Gai Waterhouse’s hopes of a 1st Cox Plate victory have strengthened with the news Atlantic Jewel will miss the spring carnival.

The Mark Kavanagh-educated Atlantic Jewel, the early favourite, has been ruled out of the spring with a tendon issue, robbing the carnival of one of its headline acts.

Waterhouse sympathised with Kavanagh as her steady stars Far more Joyous and Pierro were promoted to very first and second favouritism.

Star mare More Joyous is at $ six with TAB Sportsbet ahead of her 3-yr-old stablemate Pierro at $ 7.

“You don’t like any excellent horse becoming ruled out,” Waterhouse stated at Canterbury on Wednesday.

“The spring is such an fascinating time for racing in Australia, we are so much underneath the microscope.

“Coolmore are such large owners and breeders, they would be terribly disappointed and so would her trainer Mark Kavanagh. He would be devastated.”

Eight-time Group A single winner More Joyous won a barrier trial at Randwick on Monday and Waterhouse mentioned she was hunting at a return race subsequent month.

“She will almost certainly start off off in the Sheraco Stakes,” Waterhouse stated.

With Far more Joyous and Pierro now at the major of a revised Cox Plate industry, the trainer stated she was looking forward to the spring having dominated the Sydney autumn.

“These are extremely fascinating horses at two different ends of the spectrum. The older mare (More Joyous) against the young buck (Pierro),” she explained.

Waterhouse is hoping to safe Craig Williams for the Cox Plate ride on Pierro and expects the star jockey to make a selection right after Pierro tends to make his spring return.

Atlantic Jewel is unbeaten in her seven begins including Group A single wins in final year’s Thousand Guineas and the excess weight-for-age All Aged Stakes for the duration of this year’s autumn carnival.

Kavanagh said the star four-year-old was identified to be lame following a gallop on Tuesday morning with subsequent scans revealing she had injured a tendon.

“We will continue to assess the injury and it would be my view at this stage that she will be unable to resume full coaching for eight weeks,” Kavanagh told Racing Victoria.

“It may possibly be the finish of the spring, but it truly is not the finish of the horse.”

At this time of year the trial track can hold as considerably interest as the racetrack and that will be the case on Monday with an additional sparkling set of heats at Randwick.

Foremost Cox Plate contender Much more Joyous heads a sturdy contingent for Gai Waterhouse such as progressive sorts Nobby Snip, Niagara, Body fat Al, Raceway, Lator Gator and established stayer Tullamore.

More Joyous will be generating her 1st public look on Monday because her emphatic win in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes in April.

Other Group A single winners on monitor to trial include Secret Admirer, Sincero and The Verminator while Australian Derby runner-up Polish Knight is also pencilled in to go about.

Rain Affair has but to claim a Group 1 but trainer Joe Pride is hoping that will alter this spring.

The winner of eleven of his 15 begins, Rain Affair has been entered to trial in excess of 850m with the Group Three Concorde Stakes (1100m) at Warwick Farm on September eight his very likely kick-off point.

“He’s excellent and he could stage out at the trials on Monday,” Pride explained.

“We have acquired a few alternatives we’re toying with but we may run him very first-up in the Concorde.”

Pride mentioned Rain Affair would have a comparatively light spring with the Group One Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley on October 26 eve his significant objective.

1 horse not down to trial on Monday is juvenile triple crown winner Pierro.

Waterhouse mentioned that Pierro was coming along nicely but connections had however to map out a spring plan.

“Pierro is going super, 10 much more days of pace work will tone the colt up. A massive spring ahead, plan not formalised however,” she tweeted.

The 1st Group races of the season get underway on Saturday with the Missile Stakes in Sydney, Aurie’s Star Handicap in Melbourne and Spring Stakes in Adelaide.

The public know only half the story about Will Minson’s sexual slur to Danyle Pearce, the Port Adelaide AFL star says.

But Pearce is not telling the rest in a bid to end the controversy above the offensive remark about his mom manufactured by the Western Bulldogs ruck.

Minson was suspended for one particular match by the Bulldogs for producing an offensive remark to Pearce for the duration of their June 17 match.

Pearce stated there was a lot more to Minson’s comments than broadly reported.

“I have read the reports … you guys have not written down every little thing that was said,” Pearce informed reporters on Tuesday.

“Me and Will are the only ones that had been truly there the whole time and I know there was much more said.

“And I reacted since I didn’t really feel that was one thing that must be brought up in a game of football.

“Items have taken the program, and I left it with that.”

Minson, when creating a public apology for his feedback, explained he was attempting to get in touch with the Port utility.

But Pearce explained he hadn’t received a individual apology from Minson.

“I have not had a get in touch with from him,” Pearce explained.

“But I have contacted their (Minson’s) family members and we’ll just leave it at that.

“I have expressed my emotions and I have moved on.”

Asked if he essential an apology from Minson, Pearce said: “As lengthy as he realises what he explained is not going to be tolerated, then that is all that requirements to be said and all that demands to be accomplished.”

He could be in the form of his life wearing the No1 jumper but Souths coach Michael Maguire insists Greg Inglis will not necessarily be locked in to playing fullback.

Inglis has been in extraordinary touch for the Rabbitohs because his move from the centres immediately after round two, piling on seven tries in eight games and rocketing into second 2nd spot in Dally M Player of the Year voting.

But Maguire says he’s still open to in which the 106kg wrecking machine can match in this fourth placed side.

“I’m fortunate I can move him around, he’s played at 5-eighth, centres and now at fullback,” mentioned Maguire.

“There’s some good possibilities for myself, particularly with the gamers I’ve got.

“Merro (Nathan Merritt) is there. I can utilise Merro down at fullback if need be if I want to use Greg out on the edge and even as a first receiver, so it is a very good location to be.”

Not surprisingly though Inglis has already been named at fullback for the Rabbitohs’ match against the Bulldogs (fifth) on Saturday night.

It is looming as a red letter clash at ANZ Stadium, with Inglis searching to repeat the kind he showed against Canterbury in round six, exactly where he stole lots of metres returning the ball from his own target line.

Inglis will oppose 1 of the other kind players of the competition, Bulldogs fullback Ben Barba, but Maguire has warned his trump card can still improve in attack and defence.

“I get to see issues at coaching every day of what he can do and it’s people kinds of factors that I’m hunting forward to seeing him continually add to his game when he plays,” stated Maguire, who did not elaborate on the `things’ Inglis has been performing that is impressed him.

Maguire was not worried his players would truly feel the stress of external expectations following the club’s rise to fourth on the ladder and said it was great to have the tag of premiership contenders.

Souths have not enjoyed this kind of an exalted place at this stage of the season since 1989 when they went on to claim the minor premiership just before bowing out of the finals series with two straight losses.

“We’re hunting forward to each and every week and trying to increase as a group, so I don’t see it as strain, I see it as a genuinely great opportunity in front of us,” he mentioned.

Maguire refused to comment on speculation linking Souths to Penrith’s NSW State of Origin centre Michael Jennings.

Essendon coach James Hird hopes his a lot-improved midfielders start off getting the plaudits they deserve right after Saturday night’s AFL belting of West Coast.

Star midfield trio Jobe Watson, David Zaharakis and Brent Stanton had 104 disposals amongst them as the Bombers blitzed the previously unbeaten Eagles 16.17 (113) to 7.10 (52) at Etihad Stadium.

But Hird mentioned Essendon’s midfield now stretched well past individuals 3 in-kind players, listing Sam Lonergan, Ben Howlett, Angus Monfries and Jake Melksham as other beneficial contributors.

While the Bombers entered the season with queries more than how their midfield compared to the competition’s elite, Hird mentioned they had been robust all season.

“There is no doubt our midfield this year have won most of the games they’ve played in,” Hird told reporters.

“They’re a really excellent midfield group, they never get the credit score they deserve.

“But the way they perform and the way they handle the contested football the way they did (against West Coast) and the clearances was quite pleasing.”

Hird mentioned his group nevertheless essential a lot more midfielders to achieve “genuine A-grade” common to match the likes of Carlton and Collingwood in that location.

Zaharakis, the club’s reigning greatest and fairest, seems to be one particular stepping up to that level.

Possessing had just one particular 30-plus possession game ahead of this season, the 22-year-old has now attained that feat in consecutive video games, against Brisbane and the Eagles.

“His performances more than the previous two weeks have been outstanding,” Hird mentioned.

“He was a single of the main factors we have been able to break West Coast down in that 2nd quarter and then actually commence to get on top rated in the third quarter.”

But Hird warned that his midfield would face a tough battle against improving Richmond on Saturday night.

The Bombers will be shut to full power, with Hird saying crucial forward Michael Hurley and backman Tayte Pears had been prepared to return from injury.

More Strawberries rebounded from a puzzling 1st-up failure to carry on trainer Gai Waterhouse’s outstanding autumn carnival in Saturday’s Listed Darley Crown.

A lot more Strawberries’ success in the $ 150,000 attribute above 1300m at Hawkesbury brought up Waterhouse’s sixth straight Saturday treble.

“Surely the intention is to be winning but it’s not the intention to train trebles. But it really is certainly nice,” Waterhouse said.

The 4-yr-old mare left Waterhouse scratching her head after she finished seventh behind Atlantic Jewel very first-up in the Sapphire Stakes at Randwick.

But the trainer was ready to turn the horse’s fortunes around as A lot more Strawberries ($ eight) came down the outdoors from back in the area to defeat Ladys Angel ($ six equal fav) by half a length with Potions ($ 21) a lengthy head away third.

It also continued a effective autumn for proprietor John Singleton who also races Doncaster and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner A lot more Joyous.

“She’s a freak. She can train,” Singleton’s racing manager Duncan Grimley said of Waterhouse.

Grimley said A lot more Strawberries would likely progress to the Brisbane winter carnival through the Dark Jewel Traditional at Scone with the Group One Tatt’s Tiara the aim.

Waterhouse mentioned maintaining the mare fresh because her initial-up failure had been a important to the mare’s good results in the Darley Crown.

“I kept her extremely much on the fresh side simply because I feel she demands longer,” Waterhouse stated.

“I could not function out how she ran like she did the other day. She has been doing work the place down. I believe the essential may well be maintaining her fresh simply because that is what I’ve completed for this race”

Waterhouse earlier won with Samui Lad and Reuben Percival to add to her latest run of achievement which integrated seven Group A single wins throughout the Sydney autumn carnival.

Nash Rawiller was aboard in all seven of the Group Ones and was delighted to see Far more Strawberries bounce back to her best.

Far more Strawberries took her record to four wins from 17 starts with her other wins in the Group Two Furious Stakes and Tea Rose Stakes and the Listed Tibbie Stakes.

“She travelled actually properly right now and got a great cart into the race. She’s a different horse under individuals conditions,” Rawiller mentioned.

“The other day she was out of her comfort zone the complete way.”

Any doubts in excess of the ability of A lot more Joyous to operate 2000 metres had been emphatically put to mattress when she exploded away from a best-class industry to add the Queen Elizabeth Stakes to her Doncaster Mile triumph.

On a day when Black Caviar scored her 20th win in Adelaide and equally Pierro and Atlantic Jewel lived up to their buzz at Randwick, Much more Joyous held up her stop of the bargain as Sydney’s pin-up mare.

In a subject billed as deserving of a Cox Plate, Nash Rawiller took up the working aboard More Joyous.

The Gai Waterhouse-qualified mare travelled properly but seemed to be beneath siege when a host of rivals mounted problems rounding the residence change.

Rawiller knew what he had underneath him and Far more Joyous ($ 3.20) went up a gear, accelerating very clear to rating by 2-1/2 lengths above Manighar ($ 6) with Secret Admirer ($ thirteen) running on strongly for third.

“How about the way he rode her,” a jubilant Waterhouse explained.

“I did not notify him something, he just did it. He realised they’d possibly all sit back and took control.

“The question was could she operate the length? Could she run the length, she annihilated them.

“I just appreciate seeing her. That was genuinely special.”

The only other time A lot more Joyous had tackled 2000m was in the 2010 Cox Plate when she completed fifth to So You Think who was at the peak of his powers.

Waterhouse has been making an attempt to persuade proprietor John Singleton to get Much more Joyous to Royal Ascot and the pair ended up in discussions about a feasible vacation to England immediately after the Queen Elizabeth (2000m).

But it appears like More Joyous’ victory has all but dominated an overseas excursion with Singleton possessing eyes only for the Cox Plate.

“The Cox Plate, I am going to never ever have one more chance like this,” Singleton explained.

“The most prizemoney is here and the most entertaining is below.

“I have taken a few horses to Europe and they have never ever occur again.

“She will go residence tomorrow and occur back again in the spring. All the doubts about her jogging 2000 metres are gone.”

The Queen Elizabeth capped a outstanding carnival for Waterhouse and Rawiller who have blended for 7 Team One particular wins this autumn.

Waterhouse has also led in a treble of stakes winners on each of the past five Saturdays.

“I believe I have obtained to go home tonight and have a glass of wine and soak in what’s just took place. It truly is been unbelievable,” Rawiller explained.

Coach Gai Waterhouse crowned herself the undisputed Queen of Sydney’s autumn racing carnival, and jockey Nash Rawiller the King.

Which probably can make Campbell Rawiller the unofficial prince – not a undesirable eleventh birthday current when he wakes up on Sunday.

Minors aren’t meant to be in the Randwick parade ring but attendants appeared the other way as the jockey’s son was presented the honour, along with operator-breeder John Singleton, of leading mighty mare Far more Joyous again after a crowning third Team One triumph in a thirty day period.

The nattily attired younger male then gave an acceptance speech in which he called racing the “very best activity in the globe”.

This was an fully understandable viewpoint presented that his dad had just ridden his sixth Group One particular winner of the carnival, all in partnership with Waterhouse.

The trainer bagged an added one particular to make 7, and led property 17 winners in all.

Their mixed victories involved the Golden Slipper, the world’s richest two-12 months-old race, and the Doncaster, the nation’s most significant mile occasion.

They joined forces for Team One triples with unbeaten colt Pierro, who landed the closing leg of the juvenile triple crown by profitable Saturday’s Champagne Stakes, and A lot more Joyous, who capped off a dream carnival with a runaway victory in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Singleton calls Waterhouse the experience of racing, a perfectionist and a workaholic.

“I never know what she is on, but I want some,” he stated.

Atlantic Jewel, the other star of the carnival’s last day, prolonged her unbeaten file to seven by successful the All Aged Stakes.

The attribute race, the Sydney Cup, went to veteran stayer Niwot who held off 2007 Melbourne Cup winner Effective in a desperate finish.

Australia held off one last comeback from the resolute West Indies to declare a seventy five-run win in the 3rd Examination in Dominica on Friday.

Led by skipper Darren Sammy, the Windies rallied to give a Windsor Park crowd hope of a outstanding win prior to the captain was the previous man out for a career-greatest 61 as Australia wrapped up a two- series win.

Sammy belted his runs off just 51 balls, placing on 49 with hometown hero Shane Shillingford (31no) ahead of Nathan Lyon dismissed the captain to lastly extinguish the Windies’ combat and dismiss them for 294 in their second innings.

That wicket was 1 of a few for off-spinner Lyon on the closing early morning, whilst Michael Clarke picked up the other two scalps to claim the 2nd 5-wicket haul of his Examination profession right after his six-nine towards India in Mohali in 2004.

“It really is been a fantastic collection, a genuinely tough-fought series from the two groups and I hope West Indies get a great deal of credit for the way they played,” explained Clarke, who ended with 5-86.

“Yes the outcome claims two- but I can promise you every single element of this Check sequence has been fought challenging, played in the correct spirit and I think it really is been fantastic for Test cricket so they are entitled to a great deal of credit history.”

Sammy, adamant his staff could have pulled off the improbable operate chase, was still left to rue the second early morning of the Examination in which Matthew Wade batted with Australia’s tail to push the tourists’ first innings to 328.

Wade additional 159 runs with Mitchell Starc and Ben Hilfenhaus in what turned out to be the pivotal stage of the match right after Australia have been 7-169 late on the 1st day.

The 24-calendar year-outdated ended up with 106, his first Check hundred, and was awarded the gentleman-of-the-match prize for his attempts.

“We are really disappointed,” Sammy said.

“We thought we could have crushed them. They won the crucial moments in the Check sequence and that was the difference.”

Tommy Berry is hoping to get in on the act in the Team One particular autumn characteristics when he companions the Gai Waterhouse-skilled Mature Than Time in Saturday’s Sydney Cup.

Waterhouse’s secure has been in stellar sort so far this autumn with the coach making ready the winners of the Golden Slipper, Doncaster Mile, Rosehill Guineas, Queen Of The Turf and Sires’ Produce Stakes at Group 1 amount.

Quantity one steady rider Nash Rawiller has been aboard in all the Group 1 successes and Berry hopes the Sydney Cup (3200m) can be his chance.

“Specifically with the way that Gai is going at the instant, anything can take place,” Berry stated.

“Also in Team Types anything can occur, it is not usually the favourite that wins. I’m knocking on the doorway for a Group One and typically they come unexpectedly so I hope that this is it.”

Older Than Time completed second in previous year’s Sydney Cup on a large track and Berry heads into the remaining attribute at Randwick assured the mare is heading even far better this time about.

“Neil Paine has been a typical (trackwork) rider on her since she had her 1st start and he says she’s going much better this yr than she was very last year so I’m assured she’ll run nicely,” Berry said.

“She’s heading genuinely well and I assume the 3200 metres is proper up her alley. We noticed that very last 12 months.”

Berry’s initial race trip on More mature Than Time was in the Team Two Chairman’s Good quality (2600m) final start when the mare finished 3-quarters of a size 2nd to Sydney Cup favourite Allow.

The 21-calendar year-outdated jockey believes the extra distance of the Cup will help More mature Than Time’s odds.

“She ran 2nd to Allow the other day and was quite gallant,” he stated.

“I believe what is planning to go well with us is that the other day Allow went to place a few of lengths on us but type of only acquired a duration in front and then whacked away like we did.

“I know she will operate the excursion proper out.”

Berry stated he would also welcome any rain if it arrived.

“That just helps make it more of a staying examination if it rains and I know she’s probably one particular of the much better stayers in the race,” he said.

Waterhouse has two Sydney Cup runners with The moment Were Wild signing up for Mature Than Time and she will have blinkers eradicated for the race.

Permit is favorite at $ 3.60 with TAB Sportsbet to give coach Chris Waller again-to-back wins subsequent the good results of Stand To Obtain final calendar year.

Niwot is at $ four.40 with Drunken Sailor $ 6.fifty and More mature Than Time at $ eight.