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1 February, 2025
Nominations for Australian Cup Week 1
As we rip into 2025, the first majors of the year are the Temlee and Zoom Top which kick off the Australian Cup Carnival in a big way next Saturday at The Meadows.
There’s been 13 nominations for the Zoom Top (730m) and 106 for the Australian Cup heats (525m) where all sprinters will be considered for the Temlee.
They’re all run on Night 1. The top three from the eight Australian Cup heats will progress to four semi-finals the week after, with Temlee runners exempt into those semi-finals.
As always, selection of the fields will cause spot fires in the group chats with everyone of firm belief that their opinion is right and can’t be challenged! That’s the beauty of it.
For the Zoom Top, it’s traditionally easier to pick a field given the thinner depth of top level stayers compared to sprinters. There’s plenty around with different qualities, like Lanfranco, who was stunning in his last start at the track – he’s the fourth fastest greyhound ever over 730m, does that get him a gig? Then there’s the bombshell nomination of Unreal Speed – he hasn’t been seen since scratched from the Sandown Cup final last May, where he was the fastest qualifier.
The fields are put together by The Meadows with GRV Graders. I don’t envy pulling the trigger on those last couple of spots.
The conditions are broad, which as they state, is by design. The main factors of selection are:
Career record
Group and metropolitan racing performances
Recent form
Winning times
Record at The Meadows
Temlee and Zoom Top fields will be announced on Sunday with the box draws to be conducted Monday afternoon – streamed live via the Watchdog App and The Meadows’ Facebook page. Click here for event conditions.
ZOOM TOP NOMINATIONS
BLACK SILENCER, CASHING OUT, ETHANOL WATER, FACETIOUS, GROOVEBIRD, IRISH MILLIE, LAKEVIEW NOLA, LANFRANCO, MISTY BLUE, PASS MARK, UNREAL SPEED, UTRILLO BALE, WERRIS BALE
AUSTRALIAN CUP/TEMLEE NOMINATIONS
See FastTrack for their Special Event Ranking Order and further details.
ALPHA ZULU, AMRON TIGER, ASCEND ECSTATIC, ASTON GOZO, BALLYMAC WINKS, BEACH BOURBSKI, BEBOP JAZZ, BIG ENERGY, BLISTERED EARTH, BOMB LUCA, BOUNDING CHIEF, BREAKDOWN, CABAO LAPIS, CAIN BALE, CANYA ALL CLASS, CANYA NITRATE, COLAC KID, CORNHILL PRINCE, CRUISING DEBBIE, DAYSEA’S RORY, DEADLY AVENGER, DUTCH RIOT, ETHANOL VOLUME, EXCAVATION, EXTRADITED, FERNANDO DUKE, FERNANDO GOMEZ, FERNANDO PHIL, FIELD DAY, FLYING ZULU, FRED ROSE, GIACOMO, HARA’S BUDDY, HERE COMES MILLI, HONEY ZEN, HOTEL WHISKY ONE, IDYLLIC JAMES, I’M A MUSTANG, INTREPID BALE, IRISH LUCY, KIWI ICE CUBE, KIWI JAY, LAKEVIEW EMILY, LASSARD, LEO BALE, MACKINAW PEACH, MEPUNGA SCARLETT, MEPUNGA TULLY, MISTER EASY, MORTON, MOTION SENSOR, NANGAR JIM, ORLI BALE, PAT ABILITY, PAW FABIAN, PAW GORDY, PAW IKE, PAW KRAMER, PAW LOU LOU, PAW OCTAVIA, PAW OLLIE, PAW OSWALD, PAW PHELPS, PAW QUINBY, PAW QWAN, PAW TIKA, PAW UCOLTA, PAW ULTRA, PAW UTILITY, PAW VINCE, PAW VORTEX, PAW WHITLEY, PAW XANDER, PAW ZELINI, POWER OUT, QILIN BALE, REALITY BEST, REANNA’S PRIDE, REAPER, REIKO DAIQUIRI, SCHILLACI, SHARAPOVA STAR, SHAYNA BALE, SHIMA SAND, SHIMA STAN, SHIMA TIME, SMOOTH PLANE, STORMY DAY, TANNER BALE, TIM ZOO, URANA COBALT, URANA XAVIER, UTRILLO BALE, VAN WYCK, VINCENT BALE, WARM COCKLES, WERRIS BALE, WHERE’S POPPY, WHODAT SHANLYN, WILLA BALE, WREN BALE, WYONG DALLAS, YOGEN BALE, ZIPPING HOPKINS, ZIPPING KAI, ZIPPING MINAJ