Month: January 2021

She’s All Class To Beat Shaquero At The Golden Slipper | Punt Drunk

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Punt Drunk – 18th January 2021 Monday, you sneak up on us like a dinner with the in-laws we’ve been avoiding for some time. You continually rock up after such a good weekend and remind us that there’s more to life than beers, Parma’s and bets. Which is a shame because we love all three of those things. Alas, we continue on! The Magic Millions have been and gone and what a week it was with the Sales eclipsing some absurd figures and the racing that followed on Saturday was…

Horse betting bookmaker bonus offers for Monday 18th January 2021

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Horse Betting has reviewed Australia’s best horse racing bookmakers and found today’s best thoroughbred bonus promo offers and specials for Monday, 18 January 2021. Horse racing promotions are still available almost each and every day with one of Australia’s best thoroughbred bookmakers. If there isn’t a promo on at one, then there is bound to be another bookie with some kind of promotional offer on the table on the gallops. HorseBetting.com.au brings you the best horse racing promo and bonus offers each and every day. See the best return on…

Understated Otaki couple enjoy Group 1 success

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Bonham salutes in the Group 1 Levin Classic for trainers Johno Benner and Hollie Wynyard. Photo Credit: Race Images – Peter Rubery Trainer Johno Benner was hard at work on Sunday morning cutting grass for the horses in the stable that he operates with partner Hollie Wynyard, a far cry from the dizzying heights the couple had experienced less than twenty-four hours earlier. The popular Otaki pair experienced the taste of Group 1 glory at Trentham on Saturday when smart filly Bonham took out the Group 1 Devan Plastics Levin…

Galloping towards Distance success

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Bunyip trainer Robert Conway believes Galloping Speed has a bright staying future but he fears Saturday night’s Warragul Distance Cup (680m) may have come along too soon for the youngster. Galloping Speed, which only turns two on Monday, is being tested over a staying trip for the first time and it will be a baptism of fire, facing multiple Group 1 finalist Sunset Bourbski and impressive last start Warragul winner Pilbara. “It’s the first time he’s stepped up over the distance but he had a good win over 595m at…

Yes for Yozo?

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G2 Bendigo Cup and G2 Ballarat Cup champ Yozo Bale has won five of his past seven starts. He also boasts three wins and four seconds from eight starts – and a 29.90sec PB – at The Meadows. But he’ll need to come out running tonight at The Meadows to ‘get the bacon’ against a group race regular and a rising star who is in near-perfect form. Check out today’s ‘Daily Mail’ to see who Yozo’s Bale’s opponents are tonight.

Kwok Passionate About Kiwi Thoroughbreds

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Spend some time having a chat with Hong Kong resident Ben Kwok and it doesn’t take long to work out he has a real love for New Zealand and the thoroughbred racing and breeding industry. The former electrical motor manufacturer has immersed himself in the thoroughbred world for the past four to five years after dipping his toe in the water back in 2004. Kwok admits he took a somewhat unusual approach to breaking into the racing game. “I started off with my first horse which I bought from New…

Chris Johnson celebration raceday

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The Canterbury Jockey Club racemeeting this coming Thursday, 21 January 2020, will celebrate the career of leading South Island jockey Chris Johnson. Johnson broke the record for the most winning rides by a jockey in New Zealand when Sassenach won the fourth race on the card at the Awapuni racemeeting on Saturday 19 December 2020. Thursday is the first occasion that the Canterbury Jockey Club has held a racemeeting since Johnson reached the milestone of 2452 winning rides in New Zealand to take the record from another Cantabrian David Walsh.…

Tofane to miss Autumn carnival

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Group One winner Tofane (NZ) (Ocean Park) is set to miss autumn racing after suffering a kidney complaint. The New Zealand-bred mare spent a week at the U-Vet Werribee Animal Hospital after falling ill and may be out of action until the Brisbane winter carnival. The Mike Moroney-trained five-year-old, who landed the Gr.1 All Aged Stakes (1400m) at Randwick last April, was last seen finishing seventh in the Gr.1 VRC Sprint Classic (1200m) in November. The daughter of Ocean Park will now spend some time in a grass paddock as…

Moana worse for wear

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Smart filly Moana (NZ) (Ocean Park) pulled up worse for wear following a bumping duel with boom colt Brando (NZ) (Savabeel) in Saturday’s Gr.1 Levin Classic (1600m) in which she finished seventh behind Bonham (Per Incanto), who narrowly prevailed from Brando. The Chad Ormsby-trained daughter of Ocean Park was angling for a run between horses under Vinnie Colgan when the incident occurred 400m from home. The filly required post-race vet treatment for lacerations to the left foreleg and she will undergo further scans this week. “She had an examination and…

Bosson loses court appeal

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Champion jockey Opie Bosson is set to miss New Zealand’s richest race meeting, the Karaka Million at Ellerslie on Saturday, after his High Court appeal against careless riding charges was unsuccessful on Monday. Bosson received two suspensions for careless riding at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day and had already failed in a bid to reduce the severity of the bans which saw him outed until January 30. The champion hoop rode the winner of both $1 million races last year and was set to partner favoured runners in both the…