The draw has been done for the Sydney Cup 3200m. It can be a funny race, and it lines up that way again. You have horses like Niwot, Permit and Older Than Time who have head faultless lead-ups and have to be the major fancies. Add to that one of the best stayers we have seen in Efficient who missed a run controversially the other week and who has had a lot of time of over the last few years. What do we make of him? At his best he would eat them up and spit them out, but he is not at his best. Precendence is simply impossible to catch and with the ‘Bart’ factor will probably be half the price he should be. Drunken Sailor mixes his form horribly but seems to be going as good as ever his last two, and outside of them they all look pretty hard to make a case for…
**I will go over the race of course in the weekend preview, but here is the draw and the weights for you to check out until then.
1 EFFICIENT Michael Rodd 9 58kg
2 DRUNKEN SAILOR Damien Oliver 6 57kg
3 NIWOT Dwayne Dunn 2 55.5kg
4 PRECEDENCE Craig Williams 13 55.5kg
5 ONCE WERE WILD Jim Cassidy 11 55kg
6 HAWK ISLAND Glyn Schofield 12 55kg
7 STAND TO GAIN Rod Quinn 7 54kg
8 PERMIT Kerrin McEvoy 3 53.5kg
9 OLDER THAN TIME Tommy Berry 14 53.5kg
10 HANKS James McDonald 15 53.5kg
11 SOLID BILLING — 4 53.5kg
12 ANUDJAWUN Brenton Avdulla 10 53.5kg
13 NEXTANIX Peter Robl 8 53.5kg
14 OUR SERENA — 16 53.5kg
15 PEAL OF BELLS — 1 53.5kg
16 PLANET PURPLE Jay Ford 5 53.5kg
