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Betting Bonanza for Adelaide Group 1

Silent Sedition is the favourite in the 2016 Australasian Oaks betting market. Photo: Getty Image

Group 1 racing heads to Adelaide for the first time in 2016 and both the Australasian Oaks and the Robert Sangster Stakes are set to be very intriguing races.

It is unlikely that there is a horse in this year’s Australasian Oaks field as good as last year’s winner Delicacy, but the Western Australian team of Grant Williams and Bob Peters will still be represented by Arcadia Dream and First Impressions.

Arcadia Dream was beaten in the Western Australian Oaks by First Impressions, but she was too strong for the boys in the Western Australian Derby and jockey William Pike will make a rare trip interstate for the Group 1 event.

First Impressions won the Western Australian Oaks at big odds and her last start effort at Ascot on April suggests that it may have been somewhat of a fluke, but she has still been sent to Adelaide for her Group 1 debut.

It isn’t just Perth that will prove intestate raiders for the Australasian Oaks - there are form lines coming from just about everywhere and it is very difficult to stack them all up.

Believe toughed it out on the speed to finish third behind Sofia Rosa and Ambience in the Australian Oaks, which is probably the strongest form line, but you can’t knock the form of Andrew Noblet-trained Silent Sedition, last start winner Bengal Cat and the undefeated Abbey Marie.

It is Silent Sedition that is currently favourite in the 2016 Australasian Oaks betting market, but Abbey Marie, Arcadia Dream and Believe are all at single figure odds and this is arguably the most open edition in the modern history of the race.

The Robert Sangster Stakes is just as open an affair and Don’t Doubt Mamma, Petits Filous and Griante are the only horses that are currently available at single figure odds.

It was hard not to be impressed with the performance of Don’t Doubt Mamma and she has been a consistent performer this preparation, but she is a horse that needs plenty of luck and she might not get that from barrier 15.

Petits Filous has always been a filly that looks like a Group 1 sprinter in waiting and she has run some very slick times during her racing career, but it is very tough to ignore her last start performance in the Arrowfield Sprint, where she failed to beat home a single runner.

Griante took out The Galaxy in the Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival – the same race contested by Miracles Of Life before she won the Robert Sangster Stakes last year – and she is probably the best value of the three horses on top of the market, but there is plenty of value on offer when you get deeper into the market.