TODAY’S Group 1 CF Orr Stakes meeting at Caulfield has the go-ahead to host a crowd of upto 15,000, which would be the biggest at a Victoria racecourse since March last year. The crowd at Caulfield will be split into three zones with a maximum of 5,000 in each.

“We are thrilled to have capacity restrictions eased ahead of our great Group 1 features this month,” said Melbourne Racing Club boss Josh Blanksby.

On Wednesday, Victoria passed 28 days without recording a Covid-19 case in the community.

Great House among winners at Rosehill

A MAIDEN winner at Limerick for Donnacha O’Brien in June, the Galileo gelding Great House won at Rosehill on Saturday. Sent out a short-priced favourite over 2,000 metres in a A$125,000 benchmark 78 handicap, his second start since Highclere Racing placed him with Chris Waller, Great House was too polished for his rivals, posting a three length win. With Tommy Berry in the saddle, the four-year-old looks ready to step up in class.

Long Arm at Caulfield

HAVING won at Flemington on debut in Australia, the former Ger Lyons-trained Long Arm has bounced back to the winners’ stall at Caulfield after disappointing on his second Australian start. Stepped up to 2,400 metres and ridden by Jordon Childs, the son of Sunline’s jockey Greg Childs, Long Arm lumped 60.5kgs as top-weight.

Sitting back in the field the Rock Of Gibraltar gelding ran down the Irish-bred Galileo gelding T S Eliot, who races in Australia as Yulong Captain, to win by a nose with the French-bred Rudimental in third.

“He had to dig deep,”said trainer Peter Gelagotis of Long Arm. “He had to show his true qualities as a quality stayer. What a great win.”

Newgate see Profit

NEWGATE Farm have pulled the trigger early buying a stake in the Mick Price and Michael Kent-trained Profiteer, a son of Newgate’s own stallion Capitalist.

A three-length winner at Flemington on his only start, the colt will start odds-on in today’s A$2 million Inglis Millennium for two-year-olds over 1,100 Metres at Randwick.

“We have bought into Profiteer on a very similar deal structure to what we did when we purchased a stake in Extreme Choice prior to his Blue Diamond coupe,” said Newgate’s Henry Field. Profiteer was a $165,000 buy at the 2020 Inglis Classic Sale.