Aeliana, Warwoven and Sir Delius have all drawn key barriers for Saturday\u2019s Cox Plate at Flemington, while the race\u2019s two main on-speed influences, Land Legend and Light Infantry Man, have been handed the two widest gates.<\/p>\n
Aeliana will jump from barrier 10 for Chris Waller and James McDonald, with McDonald chasing a fifth-straight Cox Plate and Waller bidding to equal T.J. Smith\u2019s training record of seven wins in the race.<\/p>\n
Warwoven has drawn barrier two for Bjorn Baker and Rachel King, while Gai Waterhouse\u2019s Sir Delius has landed barrier five with Craig Williams aboard.<\/p>\n
For McDonald, the race presents the chance to extend one of the most extraordinary streaks in Cox Plate history.<\/p>\n
He has won the past four editions aboard Anamoe, Romantic Warrior and Via Sistina twice, and now chases a fifth consecutive success on Aeliana.<\/p>\n
Waller is also chasing history.<\/p>\n
He has won six Cox Plates and victory with either Aeliana or Birdman would draw him level with legendary trainer T.J. Smith\u2019s record of seven.<\/p>\n
Aeliana\u2019s barrier 10 draw means McDonald will have options aboard the star mare, who will be aided by a red-hot tempo.<\/p>\n
Warwoven, meanwhile, has landed ideally in barrier two.<\/p>\n
The Caulfield Guineas and Golden Rose winner is one of two three-year-olds in the race and will carry just 49.5kg .<\/p>\n
King retains the ride and will be attempting to become the first female jockey to win the Cox Plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aeliana, Warwoven and Sir Delius have all drawn key barriers for Saturday\u2019s Cox Plate at Flemington, while the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[152755,138314,246546,64,63,152751,502084,502079,147152,153756,502076,157854,157857,5934,502081,138312,499003,502073,502088,502087,502086,151002,151315,113592,152752,498585,502082,418868,138317,135349,502085,502077,502078,151020,147182,152673,502089,502080,502075,85,151467,502074,502090,502083],"class_list":["post-935333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-adrian-bott","tag-aeliana","tag-attrition","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-racing","tag-ben-melham","tag-birdman","tag-bjorn-baker","tag-blake-shinn","tag-blind-raise","tag-ceolwulf","tag-chad-schofield","tag-chris-waller","tag-cosmic-crusader","tag-cox-plate","tag-cox-plate-2026","tag-cox-plate-barrier-draw","tag-cox-plate-barriers","tag-cox-plate-field","tag-cox-plate-flemington","tag-craig-williams","tag-ethan-brown","tag-flemington","tag-gai-waterhouse","tag-group-1-racing","tag-harry-coffey","tag-horse-racing-news","tag-james-mcdonald","tag-jamie-melham","tag-jamie-mott","tag-land-legend","tag-light-infantry-man","tag-mark-zahra","tag-middle-earth","tag-rachel-king","tag-racing-com-news","tag-saint-george","tag-sir-delius","tag-sports","tag-spring-racing-carnival","tag-warwoven","tag-weight-for-age-racing","tag-william-pike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}