Weir to saddle up 4 runners in 2018 South Australian Derby

Victoria’s leading trainer Darren Weir is hopping to snag another Group 1 trophy at the 2018 Adelaide Festival Of Racing after accepting with four horses for the Group 1 $600,000 South Australian Derby (2500m) at Morphettville on Saturday.

Weir won last Saturday’s Group 1 $500,000 Schweppes Oaks (Australasian Oaks) (2000m) at Morphettville with his filly Sopressa and will saddle up Leicester, Civil Disobedience, Savaheat and Amerock in the Blue Riband Classic for the three year olds.

The Weir quartet received mixed results at the barrier draw for the South Australian Derby field that comprises of sixteen final runners plus four emergencies.

Savaheat with Dean Yendall booked to ride, drew the best of Weir’s four at barrier two, Damian Lane’s mount Leicester came up with nine, Civil Disobedience has barrier thirteen for John Allen and Amerock will jump from the extreme outside gate with Australasian Oaks winning jockey Harry Coffey in the saddle.

All the barriers will possible move in from the original draw at the final scratching time on Saturday morning with the four emergencies drawing barriers 6, 8, 1 and 19.

Leicester has the best credentials of the Weir runners and has already shown his liking for the Morphettville track with a last start win there in the Group 3 $120,000 AAMI Chairman’s Stakes (2035m) on April 28 .

Amerock, Savaheat and Civil Disobedience also had their final lead up run to the South Australian Derby in the Chairman’s Stakes and finished third, fifth and eighth respectively.

The Lindsay Team of David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig will also have multiple runners with Won Won Too and Rezealient making the final sixteen while Creedence (barrier 19) is the fourth emergency.

Won Won Too (Jordon Childs, barrier 4) and Rezealient (Jamie Kah, barrier 5) have drawn next to each other and are both coming off a run in the Listed $200,000 VRC St Leger (2800m) at Flemington on Anzac Day where Rezealient finished second and Won Won Too eighth.

Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott has accepted with two three-year-olds with Runaway making the final sixteen while Delos is marked as the second emergency with Adam Hyeronimus booked to ride form barrier eight.

Runaway is chasing a hat trick and has drawn barrier fourteen in the original draw with Stephen Baster retaining the mount after combining with the front running three year old with all the way wins in a 2218m BenchMark 64 Handicap at Geelong on April 17 and in the VRC St Leger.

Chris Waller will only have one runner in the South Australian Derby with Tangled who has drawn barrier fifteen in the original draw with Michael Walker on board again.

Walker has been in the saddle for Tangled’s last three starts during the 2018 Sydney Autumn Carnival that produced a second in the Group 1 $600,000 Sky Racing Rosehill Guineas (2000m) at Rosehill, a third in the Group 1 $2m Harrolds Australian Derby (2400m) at Randwick and a second in the Group 3 $150,000 IGA Liquor Frank Packer Plate (2000m) at Randwick.

Final field for the 2018 South Australian Derby (2500m)

No	Last 10	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Hcp Rating
1	4220×60232	TANGLED	Chris Waller	Michael Walker	15	56.5kg	94
2	6177×47114	MONEY MAHER	Daniel & Ben Pearce	Jarrad Noske	17	56.5kg	80
3	4×4131241	LEICESTER	Darren Weir	Damian Lane	9	56.5kg	77
4	3141131758	CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (NZ)	Darren Weir	John Allen	13	56.5kg	76
5	12135×4005	MAIN STAGE (NZ)	Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young	Damien Oliver	10	56.5kg	75
6	1215	SHERRIF (NZ)	Roger James	Leith Innes	12	56.5kg	75
7	165×902311	RUNAWAY	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Stephen Baster	14	56.5kg	74
8	07×102918	WON WON TOO (NZ)	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Jordan Childs	4	56.5kg	73
9	56104×1005	SAVAHEAT (NZ)	Darren Weir	Dean Yendall	2	56.5kg	73
10	8425122	REZEALIENT	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Jamie Kah	5	56.5kg	70
11	015610×066	SILENT COMMAND	Nick Smart	Shayne Cahill	3	56.5kg	70
12	01608×1801	INTO RIO (NZ)	Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra	Damien Thornton	7	56.5kg	68
13	70×5132	HIGH ’N’ DRY	Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra	Andrew Mallyon	18	56.5kg	68
14	38×0515833	AMEROCK	Darren Weir	Harry Coffey	20	56.5kg	67
15	3310×16	NOTHIN’ LEICA HIGH	Robbie Griffiths	–	11	56.5kg	66
16	33823×6314	BOX ON COLLINS	Tony McEvoy	–	16	56.5kg	63
17e	1242×72551	TROPICAL LIGHTNING	Travis Doudle	Todd Pannell	6	56.5kg	65
18e	00252×6119	DELOS (NZ)	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Adam Hyeronimus	8	56.5kg	64
19e	22300×1622	JOHNNY VINKO (NZ)	Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young	Dwayne Dunn	1	56.5kg	63
20e	671304	CREEDENCE	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	–	19	56.5kg	62

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