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The $1 million Silver Eagle – a crucial qualifying race for Sydney’s second richest event the $10 million Golden Eagle – and four Group races feature on Saturday at Royal Randwick as the record-breaking Sydney Everest Carnival continues.

Saturday’s 10-race card with 150 entries also features the inaugural running of the $500,000 The Agency Tapp-Craig in honour of two of Sydney’s racing’s most decorated and respected racing broadcasters, John Tapp OAM and Ian Craig.

The first three placegetters in Saturday’s $1m Silver Eagle gain coveted entry and exemption from ballot for the $10m Golden Eagle, to be run at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday 29 October.

Mr Mozart and William Pike in winning form at Rosehill Gardens. Image by Steve Hart Photographics

In just the three runnings of the Silver Eagle, winners and placegetters have included future Group 1 winners in Ellsberg, Flit, Alligator Blood and Mizzy, whilst the race has also provided placegetters in each running of the Golden Eagle.

The Group 2 $300,000 Polytrack Roman Consul Stakes, along with the Group 3 $500,000 New TAB App Gloaming Stakes, Group 3 $200,000 The Nivison and Group 3 $200,000 Furphy Angst Stakes bring black type to the program.

Australian Turf Club Executive General Manager Racing and Wagering, James Ross said Saturday’s Silver Eagle Day was a pivotal part of Sydney’s growing $66m spring.

“The $1 million Silver Eagle has attracted amongst its strongest field yet in a race which has quickly established itself as not only an important pathway to the $10 million Golden Eagle but a future pointer to Group 1 successes," Mr Ross said.

“The Polytrack Roman Consul also continues to build an honour roll of future Group 1 winners and highly valued stallion prospects.

“This year’s increase to $2 million for the upcoming Moët & Chandon Spring Champion Stakes has seen a full field of three-year-olds from across Australia and New Zealand on that pathway via Saturday’s New TAB App Gloaming Stakes on Saturday."

Full fields for Royal Randwick are available here and full TAB Fixed Odds markets for all races here.

Hawkes Racing has the early TAB favourite in the $1m Silver Eagle in Mr Mozart ($4.60-$3.70) for jockey Brenton Avdulla, in a wide-open betting market. Group 1-winning mare Startantes is at $6-$8 for Queensland trainer Robert Heathcote and jockey Jason Collett ahead of the emerging and highly-talented Waterford for Chris Waller and Tommy Berry ($11-$8).

Vilana – a winner of four from seven starts for the powerful Godolphin and James Cummings lead team – is at $10-$9 with jockey Nash Rawiller aboard.

Zou Tiger for trainer John O’Shea and jockey Ben Melham – off the back of a last start third in the Chandon Golden Rose – is a strong $2.40-$2.30 in the inaugural $500,000 Tapp-Craig. Second favourite is the talented Opal Ridge for trainer Luke Pepper and rising star jockey Tyler Schiller, well backed at $4.60-$4.20 with TAB.

In the Group 3 $500,000 New TAB App Gloaming Stakes, Kiwi visitor Sharp ‘n Smart for trainers Graeme and Deborah Rogerson and jockey Ben Melham opened a $3.70-$3.60 TAB favourite.

Williamsburg, backing up from a victory last Saturday at Royal Randwick, is a $6.50-$4.20 strongly-supported second favourite for newly Group 1-winning trainer partners Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou and jockey Kerrin McEvoy.

The Group 3 $200,000 Furphy Angst Stakes has attracted a field of 16 runners headed in TAB Markets by Polly Grey ($4.60) for champion Sydney trainer Chris Waller and jockey Tommy Berry.

In another highly competitive race Atishu ($6.50) for Waller and jockey Jay Ford and Honeycreeper (James Cummings and Nash Rawiller ($11-$8.50) are the only other horses under double-figure odds.

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