WALSH BAY AND SO YOU ARE SET TO GO TOE TO TOE

By Graham Potter | Friday, October 10, 2025

Walsh Bay, the runaway winner of the Toowoomba Cup two weeks ago, will be looking to add even more substance to her resume when she heads into action in the Listed Queensland Cup at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

Walsh Bay has sizzling form. Not only did this Chris and Corey Munce trained four-year-old mare salute in the Toowoomba Cup, but she made a real statement in doing so by winning by a very impressive 3.13 lengths margin from Caboche who you would certainly not label as a pushover.

You can add in the fact that was Walsh Bay’s fourth consecutive wins and her fifth win from her six starts since resuming from a seven-month break from race action.

Those wins followed a measured step up in distance with Walsh Bay winning from 1200m to 2000m over that time … and, on Saturday, she has been set the next logical test and will chase over the 2400m.

Racing rock-hard fit for a stable that is absolutely flying at the moment … Team Munce is currently second on the Brisbane Metropolitan Premiership ladder with sixteen winners, double that of the third placed trainer Chris Waller … Walsh Bay comes into the race with as solid a set of credentials that you could hope to find.

Jockey Damien Thornton, with his strength in the saddle if required, puts another plus in Walsh Bay’s credit column.

But the daughter of Deep Field has a market rival, one strong enough to put her back on the second line of betting.

That runner is the Stirling Osland trained So You Are. Osmond, who is based in Armidale, brought So You Are to town last week when he trounced his field at Doomben over the 2200m trip.

In the run before that, So You Are finished fifth, just 2.17 lengths back, in the Group 3 Newcastle Gold Cup over 2300m. The big point to take away from that result is that the first two runners across the line in the Newcastle Gold Cup were Soul Of Spain (the winner) and Royal Supremacy (second).

Those two runners went on to finish first and second again (reversing the order of the Gold Cup finish) in their next start … and that was in no less a race than the Group 1 Metropolitan at Randwick.

So You Are wasn’t there (he was over 900km away winning at Doomben at the time), but that Metropolitan result did put So You Are’s fifth placing at Newcastle in an enhanced, positive perspective.

The betting puts it as a two-way shoot-out, but the Tony Gollan trained Queen Air and the Bjorn Baker trained Our Anchorage are hovering, being the only other two runners in the nine-horse field quoted under double figure odds.

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