{"id":454786,"date":"2025-09-27T07:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/454786\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:19:12","slug":"martin-and-tavros-taking-on-big-guns-after-back-to-back-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/454786\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin and Tavros taking on big guns after back-to-back wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tamworth trainer Craig Martin will be out to repel the challenge of two powerhouse stables when he starts form galloper Tavros in Sunday\u2019s $150,000 Dubbo City &amp; Gilgandra Toyota Dubbo Gold Cup (1600m).<\/p>\n<p>The event carries Big Dance eligibility, and Tavros is shooting for a third straight win after scoring at Tamworth two starts ago and in the Moree Cup at his latest outing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Racing returns to Dubbo on Sunday.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/c4a12713879408569c6831d73ac288bb59b5700d.jpeg\" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Racing returns to Dubbo on Sunday.Credit: Janian McMillan\/Racing Photography<\/p>\n<p>Tavros will line up against the Ciaron Maher-prepared duo of Berkshire Shadow and Cosmic Vega, while Annabel and Rob Archibald have Cristal Clear in the Dubbo feature.<\/p>\n<p>Jockey Ashley Morgan will partner Tavros, while Braith Nock is on Cristal Clear, and apprentices Jacob Stiff and Nick Palmer will ride Berkshire Shadow and Cosmic Vega respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Martin has given Tavros, a five-year-old gelding by Bull Point, just the 12 starts. He has won five of them, with a further three minor placings, and amassed more than $120,000 in prizemoney.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Cristal Clear heads into the Dubbo Cup on the back of two wins at Rosehill with Nock having been aboard in each of them.<\/p>\n<p>Berkshire Shadow comes off a last start eighth in the Cameron Handicap at Newcastle, while Cosmic Vega finished fourth in the Tuncurry Cup at his latest start.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan, who was in form when booting home a winning treble at Scone on Friday, has an enviable book of six rides at Dubbo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tamworth trainer Craig Martin will be out to repel the challenge of two powerhouse stables when he starts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-454786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115275050290905376","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}