Month: June 2022

What Swan Hill Cup Day Where Swan Hill Jockey Club – 17 Gray St, Swan Hill, VIC, 3585 When Sunday, June 12, 2022 First Race 11:40am AEST Visit Ladbrokes It is Swan Hill Cup Day on Sunday afternoon as the Swan Hill Racing Carnival comes to an end for another year. A nine-race program is scheduled as the long weekend continues and Horsebetting’s Victorian form expert James Herbert is confident he can build on bank we (hopefully) made at Sandown on Saturday. With the Sandown track set to be an…

The two-year-old milers are on show at Eagle Farm this weekend facing off in the Group 1 $1 million J.J. Atkins (1600m), and the bookies are having a hard time separating the top three chances in the markets. 2021 JJ Atkins winner Converge. Photo: Steve Hart. The first of two Group 1 features on the Stradbroke Handicap Day card, the J.J. Atkins features a near capacity field of juveniles. Current markets at Ladbrokes.com.au are tipping the form out of last Saturday’s Listed The Phoenix (1500m) form to stack-up with the…

The Cox Plate is the goal this spring for Gold Trip. After being sensationally scratched on the eve of last year’s $5 million Cox Plate, French import Gold Trip is on the comeback trail with another tilt at the prestigious race in sight. Gold Trip arrived in Australia last spring as a high-priced purchase by Hunter Syndicators Australian Bloodstock. The four-year-old entire was on a one-way trip to the Ciaron Maher & David Eustace stable with his initial task to be the Cox Plate (2040m). Although winning only once in…

Better Rain was last seen when second at the Gold Coast in the QTIS Jewel. (Photo: Tom Smith Racing) Missile Thunder could very well be the best two-year-old in Queensland. Despite that horse being unbeaten from five starts and looking to make it six from as many in Saturday’s $100,000 QTIS 2YO Classic (1200m) at Townsville, Rockhampton trainer Tom Smith is quietly confident that he can cause an upset. The 21-year-old trainer will saddle up the classy Better Rain, who was last seen when running second in the $500,000 QTIS…

It’s Friday, which means we are only one sleep away from the greatest day on the Queensland racing calendar – Stradbroke Day. On today’s edition of Punt Drunk, we chat about the Stradbroke Calcutta, some of the great curses in racing and a potential nightmare for a race caller this weekend. MONEY WELL SPENT? If you have ever been involved in a Calcutta of any sort, you will know what we are talking about here. Drinks, big money and good food tends to be the order of the evening, and…

Australian jockey Blake Shinn has copped a big fine for breaking COVID protocols in Hong Kong. Blake Shinn has been fined a massive HK$600,000 (A$106,000) by Hong Kong stewards for attending venues he was not permitted to visit under the Hong Kong Jockey Club-mandated COVID protocols. The Australian jockey broke the rules, which restrict the movements of jockeys, by “attending a number of bars” between May 29 and June 5, subsequently interacting with other HKJC employees and licensed persons. He was serving a careless riding ban at the time and…

Gregory Hickman’s in-form five-year-old Eleven Eleven has shot to the top of the markets for Saturday’s Group 1 $1.5 million Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) following Tuesday evening’s all-important barrier draw. Eleven Eleven has firmed into favouritism for the 2022 Stradbroke Handicap this Saturday at Eagle Farm. Photo: Martin King/Sportpix copyright. A capacity field of winter hopefuls will take to the Eagle Farm track this weekend for Queensland’s richest race, Stradbroke Handicap betting at Ladbrokes.com.au now led by Eleven Eleven who came up trumps with barrier five for jockey Hugh Bowman. January’s…