General News

• Landscape Development Cox Stakes Best Odds

  Sportsbet.com.au has offered the best odds on the hot favourite Scenic Shot, there is plenty of value around the other runners if you fancy anything else.

   
• Park leaves Canterbury in dark

  RACING NSW and the Sydney Turf Club will not pursue Friday night racing at Canterbury until after the proposed sale of Harold Park.

   
• Gai schusses in from Aspen

  FRESH from a family holiday skiing with the jetset on the slopes of Aspen, Gai Waterhouse will today be back on more familiar ground at Randwick.

   
• Begg’s Cristal mile

  HE HAD no luck with sprinter All Silent in Hong Kong but Grahame Begg is hopeful Palacio De Cristal can end the week on a high in the Inglis Villiers Stakes at Randwick today.

   
• Pumper form is razor sharp

  TOP jockey Jim Cassidy, fresh from a double at Wyong and a treble at Canterbury, is quietly confident his hot streak can continue at Royal Randwick today.

   
• Chance Bye a great buy

  AN unknown Kembla trainer stole the show at Randwick yesterday as a filly he bought on finance ripped hundreds of thousands of dollars from the betting ring.

   
• Blueblood beats battlers

  GAI Waterhouse watched her $400,000 yearling debut in a $9100 race rather than the $250,000 Inglis Nursery after owners failed to pay a $2200 entry fee.

   
• Silent no longer

  THE disappointment of Hong Kong has been erased for trainer Grahame Begg after Palacio De Cristal scored a slashing win in the Inglis Villiers Stakes.

   
• Inglis Villiers Stakes Best Odds

  Get the best odds on Sydneys main race for today, some great value so bet now.

   
• Tye aiming high

  AFTER an all-the-way win on Scouting Wide in last Saturday’s Listed Christmas Cup (2400m) at Rosehill, Angland will head north to steer Voice Commander at Doomben.

   
• Heathcote still on his training wheels

  WHEN most blokes suffer a midlife crisis they might go out and buy a flashy sports car or a boat. Not Robert Heathcote – he applied for a licence to train racehorses.

   
• King of the stable

  IF EVER a horse could talk it would be Parfumier, according to trainer Wayne Webster.

   
• Goodbye to the Cat

  APACHE Cat – arguably Australia’s most popular racehorse due to his white markings and sprinting powers – has been retired after he was injured in Hong Kong.

   
• NSWHRC to rule on night trial

  THE possibility of trialling Friday night racing at Canterbury will be decided by the board of the NSW Harness Racing Club today.

   
• Corey’s Christmas plans in the air

  COREY Brown – the nation’s leading jockey – is preparing to sacrifice Christmas with his young family to retain the ride on racing’s “next big thing”.

   
• Amelia will miss Nursery

  THE failure to lodge a $2200 bonus race entry fee payment has left boom two-year-old filly My Amelia ineligible to start at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

   
• Apache Cat has been retired

  APACHE CAT, one of Australia’s most popular racehorses, has a fractured near fore sesamoid bone and has been retired, trainer Greg Eurell confirmed today.

   
• A Gai old time at the gee-gees

  NEED A patron for what is hailed as the world’s first gay and lesbian horse racing event? Look no further than Sydney’s own  Gai Waterhouse.

   
• Denham a quiet achiever

  THE phone call that owners Geoff and Beryl White had been dreading came early yesterday morning.

   
• Wide in with Summer Cup chance

  TRAINER Tim Martin has revealed he is leaning towards keeping exciting Christmas Cup winner Scouting Wide in training for the Group Three $125,000 Summer Cup at Randwick.