Month: January 2021

Randwick racing tips, value bets & quaddie selection | Jan 9 tips

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What Randwick Races Where Royal Randwick Racecourse, Alison Rd, Randwick NSW 2031 When Saturday, January 09, 2021 First Race 01:15pm AEDT Feature Race Listed January Cup preview – Race 7 Streaming Live at Sportsbet Nine races will be run and won at Randwick on Saturday, with the feature race being the Listed January Cup. The track is an improving Soft 7, and the rail is in the +6m position. Here are our free Randwick tips and best bets for January 9 ahead of the first race jumping at 1.15pm local…

Gollan On Weather Watch With Sugar Boom

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Trainer Tony Gollan has a strong hand in the Gold Coast Quality with four runners. Tony Gollan is more concerned by the prospect of a wet track than a wide barrier for speedy mare Sugar Boom in the Gold Coast Quality (900m) on Saturday. Sugar Boom has drawn the extreme outside in barrier 13 for the Quality but it is the prospect of a genuinely wet track that Gollan is hoping to avoid. “I’m not overly concerned by the gate,” Gollan said. “I’m more concerned by the weather. I want…

Flemington racing tips, best bets & quaddie selections | Jan 9

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What Flemington Races Where Flemington Racecourse, 448 Epsom Rd, Flemington VIC 3031 When Saturday, January 09, 2021 First Race 2:05pm AEDT Feature Race Chester Manifold Stakes Preview – Race 7 Streaming Live at Sportsbet It is Chester Manifold Stakes Day when Flemington hosts a nine race card on Saturday on a Good 4 track with the rail out 6m. The featured Chester Manifold Stakes will be run over 1400m in Race 7 and the runners will be fighting it out for the $140,000 prize pool. When we raced here on…

Doyle Hoping To Top And Tail At Randwick

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Newcastle-based trainer Nathan Doyle is hoping to bookend the Randwick card with a new stable recruit and another galloper who is bursting to win a city race. Doyle only has the two runners at the meeting on Saturday beginning with stable newcomer Favra, who will run in the opening race the Benchmark 72 over 1100 metres. His enigmatic mare Strawb will round out the meeting in the Benchmark 78 Handicap over 1500m. The Dissident gelding Favra is having his first start for Doyle, following a couple of preparations with Rosehill-based…

Chester Manifold Stakes Tips & Best Bets | January 9 2021

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Riding The Wave will take on 1400m in the Chester Manifold Stakes. What Chester Manifold Stakes Where Flemington Racecourse, Victoria Race Club – 448 Epsom Rd, Flemington VIC 3031, Austrália When Race 7 6:00PM AEDT Saturday, January 9, 2021 Prizemoney $140,000 Distance 1400m Status Listed 2020 Winner Amadeus 54kg (7) | Jockey: Jye McNeil | Trainer: Mick Kent Watch Live Streaming Live at Sportsbet Horse Betting Chester Manifold Stakes Preview The Listed Chester Manifold Stakes is the featured event on Flemington’s nine race card on Saturday afternoon. As was the…

Randwick: Listed January Cup Tips & Best Bets

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Fulmina is a good chance add to her winning strikerate when she runs in the January Cup at Randwick. What January Cup Where Randwick Racecourse, Australian Turf Club – Alison Rd, Randwick NSW 2031, Australia When Race 7 5:00PM AEDT Saturday, January 9, 2021 Prizemoney $150,000 Distance 2000m Status Listed Race Conditions Three-Years-Old and Upwards Quality Handicap 2020 Winner Luvaluva (NZ) 59kg (6) | Jockey: Koby Jennings | Trainer: John Sargeant Watch Live Streaming Live at Sportsbet 2021 January Cup Horse Betting Preview The Listed January Cup is the feature…

Lui has Lucky Patch on Classic Mile trail

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After clean-sweeping last season’s Four-Year-Old Classic Series with the brilliant Golden Sixty (Medaglia d’Oro), trainer Francis Lui is looking to Lucky Patch (NZ) (El Roca) this time around and Sunday’s (10 January) Class 2 Choi Hung Handicap (1400m) will see him lay out his credentials for a Hong Kong Classic Mile tilt in 16 days’ time. “He’s good – he’s held his condition, he has a good draw and hopefully he can perform,” Lui said of the New Zealand bred four-year-old. The El Roca gelding, formerly known as Paleontologist was…

Payne has big opinion of Shocking stayer

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On face value Patrick Payne was surprised Defibrillate (NZ) (Shocking) was able to win the Lord Stakes second-up last start but he wasn’t completely shocked as he has a big opinion of the stayer. “It was a surprise as he was out of his handicap grade and on weights he wasn’t well placed,” Payne said. Payne told Tahlia Hope to ride Defibrillate patiently and save him up for one run in the Listed Lord Stakes (1700 metres) at Caulfield on Boxing Day and this tactic paid off. “He was a…

Topkapi takes next step towards NZ Oaks

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A long-term plan to target the Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand Oaks (2400m) with promising Tavistock filly Topkapi (NZ) takes further shape when she tackles Sunday’s Listed Te Akau Gingernuts Salver (2100m) at Ellerslie. Maungatautari trainers Steven Ramsay and Julia Ritchie have long held the opinion that the Sir Peter Vela-bred and raced Topkapi was a bright staying prospect and after a fast-finishing last-start fourth at Rotorua, she steps up to her first middle distance test in Sunday’s feature. “She ran the fastest last 600m of that race…

A whole new world awaits progeny of Satono Aladdin

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Rich Hill Stud’s John Thompson is confident the first yearlings by the farm’s shuttle stallion Satono Aladdin will be well received as they get set to go under the hammer at what will be a unique Karaka 2021. A son of phenomenal Japanese stallion Deep Impact, Satono Aladdin was a top-flight racehorse who won eight races including the Gr.1 Yasuda Kinen (1600m) in a slick time of 1:31.5. Shuttling from Japan’s world-famous Shadai Stallion Station, Satono Aladdin served 91 mares at Rich Hill Stud in 2018 and 58 last year…