Roman Consul Stakes: Ozzmosis, Celestial Legend to clash again

The Group 2 Roman Consul Stakes (1200m) for the three-year-olds has drawn a small but quality field of eight this Saturday at Rosehill Gardens.

After a dominant win in the Listed Heritage Stakes (1100m) on September 23, Ozzmosis has earned clear favouritism at +160 with most online betting sites.

Celestial Legend, who was a strong runner-up to Ozzmosis in the Heritage, is next at +320 and is already seeing early support.

The Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott-trained Royal Tribute (+500) started as an equal favourite in the Heritage Stakes and was a shade disappointing after his first-up victory at Hawkesbury on September 7.

For Godolphin, Barber (+500) closed off strongly in the Heritage Stakes and will improve second-up, while Balkans (+1500) makes a big step up in grade from a Warwick Farm victory on September 20.

The Peter & Paul Snowden barn has sent King’s Gambit (+500) back to Sydney after running third in the Listed Poseidon Stakes (1100m) at Flemington, and the same can be said for Mexico (+2500) running into fourth place in the same race.

The winner of the 2023 Roman Consul Stakes will get a major share of the $300,000 in prizemoney and will also state their case for the final slot in The Everest (1200m) on October 14.

Roman Consul Stakes 2023 field

No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
1	King’s Gambit	Peter & Paul Snowden	TBC	7	56.5kg
2	Barber	James Cummings	Nash Rawiller	1	56.5kg
3	Ozzmosis	Bjorn Baker	Rachel King	6	56.5kg
4	Namesake	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	TBC	8	56.5kg
5	Celestial Legend	Les Bridge	Kerrin McEvoy	4	56.5kg
6	Royal Tribute	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	2	56.5kg
7	Mexico	Michael Freedman	Ryan Maloney	3	56.5kg
8	Balkans	James Cummings	Zac Lloyd	5	56.5kg