Roma Cup

The 2015 Roma Cup is a Group 3 race held at the end of May or the first part of June each year at Belmont Racecourse in Perth. It is a weight for age contest run over a short trip of 1200m. The race is one of the feature events run at Belmont every year and is worth $125,000.

This race is almost exclusively made up of local Perth based runners and those that travel down from the northern part of the state.

It forms part of an attractive little double header culminating with the Belmont Sprint in June which is also a Group 3 race.

The double went through a bit of a dry spell for a while before Grand Nirvana picked up the pair of wins in 2011.

Before that Modem did it in 2004 a year after Tribula had done the same.

It is a great form guide though and a host of horses have won one and placed in the other or placed in both runs.

Grand Nirvana’s 2011 win was his second after winning in 2009 and running third in 2010.

Other champions include Doctor Golly which went back to back in 1992 and 1993, Star System in 2000, No Questions in 2007 and Vain Raider in 2010.

2015 Roma Cup Field

The 2015 Roma Cup field is provided below.

No Last 10 Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight
1 9604125x4x LUCKYGRAY Trevor Andrews Shaun O’Donnell 2 58.5kg
2 522x9780x4 RANGER Adam Durrant Joseph Azzopardi (a) 5 58.5kg
3 x1341224x2 SHINING KNIGHT Grant Williams Peter Hall 7 58.5kg
4 1x4327036x RESPONDENT Adam Durrant Ms Lucy Warwick (a) 3 58.5kg
5 48×9053231 ZESTER Daniel Morton Ms Jerry Noske (a) 9 58.5kg
6 2261115231 DAWN APPROACH Vaughn Sigley Takahide Ikenushi 6 58.5kg
7 3467x41x9x MODELLO Lindsey Smith Troy Turner 4 58.5kg
8 2111158×43 ROCK MAGIC Chris Gangemi Jarrad Noske 8 58.5kg
9 114x21255x FUCHSIA BANDANA Darren Mcauliffe Ben Kennedy 1 56.5kg

2015 Roma Cup Nominations

No Last 10 Horse Sex Age Trainer Weight
1 2261115231 DAWN APPROACH G 4 Vaughn Sigley 58.5kg
2 9604125x4x LUCKYGRAY G 7 Trevor Andrews 58.5kg
3 3467x41x9x MODELLO G 6 Lindsey Smith 58.5kg
4 522x9780x4 RANGER G 8 Adam Durrant 58.5kg
5 1x4327036x RESPONDENT G 4 Adam Durrant 58.5kg
6 2111158×43 ROCK MAGIC G 5 Chris Gangemi 58.5kg
7 x1341224x2 SHINING KNIGHT G 6 Grant Williams 58.5kg
8 2311319×12 SURPARK G 6 Sonya Price 58.5kg
9 48×9053231 ZESTER G 8 Daniel Morton 58.5kg
10 1211×12 LIBERTY’S GEM G 3 Simon A Miller 57kg
11 114x21255x FUCHSIA BANDANA M 4 Darren Mcauliffe 56.5kg

Roma Cup Winners & Results

Winners and placers in the Roma Cup since 2000 with winning times.

Year Results Winning Time
2015 1 Luckygray 2 Dawn Approach 3 Fuchsia Bandana  1:12.2
2014 1 Magnifisio 2 Elite Belle 3 Checkpoint  1:11.2
2013 1 Power Princess 2 Ranger 3 Playing God  1:10.7
2012 1 Luckygray 2 Our Ol’Fella 3 Grand Nirvana  1:11.1
2011 1 Grand Nirvana 2 Power Princess 3 King Kool Kat  1:10.3
2010 1 Vain Raider 2 Idyllic Prince 3 Grand Nirvana  1:10.6
2009 1 Grand Nirvana 2 Kens Double 3 Sheenasaidgrey  1:10.6
2008 1 El Presidente 2 Arctic Park 3 Oroya Gold  1:10.1
2007 1 No Questions 2 Star Laser 3 Scuffs  1:10.1
2006 1 Is Amazing 2 Electic 3 River Mist  1:09.9
2005 1 Avenida Madero 2 River Mist 3 Ambers Halo  1:12.9
2004 1 Modem 2 Cento 3 Golden Delicious  1:10.6
2003 1 Tribula 2 Suspicion 3 Dark ‘n’ Dangerous  1:10.4
2002 1 Kaprats 2 Corporate Bruce 3 Cool Business  1:10.6
2001 1 Secret Remedy 2 Prince Of Pop 3 Country Blazer  1:11.4
2000 1 Star System 2 Double Blue 3 Corporate James  1:10.4

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