Penalty Lifts Runaway Up Cup Entry Order

Runaway is a step closer to a Melbourne Cup start with the stayer penalised 1.5kg for his win.

The penalty takes Runaway’s weight to 52kg and lifts the Gai and Adrian Bott-trained horse to No. 28 in the .

Runaway led home a one-two finish for the Waterhouse-Bott combination in Wednesday’s Geelong Cup, scoring a three-quarter length win over Northwest Passage.

The four-year-old won the VRC St Leger (2800m) at in April before running third in the at the following month.

Racing handicapper said the performance of Runaway was outstanding.

“It is encouraging to see a VRC St Leger winner return in such good form as a four-year-old and Runaway will be very competitive in with 52kg if he can secure a place in the final field of 24 runners,” Carpenter said.

Since 2000, 12 Geelong Cup winners have gone on to run in the Melbourne Cup with Media Puzzle (2002), Americain (2010) and Dunaden (2011) claiming victory.

Other Geelong Cup winners Bauer (2008) and On A Jeune (2005) finished in second place while Karasi (2001) and Qewy (2016) went on to run fourth.

The 1.5kg penalty is the same given to Media Puzzle before his Melbourne Cup victory and 2014 winner Caravan On who did not make that year’s Melbourne Cup field.

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