Month: July 2022

Kembla Grange best bets & quaddie tips | Thursday, July 21

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What Kembla Grange Races Where Kembla Grange Racecourse – Princes Hwy, Kembla Grange NSW 2526 When Thursday, July 21, 2022 First Race 12:55pm AEST Visit Ladbrokes HorseBetting’s New South Wales racing analyst presents his best bets and quaddie numbers for Thursday’s seven-race program at Kembla Grange, which is scheduled to begin at 12:55pm AEST. The track is rated a Soft 6, and the rail is out 3m from the 1100m to the winning post and then true for the remainder of the course. Best Bet at Kembla Grange – California…

Ipswich racing tips & best odds | Wednesday 20/7/2022

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What Ipswich Races Where Ipswich Turf Club – 219 Brisbane Rd, Bundamba QLD 4304 When Wednesday, July 20, 2022 First Race 12:33pm AEST Visit Ladbrokes Queensland’s metropolitan meeting on Wednesday takes place at the Ipswich Turf Club, where eight races will be run and won. HorseBetting’s Queensland racing analyst has picked out three good things across the course of the afternoon, as well as his suggested quaddie numbers. The track is rated Soft 5, the rail has been moved out 8m for the entire course, and the first race is…

Cup dream with Hezashocka

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Trainer Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr are eyeing some lofty goals with rising five-year-old gelding Hezashocka (NZ) (Shocking). The New Zealand-bred has won two and placed in two of his four starts this preparation, which had led his trainers to rise their sights towards the big ticket item of the Melbourne spring. “We’re going to give him a little breather now and he’ll be entered for the Caulfield, Melbourne Cups,” Kent Jnr told Racing.com. “There’s a lot of nice races for a horse like him, you’ve got the Geelong…

Talented juvenile prospecting Classic Gold

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Stephen Autridge looks to be in for an exciting season with rising three-year-old Alabama Gold (NZ) (Turn Me Loose) after his win over 800m at the Cambridge trials on Tuesday. The son of Turn Me Loose had a pleasing juvenile season, winning the Gr.3 Matamata Slipper (1200m) in February, and Autridge is hoping to add to his stakes tally this coming season. Alabama Gold has made a pleasing return ahead of his three-year-old season and Autridge could not have been more pleased with his trial. “I am absolutely rapt,” Autridge…

Liefting chasing turnaround in Cup fortunes

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Rudy Liefting was left rueing what might have been in last year’s Listed Powerworx Opunake Cup (1400m) with Mont Ventoux (NZ) (Nom du Jeu) and will give his versatile winter performer another crack at the Central Districts feature this Saturday. The Pukekohe Park trainer was bullish about his chances at New Plymouth 12 months ago, only to see his hopes extinguished at barrier rise. “I think he would have gone close to winning it, but you wouldn’t believe it – the gates flew open and the jockey fell off,” Liefting…

Collett clan Sydney bound

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Trainer Richard Collett’s move to Sydney is well under way, with his Pukekohe stables on the market and a number of horses booked to fly out at the end of the month. Collett is returning to Warwick Farm, where he had boxes in the middle of last decade, only this time it will become his only base. He has obtained 22 boxes, most of which had been used by Clare Cunningham, whose partner is Collett’s son Jason, a leading Sydney Jockey. Cunningham is spending less time training now she and…

‘Keeping’ up appearances

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Eyeing the biggest win of her relatively brief training career, Emily Azzopardi rates rails runner Angus Keeping as clearly the best of her three chances in Thursday night’s Champion Puppy final (530m) at Angle Park. Azzopardi, 23, and Group 1-winning partner Matt Lanigan made the eighteen-hour round trip from Rowsley to Adelaide for last Thursday’s heats of the $10,000 to-the-winner age-restricted feature and the expedition paid off. Angus Keeping won his heat, while his Fernando Bale x Caitlyn Keeping litter sisters Melissa Keeping and Monique Keeping also advanced to the…

Field Wiri & Salaasel finish off strongly | The Follow Files

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Hopefully, a few of you followed last week’s addition in Yes Dream, as he proved too good at juicy odds at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The team at The Follow Files has found a few more horses to add to your blackbook from Saturday’s racing in the hope of finding a few more future winners before the 2022 Spring Carnival. Eagle Farm | Track: Good 4 | Rail: +1m Entire Course Race 8: Class 3 Plate (1400m) | Time: 1:24.23 Horse to follow: FIELD WIRI (2nd) On Saturday, Richard &…

Gone Bye in Darwin Cup mix after Buntine Handicap win

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Trainer Emma Steel and jockey Adam Nicholls, who are also partners, celebrate a win at Fannie Bay in Darwin earlier this year. The pair combined to secure victory with former NSW galloper Gone Bye in the Buntine Handicap (2050m) last Saturday. (Photo: Caroline Camilleri/Darwin Photography Professionals) She has tasted victory in Melbourne in the past, but Top End trainer Emma Steel has finally enjoyed success during the Darwin Cup Carnival. Steel’s five-year-old gelding Gone Bye has now come into calculations for the $200,000 Darwin Cup (2050m) on August 1 after…

Golden Eagle the aim with unbeaten Illation

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Illation will be looking to give Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr back-to-back wins in the Golden Eagle. (Photo: Racing SA) If it isn’t broken, don’t try to fix it. That is the approach Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr will be taking with their unbeaten colt Illation this spring, as he looks to replicate his stablemate’s feats of 2021 by taking out the now-$10 million Golden Eagle (1500m) in October. READ: Golden Eagle receives big prizemoney boost The soon-to-be four-year-old has won all three of his career starts –…