Month: January 2022

Racing NSW unveils $1.5m Provincial-Midway Championships

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Newcastle will host three of the eight scheduled Provincial-Midway Championship meetings in 2022. Racing NSW has announced that the Provincial Championships will be run as the Provincial-Midway Championships in 2022, with more than $1.5 million in prizemoney on offer. This means that there will be an increase of $300,000 in prizemoney, while there will be seven qualifying races worth $150,000, with all roads leading to the $500,000 final at Royal Randwick during The Championships on April 9. The qualifying races will comprise: – Three races for Provincial-trained horses only, with…

Sunshine Coast racing tips & value bets | Friday, January 21

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What Sunshine Coast Races Where Corbould Park – 170 Pierce Ave, Caloundra QLD 4551 When Friday, January 21, 2022 First Race 5:25pm AEST Watch Live Streaming Live at Sportsbet HorseBetting’s Queensland form analyst brings you his best bets and quaddie numbers for the eight-race card at the Sunshine Coast on Friday night, with odds from Australia’s best online bookies. The track is currently rated a Good 4, while the rail is out 7m for the entire course. The field for the first race of the evening will face the starter…

Doomben preview, quaddie & value bets | Saturday, January 22

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What Doomben Races Where Doomben Racecourse – 75 Hampden St, Ascot QLD 4007 When Saturday, January 22, 2022 First Race 12:08pm AEST Watch Live Streaming Live at Sportsbet As the curtain closes on another massive Queensland Summer Carnival, racing returns to Doomben on Saturday afternoon. HorseBetting’s Brisbane racing expert brings you his best bets and quaddie numbers for the nine-race card, where he expects an impressive debut winner to be hard to beat once again. The track is rated a Soft 5, the rail is in the true position for…

500 up for O’Sullivan

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In an extraordinary coincidence, trainer Paul O’Sullivan and jockey Karis Teetan simultaneously reached the Hong Kong 500-win milestone when the pair combined with five-year-old Bullbars gelding Shadow Runner in the second section of the Class 4 Green Island Handicap (1200m) at Happy Valley on Wednesday night. Starting their Hong Kong careers almost a decade apart, 62-year-old New Zealander O’Sullivan and 31-year-old Mauritian Teetan combined in perfect synchronicity as Shadow Runner – winless in 17 previous attempts – scrambled to a neck margin over Lucky Archangel. O’Sullivan, who moved to Hong…

Busuttin eyes 1400m features with Sierra Sue

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Trainers Trent Bussutin and Natalie Young will keep New Zealand-bred mare Sierra Sue to her favoured 1400m distance this preparation. The daughter of Darci Brahma broke through for her maiden Group One victory when winning the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield last September and her trainers are wanting more of the same from their mare. “For whatever reason her record says she’s a 1400m horse, there are two Group One, 1400m races coming up in the month of February,” Bussutin said. “Her record shows 1400m is her optimum…

Guineas contender not for sale

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The not for sale sign has been put on exciting three-year-old Ruby’s Lad as he prepares for the Southern Guineas Series. There has been plenty of interest in the son of Ghibellines following his four raceday appearances which have resulted in three wins and a second-placing. “He is doing the job right,” said co-breeder and part-owner Brian Anderton, who trains the gelding in partnership with his son Shane. “Right from the word go he has always shown he is a decent sort of horse. “He doesn’t do much more than…

Wolverine heads Bergerson’s Karaka Million tilt

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Multiple Group One winning trainer Roydon Bergerson is looking forward to what could potentially be his most lucrative weekend in racing when he ventures to Ellerslie on Saturday. The Palmerston North horseman has leading contender Wolverine in the Doubletree By Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) and improving galloper Reign It In in the Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m). Long-time favourite Wolverine ($3.80, barrier 12) has been usurped at the head of the market by Dynastic ($3.50, barrier 4) with punters gravitating to the proven combination of Jamie Richards and Opie…

Randwick racing preview & best bets | Saturday, January 22

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What Carrington Stakes Day Where Royal Randwick Racecourse – Alison Rd, Randwick NSW 2031 When Saturday, January 22, 2022 First Race 12:25pm AEDT Watch Live Streaming Live at Sportsbet HorseBetting’s New South Wales form analyst brings you his best bets and quaddie numbers for the 10-race meeting at Royal Randwick this Saturday, along with his top pick in the Listed Carrington Stakes. The track is rated a Soft 5, while the rail is out 8m for the entire course. The first race of the day is set to jump at…

Miracle on ‘Koroit Street’

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Nullawarre hobby greyhound trainer Trevor Steel, 67, is hoping for a ‘miracle’ when Zara’s Princess contests tonight’s $7500 to-the-winner Mepunga Oaks final (450m) at Warrnambool. Zara’s Princess (Box 5) is the $51 outsider in the event – Race 8, 8.31pm – but it’s not the $7500 first prize that captivates Steel’s emotions. Back in 2015, Steel and wife Elizabeth reared a litter on a pup basis and named the pup Miracles Happen – now the mother of Zara’s Princess. Miracles Happen raced on 94 occasions for only four wins (three at…