Year: 2021

Metung Marvel hopes to strike in TAB Melbourne Cup

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Family means everything to greyhound racing’s Whelan family, who are based in the Gippsland town of Metung. And on Friday night at Sandown Park the family unit – which is led by Peter and Monique, with help from two of their sons, Luke (21) and Harley (24) – will vie for their second Group 1 victory in the $762,500 TAB Melbourne Cup (515m). Lakeview Walter is their Cup contender, a greyhound which they bred, own and train themselves. “We couldn’t contain our excitement when he won his (Melbourne Cup) heat,”…

Exciting juvenile scores on debut

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Cambridge trainer Lauren Brennan is excited about the prospects of juvenile Zaher (NZ) (Proisir) after his gutsy win on debut in the Levin TAB & Sports Bar (1000m) at Otaki on Thursday. The Proisir gelding was positive out of the gates for jockey Matthew Cameron to sit outside Lord Cosmos (Pierro), with the pair setting a solid tempo throughout. The Jamie Richards-trained runner looked to have the field beaten turning for home when he kicked clear by a length, however, Cameron asked his charge to improve and he duly responded,…

Double celebrations for Rose ‘N’ Power camp

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Cambridge trainers Fred and Lindsay Cornege celebrated a personal milestone in style on Thursday when their game mare Rose ‘N’ Power (NZ) (Power) landed the Listed Courtesy Ford Levin Stakes (1200m) at Otaki. The four-year-old mare has now won four races in succession and ticked the black-type box, giving further cause for celebration for the Corneges who were celebrating their 43rd wedding anniversary. Noted on-pacer Rose ‘N’ Power wasn’t as quickly away as usual but mustered to sit behind the leaders and dug deep under a vigorous Matt Cameron ride…

White Noise turns it up at Otaki

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White Noise (NZ) (El Roca) was the least fancied runner of Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman’s pair in the Gr.3 Lucia Valentina Wellington Stakes (1600m) at Otaki on Thursday, but somebody forgot to tell the grey gelding that. The son of El Roca was sent out an $11.90 prospect and ran away to a dominant win in the three-year-old feature. Fairly away from the gates, jockey Ryan Elliot elected to settle off the pace with White Noise, while stablemate Turn The Ace (NZ) (Turn Me Lose) took the opposite approach,…

Filly cutting shapes just like mum

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Just Dance (NZ) has inherited plenty of her mum’s ability, according to Hamilton trainer David Greene, who will saddle the unbeaten Tavistock filly in Saturday’s Listed Trevor & Corallie Eagle Memorial (1500m) at Te Aroha. Greene prepared Just Dance’s dam Stolen Dance (NZ) (Alamosa) for much of her career, including a win in the Gr.3 Eagle Technology Stakes (1600m) at the corresponding meeting in 2015, and said the legacy was strong with the filly. “This filly is a lot like her mum. She’s got that same nervous energy, though she’s…

Ascot racing tips & top value bets | Saturday, November 27

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What Winterbottom Stakes Day 2021 Where Ascot Racecourse – 71 Grandstand Rd, Ascot WA 6104 When Saturday, November 27, 2021 First Race 12:05pm AWST Watch Live Streaming Live at Sportsbet Ascot is scheduled to host a bumper nine-race card on Saturday afternoon for Winterbottom Stakes Day, and HorseBetting’s West Australia horse racing expert presents his best bets and free quaddie selections for the afternoon. The track is rated a Good 4, the rail is out 6m for the entire circuit, and racing is set to commence at 12:05pm AWST (3:05pm…

Friendly competition now etched in Cup history

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Trainers David Geall and Angela Langton consider each other to be their best friends in greyhound racing. Based in the Geelong region, they’ve been that way for over 15 years, sharing road trips while racing interstate, taking family holidays together, and even weekly dinners with their respective partners, Rose and Jeff. So it was apt that the pair should share a piece of history last Friday when Geall’s Koblenz and Langton’s Jepara dead heated in the night’s opening TAB Melbourne Cup heat. “If we had to draw with somebody, to…

GAP candidate chases ‘untapped’ Group 1 glory

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There was a time when Untapped was a potential ‘applicant’ for GRV’s Greyhound Adoption Program (GAP). Incredibly, she’ll compete in the Group 1 Bold Trease final (715m) at Sandown Park on Friday night. Untapped (Box 1) is a $7.00 chance on TAB. Failure can’t cope with persistence and her Dennington trainer, Dustin Drew, has shown the ‘patience of Job’. “As a pup she wouldn’t go a yard and it took a lot of tolerance to get her going. In fact, she just stood next to me at her first trial,”…

How to spend $20 on the TAB Melbourne Cup Final

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Form expert The Watchdog has bravely predicted that Friday night’s Group 1 TAB Melbourne Cup final is favourite Aston Rupee’s “race to lose”. Striving to become only the second sprinter after the great Bombastic Shiraz in 2003 to complete the ‘Triple Crown’ of the Topgun, Shootout and Melbourne Cup, Aston Rupee sits atop TAB’s market at $2.30 after a barnstorming come-from-behind heat victory; his eighth win from his past nine starts. The time of 29.47sec was well outside Aston Rupee’s Sandown Park 515m track record of 28.79sec, but trainer Glenn…

Caulfield racing tips, value bets & odds | Saturday, November 27

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What Caulfield Races Where Caulfield Racecourse – 22 Station St, Caulfield East VIC 3145 When Saturday, November 27, 2021 First Race 12:35pm AEDT Feature Race Zipping Classic – Race 7 Watch Live Streaming Live at Sportsbet Zipping Classic Day has a different look about it this year, moving from Sandown to Caulfield, and a bumper crowd of up to 30,000 is expected on course for the nine-part program. HorseBetting’s Victorian horse racing analyst presents his race-by-race preview, best bets and free quaddie numbers for the afternoon, which is set to…