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A very good field of three year olds are entered in the 2017 Hawkesbury Guineas (Group 3) at Hawkesbury on Saturday.
Souchez resumes off a good break while Spright is a very nice filly down to run in the 2017 Hawkesbury Guineas (1400m) at Hawkesbury on Saturday.
2017 HAWKESBURY GUINEAS – NOMINATIONS
Horse | Trainer | |
1 | ALL IN RHYTHM | Amanda Turner & Mauro Poletti |
2 | BYE SEE | Michael Tubman |
3 | CAERLESS CHOICE | Paul Messara |
4 | CALABASAS | Kim Waugh |
5 | CALANDA | Peter & Paul Snowden |
6 | EL SID | Anthony & Edward Cummings |
7 | GENERALISSIMO | Garry White |
8 | GOOD STANDING | James Cummings |
9 | LADY DANE | Joseph Pride |
10 | LINCOLN BLUE | Chris Waller |
11 | MR SNEAKY | Lee & Anthony Freedman |
12 | PROMPT RESPONSE | Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott |
13 | ROSA CAROLINA | Kris Lees |
14 | SALSONIC | Jason Coyle |
15 | SHAZEE LEE | Scott Singleton |
16 | SOUCHEZ | John O'Shea |
17 | SPRIGHT | Garry Frazer |
18 | STAR OF MONSOON | Gerald Ryan |
19 | TYCOON MAR | Garry Neale |
2017 HAWKESBURY GUINEAS - RACE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND
The Hawkesbury Guineas is a Group 3 race for three-year-old conducted by the Hawkesbury race Club at Clarendon racecourse, located 50km west of Sydney between Windsor and Richmond.
The Hawkesbury Race Club dates from the late 1800s. There have been numerous runnings of the Hawkesbury Guineas in various forms over a range of distances since 1871.
The modern day Hawkesbury Guineas for three-year-old dates from 2000.
The Hawkesbury Guineas was run over 1200m under handicap conditions from 2000 until 2004. There was no race in 2005 and since 2006 it has been run under set weights and penalty conditions over 1400m.
The Hawkesbury Guineas was a Listed Race from 2000 until 2013 and has been Group 3 since 2014 when it became a feature of Hawkesbury Race Club’s stand alone Saturday race meeting in April.
The 2017 Hawkesbury Guineas will be run over 1400m on Saturday April 29 for prizemoney of $200,000.
Notable winners of the Hawkesbury Guineas since 2000 include Hire, Alverta, Royal Discretion, Neeson, Pimpala Secret, Free Wheeling, Chautauqua and Najoom.
The 2016 Hawkesbury Guineas was won by Spill The Beans from Denmagic and Serene Majesty.
In 2015 the Hawkesbury stand alone meeting was abandoned after the first race due to track conditions. The Hawkesbury Guineas was run the following week at Rosehill when the winner was Najoom.
