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📻 IMPORTANT AUCKLAND UPDATE 📻
The three horses to follow out of the Turnbull
Andrew Slevison & Connor Scanlon • October 6th, 2025 7:20 pm
Renowned racing broadcaster Matt Hill has broken down a “fantastic renewal of the Turnbull (which) just whets our appetite for the next few weeks”.
The Group 1 2000m Turnbull Stakes was won by the Melbourne Cup favourite Sir Delius, defeating the Cox Plate favourite Via Sistina (third) and Caulfield Cup favourite Half Yours (fourth).
Matt Hill learnt plenty about these favourites from the running of the $750,000 race and passed it on to the SEN family.
See Matt Hill’s break down of the key runners to follow out of the Turnbull below:
Sir Delius
“He came in before Saturday as a real Melbourne Cup favourite, but we were always going to learn something over the weekend,” Hill said on SEN’s Whateley.
“Because that Turnbull Stakes had the Melbourne Cup favourite, the Caulfield Cup favourite in Half Yours, and the Cox Plate favourite in Via Sistina.
“Sir Delius is going to have a Cox Plate-Melbourne Cup path in front of him now.
“You can’t knock Gai Waterhouse, she’s won a Melbourne Cup before.
“You’d think Sir Delius is going to be very hard to beat in a Melbourne Cup.”
Via Sistina
“It’s probably a 50-50 how Via Sistina is going at the moment,” Hill admitted.
“I thought the run was pretty good on Saturday chasing from the back of the field on a track that was getting firmer through the day which suited horses up near the speed.
“But she was certainly beaten by a decent distance by Sir Delius.
“Via Sistina, she’s eight years of age now. Is she the horse she was 12 months ago? I’m not sure, but I still wouldn’t discount her for the Cox Plate.”
Half Yours
“Half Yours was fantastic running on into fourth. He gets 52.5kg in a Caulfield Cup in two weeks’ time,” Hill said.
“How are they going to beat him? He’s going to be very, very hard to beat.”
Half Yours will run in the Caulfield Cup on October 18, Via Sistina will run in the Cox Plate on October 25 and Sir Delius will run in the Melbourne Cup on November 4.
