Month: April 2023

Newman would love further black-type

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Love For All will contest the Group 2 Travis Stakes (2000m) at Te Rapa on Saturday. Photo: Peter Rubery Trainer Bryce Newman has one eye on the weather forecast for the weekend as he looks to bring his consistent mare Love For All north from her Bulls base to tackle the Group 2 Travis Stakes (2000m) at Te Rapa on Saturday. The five-year-old daughter of Love Conquers All has a noted aversion to wet tracks which have cropped up at all the wrong times during her latest campaign. Newman has…

Cranbourne best bets, top odds & quaddie tips | April 28, 2023

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What Cranbourne Races Where Cranbourne Turf Club – 50 Grant St, Cranbourne VIC 3977 When Friday, April 28, 2023 First Race 5:45pm AEST Visit Ladbrokes Racing returns to Cranbourne for yet another Friday night meeting, and with a bit of luck we can steer you into a few winners on the eight-race program. With perfect mid-autumn weather forecast leading into the weekend, we are set to be running on a Good 4 for the duration. The rail comes out 9m the entire circuit, which should favour on-pace runners. Racing is…

Neasham back for more Hong Kong glory

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My Oberon exercises at Sha Tin. Already armed with some tantalising success at her first foray into Hong Kong racing last year with Laws Of Indices, Sydney-based trainer Annabel Neasham returns to Sha Tin for Sunday’s HK$20 million Champions Mile (1600m) with My Oberon. Sent out at +5400 in last December’s Group 1 Hong Kong Mile (1600m), Laws Of Indices finished third to Hong Kong glamour horses California Spangle and Golden Sixty and boasts a similar profile to My Oberon. Both geldings are Irish-bred and started their racing careers in…

Pakenham best bets & quaddie tips | Thursday, April 27

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What Pakenham Races Where Pakenham Racing Club – 420 Nar Nar Goon–Longwarry Rd, Tynong VIC 3813 When Thursday, April 27, 2023 First Race 4:45pm AEST Visit Ladbrokes A bumper nine-race program awaits punters at Pakenham Racecourse on Thursday night with perfect conditions for racing forecast. With unseasonably warm weather throughout the week and the rail coming out 4m, there will be no excuses for fancied runners on the night. Following the abandonment of Tuesday’s Flemington program, the William Newton VC Handicap kicks off the program at 4:45pm AEST. Best Bet…

News Briefs – April 26

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Grass track turnovers strong With winter fast approaching grass track racing is now on hold till spring. The final grass track meeting was at Geraldine last Friday. Since Methven on September 11 last year there have been 39 race days on the grass in this country with latest figures reinforcing their popularity. Average turnover was $944,631.59 per meeting which is well up on the all weather ($796,969.09) with the average Gross Betting Revenue (GBR) at $183,772.28, compared to $128,672.03 for the all-weather. Favourites won 30.1 per cent of the time…

Tricky draw for Aldebaran Zeus in National Trot

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By Michael Guerin Ex-pat trainer Brent Lilley was thrilled with Aldebaran Zeus’s draw for Friday night’s $90,000 Peter Breckon Memorial National Trot, until he saw who had drawn inside his star trotter. Aldebaran Zeus will start from barrier two over the 2700m mobile and would normally be expected to blast straight to the lead but drawn directly to his inside is hot favourite Muscle Mountain, a rare Kiwi open class trotter with gate speed similar to a top Australian trotter. Lilley is still confident Aldebaran Zeus will have the speed…

Highview’s 2023 Stallion Fees Set

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Highview have set their fees for the 2023 breeding season.  New recruit Divine Prophet, a Group One-winning full brother to dominant New Zealand sire Proisir, takes top billing at $13,500 +GST.  Divine Prophet was a high class two-year-old, placing third in the G1 ATC Champagne Stakes. He then came back the following spring to win the G3 ATC Up and Coming Stakes first up, in Chautauqua like style, and then the race every three-year-old is aimed for, the G1 MRC Caulfield Guineas. Both of those races are stallion making races that have been won…

The Racketeer earns Brisbane trip with Avondale victory

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Progressive three-year-old The Racketeer (NZ) (Proisir) showed all his fighting qualities when he lifted himself off the canvas to take victory in the opening event at Avondale on Tuesday. In the process the powerful son of Proisir has earned himself a ticket to the Brisbane winter carnival with several other members of the Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray stable. Rider Sam Weatherley took the bull by the horns as he set up a steady pace aboard The Racketeer in the 1400m contest, but looked to be in serious trouble when…

Favourite tag no bother for Just A Floozie

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Smart trial performer Just A Floozie (NZ) (I Am Invincible) lived up to expectations when she made a winning debut at Avondale on Tuesday in the Avondale Classic (1200m). The two-year-old daughter of I Am Invincible and Gr.1 Thorndon Mile (1600m) winner Thee Auld Floozie (NZ) (Mastercraftsman) had been impressive winning two of her three trial outings, with punters installing her at the microscopic odds of $1.40 in the traditional Anzac Day feature. After sitting outside the speed for rider Michael McNab, Just A Floozie looked to be in for…

O’Sullivan on her first NZ win, her famous dad – and more

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by Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk Shannon O’Sullivan can’t get enough of this country right now. The talented junior driver from Bendigo in Victoria claimed her first ever New Zealand win with Bondi Lustre at Ashburton on Monday, and has now decided to extend her “working holiday” on this side of the Tasman. “I was going to head home on Sunday but now I’m going to stay till later on in May because I’ve enjoyed it so much.” At Ashburton in the Peter Mitchell – 20 Years at the…