One punter with online bookmaker sportsbet.com.au may be taking today off after hitting the jackpot with a multi bet on Saturday. The punter’s four selection horse racing bet at Caulfield clicked paying whopping odds of 89,700/1. The unlikely run of results involved outsiders winning at long odds of $10, $15, $23 and $26…. Read More »
Group One-winning jockey Regan Bayliss has been given the green light to return to trackwork next week and expects to be back at the races before the end of the season. Bayliss broke his wrist in a race fall at Geelong on May 19 and received positive news about his… Read More »
Connections of Scales Of Justice have set their sights on the Melbourne Spring Carnival after the 4-year-old’s narrow victory in the Group 3 Strickland Stakes on Saturday. Managing owner Chris Wells told TheWest.com.au that they will look at a number of races including the Toorak Handicap and Emirates Stakes. The… Read More »
The Lindsay Park team is set to be well-represented on Flemington Finals Day including two chances in the All Victorian Sprint Series. Saturday’s program features the finals of a host of winter series races conducted in Victoria including the Listed finals of the Winter Championship, the All Victorian Sprint Series,… Read More »
Ruthven will join fellow Queensland Derby winner Eagle Way in the John Moore stable in Hong Kong. The colt was trained by Ciaron Maher to three wins and five seconds including the South Australian Derby. As well as the 2016 Queensland Derby winner Eagle Way and runner-up Rodrico, Moore also… Read More »
A recent addition to Dean Krongold’s Kyneton stable has given the trainer the thrill of his first Saturday metropolitan winner. Krongold was sent the former Mick Kent-trained Nesbo by the gelding’s owners about a month ago and at Caulfield on Saturday the seven-year-old finished strongly to take out the Moorookyle… Read More »
Jockey Damian Browne has used his knowledge of the Caloundra track on Crack Me Up to win his third Group Three Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m) in the past four years. Browne surprised even trainer Liam Birchley on Saturday when he led on Crack Me Up ($6.50) before kicking away in… Read More »
Calanda has convincingly brushed aside luckless runs at the Queensland winter carnival to give Peter and Paul Snowden back-to-back victories at Rosehill. The three-year-old gelding followed Listed Civic Stakes winner Gold Symphony into the No.1 stall on Saturday by taking out the benchmark Schweppes Handicap (1100m) by 1-1/4 lengths. Paul… Read More »
Considered the unlucky runner in the Stradbroke Handicap, Gold Symphony has given his connections some compensation with victory in the Civic Stakes (1350m) at Rosehill. The Peter and Paul Snowden-trained four-year-old was caught wide at his previous start on June 10 in Brisbane’s premier Group One sprint but things panned… Read More »
Tough Sydney stayer Supply and Demand has continued to amaze with his ability to handle increasing distances by winning the Listed Caloundra Cup (2400m). Jockey Josh Parr went straight to the lead on the gelding ($3.80), which ran the field into the ground winning by 1-3/4 lengths to My Diamantine… Read More »
Victoria’s premiership-leading trainer and jockey combined with a French import to claim the Listed Winter Cup at Rosehill and delay Chris Waller’s next milestone. Gallic Chieftain justified his pre-race favouritism by comfortably scoring the 2400 metre endurance test on Saturday, to indicate a productive spring looms in his adopted home…. Read More »
Talented filly Unique Lovely has continued a recent winning run for trainer Frankie Stockdale and his apprentice son Brandon. Unique Lovely gave Frankie Stockdale his first city winner as a trainer at Moonee Valley last month and the filly backed it up with a narrow win in Saturday’s 1100m Handicap… Read More »
Trainer Darryl Hansen resisted the temptation to find another race meeting before staying at Caloundra to see his two-year-old Bring It Home Pop win the Bruce McLachlan Memorial Handicap on Saturday. Bring It Home Pop ($4) landed some big bets when he beat Dynastic ($3.30) by 1-3/4 lengths with a… Read More »
The aptly named Itsa Fait Accompli has played his part to give his trainer, jockey and owner an overdue metropolitan win at Rosehill in the Highway Handicap. The three-year-old is trained at Gundagai by David Blundell who rarely brings horses to town, nowadays, after enjoying city success in the late… Read More »
Rustic Melody provided music to Hugh Bowman’s ears at Rosehill as the mare won for the first time in over a year to give the Sydney premiership chasing jockey an early double. The five-year-old, who duelled with Winx earlier in her career, broke an 11-race winless sequence over 1900 metres… Read More »
Darren Weir’s racing manager Jeremy Rogers admits Kiwia’s rise through the grades in his first preparation has exceeded their early expectations. The Weir-trained three-year-old gelding Kiwia landed his first city win at Caulfield in Saturday’s Handicap race over 2000m to make it three wins from his first five starts. “Early… Read More »
Insensata has exacted revenge over Just Dreaming in another close finish at Rosehill to keep trainer Jason Coyle’s run of winter winners coming. After being beaten a head when they last met on June 17, Insensata ($5) got the better of the Kris Lees-trained Just Dreaming ($2.90 fav) on Saturday… Read More »
After a luckless run at his previous start, promising colt Lone Eagle has raced to his first victory at Caulfield to give trainer Mick Price his 100th winner for the season. The Price-trained two-year-old colt was having his third career start in Saturday’s card-opening Handicap over 1200m and after settling… Read More »
Promising colt Hualalai atoned for a last-start glitch in style at Rosehill to stay on course for a crack at the Group One Caulfield Guineas in spring. After finding himself too far off the pace to catch Gaulois at the same track a fortnight ago, the addition of blinkers sharpened… Read More »
Nine races will be run and won at Caulfield on Saturday with good depth right across the board. The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is out seven metres for the entire circuit. [crownbetoffer]
