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Month: September 2022
Vets clear Tralee Rose
Group Three winner Tralee Rose has been given the all-clear to continue her spring preparation after a veterinary examination. Trainer Symon Wilde decided to send the mare to the Ballarat Veterinary Clinic for an examination following her subpar performances in her first two appearances this year, finishing last in both of her outings last month. “We just wanted to make sure everything was okay with her as there was no red flag as she seemed to pull up okay from her last start,” Wilde told Racing.com. “They did scintigraphy on…
Little Avondale Stallions on show
Little Avondale Stud will host their annual stallion parade at midday on Friday 9th of September. The Masterton-based farm will showcase their two stallions giving those in attendance the opportunity to get up close and personal with proven sire Per Incanto, champion stallion in Hong Kong and sire of Group One winners Roch ‘N’ Horse, Shadows Cast, Dal Cielo and Santa Monica. Time Test, the only sire with three runners in this year’s Karaka 2YO million (1200m), will also be paraded. The son of Dubawi currently has four stakes winners…
Prat full of praise for Flightline after Del Mar demolition job
Star French jockey Flavien Prat was all smiles after his victory aboard Gold Phoenix for Phil D’Amato in the Del Mar Handicap on Saturday (US time). It was his fourth win of the afternoon. (Picture: Ernie Belmonte/Past The Wire) Having ridden Flightline to a staggering 19 ¼-length victory in the USD $1 million Pacific Classic Stakes at Del Mar on Saturday (US time), Flavien Prat feels the four-year-old’s will to win is unmatched. And Prat would know. The French jockey, formerly based in California and now in New York, has…
Canterbury best bets & quaddie | Wednesday, September 7, 2022
What Canterbury Races Where Canterbury Park Racecourse – King St, Canterbury NSW 2193 When Wednesday, September 7, 2022 First Race 1:25pm AEST Visit Ladbrokes HorseBetting’s New South Wales racing analyst presents his best bets, value pick and quaddie selections for Wednesday’s metropolitan meeting at Canterbury Park. Seven races are scheduled to be contested on a what is forecast to be a Heavy 10 track, while the rail is out 3m for the entire course. The first race is set to jump at 1:25pm AEST. Best Bet at Canterbury – Orzala…
Tiley hoping rain continues to fall
temperatures still winter-like, but that isn’t all bad for the South Auckland horseman. Tiley has spent the winter in Queensland with his wife Lee and returned last week to oversee Demonetization’s first-up run in the Gr.2 Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa. The Group Two winner put in a bold performance to run third behind Imperatriz and Butler, pleasing his trainer. “I thought his run was huge. He exceeded my expectations,” Tiley said. “If he finished in the first half of the field I would have been happy, given the…
Dogs to follow – Peter The Best, Whizbang Betty and Commander Tommy
Form expert Dale Code has picked out a selection of greyhounds to follow from around Victoria. You may even want to add them to your Blackbook account. PETER THE BEST (Box 7)Breeding: Nov ’20 Barcia Bale x SillatTrainer: Chris Darmanin, StrathtullohRecord: 2 starts 2-0-0 Dale says: Peter The Best is unbeaten in two starts winning a heat and the final of the Highway 31 Maiden Challenge at Healesville over 350m against some promising sprinters. He won the final in a scorching 16.51 seconds and the speed he displayed soon after box rise was…
Collinda ‘unleashed’!
Master Pearcedale trainer Jason Thompson is chasing his second Healesville Cup in three years. He saluted with Zambora Lou in 2020 and will rug exciting prospect Unleash Collinda and dual country cups winner Typhoon Sammy in the Group 2 final (350m), worth $50,000 to the winner, on Sunday. A winner of six races (with three seconds and one third) from only 10 starts, Unleash Collinda ($7.10) ‘unleashed’ his massive talent when successful over last year’s Healesville Cup hero Ferdinand Boy ($5.70) by 2.5L in 19.08sec – the second fastest of yesterday’s five heats.…
Flightline in Dubai World Cup mix after Pacific Classic romp
Flavien Prat aboard champion horse Flightline after they combined to win the Pacific Classic Stakes by almost 20 lengths at Del Mar. (Benoit Photo) Leading up to what was an unforgettable Pacific Classic Stakes at Del Mar on Saturday (US time), Flightline’s trainer, John Sadler, said the now-megastar’s greatest value would be as a sire. But in a relief to racing fans, he said there’s still more to come regarding the four-year-old’s career on the racetrack – and that is set to be on the world stage. This was, of…
Should 2022 Cox Plate be limited to three horses? | Punt Drunk
Punt Drunk takes a look back over the weekend that was, which saw some of our best horses race. Eduardo paid ridiculous odds and won like Winx, the Queensland form rang true once again in Melbourne, and the return of two horses got us thinking: could the Cox Plate be a three-horse match race this year? HOW DID THEY BET THAT? A few punters that were keen on the nation’s second-best sprinter on Saturday were given an absolute gift when Eduardo drifted to $2.90 with online bookmakers for his first-up…