#Merson Cooper Stakes

News Corp form analyst Brad Waters takes an early look at Saturday's Herald Sun Zipping Classic meeting at Caulfield. BEST BET ROOTS (Race 9, No.8) Roots finished powerfully to score at Flemington and was narrowly beaten at Group 3 level two runs back. She'll be tough to hold out again in the last. VALUE BET SOUND (Race 7, No.3) Sound has won the…

Trainers Peter and Paul Snowden are keen for Cythera to enhance her reputation and Ebhaar to restore hers when they clash in the Group 2 $250000 Silver Slipper Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Cythera is out to prove she is a legitimate Golden Slipper contender after making a winning start to her race career with a tough effort to…

Rodney Northam is counting on two of the stable's designated swoopers, Very Sharp and Joey's Chance, to deliver him a double at Gosford on Tuesday, following on from a treble at the same venue last month. Home-bred mare Very Sharp was at her barnstorming best when sealing Northam's trio of winners when she charged down the middle and over the top…