Tramway Stakes favourite no certainty to start

Olentia is the market fancy for the Tramway Stakes at Randwick, but will she head to Wyong instead?

It’s a full field of 16 set to line up in Saturday’s Group 2 Tramway Stakes at Randwick, with master trainer Chris Waller likely to have six runners in the $300,000 feature.

Olentia is dual-accepted for Wyong on Friday but is still a $2.20 favourite with online bookmakers, leaving the James Cummings-trained Pericles ($4) as the clear danger.

Waller’s other runners include a deluge of gallopers making their way here first-up, with Madame Pommery ($13) looking the most likely chance after an impressive return where she was beaten a nostril by Pericles on August 12.

The chances in this field are many, with resuming gallopers Hope In Your Heart ($10) and Fireburn ($23) both looking to pick up where they left off.

My Oberon ($23) makes his return from a trip to Hong Kong for Annabel Neasham, and Zeyrek ($17) offers terrific each-way value after putting the writing on the wall last campaign.

Other key chances have already kicked off their respective campaigns; Communist ($13) is looking to bounce back from the Group 1 Winx Stakes, and Sky Lab ($17) closed off strongly behind Buenos Noches in the Group 3 Show County Quality on August 19.

The Tramway Stakes will be the penultimate race on the Randwick program and is set to be run at 4:35pm AEST.


Tramway Stakes 2023 final field

No. Silks Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight
1 Silks
Communist
Michael Freedman
Dylan Gibbons
13
58kg
2 Silks
My Oberon
Annabel Neasham
Chad Schofield
10
57kg
3 Silks
Osipenko
Chris Waller
TBC
18
57kg
4 Silks
Pericles
James Cummings
Zac Lloyd
7
57kg
5 Silks
Cepheus
Matthew Dunn
Nash Rawiller
4
57kg
6 Silks
Fireburn
Gary Portelli
Jason Collett
1
57kg
7 Silks
Diamil
John O’Shea
Tom Sherry
16
56.5kg
8 Silks
Going Global
Chris Waller
James McDonald
6
56kg
9 Silks
Zeyrek
Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes
Andrew Adkins
2
56kg
10 Silks
Madame Pommery
Chris Waller
TBC
19
56kg
11 Silks
New Mandate
Chris Waller
Joshua Parr
3
56kg
12 Silks
Hope In Your Heart
Kerry Parker
Tyler Schiller
8
55kg
13 Silks
Skyman
Chris Waller
Brett Prebble
12
55kg
14 Silks
Sky Lab
Paul Perry
Regan Bayliss
14
55kg
15 Silks
Democracy Manifest
Chris Waller
Jay Ford
11
55kg
16 Silks
Olentia
Chris Waller
Kerrin McEvoy
9
54kg
17 Silks
Palmetto (1E)
John Sargent
TBC
5
55kg
18 Silks
Williamsburg (2E)
Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou
Ryan Maloney
17
56kg
19 Silks
Hoo Ya Mal (3E)
Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott
Adam Hyeronimus
15
56kg

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