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Cup charge ... Gatewood, ridden by Glen Boss, surges past Brigantin to win the Geelong Cup. Source: Wayne Ludbey / News Limited
Former Test cricketer Simon O'Donnell and OTI Racing partner Terry Henderson are sweating on a penalty of at least 1.5kg for their English stayer Gatewood to get into the Melbourne Cup.
Gatewood skyrocketed into Cup contention with victory in the Geelong Cup.
A 1.5kg penalty would lift Gatewood to 53kg, and from 41st to 29th in the order of entry.
Manighar and Seville are ahead of him but are already out, and others would need to fall by the wayside for him to make the 24-horse field.
O'Donnell and Henderson won the Geelong Cup in 2008 with raider Bauer, who was then pipped on the post by Viewed in the Melbourne Cup.
"We are hoping for a big enough penalty to get into the Cup, and then hopefully having another crack at winning it," Henderson said.
Racing Victoria handicapper Greg Carpenter will announce the penalty on Thursday.
"I've got a lot of thinking to do in the next 24 hours along with my colleagues on the handicapping panel," Carpenter said.
"I will need to have a good look at the sectionals and the way the race was run and we need to be comfortable his overall profile is good enough (to gain a sufficient penalty to get into the Melbourne Cup)."
OTI Racing already has My Quest For Peace, fifth in the Caulfield Cup, safely in the Melbourne Cup field.
Gatewood backed up from a luckless run in the Herbert Power Stakes at Caulfield a fortnight ago and will have to complete a rare schedule, for a European raider, of three races in five weeks to win the Cup.
"He can be freshened and happy again going into the Melbourne Cup, where he will like the bigger track and hopefully more pace," Henderson said.
Gatewood came off a farcically slow pace to run 32.09sec for the last 600m to defeat Peter Moody's Chateau Margaux, who is not a Melbourne Cup entry, by three-quarters of a length. Heavily backed French galloper Brigantin was third.
Backed from $13 to $8 for the Melbourne Cup before yesterday's race, Brigantin sits at No.25 in the order of entry and must rely on horses above him dropping out.
A protest by Brigantin's jockey Umberto Rispoli against Luke Nolen on Chateau Margaux for interference on the home turn was swiftly dismissed by stewards.
The extra $27,000 prizemoney if he had been elevated would have taken him into the Cup field.
Jockey Glen Boss stoked up Gatewood from what was a ludicrous pace for the seven-horse field.
The winner ran 10sec outside the race record and slower than a restricted 2400m race earlier in the day.
Boss was excited by Gatewood's finishing sprint.
"I am taken by his splits ... he sprinted quickly," Boss said.
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