Turnbull Stakes - Form Focus
- Friday, 04 October 2002 00:00
VRC Turnbull Stakes
(2000m)
Group 2 - Of $351,500 - Set Weights & Penalties
TEN YEAR TRENDS
Year - Winner - Trainer - Jockey - No. - Barr. - SP - Wgt. - Lead-up Form
1992 NATURALISM D.FREEDMAN S.MARSHALL - 5 - 12 - 4/5f - 57 - 5th AJC 1200m Hcp-1st Memsie Stks-1st Feehan Stks
1993 THE PHANTOM CHANCE C.JILLINGS R.VANCE - 7 - 9 - 8 - 55.5 - 7th NZ 1200m Hcp-5th NZ 1400m WFA
1994 REDDING G.KELLY D.BRERETON - 2 - 9 - 11/2 - 59 - 3rd Memsie Stks - 2nd Feehan Stks
1995 ALL OUR MOB G.WATERHOUSE W.HARRIS - 1 - 16 - 33 - 59 - 7th STC Theo Marks-6th VicHealth Cup
1996 DORIEMUS D.FREEDMAN G.HALL - 1 - 14 - 3ef - 59 - 7th Craiglee Stks-6th Underwood Stks
1997 MARBLE HALLS D.FREEDMAN D.OLIVER - 6 - 9 - 15/4 - 57 - 7th Liston Stks-1st Craiglee Stks-3rd Underwood Stks
1998 AEROSMITH P.HURDLE G.CHILDS - 1 - 14 - 15 - 59 - 5th Memsie Stks-1st Feehan Stks- 5th Underwood Stks
1999 SKY HEIGHTS C.ALDERSON D.OLIVER - 2 - 5 - 9/10f - 57.5 - 2nd Liston Stks-1st Craiglee Stks
2000 FAIRWAY J.DENHAM D.BEADMAN - 4 - 4 - 10 - 57.5 - 9th Tramway Hcp-7th Shannon Qlty-6th Geo.Main Stks
2001 SUNLINE - T.MCKEE - G.CHILDS - 6 - 12 - $2.25f - 56.5 - 2nd Manikato Stks-1st Memsie Stks-2nd Feehan Stks
Note: 1994 - Redding won on protest - (Paris Lane - 1st past the post)
RACE-STATS (last 10 years)
Turnbull Stks winners to contest the Cox Plate; (5) 1 win (The Phantom Chance), 3 placings (Sunline, Sky Heights, Redding), lost rider (Naturalism)
Cox Plate winners to contest the Turnbull
Stks; Sunline, The Phantom Chance
Melbourne Cup winners to contest the Turnbull Stks; Jezabeel, Doriemus
Caulfield Cup winners to contest the Turnbull Stks; Diatribe, Sky
Heights, Doriemus, Paris Lane
Race first run: 1948 Conducted at 2000m and Set Weights & Penalties since 1971
Mares to have won (since 1971): Sunline (2001) Let's Elope(1991) Just Now(1986) Denise's Joy(1976) Analight(1975) Leilani(1974)
FEATURE RACE CONNECTIONS (same year victories)
Turnbull Stks-Caulfield Cup: Sky Heights (1999) Let's Elope(1991) Analight(1975) Leilani(1974) Sometime(1963) Rising Fast(1954)
Turnbull Stks-Cox Plate: The Phantom Chance(1993) Better Loosen Up(1990) Dulcify(1979) Tobin Bronze(1966) Sir Dane(1964) Aquanita(1962) Rising Fast(1954)
Turnbull Stks-Melbourne Cup: Let's Elope(1991) Rising Fast(1954) Comic Court(1950)
FORM FACTS
The Turnbull Stakes has become a key lead-in to the G1 Caulfield Cup, trainer Bart Cummings (6 Caulfield Cup wins) following the same path with Magical Miss as he did with the two 4yo mares hes previously prepared to win the Caulfield Cup Lets Elope (1991) & Leilani (1974). Lets Elope won the Turnbull Stks-Caulfield Cup-Mackinnon Stks-Melbourne Cup in 1991, while Leilani collected three of the four, finishing 2nd to her stablemate Think Big in the Melbourne Cup. Northerly strung together an unprecedented sequence of WFA wins in Victoria last Spring, the Flemington 2000m record-holder striving to become the first horse (since 1971) to win the Craiglee-Underwood-Turnbull treble, Sky Heights taking the Craiglee-Turnbull (2nd-Underwood) double before winning the 1999 Caulfield Cup and Dulcify also taking the Craiglee-Turnbull double (3rd-Underwood) prior to his 1979 Cox Plate victory. Since 1971, three horses have won the Feehan-Turnbull double (Aerosmith, Naturalism, Better Loosen Up), Fields of Omagh is attempting this feat in 2002.
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