Improved track conditions on Saturday will greatly enhance the prospects of talented mare Showoroses at Matamata where she will bid to bounce back from a last-start failure to set her back on a Group One path. The daughter of Showcasing will step out in the Lisa Chittick Plate (1400m) and, as a multiple stakes-winner and top-rated contender on a mark of 101, the set weights and penalties conditions of the contest favour the five-year-old. Showoroses was unplaced in her most recent outing in the Gr.1 BCD Group Sprint (1400m) at…
Month: February 2022
Immunity ‘resistant’ to Cup hoodoo
Superstar 2019 Group 1 TAB Australian Cup runner-up Black Opium couldn’t break Jason Thompson’s Cup hoodoo, but the champion Pearcedale trainer is optimistic her half-sister Immunity can go one-better on Saturday night. Thompson boasts multiple victories in greyhound racing’s other three ‘majors’ – the Melbourne Cup, Golden Easter Egg and Topgun – however Australian Cup glory has proven strangely elusive. “Some races you have plenty of luck in, but it just hasn’t worked out in the Australian Cup,” Thompson said. “It’s one of those races every trainer wants to compete…
Price confident I’m Thunderstruck is right for Futurity Stakes
I’m Thunderstruck is one of the market fancies for the Group 1 Futurity Stakes this Saturday. (Steve Hart) Rising star I’m Thunderstruck will be looking for his second career Group 1 win on Saturday in the Futurity Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield. The Mick Price & Michael Kent Jr-trained galloper got a long way back first-up over the same track and trip a fortnight ago in the C.F. Orr Stakes. On that occasion he finished midfield, beaten 3.25 lengths in a race where Tofane led all the way. Tofane is again…
Today’s horse racing tips & best bets | February 23, 2022
Horse Racing on Wednesday, February 23 will feature three meetings in Australia. Our racing analysts here at horsebetting.com.au have found you the top bets and the quaddie numbers for the meetings at Launceston, Sandown & Sunshine Coast. Wednesday Racing Tips – February 23, 2022 Launceston Racing Tips Sandown Hillside Racing Tips Sunshine Coast Racing Tips As always there a plenty of promotions available for Australian racing fans, check out all the top online bookmakers to see what daily promotions they have. If you are looking for a new bookmaker for…
Avdulla back in the winner’s circle at Kembla Grange
Brenton Avdulla rode his first winner back on Tuesday at Kembla Grange in what was just his fourth ride since a horrific race fall in August last year. Avdulla was dismounted from Xtremetime in the Group 2 Silver Shadow Stakes on August 21 at Royal Randwick, but almost seven months to the day, the star hoop was back in the winner’s circle. The returned jockey rode two horses at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday and finished worse than midfield on both occasions, but he didn’t wait around on Tuesday, booting home…
Two top mares heading across the Tasman
By Michael Guerin The great female mane drain to Australia continues as two of our elite pacing mares head there. Breeders Stakes quinellamates Bettor Talk Art and Need You Now are both set to head offshore, one permanently and the other to finish her racing career. Bettor Talk Art looks set to join the Gary Hall stable in West Australia after a deal first offered before her Breeders Stakes win has been all but completed. “She has been vetted and that is all clear so if and when the money…
Tickets on sale for HRNZ awards
Tickets are now available for the NZB Airfreight Harness Racing New Zealand awards night at Addington Raceway on Saturday, March 5. The function will recognise the best performers in our sport – both equine and human – and culminate in the night’s biggest award, Horse of the Year. The awards have been postponed several times because of Covid protocols and there will be restrictions because of the red light system. The awards will held on two separate floors at the raceway, each with their own host and housing a pod…
Sunshine Coast meeting moved to Polytrack after heavy rain
Set to host its third meeting in just five days, the Sunshine Coast Turf Club has been forced to transfer Wednesday’s metropolitan meeting to its all-weather Polytrack surface due to heavy rainfall overnight. The turf track at Corbould Park was deemed unsafe for racing after a whopping 105mm of rain was recorded in Caloundra this morning. This will be just the third time that an entire meeting has been moved to the Polytrack at the Sunshine Coast, but it will be the first for 2022. Due to similar circumstances last…
Red-hot Ruby
The Britton name is synonymous with the flagship Super Stayers series and all-time great stayer, Fanta Bale. A master conditioner of distance exponents, Lara’s Robert Britton, 66, won the event with Fanta Bale (2018) and Here’s Tears. He also finished runner-up in successive years with Gunnadoo Magic (2008-09) and third with Space Star (2015). In 2019, it was renamed the ‘Fanta Bale Super Stayers’ in honour of the nine-time G1 winner which won 42 races from 63 starts and is Australian greyhound racing’s highest earner ($1,365,175). Fanta Bale is also a…
Daily Mail: ‘Audacious’ start to continue at Traralgon
Mr. Audacious is one of the hottest prospects in the state after two near track record runs and he is contesting a Mixed 6/7 395m race at Traralgon this evening. Callum Ari, Lakeview Bonnie and Coolant should provide a great battle in a Mixed 4/5 395m event, while G1 Silver Chief placegetter Papi Go Fast is favoured to boost his strike rate in a Grade 5 350m race. In-form chasers Zealous Alex and Zipping Scorcher clash at Ballarat tonight in a Mixed 4/5 450m race, while Geelong Oaks winner Osprey…