The Everest 2023 Racing Tips

<h2>The 2023 Everest Racing Tips</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Since its introduction in 2017, The Everest (1200m) juggernaut has challenged the tradition and transformed the fabric of the <a href="https://www.sportsbet.com.au/huddle/horse-racing/news/spring-racing-carnival-guide-2023">Spring Racing Carnivals</a> in Sydney and Melbourne.&nbsp; Racing NSW’s dynamo CEO Peter V’Landys has single-handedly built The Everest into not only a great race, but also an event that is attracting fans from outside the racing bubble.</p> <p>In cricket parlance, The Everest is more T20 compared to the Test match that embodies Victoria’s Melbourne Cup. The “dash for cash” has climbed in importance and now it sits firmly alongside the iconic Cup as one of the world’s great racing events.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>What Time is The Everest?</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The monolith that has become racing’s The Everest, run at Randwick on Saturday, October 14, caters for Australia’s best sprinters. The Everest is race 7, run at 4.15pm EST.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>The Everest Prize Money</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This year V’Landys boosted The Everest prize money from $15 million to $20 million, which makes it the world’s richest horse race run on turf.</p> <p>The concept of The Everest is for 12 slot holders – who have paid $600,000 per year to own a slot for three years – to make an offer to the owners of one of Australia’s best sprinters to represent them in the 1200-metre sprint. Negotiations are made behind the scenes on the split of the The Everest prize money, although it is generally accepted the money is split evenly. The Everest prize money for first is $7 million.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>The Everest Past Winners</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The Everest had an unusual start to its life – the first two editions of the event were won by the same horse, Redzel, for trainers Peter and Paul Snowden and jockey Kerrin McEvoy. The jockey won his third when Classique Legend won in 2020. The champion Nature Strip won in 2021, and two three-year-olds have had The Everest success, Yes Yes Yes (2019) and Giga Kick last year.</p> <p>In a changing of the guard, Injury has stopped Giga Kick from a place in this year’s The Everest field and veterans Nature Strip and Eduardo have been retired.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>The Everest Field</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Interestingly, for the first time it’s possible that the best sprinter in this part of the world won’t be contesting The Everest. New Zealand’s star Imperatriz will be snug in her box at Cranbourne in Victoria when The Everest field thunders to the finishing line.Trainer Mark Walker made it clear that the quirky Imperatriz is happy in Melbourne where she has been dominating the sprint features.</p> <p>The barrier draw has made The Everest a most interesting contest. The early favourite I Wish I Win, a noted slow beginner, has drawn barrier 1, the low draw that co-trainer Peter Moody said he didn’t want.&nbsp;</p> <p>On the other hand, trainer James Cummings wanted an inside barrier for his mare In Secret, but she drew the outside barrier 12. Compensating that, his brilliant colt Cylinder is perfectly placed in barrier 4. Shinzo, who beat Cylinder in the Golden Slipper, has drawn 6 and the rising star Buenos Noches gets his chance from barrier 8.</p> <p>Trainer Joe Pride’s brilliant pair Private Eye (barrier 9) and Think About It (barrier 5) are perfectly drawn to suit their racing styles.</p> <p>There doesn’t look to be a lot of competitive speed in this year’s The Everest. Expect Overpass (barrier 2), as he did last year, to lead and dictate his own tempo to make it tough for him to be run down. He’s a value play racing tip to give you a run for your money.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>Where can I watch The Everest?</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Apart from buying a ticket to walk through the gates at Royal Randwick racecourse in Sydney, there is ample television coverage of The Everest through free-to-air on Channel Seven and through pay-TV on Foxtel’s Sky Racing.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>The leading 2023 The Everest Tips</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Private Eye</strong></p> <p>Private Eye’s trainer Joe Pride has adopted a program to win The Everest based on only one lead-up run. The gelding showed his true talent with a powerful late finish to beat Overpass in the G2 The Shorts (1100mn) at Randwick on September 16. It’s a similar one-start program to last year when Private Eye won the G2 Gilgai Stakes (1200m) at Flemington before finishing second behind Giga Kick in The Everest. Private Eye is our top Everest tip.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Cylinder</strong></p> <p>The good record of three-year-olds in The Everest means that a colt the quality of Cylinder should be in your The Everest tips. Cylinder was a crack juvenile finishing second in the Golden Slipper, and he has been terrific in three runs this time in, winning twice before a close third behind Militarize in the G1 Golden Rose (1400m) at Rosehill. The racing tip is that there is no fitter horse than Cylinder.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>I Wish I Win</strong></p> <p>I Wish I Win has been at the head of The Everest tips since his extraordinary win in the G1 TJ Smith Stakes – over The Everest course – in April. Peter Moody and his new training partner Katherine Coleman have set an unusual path for I Wish I Win’s The Everest quest by not running after his first-up over 1400m in the G1 Memsie Stakes at Caulfield in early September. Barrier 1 is tricky for him, as he could be back and blocked on the rail. If he gets clear air, he will be storming home.&nbsp;</p> <p><em><strong>&nbsp;</strong></em></p> <p><strong>Think About It</strong></p> <p>Think About It has won his past eight starts and 10 of his 11. Trainer Joe Pride said Think About It will be greatly improved by his narrow win from Hawaii Five Oh in the G2 Premiere Stakes (1200m) September 30. The more hectic the tempo of The Everest, the more Think About It will relish the contest and the more he should be in your Everest tips.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>The Everest 2023 Odds&nbsp;</h2>

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