Olympian and world championship representative Andrew McCabe has been given the task off winning his second Ballarat Gift off three metres.
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He took out the event in 2011 – edging out Ballarat’s Joel Bee.
Only Luke Stevens, 2.75m, has been given a tighter mark for the rich sprint at the City Oval on Saturday and Sunday.
The 28-year-old McCabe represented Australia in the 4x100m relay in the 2012 London Olympic Games.
He also competed at the world championships in 2013 – two years after finishing third in the Stawell Gift.
Stevens will go into the $8100 event at the City Oval as one of the form runners.
He is fresh from winning the Parkdale Gift, having started the year with victory in a 200m at Maryborough.
The 2014 Ballarat Gift winner Nathan Riali (3m), Matt Carter (3.25m and 2016 Stawell Gift winner Isaac Dunmall (3.5m) are among other backmarkers in the 66 entries.
Dunmall latest successes include a win in the 70m at Bay Sheffield in Adelaide.
Although each faces a tough assignment in the 120m heats on Saturday ahead of Sunday’s semi-finals and final, all are among favourites to collect the new $500 prize being offered to the quickest performer in the heats.
Last year’s Ballarat Gift winner Luke Mitchell has been handicapped on 9.75m
Olympian and world championship representative Andrew McCabe has been given the task off winning his second Ballarat Gift off three metres.
He took out the event in 2011 – edging out Ballarat’s Joel bee
Only Luke Stevens, 2.75m, has been given a tighter mark for the rich sprint at the City Oval on Saturday and Sunday.
The 28-year-old McCabe represented Australia in 4x100m relay in the 2012 London Olympic Games.
He also competed at the world championships in 2013. Two years after finishing third in the Stawell Gift.
Stevens will go into the $8100 event at the City Oval as one of the form runners.
He is fresh from winning the Parkdale Gift, having started the year with victory in a 200m at Maryborough
The 2014 Ballarat Gift winner Nathan Riali (3m), Matt Carter (3.25m and 2016 Stawell Gift winner Isaac Dunmall (3.5m) are among other backmarkers among 66 entries.
Dunmall latest successes include a win in the 70m at Bay Sheffield in Adelaide.
Although each faces a tough assignment in the 120m heats on Saturday ahead of Sunday’s semi-finals and final, all are among favourites to collect the new $500 prize being offered to the quickest performer in the heats.
Last year’s Ballarat Gift winner has been handicapped on 9.75m
BALLARAT GIFT HANDICAPS
Luke Stevens 2.75m
Andrew McCabe 3m
Nathan Riali 3m
Matt Carter 3.25m
Isaac Dunmall 3.5m
Ryan McNamara 4.5m
Luke Houlihan 5.5m
James Woodgate 5.75m
Maki Loukeris 6m
Tom Perry 6m
Parvinder Singh 6m
Hugh Hoffmann 6.25m
Matty Munday 6.5m
Ryley Smith 6.5m
Jasper Nettlefold 6.5m
Daniel Sonsini 6.5m
Tim Eschebach 6.75m
Tom Moloney 6.75m
Aidan Green 6.75m
Conor Loughnan 7m
Stuart Rooke 7.25m
Sam Clark 7.25m
Liam Dooley 7.25m
Myles Medwell 7.5m
Rupert Lugo 7.75m
Jacob Knight 7.5m
Isaac Byratto 7.5m
Andrew Boudrie 7.75m
Paul Tancredi 7.75m
Nicholas Antonino 8m
Ronan Berne 8m
Jamie Hart 8m
Bros Kelly 8m
Harrison Kerr 8m
Mitchell Tucker 8m
Paddy Turner 8m
Mason Keast 8.25m
Matthew Hargreaves 8.25m
Jason Blood 8.5m
Kevin Brittain 8.5m
Callum James 9m
Jason Bailey 9m
Ryan Camille 9m
Tyson Deane 9m
Bayley Drummond 9m
Ed Ware 9m
Cam Dunbar 9.25m
Jack Doderico 9.5m
Max Punchihewa 9.5m
Zed Mohamad 9,5m
Leigh Phelan 9.75m
David Gross 9.75m
Luke Mitchell 9.75m
Jordan Tronnolone 9.75m
Matt Burleigh 10m
Robert Spencer 10.25m
Matthew Harvey 10.75m
Kris Kardakovski 10.75m
Bikramjeet Singh 11m
Richard Brown 11.25m
Shahir Naga 12m
Chris Diegan 12m
Beau Tran 13m
Matthew Hignett 13.25m
Darren Whittaker 13.75m
Lawrence Coop 14m
West Australian Kiara Reddingius has been given the back mark for the $8100 Ballarat Women’s Gift at the City Oval on Saturday and Sunday.
The 2016 winner will start off 0.5m.
She goes into the Ballarat dash after being a finalist in the Parkdale Women’s Gift on Saturday.
Jessica Payne (1.75m) and the Ballarat trio of Holly Dobbyn (2.75m), Tara Domaschenz (4m) and Grace O’Dwyer (4.25m) are among other backmarkers with the evergreen Angela Byrt (4.5m).
Stawell Women’s Gift winner Liv Ryan (4.75m) has been among the most consistent performers on the Victorian Athletic League circuit this season without landing a big, having reached Maribyrnong, Wangaratta and St Albans gift finals.
The women’s blue ribbon sprint has attracted 55 entries.
