Talented filly Ima Roca Bee produced an undeniable finish in testing conditions to take out the final stakes race of the 2020/21 racing season, the Listed Courtesy Ford Ryder (1200m) at Otaki. The two-year-old daughter of El Roca had looked to be rounding into some useful form when narrowly beaten in the Listed Castletown Stakes (1200m) at her last start and went one better on this occasion, courtesy of a patient ride by promising apprentice Erin Leighton. Despite an eight-week break since her last run, Ima Roca Bee proved the…
Month: July 2021
Waller breaks another training record
Consistent mare So Wicked (NZ) (Street Cry) has brought up a significant milestone for trainer Chris Waller. The Kiwi expat has broken his own record for number of wins in a season with So Wicked’s Randwick victory bettering the mark of 339 Waller set in the 2018-19 season. The champion trainer went into Saturday on 338-1/2 wins and only had to wait until the third race to topple his personal best. So Wicked was his 168th Sydney metropolitan success of the season and Waller said it was a team effort,…
Tavi Mac kicks off new campaign with Otaki victory
Trainer Allan Sharrock rounded off arguably his best season with a winning double at Otaki, where the successful return of popular equine personality Tavi Mac was one of the highlights of the day. The pint-sized warrior, who is affectionately known as Frodo, provided five of Sharrock’s 56 victories for the season, with three of those at stakes level including the Gr.2 Manawatu Challenge Stakes (1400m) back in December. The son of Tavistock maintained an unbeaten fresh-up record on Saturday as he held out a stern challenge from hardy sprinter-miler Deerfield…
Jumping career on hold for Taumarunui Gold Cup winner
Enigmatic galloper Suliman may have put a proposed jumping career on hold for the time being as he produced a superior staying effort in testing conditions to take out the Taumarunui RSA Gold Cup (2200m) at Rotorua on Saturday. The rising eight-year-old Redwood gelding had done his early racing from Graham Richardson’s Matamata stable where he won five races before a change of ownership saw him find his way to Paul Nelson and Corrina McDougal’s Hastings operation earlier this year, with his future likely to involve a few starts over…
Ryan Papenhuyzen announced as Welfare Ambassador
Professional Rugby league player Ryan Papenhuyzen has joined forces with…
Near perfect send off
By Michael Guerin It was the near perfect send off when you aren’t actually going anywhere yet for Josh Dickie on the final night of the harness racing season at Alexandra Park on Friday. Dickie trained and drove one of the $30,000 Futurity winners in Manhattan and then drove Art Nouveau to win the other, about as a big a double as a driver can hope for in the middle of winter. That feature race double came the day Dickie announced he and partner Sammy Kilgour are heading to Victoria…
‘Buddy’ & ‘Brute’
Swans’ fans will ‘cheer cheer’ TAB’s AFL/Greys ‘Saturday special’. And they’ll also be hoping Lance “Buddy” Franklin ‘shakes down the thunder from the sky’. The betting giant’s $4.50 proposition is Franklin to kick 3+ goals against Essendon at the Gabba and Bobby The Brute placing at The Meadows. Franklin was lucky to escape suspension and is free to play to keep on target towards his 1000th career goal. Buddy is averaging 2.8 goals a game this season but has kicked 73 goals from 17 games against Essendon (average 4.3 per…
Daily Mail: Queen Qwara’s crown under threat
The best young sprinters in Victoria will light up Warragul on Friday night in three sensational heats of the G3 St Leger, culminating in a mouth-watering match-up between last start G1 Maturity Classic heroine Qwara Bale and boom prospect Rebellious. Qwara Bale (18 from 31 – 3 from 5 Box 7) is a two-time G1 winner, while Rebellious (10 from 12) has run near-records wherever he’s gone thus far, and Paua Of Buddy (5 from 7 – 4 from 4 Trk/Dst) could be the fly in the ointment. Potential superstar…
‘Saint’ Koblenz?
St Kilda fans won’t hesitate to ‘march in’ to a ‘saintly’ AFL/Greys offer from TAB tonight. The betting giant’s cross-sports proposition is $2.50 for the Saints to defeat the Blues and excitement machine Koblenz claiming a G3 Warragul St Leger heat. St Kilda is 12th on the AFL ladder with eight wins from 18 matches, while Carlton are 13th with seven wins. Last week, the Saints lost to the West Coast Eagles by 8pts while the Blues lost to the Kangaroos by 39pts. Meanwhile, ‘next big thing’ Koblenz dominates proceedings…
Randwick racing tips, top odds & quaddie picks | July 31, 2021
What Randwick Races Where Royal Randwick Racecourse – Alison Rd, Randwick NSW 2031 When Saturday, July 31, 2021 First Race 11:20am AEST Watch Live Streaming Live at Sportsbet HorseBetting brings you the best bets, value picks and quaddie numbers from Royal Randwick on Saturday, July 31 as the 2020/21 Australian racing season draws to a close. The track is rated a Soft 5, and the rail will be out 12m from the 900m to the winning post and then 10m for the remainder of the course. The first of 10…