15/6/2019 Horse Racing Tips and Best Bets – Sandown
Sandown Lakeside is where Melbourne racing takes place this Saturday. The weather is fine, the track is soft (7) and the rail is out five metres for the entire circuit.
Sandown Lakeside is where Melbourne racing takes place this Saturday. The weather is fine, the track is soft (7) and the rail is out five metres for the entire circuit.
Nine races will be run and won at Rosehill this Saturday for Winter Cup Day. The weather is fine, the track is soft (5) and the rail is out six metres for the entire circuit.
Ipswich will host their biggest raceday this Saturday where it is Ipswich Cup Day. The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is in the true position for the entire circuit.
Nash Rawiller has ridden trackwork at Rosehill as he starts the road back to reclaiming his career after serving a lengthy disqualification. The multiple Group One-winning jockey was banned in April last year for 15 months by Hong Kong authorities for accepting gifts or money in exchange for tips. With… Read More »
The Melbourne Cup has received another prize money injection, with the 2019 edition of Australia’s most famous race to be worth $8 million. Victoria Racing Club chairman Amanda Elliott made the announcement on Tuesday, with the prize money increasing by $700,000 from the $7.3 million last year. The connections of… Read More »
High profile West Australian owner Bob Peters is hoping to know in the coming weeks whether he will have at least one runner in the $14 million Everest. Peters recently announced two of his best horses, Arcadia Queen and Enticing Star, would be transferred to champion trainer Chris Waller for… Read More »
Jockey Corey Brown has no plans to retire despite revealing how close he came to not being able to walk again following his fall from Lord Arthur in the Queensland Derby. Brown underwent surgery in Brisbane on Sunday to repair an unstable fracture to his T7 vertebra and is also… Read More »
The gloves have come off in the battle between NSW and Victoria over the latest spring racing initiatives which include the expansion of the Everest carnival in Sydney. Amanda Elliott, chairman of the Victoria Racing Club which hosts the Melbourne Cup carnival, has labelled Racing NSW chief executive Peter V’landys… Read More »
Victoria Racing Club chairman Amanda Elliott made a swipe at Racing NSW chief executive Peter V’landys during a press conference in which she announced that the Melbourne Cup would now carry a prize pool of $8 million. During her press conference the VRC Chairman Amanda Elliott took a swipe at… Read More »
Three-time winners Kerrin McEvoy and Damien Oliver will both be part of this year’s Melbourne Cup Tour, with the champion jockeys set to accompany the famous Cup to their respective home towns. Sydney-based McEvoy, who won his third Cup last year on Godolphin-owned English horse Cross Counter, will travel to… Read More »
Jockey Corey Brown is set to have an extended stint on the sidelines following his fall at Eagle Farm on Saturday which required surgery over the weekend. The Melbourne Cup winning jockey was taken to a Brisbane hospital after his mount, Lord Arthur, broke a back leg and fell in… Read More »
Prize money for the Melbourne Cup will rise to $8 million with connections of the winner to collect $4.4 million. Victoria Racing Club chairman Amanda Elliott will officially announce the increase on Tuesday and also the 39 destinations for this year’s Melbourne Cup tour. English-trained horses filled the first three… Read More »
In one of the most disrespectful, extraordinarily inaccurate headlines ever sent to print, The Guardian Newspaper in England has slammed our export-racing business. Have a look at this and you be the judge. Winx’s brother among Australian racehorses killed for meat in South Korea. That was the headline. I kid… Read More »
Trainer Desleigh Forster is planning a twin assault on the Listed Eye Liner Stakes to end a frustrating run for her two runners. Forster will have Chapter And Verse and Malvern Estate in the $175,000 Eye Liner Stakes (1350m) on Saturday. Malvern Estate has run eight minor placings and two… Read More »
High profile jockey Corey Brown has had successful surgery to correct an unstable fracture in his back following a fall at Eagle Farm. Brown was taken to a Brisbane hospital after his mount, Lord Arthur, broke a back leg and fell in the Queensland Derby on Saturday. Lord Arthur was… Read More »
Trekking’s win in the Group One Stradbroke Handicap has highlighted a season to remember for the Goldolphin Australia operation. Godolphin’s head Australian trainer James Cummings decided to target the winter with a strong team after Exhilarates won the Magic Millions 2YO Classic in January. He sent foreman Nacim Dilmi to… Read More »
Lawyers for trainer Ben Currie say he is committed to fighting his ever-growing list of convictions through the legal process. Currie has been disqualified for a total of four-and-a-half years after being hit with a further two years on the sidelines on Friday. Stewards imposed the two-year disqualification after he… Read More »
A plan hatched months ago by trainer Kris Less paid off when Sixties Groove won the Group Two Brisbane Cup (2400m) at Eagle Farm. Following placings in the Doomben Cup and PJ O’Shea Stakes in his lead-up, Sixties Groove ($3.80) withstood a determined challenge from Grey Lion ($11) to win… Read More »
Legendary trainer Bart Cummings would have been proud of his grandson James Cummings’s planning for Trekking to win the $1.5 million Group One Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm. The late Bart Cummings was noted for the way he mapped out the campaigns of his Group One horses and James Cummings… Read More »
Mr Quickie survived a protest to give trainer Phillip Stokes his first Brisbane winner in an action-packed Group One Queensland Derby. Celebrations were cut short when jockey Damien Oliver who rode runner-up Vow And Declare lodged a protest against Mr Quickie for interference over the final 300 metres of the… Read More »