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  • Friday, 28 Feb, 2020,
  • by Andrew Copley

TAB Australian Cup – stats that matter

Need some help finding the TAB Australian Cup winner?

Here’s some facts and figures that may help your cause.

Best draw:
18 of 61 Australian Cup winners have come from Box 1 (29.5%).

Favourite’s race:
24 Australian Cups have been won by the favourite (39.5%).

Trainer tops:
Andrea Dailly has trained 5 of the past 10 Australian Cup winners including the past two on end.

Fastest PB at The Meadows 525m:
29.47sec Whiskey Riot
29.63sec Hard Style Rico
29.76sec Mister Harlewood

Best winning strike rate at The Meadows 525m:
71% Hard Style Rico
67% Last Hurrah
57% Whiskey Riot

Best career winning strike rate:
53% Hard Style Rico
49% Whiskey Riot
41% Last Hurrah

Most wins:
20 Whiskey Riot
18 Last Hurrah
16 Fernando’s Riot

Most prize money:
$750,810 Whiskey Riot
$92,715 Fernando’s Riot
$79,330 Last Hurrah

2020 TAB Australian Cup
1 Aston Cade (Andrea Dailly)
2 Mister Harlewood (Jeff Britton)
3 Hard Style Rico (Luckie Karabitsakos)
4 Last Hurrah (Brett Nye)
5 Hardaway Winnie (Paul Bartolo)
6 Fernando’s Riot (Anthony Azzopardi)
7 Scatterbox (Jeff Galea)
8 Whiskey Riot (Anthony Azzopardi)

Reserves
9 Shima Breeze (Robert Camilleri)
10 Steinbrenner (Jeff Britton)

The Watchdog selects:
3 Hard Style Rico; 1 Aston Cade; 2 Mister Harlewood; 8 Whiskey Riot

James Van de Maat selects:
1 Aston Cade; 3 Hard Style Rico; 2 Mister Harlewood; 8 Whiskey Riot

George Farrugia selects:
5 Hardaway Winnie; 8 Whiskey Riot; 1 Aston Cade; 3 Hard Style Rico


Quaddie change:
Saturday night’s TAB Quaddie at The Meadows has a projected pool of $500,000 and will incorporate Races 6-9.

WATCH: James and George outline why they have landed on their selections.

Andrew CopleyAndrew Copley

Andrew Copley

Communications Manager at Greyhound Racing Victoria with 25 years’ experience as a reporter with National Greyhound Form newspaper and GRV. Former Watchdog form analyst. Adopter of celebrity greyhound, Fred Basset. Victorian Greyhound of the Year and Victorian greyhound racing Hall of Fame panel member.

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