Month: May 2023

What Scone Cup Day 2023 Where Scone Race Club – 434 Bunnan Rd, Scone NSW 2337 When Friday, May 12, 2023 First Race 12:25pm AEST Visit Ladbrokes New South Wales racing heads to the east, as Scone plays host to a massive eight-race program with the $200,000 Scone Cup the feature event of the afternoon. An intriguing collective of two-year-olds will also take to the track in their bid for the 2YO Inglis Challenge (1100m). We’re expecting a Good 4 surface for punters with a favourable forecast predicted leading into…

Last Saturday, we saw the running of the Group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes at Morphettville, as well as the Group 2 A.D. Hollidale Stakes and Group 2 Gold Coast Guineas at the Sunshine Coast, due to the Gold Coast Turf Club being renovated. Meanwhile Gosford hosted The Coast Race Day, which was highlighted by the $500,000 The Coast and Listed Gosford Gold Cup. The Queensland Racing Carnival is just heating up, with Doomben 10,000 Day coming up this weekend, while the South Australian Racing Carnival has had two of their…

What Cranbourne Races Where Cranbourne Turf Club – 50 Grant St, Cranbourne VIC 3977 When Friday, May 12, 2023 First Race 5:45pm AEST Visit Ladbrokes The weekly Friday night meet at Cranbourne is upon us once again with another eight-race affair programmed. Following plenty of rain in the region, we are set to be racing on a track no better than the Heavy 9 it is currently listed, while the rail sticks to the true position from the 1600m-1000m and comes out 3m the entire circuit. We kick off the…

Roch ‘N’ Horse winning the Group 1 Champions Sprint (1200m) (Photo by Morgan Hancock/Racing Photos) Time has been called on outstanding sprinter Roch ‘N’ Horse, who will begin the next phase of her career at Little Avondale Stud. The daughter of farm resident Per Incanto met and bettered the cream of Australia’s short course specialists at Group One level with Flemington victories in the Newmarket Handicap (1200m) and the Champions’ Sprint (1200m). She has been retired as the winner of five of her 23 starts and with seven placings, including…

What Doomben 10,000 Where Doomben Racecourse – 75 Hampden St, Ascot QLD 4007 When Saturday, May 13, 2023 Prizemoney $1,500,000 Distance 1200m Status Group 1 Conditions Weight For Age Visit Ladbrokes Having moved across the road to Eagle Farm last year, the Doomben 10,000 returns to Doomben Racecourse this Saturday for the 89th running of the weight-for-age feature. The 2023 edition of the race will have five Group 1 winners engaged, with reigning champion Mazu returning to try and defend his crown. With the likes of All Aged Stakes winner…

What 2023 South Australian Derby Where Morphettville Racecourse – 79 Morphett Rd, Morphettville SA 5043 When Saturday, May 13, 2023 Prizemoney $502,250 Distance 2500m Conditions 3YO | Set Weights 2022 winner Jungle Magnate (12) | T: Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr | J: Mark Zahra (56.5kg) Visit Ladbrokes The Group 1 South Australian Derby (2500m) headlines a bumper program at Morphettville on Saturday afternoon. A capacity field of 16 three-year-olds will duke it out for the $500,000 on offer with the chance to etch their name into equine immortality…