As expected, the track for the running of the three million dollar Coffeefields Cup was not ideal possibly for many of the horses entered in the race. By post time this morning the track was listed as good. The crowd was growing anxious waiting for the big race. Despite the track conditions the full field of fourteen paraded out to the starting gate, all loading into the gates professionally. Then the tense moments began until the gates would clang open and the great race would be run.
Breaking out of the gate first was Balerion<\/b>, owned by khalasar<\/i>, who was leading by a length over lordpye2<\/i> trained S R Awareness (IRE)<\/b>. A good three and three-fourth lengths back in third was Warwick (IRE)<\/b>, owned by cuprunners<\/i>. Along in fourth and fifth were Western Sculpture<\/b> and F Speed (ENG)<\/b>, trained by dorrin<\/i> and jsimpson<\/i> respectively. Trailing the field early on, thirteen lengths off the lead was elite6<\/i> owned Astronomer\u2019s Quest (IRE)<\/b>.
Then Balerion<\/b> lengthened his lead over S R Awareness (IRE)<\/b> to a total of two lengths. These two horses were in a speed duel, leaving the rest of the field in their dust with third place runner Warwick (IRE)<\/b> now eight and a half lengths off the pace of leader Balerion<\/b>. Western Sculpture<\/b> held on for fourth with pompeya<\/i> owned Into the final turn it was Balerion<\/b> who seemed to be running away with it now, five and a half lengths in front of S R Awareness (IRE)<\/b>. But the rest of the field was beginning to gain on them now. Lenny28<\/i> owned Creepshow (IRE)<\/b> was making a run from mid-pack and was now nipping at their heels in third, continuing to move ever closer. Western Sculpture<\/b> still hung onto fourth but seemed to be tiring. Making a big move from the back of the field was Rainband (AUS)<\/b>, trained by wulf<\/i>. K\u2019s Ikkasion<\/b> had dropped back into sixth now with favorite Otto Oh No<\/b> making his way up into seventh, slowly gaining on the field. Still in eighth and yet to make a move was click<\/i> owned Swingshift Sal<\/b>. Warwick (IRE)<\/b> was fading fast now and was back in ninth and still dropping fast. Freeze (NZ)<\/b> was possibly confirming his owners worst fears of the off track and seemed to be struggling with the surface in tenth. F Speed (ENG)<\/b> had dropped to eleventh with Blazing Lights<\/b>. trained by kjracing<\/i> still holding in twelfth. X Commandments (IRE)<\/b>, trained by randwick1<\/i> was beginning to drop back and was now in thirteenth. And trailing the field as they came for home was still Astronomer\u2019s Quest (IRE)<\/b>. Balerion<\/b> and S R Awareness (IRE)<\/b> battled on with both horses on their last leg, struggling to hold off the challenging Creepshow (IRE)<\/b> and rocketing Rainband (AUS)<\/b>. At last the twelve furlong marathon was in its final strides and it was Creepshow (IRE)<\/b> to defeat Balerion<\/b> in the final furlongs of the race to take the win with Balerioin<\/b> in second just holding off Rainband (AUS)<\/b> who finished third. Also Rans include: S R Awareness (IRE), Otto Oh No, Swingshift Sal, K\u2019s Okkasion, Western Sculpture, Freeze (NZ), Blazing Lights, Warwick (IRE), X Commandments (IRE), Astronomer\u2019s Quest (IRE),<\/b> and F Speed (ENG)<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Creepshow By Two, Coffeefields Cup Champion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}