Sydney Cup – 3 May 2008

The Randwick carnival comes to an end on Saturday with four Group 1 races on a nine race program. The $700,000 Group 1 Schweppes Sydney Cup has attracted a full field of 16 plus an emergency for this classic staying event over 3200 metres that was first run in 1866.

The early favourite is No Wine No Song after his superb win over 2600 metres last week – he ran third in this race last year. No Wine No Song is trained by ex-jockey Kevin Moses who won a Sydney Cup himself on Palace Revolt almost twenty years ago.

The regular of the race is topweight County Tyrone who is lining up for his sixth Sydney Cup. He ran 2nd in 2003 and 2005, 4th in 2004, and won in 2006. In 2007 he ran 7th and at nine-years-old will be at double-figure odds this year, but will be a crowd favourite.

New Zealand horse Pentathon looks well suited to this race and has jockey Shane Dye aboard who rode Tie The Knot in both his 1998 and 1999 Sydney Cup wins.

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