Cox Plate 2020: Recap all the action from the Valley

Danny O'Brien missed out on the Cox Plate prize with Russian Camelot but he strengthened his Melbourne Cup squad when Miami Bound returned to winning form in the Moonee Valley Gold Cup. RECAP ALL THE ACTION 

Miami Bound’s return to form with a devastating Moonee Valley Gold Cup success has bolstered Danny O’Brien’s already formidable Melbourne Cup arsenal

Armed with last year’s winner Vow And Declare, Adelaide Cup victor King Of Leogrance and leading fancy Russian Camelot, O’Brien will also pay up for Miami Bound to run in the November 3 Cup.

“I would think she’d definitely be an acceptor now,” O’Brien said after the mare outstayed Shared Ambition and Oceanex.

“She won that impressively. When you’re that close it is pretty hard not to run. 

“It’s more a difficult essay for those fillies that had won an Oaks and come and win a Melbourne Cup, I don’t think it’s been done for 30 or 40 years.

“I think we’ll be there on the first Tuesday and we’ll give it a crack.”

O’Brien’s faith in the VRC Oaks winner had never wavered.

“We’ve been very happy with her, to be fair, all spring but she’s a much better horse when she gets out in distance - a mile-and-a-half at least,” he said.

“Obviously she grows a leg on the soft so there’s a few things in our favour today, but we’re thrilled to see her win today.

“She gave us a great thrill last spring in the Oaks and it’s still a great effort to come back here and beat all the boys in the Moonee Valley Cup.

“We’ve been really pleased with her but she has been running on firm tracks and probably at unsuitable distances. She was ok in the Herbert Power but that was on a Good 3. 

“Soft 7 today and she grew a leg - she was never going to get beaten.”

Miami Bound was one of Jamie Kah's four winners at the Valley. Picture: Racing Photos

Miami Bound’s victory was the third leg in Jamie Kah’s four winners.

“She didn’t like being on the rail last start. Daniel Moor said to me the horse is flying,” she said.

“I was going to call him a bad judge after her last start, but like I said I don’t think she liked being crowded.

“Today she got the beautiful run down the back straight and it was a tough win.”

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