Wyong Race Club will stage the 17th running of the $200,000 Magic Millions 2-Year-Old Classic (1100m) on Thursday.
It’s a cracking race with brilliant Sydney filly Every Rose the Gold Coast Magic Millions favourite at $6 on TAB fixed odds returning from a spell.
Every Rose (Josh Parr) wins stylishly on debut at Royal Randwick. Image by Steve Hart Photographics
The two Sydney colts Strike ($11) and Rathlin ($15) are in the top 10 in the Gold Coast markets and will also head to Wyong on Thursday.
Two of Australia’s present champion sires Not A Single Doubt and Snitzel won the first two Wyong Magic Millions.
In recent years Karuta Queen (2010), Unencumbered (2013) and Capitalist (2015) have landed the Wyong-Gold Coast double.
Last year James Cummings’s Exhilarates was runner-up at Wyong before winning the Gold Coast Magic Millions.
Thursday’s favourite Every Rose ($2 fav for Thursday’s MM) was outstanding in her only race start when she led throughout to win the Group 3 Gimcrack Stakes at Randwick on October 5.
The filly has blistering speed and she blitzed her rivals in a recent Randwick barrier trial. Every Rose is very well placed under set weight conditions, has a soft draw and will have the talented Rachel King on her back.
The Queensland bred Strike ($5.50) is in the Snowden camp and he toyed with his rivals on debut at Eagle Farm on October 12. He was never off the bit in winning a recent Rosehill trial.
Rathlin ($4.20) has had two starts and he was narrowly beaten in the $250,000 Ballarat Magic Millions Classic two weeks ago and Craig Williams will be aboard.
Exhilarates ($3.10) returns to Wyong to contest the $100,000 Wyong Magic Millions 3 & 4-Year-Old Stakes (1200m) as the winner of more than $1.5 million.
The filly is a weighted special with only 54 kilograms under the set weight conditions. However, she is a backmarker and has drawn the outside; not ideal for the 1200m at Wyong. Leviathan ($7.50) and Diamond Thunder ($2.60 fav) will both perform well.
– Racing NSW
