Weekly preview / Vin Lowe / 03 June 2009 / Leave a comment Bet Now

Moonee Valley this Friday features the $100,000 Sky Racing Vicbred Super Series Final (G1) and some of the best three-year-old colts and geldings in the country will be on show, writes Vin Lowe.

Last week's semi winners Villagem (3) and Garnet River (5) have both drawn well for the Final. While both carved out identical last quarters of 27.8 Garnet River's mile rate (2.00.4) was fractionally better than Villagem's (2.01.1). This is a telling stat coming into Friday's big race. Village of Dreams is drawn to lead, Villagem can sit out and one back and Garnet River can storm home over the pair. It shapes as a terrific contest at 8.42 p.m. on Friday.

The undercard at the Valley is full of interest and the $50,000 Victaulic 4 & 5YO Championship (G2) is a fantastic race.

Magic Operative and Neil Day and Lance Justice and Our Malabar are flying and despite both coming off the second row I reckon their recent runs over the 2575 metres will prove the difference. I lean towards Our Malabar because of his adaptability, things have really 'clicked' for him lately and there are no Changeover's in the field!

If you had the chance to watch the Elitlopp from Sweden on Sunday night you would have been amazed at the 'warm-ups' the Europeans put their charges through. These are iron horses and I'll be interested to see if any of our locals drive as hard in the preliminaries.

The $25,000 MHRC Junction Tabaret Holmfield (G3) sees the three-year-olds do battle over a mile. He might be erratic and penalised for some bad behaviour but he may well be a flawed genius and I'll be tuning in to see Chris Alford weave some magic on Down Under Muscles. It will heart in your mouth stuff at the start as Down Under Muscles scores up but if he gets through that than look out magic Interest and Trottin on the Ritz - he'll have you covered.

It's a Fremantle meeting at Gloucester Park on Friday night and the feature race is the $25,000 RSM Bird Cameron Pace at 8.50 p.m.

Dartmoor backs up from a second last at Pinjarra on Monday and I think the drop back to 2130 metres will be in his favour. At good odds I think Gary Hall can get him home from the talented Fourmoore and Flaming Roadstar.