Month: May 2020

Buffalo River can continue trainer Mike Moroney’s successful season when he runs at Sandown. Mike Moroney hopes Buffalo River can be a contender in Group One spring handicaps but first the promising import will be out to add to the trainer’s tally of city winners this season. Four-year-old Buffalo River is one of the shortest-priced favourites on Saturday’s nine-race program at Sandown and Moroney has four other acceptors for the meeting with the track rated a Heavy (9) on race eve. Moroney is fifth in this season’s Melbourne trainers’ premiership…

Trainer Amanda Turner hopes the Randwick track stays wet enough for Lisdoonvarna to show her best. Lisdoonvarna will be the stable flag bearer for Amanda Turner at Randwick and the trainer is hoping the consistent mare can prove a worthy advertisement. Turner and Mauro Poletti dissolved their partnership late last year in the hope a revised business model would attract more clients. “A lot of people thought we didn’t want outside horses because we were training in a partnership and bought a lot of our own horses,” Turner said. “I’m…

Final Man (r) is shooting for a hat-trick when he runs again on a wet track at Sandown. A wide draw in a sprint race at Sandown usually sounds a warning for connections. But trainer Nick Harnett is not put off by gate 17 with Final Man in the Salute Frontline Workers Handicap (1200m) on Saturday. “It may turn out to be the best spot come that stage of the day,” Harnett said. “There will probably be some scratchings so he’ll come in a few, so it should not be…

Salsamor will contest the Ladbrokes Switch Handicap (2100m) at Sandown on Saturday. Photo: Reg Ryan/Racing Photos Cranbourne trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young have a number of runners entered for Saturday’s Sandown meeting in Melbourne and the Morphettville meeting in Adelaide, where rain-affected form will be the order of the day. With the Victorian venue currently a Heavy9 and the South Australian course rated a Soft7, the expat Kiwi trainers can take heart from the fact their runners, in the main, enjoy cut in the ground. New Zealand-bred stayers Rising…

Trainers and strappers will soon be able to move between zones in Qld on race days. Queensland’s metropolitan racing regions introduced to help combat any spread of coronavirus are to be modified. Racing Queensland has announced limited consolidation of the regions from Monday. RQ said the racing zones designated in late March would be altered to allow conditional participant movement on race days for those presently assigned to the Metro North and Metro South West regions. Previously while horses could be moved between regions, humans were restricted to their own…

Trainer John Sargent has claimed two feature races with two runners at the Wagga Wagga carnival. Sydney trainer John Sargent has prepared the winners of the two feature races on the second day of the annual Wagga Wagga Gold Cup carnival. Sargent sent two runners to Friday’s meeting with Foxborough a dominant winner of the $72,000 MTC Guineas (1600m) for three-year-olds before House Of Cartier took out the Listed $160,000 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup (2000m). Last year’s Group One Flight Stakes third placegetter Foxborough proved adept in the heavy conditions,…

Racecourse Road is one to watch in Saturday’s meeting at Doomben. Doomben is the host of metropolitan racing in Queensland this Saturday, with nine races to be run and won. Drying conditions around Brisbane should see them racing on a Good 4 surface. The rail goes out 2m for the entire circumference, so we could see a slight advantage to those closest the inside and handy to the speed. Doomben betting tips for Saturday, May 2 Best Bet: Race 6 – Seat Of Power to win @ $3.70 with Sportsbet…

Winx’s part-owner Peter Tighe has his sights set a little lower with Doomben runner Stylish Saga. Leading Queensland owner Peter Tighe has raced horses valued in the millions of dollars but one of his cheaper investments could steal the limelight at Doomben. Tighe is best known as a part-owner of superstar Winx but over the past 30 years has had dozens of individual winners. He is a part-owner of Stylish Saga who makes his return to racing in Saturday’s Roku Gin Plate (1050m). Trainer Chris Anderson said Stylish Saga had…