Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young will bring the right horses to Flemington for Saturday\u2019s Andrew Ramsden Stakes but admit they will probably need the right conditions as well.<\/p>\n
Within their past couple of starts, New Look has won the Chairman\u2019s Quality at The Championships in Sydney, while American Wolf took out the Adelaide Cup, and both will look to obtain a free pass into the Melbourne Cup on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a big lure with these horses you know are going to stay the trip,\u201d Busuttin said. \u201cEvery owner would like to have a runner in the Melbourne Cup and these are stayers still on their way up.<\/p>\n
\u201cNew Look probably needs a bit of cut in the ground. You saw how he thrived on it in the Chairman\u2019s, and then in the Sydney Cup he loomed, but I think he felt the ground at the end of the two miles.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the right next step to keep him going, but the set weights are against him a bit, given he meets the Cup winner [Changingoftheguard] 4-1\/2 kilos worse off.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if we get a soft track and a bit of tempo, I would expect him to be in the finish.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0Grahame Begg-trained Zakouma is $4.40 favourite for the Ramsden as he steps out beyond 2000m for the first time in the 2800m examination, in front of Changingoftheguard at $5.50 and emerging stayer The Western Front at $7, while New look is kept safe at $10.<\/p>\n
But Busuttin believes the only four-year-old in the field, $16 chance American Wolf should not be forgotten.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has won a St Leger and Adelaide Cup and once he gets out to this trip, he just loves to get into wars,\u201d Busuttin said. \u201cYou saw it in he just didn\u2019t want to give in and the one thing he will do is stay.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have kept him going for this race, and he has won over this course before. He needs a good track to show his best, though.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young will bring the right horses to Flemington for Saturday\u2019s Andrew Ramsden Stakes but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12534,9437,260,9440,12535,12536,12537],"class_list":["post-11757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-american-wolf","tag-andrew-ramsden-stakes","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-cup","tag-natalie-young","tag-new-look","tag-trent-busuttin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}