Photo: Cuddle, winner of the 1937 Canterbury Gold Cup
Capo Del Impero picked for the Canterbury Gold Cup
CAPO DEL IMPERO is good enough to add the Canterbury Gold Cup to the Cromwell and Waikouaiti Cups which he has won earlier this season. After his impressive Waikouaiti Cup winner under 60kg he finished 5th in the Dunedin Gold Cup after conceding weight all round. His next start was in the Riverton Cup where he carried 61kg in heavy going. An impossible task and you just have to wonder why an apprentice claimer was not engaged. Capo Del Empero ran second in this race last year. I tipped him in last year’s race and he can go one better. It is also worth noting that the stable has won this race with Inferno, Tommy Tucker, and Sand Sweeper in the past. HES A DOOZY and MATSCOT are the big dangers. He’s A Doozy ran second in the Awapuni Gold Cup last time but 2000m is not his favoured distance while Matscot won the Southern Alps Challenge last year and you just have to wonder how much that race has taken out of him. Still he is a 6 time winner at Riccarton and not to be taken lightly.
Canterbury Gold Cup WFA 2000m (G3)
PAST WINNERS
YEAR WINNER FORM LAST RACE
2023 Times Ticking 5181 Won Easter Cup
2022 Prise De Fer 6516 Sixth Awapuni Gold Cup
2021 Beauden 1141 1st Awapuni Gold Cup
2020 No race due to covid lockdown
2019 Who Dares Wins 724X1 1st Easter Cup Riccarton
2018 Saint Emilion 5018 8th Awapuni Gold Cup
2017 Tommy Tucker 2121 1st Easter Cup Riccarton
2016 Authentic Paddy 3495 5th Awapuni Gold Cup
2015 Scapolo 1262 2nd Easter Cup Riccarton
2014 Nashville 8153 3rd Awapuni Gold Cup
2013 Shuka 4621 1st Te Aroha Cup
2012 Inferno 7356 4th Awapuni Gold Cup
2011 Inferno 1233 3rd F&M G3 Riccarton
Notable stats:
5 of the last 10 winners last raced in the Awapuni Gold Cup
3 winners finished first or second in the Easter Cup.
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