The Australian gelding Bow was unbeaten in two starts in June, leading to a start in a tougher handicap at Grafton Racecourse on Saturday evening.
The class hike will test Bow, who won consecutive starts for the first time in his nine-race career in handicap sprints at tiny Bowraville Racecourse at five furlongs on June 3, and at a slightly higher profile venue at six furlongs at Port Macquarie on June 18.
Unbeaten in three starts since mid-May, Grebeni will have his stakes debut in the Group 3 Winx Stakes for Southern Hemisphere 3-year-old milers at Sunshine Coast Racecourse near Brisbane on Friday evening, a class test for the improving gelding.
A winner of 4 of 9 starts, Grebeni has won handicaps at distances ranging from a mile to 1 1/8 miles in the current winning streak, including two lucrative races at 1 1/8 miles at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in Sydney on June 3 and June 17.
From an inside post, the 4-year-old filly Adelsun is likely to race from the back of the field in a one-mile handicap at Scone Racecourse in Australia on Thursday evening.
Considering the rally she has shown at times in her 11-race career, Adelsun will not be trailing for too long. In each of her three wins, Adelsun has closed well from off the pace, including in her last start in a seven-furlong handicap at Tamworth Racecourse on June 9.
Baroque Road, the Australian-bred gelding with an American pedigree, has had an unlucky series of races since returning from a three-month layoff in May.
Baroque Road had troubled trips in sprints on May 17 and June 12, finishing second by less than a length in the latter race.
The near misses leave Baroque Road as a solid favorite to win for the second time in his seventh start in a handicap at 6 1/2 furlongs at Hawkesbury Racecourse outside of Sydney on Wednesday evening.
The 4-year-old gelding Growl, who has been raced sparingly in Australia in the last few years, will have the difficult job of playing spoiler against the odds-on favorite Green Shadows in a seven-furlong handicap at Warwick Farm Racecourse in Sydney on Tuesday evening.
The Everest Stakes at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia, already the world’s richest turf race, will surpass the historic Dubai World Cup as the world’s second-richest race later this year with a purse increase to approximately $13.35 million at current exchange rates.
The race will be worth $20 million Australian dollars, an increase from $15 million Australian dollars last October, which at the time was equivalent to $9.3 million American dollars.