Month: June 2022

Daily Mail: It’s Pink Diamond Finals Night

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The second Pink Diamond series features four-time G2 country cup winner Ferdinand Boy in the $126,500 Champion Sprinter Final at Ballarat. Kepal is eyeing his seventh successive victory in the $126,500 Champion Short Course Final, while G3 winner Collinda Patty highlights the $126,500 Champion Distance Final. Three-time G2 winner Yozo Bale lines up for his 100th start at Bendigo this afternoon. Dale Code’s Predicted Market FirmerEL DORADOTAB fixed odds at 9am: $1.45 Win Traralgon Race 5 Box 1 8:05pm Form https://watchdog.grv.org.au/meeting/666538707/race/5 Today’s Racing Healesville: 10:53am startForm     Tips     Key stats Bendigo:…

Bendigo racing preview & best bets | Sunday, June 19

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What Bendigo Races Where Bendigo Jockey Club – Heinz St, White Hills VIC 3550 When Sunday, June 19, 2022 First Race 11:20am AEST Visit Ladbrokes Racing heads to Bendigo Jockey Club on Sunday afternoon for what looks to be a competitive nine-part card. Considering winter has well and truly set in, we are poised to be racing on a Heavy 9. With the rail out 9m all the way round, the inside ground will likely chop up over the course of the afternoon, so as the day progresses it might…

Horse Racing History: This Day In Racing 17th June

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Today 17th June in horse racing news history From the extensive Horse Betting news archives we present the all the thoroughbred racing action in Australian and overseas racing news in history. Delve in and enjoy our walk back in horse racing time. Horse Racing Tips 33 mins ago Bendigo racing preview & best bets | Sunday, June 19 Bendigo Jockey Club is scheduled to host a competitive nine-race card on Sunday afternoon where a rain-affected track is set …Read More Australia horse racing news 5 hours ago Berdibek aims for…

Berdibek aims for his first win since the 2021 Wyong Gold Cup

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Berdibek pictured winning the 2021 Wyong Gold Cup for John O’Shea. Picture: Steve Hart. Berdibek sometimes needs things to go his way to win, but that hasn’t stopped him from enjoying a consistent career heading into the $175,000 Ipswich Cup on Saturday. It is also why he is one of the stable’s favourite runners and rated a $6.50 winning chance with Betfair to take out the annual staying race over 2150m. “It’ll be a tricky track and he gets back, but he’s got a good chance,” O’Shea’s foreman, Alex Maher,…

Stand no worries for Cheezel

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By Jonny Turner A lack of recent standing start racing isn’t a concern for the camp behind the mightily consistent Cheezel ahead of Friday night’s Addington meeting. The Regan Todd trained pacer is handicapped to be one of the horses to beat when she steps out in race 8, the 2600m feature pace of the night. Already a key-player, Cheezel was to have shared the 10m with the likely favourite Franco Marek, whose scratching can only boost to her chances. Making the most of her head-start over 20m backmarkers and…

Belmont Guineas Day racing preview & best bets | 18/6/2022

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What Belmont Guineas Day 2022 Where Belmont Park Racecourse – Saintly Entrance, Burswood WA 6100 When Saturday, June 18, 2022 First Race 11:59am AWST Visit Ladbrokes Nine races will be run and won at Belmont in the west this Saturday, including a star-studded Listed Belmont Guineas (1600m). HorseBetting’s Western Australian racing analyst presents you with his best bet in the feature, as well as his best bets and quaddie numbers throughout the remainder of the afternoon. The track is rated a Soft 5 and the rail is out 7m for…

McDonald continues winning ways at Ascot

NZRacingDesk

Expat Kiwi jockey James McDonald had barely come down from the high of winning the Gr.1 King’s Stand Stakes (1000m) aboard down-under sprinting sensation Nature Strip at Royal Ascot when he was once again victorious at the Royal meeting. On Wednesday he guided home Dark Shift to win the Royal Hunt Cup (1600m) for trainer Charlie Hills, for whom he worked for as a teenager. “It worked out really well,” McDonald said. “I was fortunate to have a sit on him on Tuesday and he was a pretty enthusiastic, gassy…

Valachi Downs proving popular at Karaka

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It has been non-stop for the staff of Valachi Downs at Karaka this week as they prepare to offer a quality line-up of young stock in their dispersal sale at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling Sale on Friday, “It is quite unbelievable. I now know what it feels like to bring a yearling draft to a weanling sale, and they have been accordingly popular,” Valachi Downs General Manager Gareth Downey said. “It has been hectic, which is exactly what we wanted. It has been touch and go to make it…

Highline Thoroughbreds offer first weanling draft

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While heading to Karaka is nothing new for Highline Thoroughbreds, the Waikato farm will make their weanling sale debut at New Zealand Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling Sale on Friday. “We are really excited to be here with the weanlings, we have got a beautiful draft that we have put together for some good clients,” Farm principal Eva Heron said. “We have got a couple of standouts, including a Tarzino filly (lot 72) who has been extremely popular, and lot 53, the Ardrossan colt, has also been popular. “We are really…

Haunui draft primed for weanling sale

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Haunui Farm Sales and Marketing Manager Shannon Taylor has been buoyed by the level of interest at the presale inspections for New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling Sale at Karaka this week. “The weanlings arrived on Wednesday just before lunchtime and we were straight into it,” Taylor said. “We had 14 parades yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon and this morning has been steady and they are all coping, which is great.” Taylor said the Farm is offering a diverse range of weanlings in their draft. “We have got 15 weanlings in and we…