Trainer Peter Snowden will have three Derby runners and money has started to filter in for his outsider Tupac Amaru.
Snowden will saddle second favourite Complacent ($5.50), San Diego ($7.50), but Tupac Amaru has firmed from $17 into $15 after online bookmaker Sportsbet Australia took several decent wagers overnight.
Savvy Nature remains firm $4.60 favourite for Saturday’s drawcard race at Flemington.
“Tupac Amaru has only won a Ballarat Maiden, but we did see a Maidener (Shamus Award) win last week’s Cox Plate. There is money to say Tupac Amaru can race well, but the major cash is for Complacent and Savvy Nature,’’ Shaun Anderson said.
In the Mackinnon Stakes market Jet Away ($3.00) is best backed and firm favourite to cement his place in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup.
Victoria Derby
(Prices in brackets from Wednesday 30 October)
$4.60 Savvy Nature (steady)
$5.50 Complacent (out from $5.00)
$7.00 Polanski (steady)
$7.50 San Diego (steady)
$9.00 Criterion (steady)
$15 Tupac Amaru (in from $17)
$17 Pinstripe Lane (steady)
$21 Famechon (out from $17)
$21 Bring Something (steady)
$21 Surging Wave (steady)
$34 Epic Saga (out from $26)
$34 Tips And Beers (out from $26)
$34 Drago (in from $41)
$41 Thunder Fantasy (steady)
$51 Cadillac Mountain (out from $41)
$51 Honey Steel’s Gold (steady)
$101 Throw The King (out from $67)
$301 Empire Rock (out from $201)
Mackinnon Stakes
$3.00 Jet Away
$3.80 Solzhenitsyn
$5.00 Pakal
$10 Dear Demi
$11 Mr Moet
$15 Moriarty
$21 Side Glance
$26 Mourayan
$41 Hvasstan