Month: May 2023

What Pakenham Synthetic Races Where Pakenham Racing Club – 420 Nar Nar Goon–Longwarry Rd, Tynong VIC 3813 When Friday, June 2, 2023 First Race 1pm AEST Visit Ladbrokes Racing heads to the synthetic surface at Pakenham for the second time this week, with an eight-race program scheduled for Friday afternoon. A shower or two is forecast for Friday, which should not affect things too much, and if recent meetings on the all-weather track are anything to go by, it will be no disadvantage to be out wide and making your…

What Queensland Oaks 2023 Where Eagle Farm Racecourse – 230 Lancaster Rd, Ascot QLD 4007 When Saturday, June 3, 2023 Prizemoney $700,000 Distance 2200m Status Group 1 Conditions 3YO Fillies | Set Weights Visit Ladbrokes The 74th running of the Group 1 Queensland Oaks will take place at Eagle Farm this Saturday afternoon, with a full field of 18 three-year-old fillies set to do battle over 2200m. Australasian Oaks winner Affaire A Suivre will be looking to win her second Oaks in as many races, while Fireburn will be seeking…

The 2023 Queensland Oaks takes centre stage in Brisbane on Saturday and the filly heading the field and markets at Eagle Farm is former Slipper winner Fireburn. Group 1 winning filly Fireburn chases more elite level glory as favourite in 2023 Queensland Oaks betting on Saturday. Photo: Steve Hart. The Gary Portelli-trained Rebel Dane filly was huge as a juvenile winning Sydney’s Group 1 Golden Slipper – ATC Sires’ elite level double. Last time out the now three-year-old broke the Slipper winners’ curse with victory in the Group 2 The…

Impressive debut winner Carbonados is a key contender in Saturday’s Listed Castletown Stakes (1200m). Photo: Race Images PN Allan Sharrock has a pair of trump cards to play in the main events on the card at Wanganui on Saturday. The New Plymouth trainer will chase a notable black-type double with rising young star Carbonados in the Listed Castletown Stakes (1200m) and his flagship winter performer Justaskme in the Listed AGC Training Stakes (1600m). Sharrock has booked Johnathan Parkes to ride his last-start winners, which are the Taranaki conditioner’s only runners…

Sassy Chouxs (pictured centre) winning at the Riccarton synthetic meeting a fortnight ago. Photo: Race Images CHCH Sassy Chouxs is ready to serve up a tasty morsel of what’s to come at Riccarton on Friday, according to North Canterbury trainer Karen Parsons. Parsons and her training partner and husband John will produce the Jimmy Choux filly at the all-weather track meeting. “She’s working really well though she is dropping back in distance and she’d be better at 1600m but it’s only a small field,” Parsons said. “What she’s doing now…

Wiremu Pinn rode his first winner in Australia on Wednesday when successful at Mornington for John Leek Jnr. Photo: Pat Scala – Racing Photos Talented Kiwi apprentice Wiremu Pinn is off the mark in Australia, partnering Mystery Moment to victory for John Leek Jnr at Mornington on Wednesday. His first Australian win comes at just his seventh race ride after riding well without a victory at Sandown on Saturday. The 24-year-old is apprenticed to Cranbourne-based Michael Kent and looms as hot property this winter given his experience and ability to…

Victor The Winner is one of Hong Kong’s hottest new talents. Victor The Winner’s emergence has been rapid and this Sunday he’ll look to ascend even further when he lines up in the $3.9 million Group 3 Sha Tin Vase Handicap (1200m) against a collection of Hong Kong’s most accomplished sprinters. A five-time winner from seven starts, Victor The Winner has shot up from a rating of 52 to a career-high 101 – capped with a pair of wins in Class 2 by a combined three lengths. Rated 29 points…