Month: March 2022

Queanbeyan betting guide & quaddie picks | March 28, 2022

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What Queanbeyan Races Where Queanbeyan Racing Club – 52 McCrae Street, Queanbeyan NSW, 2620 When Monday, March 28, 2022 First Race 2:05pm AEDT Promo Visit Ladbrokes The Queanbeyan Racing Club is set to host a seven-race program on Monday, March 28, on what is scheduled to be a Good 4 track. HorseBetting’s New South Wales form analyst presents you with his best bets and quaddie selections for the program, which is scheduled to begin at 2:05pm AEDT. The rail will be out 3m from the 900m to the 275m, while…

Alta Orlando fourth in last start before The Race

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By Adam Hamilton  Alta Orlando’s Kiwi raid suffered a slight setback when he disappointed in what may have been his final lead-up race at Menangle over the weekend. The star veteran of Team McCarthy worked to the front early and held the lead, but was mauled by main danger I Cast No Shadow in a 26.9sec third quarter and just battled late to to finish fourth. He finished seven metres behind impressive winner Jay OK with I Cast No Shadow running a mighty second after doing all the work. It…

Allen enjoys deserved home track success

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By Jonny Turner Steve Allen couldn’t have picked a better place to step into the spotlight with the win of Follow Me Fantasy at Oamaru yesterday. Allen who has worked with hundreds of winners over his several decades in harness racing scored his third official win as a trainer when Follow Me Fantasy gained a deserved win for driver Matthew Williamson in race 3. Allen has been a key cog at the Phil Williamson’s powerhouse trotting stable for more than two decades. The trainer works Follow Me Fantasy and her…

Jerry Chau marks return with Sha Tin double

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My Sugar gives Jerry Chau a brace. Delivering a reminder of talent and ambition, Jerry Chau shared riding honours at Sha Tin on Sunday (27 March) with Joao Moreira to keep alive hopes of snaring the Tony Cruz Award as Hong Kong’s leading local jockey with a double. Returning to the fray after missing Wednesday’s (23 March) Happy Valley meeting, Chau boosted his season’s tally to 24 to remain entrenched in a cluster of Tony Cruz Award contenders, along with Vincent Ho (32), Matthew Chadwick (30), Matthew Poon (24) and…

Stakes assignment beckons for Kennedy and Furlong duo

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Stablemates Defiant (NZ) (Tavistock) and Kikimora (NZ) (Shamexpress) set themselves up for a return clash in stakes company later in the season after the pair provided a popular quinella for local trainers Shane Kennedy and Anna Furlong at Riccarton. The duo went into Saturday’s 1000m contest off the back of both finishing in the runner-up position on debut, with punters keen on their chances of going one better with Defiant starting the $4.40 second favourite ahead of Kikimora ($6.70) who was on the third line of betting. Given an economical…

Goss delighted with home track victory

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Trainer Cliff Goss appears to have another promising galloper on his hands after three-year-old filly Casino Princess (NZ) (Casino Prince) shone with a seventh length victory at Tauranga on Saturday. In the hands of apprentice Niranjan Parmar, the daughter of Casino Prince outclassed her ten maiden rivals in the 1400m contest, bolting clear in the home straight after enjoying an economical run on the fence throughout. Goss, a Tauranga local, had walked the track prior to racing on Saturday and advised Parmar to angle wider in the home straight to…

Ownership interest strong says Ellis

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Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis is finding it hard to catch his breath at the moment. Ellis was preparing for an influx of visitors on Sunday afternoon as he and wife Karyn put the finishing touches on syndicating the individuals that Ellis purchased at the recent New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling sale at Karaka. Ellis outlaid $8.285 million for thirty-five youngsters at the sale, three of which were for John Galvin’s Fortuna syndicates and the balance for Ellis’ Matamata-based Te Akau Racing operation. It is testament to the success…

Newcastle switch a positive for Baker-Forsman team

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The abandonment of racing at Rosehill on Saturday following the running of race three and subsequent rescheduling of the remaining seven races to Newcastle on Monday may work in the favour of the three runners engaged at the meeting for Cambridge trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman. Promising stayer Marroni (NZ) (Makfi) was the only member of their four-strong team engaged at Rosehill to get a start on the day, battling on gamely to finish third in the Gr.3 Neville Sellwood Stakes (2000m) before the meeting was abandoned due to…

Postponed 2022 Tancred Stakes Day Meeting To Run at Newcastle On Monday

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Newcastle’s Broadmeadow Racecourse will host the seven rescheduled races on Monday the 28th of March from the abandoned Tancred Stakes Day 2022 meeting. Duais is favoured to win Sydney’s rescheduled Tancred Stakes 2022 off her Australian Cup victory at Flemington. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos. In Sydney on Saturday Racing NSW and the Australian Turf Club were forced to call off the Rosehill Gardens meeting after the opening three races due to unsafe racing conditions. The track was downgraded to a Heavy (10) after the first and, with subsequent heavy rainfall…