Field Out for $1million Winterbottom Stakes

Tara Madgwick - Tuesday November 28

A field of 13 sprinters will compete at weight-for-age in Saturday's Group I Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) at Ascot.

Santa Ana Lane - Grant CourtneyPerth's biggest sprint features three interstate raiders with Anthony Freedman sending Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes winner Santa Ana Lane (Lope de Vega (Fr) west, the Lindsay Park stable will run progressive Star Witness mare Fuhryk and Adelaide trainer Lloyd Kennewell will run Group I placed I Am Invincible mare Viddora in the $1m sprint.

Local sprinter Rock Magic is the highest-rated Winterbottom Stakes runner on 108, two points ahead of Santa Ana Lane while Viddora is the only other runner rated over 100 and has been second, second and fourth at her past three runs in Group I company.

Champion WA jockey William Pike will ride Nicconi gelding State Solicitor, the winner of four of his last five starts, for prominent owners Bob and Sandra Peters .

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The Winterbottom Stakes 2017 barrier draw will be conducted on Tuesday evening (eastern time).

Below is the field for Saturday's Winterbottom Stakes 2017 at Ascot Racecourse:

#

Horse

Wgt

Rider

Trainer

1

ROCK MAGIC

58.5

JARRAD NOSKE

CHRIS GANGEMI

2

SANTA ANA LANE

58.5

DEAN YENDALL

ANTHONY FREEDMAN

3

DURENDAL

58.5

SHAUN MC GRUDDY

CHRIS GANGEMI

4

DREAM LIFTER

58.5

MITCHELL PATEMAN

PAUL HUNTER

5

MALIBU STYLE

58.5

STEVEN PARNHAM

NEVILLE PARNHAM

6

THE RIVER

58.5

TREVOR ANDREWS

7

PROFIT STREET

58.5

BRAD PARNHAM

PETER & MATT GIADRESCO

8

STATE SOLICITOR

58.5

WILLIAM PIKE

GRANT & ALANA WILLIAMS

9

VIDDORA

56.5

JOE BOWDITCH

LLOYD KENNEWELL

10

WHISPERING BROOK

56.5

JASON BROWN

SIMON A. MILLER

11

DAINTY TESS

56.5

CHRIS PARNHAM

DANIEL MORTON

12

FUHRYK

56.5

DAMIEN OLIVER

D & B HAYES & T DABERNIG

13

CAIPIRINHA

56.5

JOSEPH AZZOPARDI

SIMON A. MILLER

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