The Seymour Cup is a Open Handicap open handicap 1600 race held annually on a Sunday at Seymour racecourse during the Melbourne Spring racing carnival in mid October. The race is run over a distance of 1600 metres and worth $150,000 in prizemoney. The 2011 Seymour Cup was won by Tiakinui from Smoulder with La Rocket third.
The Seymour Racing Club is situated just off the Hume Highway, 100km from central Melbourne, and is located in the heartland of Victoria’s Thoroughbred Country, the home of Darley, Swettenham and Chatswood Studs.
Seymour Cup info
Date:
Sunday 21st October 2012
Track:
Seymour racecourse, Seymour
Distance:
1600 metres
Race Type:
Open Handicap
Status:
Listed
Prizemoney:
$150,000
2011 Winner:
Tiakinui
The Seymour Cup is an above average country cup and generally assembles competitive horses on the country circuit while every now and then a good class city galloper may make the trip to Seymour for the easier pickings on offer.
Tiakinui (2011) won the Gold Nugget over 1600m at Ballarat prior to winning this race and recent Seymour Cup winners include Our Lukas (2010) and Mandela (2009).
Spring Carnival Guide
The race is a country cup over the shorter distance of 1600m and is not traditonally a good guide to the major middle distance or mile races of the spring carnival, although Tears I Cry (3rd in 2007) placed in the Gr2 Waterford Crystal Mile at his next start on WS Cox Plate day before going on to win the the Gr1 Emirates Stakes on the final day of the Flemington carnival.
Seymour Cup day information
Gates Open: around 10am
Adults: $20
Pensioners: $15
Children 16 and under, free when accompanied by an adult
Seymour Racing Club
55 Kobyboyn Road (Po Box 85)
Seymour, VIC, 3660
Tel: 03 5799 1681
Seymour Track Map Seymour race track has a circumference of 1800m with a straight length of 380m. The soil is sandy loam and provides an all weather grass track throughout the year. All races up to 1300m have to negotiate only one turn. which is the turn into the straight.
2011 Seymour Cup result
11. $26.00 Tiakinui 53.5 James Winks
2. $8.00 Smoulder 53.0 Craig Newitt
3. $16.00 La Rocket 54.5 Stephen Baster
then followed
4. $16.00 Gold Salute 55.0 Michael Walker
5. $19.00 Voice Commander 58.0 Ms Lisa Cropp
6. $3.60 Testascana 57.5 Luke Nolen
7. $12.00 God Has Spoken 57.5 Steven Parnham
8. $12.00 Back In Black 55.0 Danny Nikolic
9. $8.00 Our Lukas 58.0 Jamie Mott
10. $17.00 Chasm 57.0 Jason Benbow
11. $61.00 Apprehend 53.0 Dean Yendall
12. $9.00 Carnero 55.5 Luke Currie
13. $15.00 Offenders 55.0 Mark Zahra
14. $31.00 Speed Gifted 59.0 Dwayne Dunn
LR $71.00 Tinseltown 59.0 Chad Ormsby
Margins: Neck, 1 1/2 len Time: 1:35.74
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