The marquee race of the opening Melbourne Cup Carnival meeting on Saturday at Flemington Racecourse features a class field of three-year-olds facing off in the 2016 Victoria Derby, the Races.com.au team’s exclusive two word form guide for all the runners found below.
Group 1 winner Prized Icon shapes up as a place chance in the 2016 Victoria Derby exotics for Saturday. Photo: Steve Hart.
A full field of 16 young hopefuls take to the iconic Flemington course over 2500m in this season’s $1.5 million Group 1 AAMI Victoria Derby field, only three of which are under double figures for the win at Ladbrokes.com.au.
Last weekend’s Vase winner Sacred Elixir with the rails run from barrier one is the heavily-supported Victoria Derby betting favourite at $2.90 to win again on successive Saturdays.
His main dangers looking at the Victoria Derby odds are Spring Champion runner-up Swear ($8.50) backed in from double-figures and the Robbie Laing-trained Vase third placegetter So Si Bon ($9) who has three-time winning hoop Hugh Bowman in the saddle.
Upset Victoria Derby results are more common than not however and so all the punters are madly doing the form on the hopefuls to uncover value in the markets this spring.
Earlier in the week we published a detailed 2016 Victoria Derby Form Guide & Betting Preview, but for a quicker summary of each horse’s chances we’ve got the two-word assessment below!
2016 Victoria Derby Form Guide in Two Words
#1 SACRED ELIXIR $2.90 – Likely Winner
#2 PRIZED ICON $18 – Place Chance
#3 SWEAR $8.50 – Market Mover
#4 ROCKETEER $17 – Can Fire
#5 MORVADA $18 – Vase Form
#6 INFERENCE $15 – Wrong Conclusion
#7 CAPTAIN DUFFY $19 – Genuine Stayer
#8 SILVERA $41 – Adelaide Raider
#9 WINE BUSH $26 – Beat Around
#10 SO SI BON $9 – Bowman Factor
#11 KENT $34 – Godolphin Roughie
#12 HIGHLAD $26 – Wrong Kiwi
#13 BEACH LIFE $16 – Could Drown
#14 TUMULTUOUS $21 – No Uproar
#15 HOLLYWOOD MO $34 – Smoky Chance
#16 ALL OUT OF LOVE $81 – No Love
#17e PETER JOHN $126 – Out Classed
#18e ANAHEIM $61 – On Improve
#19e SHINE TAK STAR $126 – Won’t Shine
#20e ZOFFMAN $101 – Won’t Start
You’ve read the 2016 Victoria Derby Betting: Sacred Elixir vs History of Favourites and now you’ve got the two-word assessment of the favourite and all his rivals.
So now is the time to head to our No. 1 recommended bookie Ladbrokes.com.au and back your 2016 Victoria Derby betting tips at the best price!
