If you want to back the luck of Lloyd Williams during the Melbourne spring carnival - well, you can, and not just by backing the horses he owns. Betstar has opened markets on Lloyd being the owner of the winner of both the Cox Plate & Melbourne Cup. Punters can take any Lloyd Williams owned runner winning the Melbourne Cup at $5.50, and in the Cox Plate at $8.50, with the rest of the field options for punters at $1.15 and $1.07 respectively.The Lloyd Williams owned Green Moon is coming in fo

If you want to back the luck of Lloyd Williams during the Melbourne spring carnival - well, you can, and not just by backing the horses he owns. Betstar has opened markets on Lloyd being the owner of the winner of both the Cox Plate & Melbourne Cup. Punters can take any Lloyd Williams owned runner winning the Melbourne Cup at $5.50, and in the Cox Plate at $8.50, with the rest of the field options for punters at $1.15 and $1.07 respectively.

The Lloyd Williams owned Green Moon is coming in for heavy support from punters. He was $15 in the Cox Plate and Melbourne Cup on Saturday morning but his Turnbull victory quickly shortened the odds. Betstar's Alan Eskander told PPD: 'He was straight into $9 for the Cox Plate following that win, and has since been backed into $8.50 to win at Moonee Valley in three weeks. He has also shortened into equal favoritism with Mount Athos for the Melbourne Cup, at $10, with punters outlaying reasonable sums at $11 post-Turnbull Stakes. Seville has been $201 into $51 for the Cox Plate and $81 into $26 for the Melbourne Cup.' (www.betstar.com.au).

Kiwi jockey James McDonald has committed to ride Glass Harmonium for NZ trainer Mike Moroney in Saturday's Toorak Handicap at Caulfield and the Cox Plate two weeks later at Moonee Valley. McDonald, 20, who picks up the ride in the absence of a suspended Damien Oliver, is fresh from a tactically superb win on It's A Dundeel in last Saturday's Spring Champion Stakes at Randwick.

LATEST COX PLATE MARKET

Pierro 2.80
Ocean Park (NZ) 7.00
Green Moon 8.50
More Joyous 8.50
Manighar 10.00
Proisir 17.00
It's A Dundeel (NZ) 21.00
Sincero 21.00
December Draw 26.00
Glass Harmonium 26.00
Afsare (GB) 34.00
Ethiopia 34.00
Rekindled Interest 34.00
Secret Admirer 34.00