Month: December 2021

Flemington betting tips, best bets & quaddie | January 1, 2022

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What Flemington New Year’s Day Races Where Flemington Racecourse – 448 Epsom Rd, Flemington VIC 3031 When Saturday, January 1, 2022 First Race 10:35am AEDT Watch Live Streaming Live at Sportsbet A bumper nine-part card is scheduled at Flemington on Saturday afternoon and HorseBetting’s Victorian horse racing analyst presents his race-by-race preview, best bets and free quaddie numbers. The track is rated a Good 4, with the rail out 6m, for the meeting commencing at 10:35am AEDT. Race 1: 2YO Fillies Plate (1000m) The day of racing kicks off with…

Horse Racing History: Today In Racing 31st December

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This day 31st December in horse racing news history From the extensive Horse Betting news archives we present the all the thoroughbred racing action in Australian and overseas racing news in history. Delve in and enjoy our walk back in horse racing time. Horse Racing Tips 48 mins ago Today’s horse racing tips & best bets | December 31, 2021 Eight horse racing meetings are scheduled around the country today. See the top tips, best odds and quaddie selections here …Read More Horse Racing Tips 50 mins ago Ascot racing…

Auckland New Year’s Eve Preview

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by Michael Guerin There may be only one question punters need to ask themselves before betting in tonight’s $150,000 Dunstan Sires Stakes Final at Alexandra Park.Could any of True Fantasy’s rivals have done what she did last start? The answer to that is almost certainly: no. True Fantasy didn’t even win her latest outing at Addington, finishing a brave second to Laver but that was in a field of tough older pacers, headlined by the winner who has been a brute in major open class race this season and even…

Master Eight eyes five unbeaten, Healthy Happy returns

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Master Eight is looking to maintain an unblemished record in Hong Kong. Master Eight is shaping up as one of Hong Kong’s rising sprint stars and trainer Frankie Lor is hopeful the speedster can intensify his development in Saturday’s (1 January) HKD$3.7 million Group 3 Bauhinia Sprint Trophy Handicap (1000m) – his toughest test to date. “It’s his first time at Group 3 level but the horse is in good form and he has a light weight,” Lor said. “He looks like he can step up – I think he…

Douglas Whyte lauds Blake Shinn as the Australian lands Sha Tin treble

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Will Power enhances his formidable dirt reputation. Douglas Whyte paid Blake Shinn the ultimate compliment after the Australian closed a spectacular December with victory aboard Will Power in the Class 1 Fo Tan Handicap (1650m) at Sha Tin’s eight-race all-dirt meeting on Wednesday night (29 December). Revered as the most successful rider in Hong Kong history with 13 jockeys’ championships and a record 1,813 victories, Whyte said Shinn was “making the difference” in races after the pair successfully combined for the second time this week after Carroll Street’s triumph on…

Crosshaven chasing early New Year win

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Crosshaven (Smart Missile) will be out to break a run of outs when he contests the Listed Chester Manifold Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday. Lindsay Park trainers Ben and JD Hayes are hoping the four-year-old gelding can recapture his three-year-old form which included wins in the Gr.3 Carbine Club Stakes (1600m), Gr.3 Guineas Prelude (1400m) and Listed Exford Plate (1400m). Since then Crosshaven has failed to salute the judge, although he has notched two placings, one in the Gr.1 C F Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield in February and…

Campbell tickled pink with Taupo Cup triumph

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A $65,000 stake attracted a strong line-up for this year’s running of the Harcourts Taupo Cup (2000m) on Thursday and Hawke’s Bay trainer Patrick Campbell was delighted to take home the lion’s share of the purse courtesy of his evergreen galloper Hunta Pence (NZ) (No Excuse Needed). The nine-year-old gelding was runner-up over 2100m at Awapuni earlier this month and Campbell was quietly optimistic of a bold showing from his charge on Thursday. However, he didn’t have the best of starts in the Taupo feature after being slowly away from…

Johnson chases Ellerslie gold

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Danielle Johnson has plenty of time for Gold Watch (NZ) (Swiss Ace), her mount in Saturday’s Gr.2 Rich Hill Mile (1600m) at Ellerslie. The Waikato jockey had her first ride aboard the Cliff Goss-trained Swiss Ace gelding in the Geoff Brindley Memorial (1400m) at Te Aroha last month and couldn’t have been any more impressed with the five-year-old’s 1-1/4 length win. “He’s just so good. He does it effortlessly. Coming around the corner, I thought I was in a little bit of trouble but then I gave him a bit…

Riviera ready to rock at Riverton

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Riverton trainer Graham Eade is hoping to start the new year with a bang when he lines-up half a dozen runners at his home meeting on Saturday. His charge will be led by Riviera Rock in the DT Kings Transport/Todd & Co Realty Summer Cup (2147m). The seven-year-old gelding finished runner-up over 2200m at Wingatui on Boxing Day and Eade is confident he can go one better this weekend. “He has come through his run at Wingatui really well,” Eade said. “It was very tough considering the heat that day,…

Levante at top of her game for Group One challenge

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All the key indicators point to the high-class mare Levante (NZ) (Proisir) going close to plugging the only gap in her CV on New Year’s Day at Ellerslie where she will bid to add a Group One victory to her record. The daughter of Proisir is a multiple black type winner and top honours in the Sistema Railway (1200m) will significantly boost her future broodmare value. The lightly-raced Levante has enjoyed a faultless preparation with a pair of trial wins on either side of a resuming victory in the Listed…