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Bondi Beach Headlines the 2017 UBET Adelaide Cup Nominations

The Lloyd Williams owned Bondi Beach headlines the 2017 UBET Adelaide Cup nominations.

Multiple Melbourne Cup winning owner Williams has four runners nominated for this year’s Cup including Assign, Chance to Dance and Gallante. He will be hoping to win the Adelaide Cup for the first time since Muir won in 2011 when Darren Gauci piloted the $21 chance to victory ahead of Saddler’s Story and Macedonian.

This year’s field could be the strongest in recent years with Bondi Beach, Assign and Gallante all running in last year’s Melbourne Cup along with the Hayes’ and Dabernig trained Almoonqith.

The Hayes’ and Dabernig stable has three horses nominated including Almoonqith, Honey Steel’s Gold and Jileks Spur. The 2015 Geelong Cup winner Almoonqith looks to be their best chance to go back to back in the Adelaide Cup.

Last year’s runner up Tunes will be hoping to go one better than last year, while Renew who ran third in 2015 is back for another crack, now under the care of the master trainer Darren Weir.

Listed Birthday Cup winner, Mail it In leads the local chances for Leon Macdonald and Andrew Gluyas. 13 of the 41 nominated horses are trained in South Australia. Grant Young and Wayne Walters both have two runners while leading Adelaide trainer Richard Jolly has Not So Lady Like. Peter Blanch will be hoping Jim’s Journey can come back more experienced after his fourth in last year’s Cup.

There are two very important lead up races on this weekend heading into next Monday’s UBET Adelaide Cup. In the Group 3 Lord Reims Stakes at Morphettville all runners but Spur on Gold and Big Memory are nominated for the Adelaide Cup and with the first three placegetters guaranteed a spot in the Adelaide Cup field, you can be sure it will be a great race. Across the border at Flemington, in the Listed Roy Higgins all but three runners are nominated for the Adelaide Cup.

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