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Month: June 2022
Ballarat Synthetic racing preview & best bets | Monday, June 20
What Ballarat Races Where Ballarat Turf Club – 240 Kennedys Rd, Miners Rest VIC 3352 When Monday, June 20, 2022 First Race 1pm AEST Visit Ladbrokes Ballarat Turf Club is scheduled to host an eight-part card on the club’s synthetic track on Friday afternoon. HorseBetting’s Victorian horse racing form analyst presents his best bets, odds comparison and free quaddie selections for the meeting scheduled to get underway at 1pm AEST. Best Bet at Ballarat – Keppel Bay We do not need to wait too long for our best bet of…
Top weekend for Adlam family
By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk Trainer Simon Adlam capped a great weekend for his family when he scored victory with Itz Magical Meg at Addington Raceway on Sunday. The weekend kicked off with a bang for the Adlam family when Simon’s son Oliver recorded his first win as a trainer courtesy of Slainte at Addington Raceway on Friday. Adlam senior said it was a proud moment to see his son get the win. “That was good. You can’t beat it when your kids are doing it and train their…
Amore Vita impressive in Queensland debut
By Adam Hamilton Nathan Purdon looks to have found his next superstar in Amore Vita. The former Kiwi horseman was due some luck after losing his two stable stars in recent months – Amazing Dream to the US and Spellbound to injury. But Amore Vita is giving him plenty to stay positive about. The former Kiwi filly’s emergence is no surprise to Purdon, who declared she had serious “X factor” soon after she joined his stable last August. She’s already won a Breeders Crown final and now looks to have…
100-to-one outsider wins in Invercargill
by Bruce Stewart After the first two races at Invercargill on Saturday were won by favourites, the following race provided a major boilover with twelve start maiden Stunin Star winning at odds of 101-1. It was the Stunin Cullen mare’s first run for new trainer Adrian Wohlers, having taken over from previous owner-trainer Richard Austin. Driver Jeremy Douglas settled Stunin Star beyond midfield from her second line draw. At the five hundred the four-year-old was travelling, so as horses tried to improve Douglas made his move and Stunin Star cruised…
Boss likely to bypass final
Simon Zahra will wait the week before deciding whether to push on the Winter Sprint Series final with Zac De Boss (NZ) (Zacinto) but he left little doubt which way he’s leaning. “I don’t want to run him for the sake of running him because the final is there,” Zahra said on Sunday morning after the gelding’s win at Flemington the day prior. “I don’t want to run him and gut him and take longer to recover in the paddock.” Saturday was the ninth run of a preparation which dates…
Atishu to get a jump on Tiara rivals
Having ironed out her barrier demons, former New Zealander Atishu (NZ) (Savabeel) is set to be given another Group One opportunity in the Tattersall’s Tiara (1400m). Jay Ford has been booked to reunite with the mare, who appears to be back on track after a series of mishaps in the starting stalls where she either missed the jump or, as was the case in the Gr. 3 Liverpool City Cup (1300m) and Gr.1 Coolmore Classic (1500m), refused to leave the gates when they opened. Ford has been working with her…
McDonald bags third Royal Ascot winner
Champion Kiwi jockey James McDonald capped off an incredible Royal Ascot carnival, riding a third winner for the week on Saturday’s final day of racing. While it wasn’t the Gr.1 Platinum Jubilee (1200m) on the Chris Waller-trained Home Affairs (I Am Invincible), George Boughey’s Missed The Cut (Quality Road) delivered for the star rider in the Golden Gates Stakes. It has been a remarkable five days for McDonald, who started his Ascot campaign with a Group One win on Nature Strip (Nicconi). He then backed it up the following day…
New York Jazz proves too tough on favourite track
Evergreen sprinter New York Jazz (NZ) (Niagara) capped off a run of solid form when he showed just how tough he is in a tight finish when taking out the Matost 60th Celebration (1200m) at Te Rapa on Saturday. The Stephen Ralph-trained six-year-old brought up career win number eight and his third at Te Rapa when he refused to yield in a head-to-head struggle with topweight Crystallize (NZ) (Iffraaj) over the final stages, taking the decision by a nose with Aero De Paris (NZ) (Tavistock) a further three lengths away…
Prince Leo hangs tough to secure Trentham victory
Rugged stayer Prince Leo (NZ) (Jimmy Choux) showed all his fighting qualities when he took out the Vernon & Vazey Truck Parts Parliamentary Handicap (2200m) at Trentham on Saturday. The five-year-old son of Jimmy Choux and former Gr.2 New Zealand Cup (3200m) winner Hoorang made it back-to-back victories at the venue having won a similar event towards the end of May, but this time he was pushed hard all the way by eventual runner-up Hurry Cane (NZ) (Nom Du Jeu). Rider Chris Dell had the Ian Shaw-trained runner idling along…