TAB Eureka Power Ranking
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LAST year’s runner-up Bay Of Biscay heads the first set of Power Rankings for this year’s $2.1mil TAB Eureka.
The Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin-trained star was last year’s Australian 3YO of the Year and flashed home late for a luckless second to Don Hugo in the TAB Eureka.
Bay Of Biscay has raced just three times this year for two wins, including his most recent run in the Group 1 Chariots Of Fire at Menangle on March 1.
The four-year-old sharpened-up with a Melton trial last Tuesday and will head to the races soon as he prepares for a Queensland raid where the $350,000 Group 1 Rising Sun on July 5 is his major target.
Bay Of Biscay was the first pacer to snare a slot in this year’s TAB Eureka – at Menangle on September 6 – when leviathan WA owner-breeder Rob Watson struck a deal through his Soho Standardbreds slot.
Jess Tubbs’ Fighter Command looms as the sentimental favourite on so many levels for this year’s TAB Eureka.
He won the Beautide as a three-year-old last year, which earned him the Tasracing slot in the TAB Eureka. But a life-threatening illness forced him out of the race just days before it was scheduled to be run.
Fighter Command, who has won 11 of just 17 starts, has won two of his five starts on the comeback trial and finished an eye-catching fourth at Melton last Saturday week.
Tubbs said he would again target The Beautide in Hobart on August 2 as his ticket into the TAB Eureka.
Powerhouse Queenslanders Grant and Trista Dixon have a remarkable four pacers in the top 10 of the first set of 2025 TAB Eureka Power rankings.
Team Dixon's runners are headlined by a pair of three-year-olds, Fate Awaits, a winner of eight of his 14 starts, and Path To Greatness, who ran second in the NSW Derby, won the Nutrien final and added victory in the Queensland Sun last Saturday.
They also have four-year-olds Charge Ahead (seventh) and Air Express (ninth), while another Team Dixon pacer Cool And Classy is knocking on to become the first three-year-old filly to contest the TAB Eureka and can secure a start by winning the Hayden on Saturday night at Albion Park.
Hesitate is looming large to give Luke McCarthy a chance for a third successive TAB Eureka win. He won well at Menangle last Saturday night and is now Brisbane-bound.
Power Ranking - Tuesday 17 June