Month: May 2023

Today’s horse racing tips & best bets | May 27, 2023

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Horse Racing on Saturday, May 27 will feature 13 meetings in Australia. Our racing analysts here at horsebetting.com.au have found you the top bets and the quaddie numbers for the meetings at Eagle Farm, Randwick, Sandown, Murray Bridge, Belmont, Darwin, Trentham (NZ) & Pukekohe (NZ). Saturday Racing Tips – May 27, 2023 Eagle Farm Racing Tips Randwick Racing Tips Sandown Racing Tips Murray Bridge Racing Tips Belmont Racing Tips Darwin Racing Tips Trentham (NZ) Tips Pukekohe (NZ) Racing Tips Featured Races Queensland Derby – Eagle Farm Race 7 Kingsford Smith…

Bond has “royal” chance in his team at Winton

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by Jonny Turner Lyndon Bond’s team at Winton on Saturday are ready to meet their challenges head-on. Bond lines up six runners on the nine-race card at Central Southland Raceway, including several key winning threats. Mamma Mia is one of them, she looks the horse to beat in race 5 given the quality of horses she’s raced in the past. Barrier 7 means the race will hardly be straight forward for the mare and driver Sarah O’Reilly, but Bond thinks they are up to the task. “Her work has been…

‘King Korda’ reigns in Sandown Cup

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The $270,500 Sportsbet Group 1 Sandown Cup (715m) – Australia’s most prestigious staying event – was billed as a ‘Battle of Britton’ and it went according to script… Well, if you heeded heat times last week! But this time it was younger brother Jeff, who upstaged his older sibling, Rob, in taking out a $175,000 first prize with Korda. Rob was chasing his third victory in Sandown GRC’s staying flagship, having won with superstars Fanta Bale (2017) and Tornado Tears (2018). However, Jeff shattered his Sandown Cup ‘hoodoo’ to claim…

Savage back in Alice Springs after contesting Goodwood with Savatoxl

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After trips to Adelaide with Savatoxl and after having success on Tennant Creek Cup Day, Alice Springs trainer Will Savage will have runners on deck on Sunday when the Alice Springs Turf Club resumes racing at Pioneer Park for the first time since Cup Day on April 30. Alice Springs trainer Will Savage returns to familiar territory on Sunday. Having made two trips to Adelaide and a trip to Tennant Creek in recent times, it’s back to business at Pioneer Park this weekend with the Savage stable having three runners…

Purdons quinella Auckland Cup as Akuta upsets Self Assured

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By Michael Guerin Rarely do big races that go so wrong end as right as the Auckland Cup did for the All Stars at Alexandra Park on Friday night. Our greatest stable, under its latest version of father and son trainers Mark and Nathan Purdon, quinellaed the iconic race with Akuta and Self Assured, the pair holding out the surprise late charge of Smiffys Terror, with Copy That a fighting fourth. Akuta was in danger of even missing the Cup when he was forced out of the final lead-up, the…

Love N The Port upsets Muscle Mountain in Rowe Cup

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By Michael Guerin Ignorance proved to be bliss as it gave young driver Matty Williamson the biggest win of his career behind Love N The Port in the Reharvest Rowe Cup at Alexandra Park on Friday night. Williamson wrote the latest chapter of his famous family’s story in our greatest trotting races, with his father Phil and brother Nathan and Brad having already driven trotting winners at the highest level. “But I’m the first one to drive a Rowe Cup winner,” quipped Matty, fuelling the fires of the faux family…

Doubles the trend at Addington last night

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By Mike Love, Harness News Desk Addington Raceway provided doubles for drivers, trainers and sires last night. The Williamson family combined with three wins (Krackaling, Majestic Love and Jimmy Carter) and two placings from six runners. Majestic Love picked up her third win from eight starts when she won race 3, the Resource and Recycling Trot over 2000m from the stand. It was not an unexpected victory, starting favorite and with plenty of confidence in the camp. “She’s a nice little trotter. Good manners and pretty solid,” said Phil Williamson.…

Superstar Legend brings up the ton in style

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By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk  Could there be a better way to celebrate your 100th start? Last night Superstar Legend, trained by Michael House and driven by son Wilson, won at big odds at Addington for the second time this month. “At start 100 that was pretty cool for her to win it,” Wilson House told Harness Unhinged’s Nigel Armstrong post race, “it was a tremendous effort.” She was the outsider of the eight-horse field in the Woodlands Stud Thanks Our Buyers Fillies and Mares Mobile Pace. House…

Punt Drunk: All eyes are on QLD

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Winter is fast approaching and the team at Punt Drunk outright despise the cold weather. It’s cold and miserable in Melbourne, we have a bunch of BM78’s in NSW and racing in South Australia is seemingly in the mud. So, for the next few weeks we are heading to Queensland. In this week’s edition of Punt Drunk, we’ll have a look at the two Group 1 events at Eagle Farm on Saturday as well as an elite call from Dan Milecki at the Ballarat trots. Is Kovalica a moral in…

Sha Tin racing tips & quaddie | Champions & Chater Cup Day 2023

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What Champions & Chater Cup Day Where Sha Tin Racecourse – Tai Po Rd, Sha Tin District, Hong Kong When Sunday, May 28, 2023 First Race 12:30pm HKT (2:30pm AEST) Visit Ladbrokes Racing heads to Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon for Group 1 action at Sha Tin Racecourse. The 11-race program is headlined by the Champions & Chater Cup over the 2400m, with Romantic Warrior looking for back-to-back Group 1 victories. The rail is in the A position the entire circuit, and with clear skies forecast for race day, we…