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A Closer Look – Tattersall’s Tiara

A prime opportunity is presented for the mares in this year’s Tatt’s Tiara

A Closer Look.
A Closer Look.

As Australia's final Group 1 race of the season, the $700,000 Tattersall's Tiara is a last chance saloon for many and rarely has there been as big an opportunity that is presented this Saturday at Eagle Farm.

The odds suggest whoever takes out the 1400-metre fillies-and-mares event will be a first-time Group 1 winner.

The only Group 1 winner in Saturday's race is last year's South Australian Derby winner Coco Sun, who is first-up for new owners Yulong and is one of the outsiders at $71.

Only two of the field of 17 and five emergencies have placed at the highest level; last year's runner-up Semana, a three-time Group 1 placegetter and the Chris Waller-trained Firestorm, a narrow runner-up to glamour filly Lady Shenandoah in this year's Coolmore Classic.

In a Tiara rarity, not one runner in this year's field is coming out of the Stradbroke Handicap.

Since the Tiara attained Group 1 status in 2007, eight winners have emerged from the Stradbroke, including the past four.

The mares who dominate the market on this year's Tiara come out of another 1400m event on Stradbroke Day, the Group 2 Dane Ripper Stakes.

The first three home in that event – Floozie, Tashi and Firestorm – are the only three at single-figure odds with El Morzillo (fourth), Gumdrops (fifth), Abounding (sixth), Konasana (eighth), Olentia (10th), Arctic Glamour (11th) and Coco Jamboo (13th) others out of the Dane Ripper engaged.

Seven of the nine Tiara winners at Group 1 level who didn't come through the Stradbroke rounded out their preparations in the Dane Ripper with Red Tracer, Cosmic Endeavour and Invincibella those to have completed the double that Floozie is chasing.

The Tiara has been a mixed raced for punters with Bella Nipotina last year becoming the seventh favourite to score since 2007, but nine others have been won by horses at $10 or better, including $21 chances Russeting, Miss Cover Girl and Tycoon Tara.


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