which brings us back to Exosphere.

No horse who raced up that side, other than Exosphere, managed to get within four-and-a-half lengths of the winner. This doesn’t mean we can jump right in and mark him up by that much, but it does mean he could have something in hand for next month’s Newmarket Handicap.

The Aussie handicapper can not definitively say the colt was a couple of lengths better than the bare form on Saturday, so his weight for the Newmarket should not go up. This means we could have potentially the best sprinter in Aus carrying the weight of the fourth or fifth best.

Potential star

The three-year-old Exosphere certainly looked like he could be the best around when travelling all over Saturday’s narrow runner-up Terravista in a barrier trial a couple of weeks ago, so there are a couple of indicators that he just might be the new kid on the block.

We shouldn’t ignore Saturday’s winner Chautauqua (124), who pipped his old foe Terravista (124) by a short-head with another display of that rare turn of foot. This was his first top level success over 5f and he should at least match that as he steps up to 6f.

Chautauqua has been at the top of the sprinting tree in Australia since 2014 and looks set to take to the skies in the coming months with top-level races in Hong Kong and Royal Ascot on the agenda.

Current world leader Aerovelocity will be a tough nut to crack in the Chairman’s Sprint in April, especially given that Chautauqua’s typically tardy starts may not play well around the speedy Sha Tin track.

But up the straight track at Ascot he would have a leading chance in either of the Group 1 sprints providing his speed lasts up the hill. As always, I would recommend the Aussies take the 5f option of the King’s Stand Stakes, rather than the Diamond Jubilee over 6f.

Ex-Aussie Starspangledbanner won the longer sprint when trained by Aidan O’Brien and the greatest of them all Black Caviar just held on to win it, but the Diamond Jubilee isn’t a typical flat-track 6f and historically overseas raiders have done much better in the shorter races at Royal Ascot.

As he’s owned by Godolphin, Exosphere might end up at Royal Ascot at some stage. They’re still waiting for a first big international sprint star to come out of their huge Australian operation and this boy could be the one.

Still, it’s probably best to wait and see how far he wins the Newmarket Handicap (he’s currently a 4-1 chance to beat the handicapper) before booking his ticket to Ascot.

TOP OF THE CLASS: Chautauqua 124 Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes (Aus) (Black Caviar Lightning, Flemington, 5f, 20 February)

TOP LIST

Name (country trained) Race Rating
1 Aerovelocity (HK) Centenary Sprint Cup 125T
2 Chautauqua Black Caviar Lightning 124T
Terravista (Aus) Black Caviar Lightning 124T
 4 Fame Game (Jpn) Diamond Stakes 123T
5 Not Listening’tome (HK) Bauhinia Sprint Trophy 121T
6 Ertijaal (UAE) Meydan Handicap 120T
Exosphere (Aus) Black Caviar Lightning 120T
  Gold Fun (HK) Centenary Sprint Cup 120T
Lucky HUssler (Aus) Jewel Magic Millions Cup 120T
  Tepin (US) Endeavour Stakes 120T

TURF

Name (country trained) Race Rating
1 Aerovelocity (HK) Centenary Sprint Cup 125
2 Chautauqua Black Caviar Lightning 124
Terravista (Aus) Black Caviar Lightning 124
 4 Fame Game (Jpn) Diamond Stakes 123
5 Not Listening’tome (HK) Bauhinia Sprint Trophy 121
6 Ertijaal (UAE) Meydan Handicap 120
Exosphere (Aus) Black Caviar Lightning 120
  Gold Fun (HK) Centenary Sprint Cup 120
Lucky HUssler (Aus) Jewel Magic Millions Cup 120
  Tepin (US) Endeavour Stakes 120

DIRT

Name (country trained) Race Rating
1 Frosted (US) Al Maktoum Challenge R2 119
  Songbird (US) Las Virgenes 119
3 Rich Tapestry (HK) Al Shindgha Sprint 118
4 California Chrome (US) San Pasqual 116
  Nyquist (US) San Vincente 116
6 Tommy Macho (US) Fred W Hopper 116
Hokko Tarumae (Jpn) Kawasaki Kinen 115
  Sound True (Jpn) Kawasaki Kinen 115
  Kobe’s Back (US) Palos Verdes 114
  La Verdad (US) Interborough Stakes 114
  Mshawish (US) Donn Handicap 114
  Mor Spirit (US) Robert B Lewis 114
  Salutos Amigos (US) Midnight Lute Stakes 114
  Taris (US) La Canada Stakes 114
  Valid (US) Hal’s Hope 114

 

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