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The 2011 Doomben 10,000
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The Doomben 10,000 was first held in 1933 as a Principal race with a distance of six furlongs or about 1200 metres. The inaugural race was won by Wallun and much has changed about the race since. In 1942, the race distance was adjusted to seven furlongs and it was won by Auction. In 1973, the race distance was fixed to 1350 following Australia’s conversion to the metric system.
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That year, Craigola won the race and it has been used as the race distance of the Doomben 10,000 up until present. The Doomben 10,000 was elevated to Group 1 status in 1980 with Hit It Benny winning the race. The Doomben Racecourse, the home turf of the Doomben 10,000, has a circumference of 1715 metres and a home straight of 341 metres. All races at Doomben are staged clockwise.
The race distance of the Doomben 10,000 is ideal for sprinters and the 26-metre wide Doomben Races gives a perfect template for interesting results every year. Throughout the years, a number of horses have won this weight-for-age race more than once. The first one to do so is Black Onyx when he won back to back in 1969 and 1970.
Prince Trialia followed suit with victories in 1990 and 1991 while Chief de Beers won in 1995 and 1998. Falvelon won two consecutive editions of the Doomben 10,000 in 2001 and 2002 while Apache Cat is the last multi-winner thoroughbred with victories in 2008 and 2009. The 2011 Doomben 10,000 will be held on the 28th of May and the nominations list was recently released.
Among all 72 nominees, the Peter Moody-trained Black Caviar proves to be the top pre-race favourite with betting odds of 1.26 from Sportsbet. Right on Black Caviar’s heels is the John McNair-trained Hay List with betting odds of 4.80. Despite a short career, Black Caviar has already collected $3.13 million worth of prize money from 14 victories including seven Group 1 wins.
Meanwhile, Hay List has won 14 of 19 career race starts to collect $1.63 million worth of prize money. Also nominated for the Doomben 10,000 is the 2010 Winter Stakes winner Melito which recently finished in fourth place at the All Aged Stakes behind Hinchinbrook, Heart of Dreams and Hay List. This Gerald Ryan-trained race horse is given betting odds of 17.00 by Sportsbet.
Four thoroughbreds from New Zealand are still in the running for the final field of the 2011 Doomben 10,000. The first of these New Zealand-bred race horses is Adulterer which is trained by John Thompson while the Darren Weir-trained Culminate is still in the running with Darren Weir as its trainer. Another John Thompson-trained horse, Marquardt, is still in the mix while the fourth New Zealand-trained horse is the Gary Portelli-trained O’Crikey.
Other Doomben 10,000 nominees which are trained by John Thompson are Run for Levi, Moment in Time, No Evidence Needed and Happy Hippy. Meanwhile, other nominees from Moody are Curtana, Doubtful Jack and Hinchinbrook. Trainers Gai Waterhouse, Peter Snowden, Chris Waller, Anthony Cumming, Grahame Begg, David Hayes and Mick Prize also have 2011 Doomben 10,000 nominees.
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