Nowhere to hide: Glen Boss drives Puissance De Lune to the finish in the Makybe Diva at Flemington. Source: Vince Caligiuri / Getty Images
GLEN Boss says today's Turnbull Stakes is the race that sorts out the legitimate spring chances from the pretenders.
"There's no place to hide. There's no excuses," Boss said yesterday.
"If you don't front up tomorrow, then you won't be a factor for the rest of the spring.
"To me it's the defining race of the spring. If you don't perform, you won't be catching up in the main races."
Eleven Group 1 winners face off in a race that includes the top three favourites for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.
Punters rallied to Fiorente yesterday, backing him into $4.20 with TAB, from an opening quote on Wednesday of $5.50.
But Boss expected his mount Puissance De Lune to stand up and be counted and justify his position as Melbourne Cup favourite.
Although Puissance De Lune has been beaten at his past two starts — second in the Makybe Diva Stakes and seventh in the Underwood Stakes — Boss has not lost any faith.
"His last run was a bit of a non-event, but the way he finished, my confidence has only grown in him,'' he said.
"He was the only one to make up ground outside and he ran the fastest last 400m.
"You've got to remember it was the best edition of the Underwood Stakes I've ever seen and in the finish he's the horse you'd want to follow out of it."
Boss said he hadn't made any plans on where Puissance De Lune would settle today.
Can he do it again: Australian Cup winner Super Cool and Michael Rodd return to scale. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: HeraldSun
"My horse gets out to 2000m at Flemington on a good track, so he should be ready to perform," he said.
Boss said the Gai Waterhouse-trained Fiorente, who won the Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes last start, was the horse to beat.
"He might come out of the race as the horse we all have to beat for the spring," he said.
"I was impressed by the way he won at Moonee Valley on an unsuitable circuit. We're meeting him on equal terms and we have the better draw, so it's in our favour."
TAB's Adam Hamilton said Fiorente accounted for almost 40 per cent of fixed-odds betting on the race.
"Punters have rallied to the Dato form, having backed Fiorente into favouritism and Super Cool from $10 into $7," Hamilton said.
David Hayes, who will saddle up Jet Away, said Fiorente was the horse to beat but pointed out Spacecraft was beaten only a long head in the Dato.
"Spacecraft is nowhere near as good as Jet Away,'' he said. "Also Jet Away has beaten Fiorente by three lengths in England."
Hayes said Jet Away would benefit from today's first-up run before he tackles the Caulfield Cup.
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