What 2022 HKIR Where Sha Tin Racecourse – Tai Po Rd, Sha Tin District, Hong Kong When Sunday, December 11, 2022 First Race 12:25pm HKT | 3:25pm AEDT Watch Live Visit Ladbrokes The Hong Kong International Races are finally upon us after an epic International Jockey Championship on Wednesday night, with Tom Marquand and Silvestre de Sousa sharing the spoils. It’s on to Sha Tin now though with four Group 1 races scheduled for Sunday afternoon – The Hong Kong Vase, Hong Kong Sprint, Hong Kong Mile and Hong Kong…
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Local takes out Manawatu Cup
By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk A change in environment has proven to be a masterstroke with three-year-old gelding Hail Lucius. His connections elected to bring him back to the Central Districts after racing in the competitive Canterbury scene and entrusted him to Levin trainer Murray Gibbs. The Horowhenua horseman struck instant success with the horse, securing a win first-up for the stable at Manawatu Raceway on Tuesday and he returned to the Palmerston North track two days later to take out The Cobb Manawatu Cup (2500m). Gibbs was delighted…
Delbridge plots Sale Cup defence
Reigning Sale Cup champion Jarick Bale will be striving to make amends for a surprise defeat in last year’s final when he lines up in Sunday night’s $14,960 Rotti Security Distance Championship (650m). The Victorian Stayer of the Year, Jarick Bale has won four from five over Sale’s Cup course, his only defeat coming when third at $1.60 in last year’s Distance Championship. Trained by recent Melbourne Cup winner Mark Delbridge, Jarick Bale is the fastest qualifier for the $10,000 to-the-winner Distance Championship – race 8 at 8.32pm – after…
The Phoenix box draw Sunday
The final – and all important– piece in the countdown to the $1.65 million The Phoenix, the world’s richest greyhound race, will be completed with Sunday morning’s box draw, which will be covered live and free on Thrill Of The Chase on 7two from 10am. The all-star field of eight sprinters vying for the $1 million winner’s purse at The Meadows on Saturday week (December 17) will be headlined by Victorian superstar Wow She’s Fast, winner of the inaugural The Phoenix last year. Wow She’s Fast shares top billing in…
Bendigo best bets & quaddie tips | December 11, 2022
What Bendigo Races Where Bendigo Jockey Club – Heinz St, White Hills VIC 3550 When Sunday, December 11, 2022 First Race 1:25pm AEDT Visit Ladbrokes Racing returns to Bendigo Jockey Club this Sunday where they will host a very competitive eight-race program. The track is currently rated a Good 4 and with good weather on the forecast for central Victoria, we expect to see a Good track for the entire program. The rail will be in the True position for the entire circuit, which historically means the track should play…
Waihaha Falls primed for stakes test
Waihaha Falls will contest the the Listed Razor Sharp Handicap (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday. Photo: Bradleyphotos.com.au Local trainer John O’Shea is looking forward to heading to Randwick on Saturday where he will line-up progressive galloper Waihaha Falls in the Listed Razor Sharp Handicap (1200m). The Waikato Stud-bred and raced six-year-old pleased with his second-up runner-up effort over 1300m at Newcastle and O’Shea is confident of a bold showing from the gelding this weekend. “He is going really well,” O’Shea told RacingHQ. “Both of his runs this time in have…
Broodmare paddock looming for Sinarahma
Sinarahma will contest the Gr.2 Cal Isuzu Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa on Saturday. Photo: Peter Rubery (Race Images Palmerston North) Sinarahma’s final campaign couldn’t be going much better, according to New Plymouth trainer Allan Sharrock. But as the eight-year-old Darci Brahma mare prepares for her second-up run as a shortening -111.11 favourite for Saturday’s Group 2 Cal Isuzu Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa, Sharrock can’t help second-guessing himself. Sinarahma boomed home for second to subsequent Group 1 Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) winner Prise De Fer when she resumed in…
The Ingham 2022 Field & Odds
The race towards the autumn carnival is already heating up with a Doncaster Mile ballot exemption up for grabs in the recently boosted Group 2 $2 million The Ingham (1600m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Nugget heads early markets on the $2 million The Ingham Stakes in Sydney this weekend. Photo: Steve Hart. Formerly known as the Villiers Stakes, the 2022 The Ingham Stakes prize money is set at an unprecedented $2 million with the winner exempt from ballot for the Group 1 $3 million Doncaster Mile (1600m) held back…
Thorndon dream continues for Lock
Faithful Feat will contest the Group 3 J Swap Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa on Saturday. Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images) Peter Lock went close to winning the Group 1 Thorndon Mile (1600m) with a former stable star and has his sights set on next month’s Trentham prize with a current member of his team. The Te Aroha trainer has the freegoing Faithful Feat set for the January 28 feature having produced multiple stakes winner Hiflyer to finish third in the 2018 edition of the Harcourts-sponsored feature. “I really want…
California Spangle draws perfectly for Hong Kong Mile
California Spangle and Golden Sixty meet for a third time on Sunday. Zac Purton will be ideally placed to attack Golden Sixty on Sunday as his mount California Spangle has drawn gate two in the HK$30 million Hong Kong Mile (1600m). While the rider refers to the challenge as “the impossible task”, he finds himself in the ideal position to take up his customary front-running role aboard last season’s Hong Kong Classic Cup (1800m) winner. Golden Sixty is just two stalls away in gate four and Purton plans to use…