Month: August 2021

Today’s horse racing tips & best bets | August 6, 2021

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Horse racing around the country sees five meetings being held around the country on this Friday afternoon. Our racing analysts here at horsebetting.com.au have found you a couple of bets and quaddie numbers for the meetings being conducted at Ballarat and at Townsville Friday Racing Tips – August 6, 2021 Ballarat Synthetic Racing Tips Townsville Racing Tips Horse Racing meetings are scheduled to be run at Ballarat, Canberra, Port Augusta, Tamworth and Townsville. As always there a plenty of promotions available for Australian racing fans, including $25 back from Sportsbet…

Another winner for Ribchester

NZRacingDesk

Haunui Farm shuttle stallion Ribchester was credited with his sixth individual winner this week when Shaikha (Ribchester x Kerila (Makfi)) won on debut at Deauville on Thursday. Shaikha impressed when jumping smartly and tracked the pace in second through the early stages of the race. At the half-way mark she made her move and finished strongly to win by three lengths. Four-time G1 winner and two-time European Champion Miler Ribchester has made a strong start to his career in the northern hemisphere and his six winners to date include four…

Queen moves to Victoria

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Talented three-year-old filly Dream Queen (NZ) (Super Easy) has been withdrawn from the Ruakaka card on Saturday after being sold to Australian interests and will continue her career with Ben and JD Hayes at Lindsay Park. Prepared by Ken Rae and Krystal Williams-Tuhoro, Dream Queen won two of her four starts and finished runner-up on the other two occasions. A last start winner defeating stablemate Follow Your Dreams (NZ) (Contributer), Dream Queen had previously finished runner-up to Tsunami Sam (NZ) (Shamexpress), who is also heading to the Lindsay Park team…

‘Banners flying high’ for Buddy & Koblenz?

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Sydney Swans’ fans will ‘lift that noble banner high’ if Lance Franklin and Koblenz ‘are marching onwards to victory’ on Saturday night. TAB is offering $4.00 for Franklin to kick 3+ goals against St Kilda and ‘next big thing’ Koblenz (Box 2) to salute in the G3 Warragul St Leger final (460m). “Buddy” is just 15 goals shy of kicking a career 1000 goals and has 41 goals this season (2.7 per game). The Sydney Swans (13-6) appear to be the current form side of the competition and will be…

Daily Mail: Tiggerlong Tonk’s Bendigo bounce

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Superstar sprinter Tiggerlong Tonk will return to the spotlight at Bendigo on Friday afternoon, searching for his first victory since taking out the G1 Harrison-Dawson at Sandown Park in May. Tiggerlong Tonk (39 from 89 – 5 from 11 Box 3), which also won the G1 Perth Cup in April, has been beaten at his past 4 starts and will feature in a ‘no holds barred’ clash against another prolific pair in Rilynn Bale (32 from 68 – 3 from 6 Trk/Dst) and Slingshot Titan (29 from 55 – 4…

TAB’s ‘tale of two titans’

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Geelong spearhead Tom Hawkins has been a ‘titan’ in the goal square for the Cats this season. “Tomahawk” has bagged 46 ‘majors’ in 19 matches at an average of 2.4 goals a game. He should play a big role in Cam Guthrie’s 200th game. Meanwhile, the aptly named Aston Titan has been making an impression in greyhound racing circles. Trained by Anthony Azzopardi, Aston Titan – a G3 Bob Payne Sprint finalist at Wentworth Park in May – has won 13 races from 36 starts. He also won the Autumn…

Williams bullish on Catalyst and The Oaks Stud future

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Group One winning galloper Catalyst (NZ) (Darci Brahma) was back in action at the Cambridge trials on Thursday and pleased his connections when finishing a nose second behind stablemate Marchioness in a hit-out over 950m. The dominant force as a spring and summer three-year-old of his year in New Zealand, Catalyst has raced just once in the past 18 months, when pulling up sore after trailing the field home in the Gr.2 The Shorts (1100m) last spring. The now five-year-old is having his first campaign for trainer Tony Pike, after…

Further Finalists announced for NZTR Horse of the Year

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Jamie Richards will be out on his own again at the 2021 New Zealand Thoroughbred Horse of the Year awards. The 31-year-old Matamata horseman is already assured of being named Trainer of the Year for the third time. The second group of finalists for the Horse of the Year awards were announced by New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing today and Richards, who heads the Te Akau Racing team, was so dominant in the past season that he has repeated last year’s achievement of being the sole nominee for Trainer of the…

Pitman sets sights on special milestone

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The return of Riccarton’s Grand National Carnival is music to the ears of Michael Pitman, who hopes the three-day meeting on his home track will move him closer to a remarkable milestone. In partnership with his son Matthew, Pitman finished third on the New Zealand national trainers’ premiership for the 2020-21 season with 58 wins. Beating Kelvin and Aimee Tyler by one win, the Pitman team maintained their stranglehold on the South Island training title after an exciting duel through the final few weeks of the season. “I didn’t realise…

Track and Facilities Manager

NZHarnessNews

Ashburton Raceway Ltd is looking to employ a fulltime Track and Facilities Manager The responsibilities for this role include managing: the racing and training tracks the course facilities, machinery and building maintenance other outside course staff the course presentation to a high standard for raceday events and for other tenant groups hiring the facilities and trainers based on-course. obligations around Health and Safety The successful applicant will have sound communication skills, show a collaborative approach building positive relationships with others, a can do attitude and be adaptable. Interested applicants are encouraged to…