Cox Plate Set To Be A Weight For Age Showdown

It's six months away, but the Cox Plate appears to be on the radar of every top galloper in the land, bar Black Caviar, judging by reports from trainers, jockeys and owners on the weekend.
 
Connections of Atlantic Jewel, Manighar, More Joyous and outstanding two-year-old Pierro reported that the Cox Plate was the race they were targeting this spring, which could promise to be one of the greatest Cox Plates.
 
Atlantic Jewel became the first filly since Valicare in 1926 to win the Group 1 All Aged Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. It was reported that she will now be sent for a spell and aimed at the Cox Plate.
 
Manighar has won four of his nine starts and three of those four were premier weight-for-age middle-distance races: the Australian Cup, Ranvet Stakes and The BMW.
 
Gai Waterhouse-trained Pierro has completed the Sydney autumn carnival’s triple crown for two-year-olds, winning the Group One Champagne Stakes, Golden Slipper Stakes and the Sires’ Produce Stakes, whilst More Joyous left a star-studded field in her wake to claim the 2000m weight-for-age contest winning Saturday’s Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick.
 
Other likely aspirants include Mosheen and Black Caviar's half brother, All Too Hard.
 
Two horses that will not run in the Cox Plate are Jimmy Choux, who has been retired, and Americain.