Eagle Farm full racing preview & best bets | Saturday, June 10

What Stradbroke Handicap Day Where Eagle Farm Racecourse – 230 Lancaster Rd, Ascot QLD 4007 When Saturday, June 10, 2023 First Race 11:43am AEST Visit Ladbrokes The Brisbane Racing Club will host the biggest event on the Queensland racing calendar this Saturday afternoon, with Stradbroke Handicap Day to be held at Eagle Farm Racecourse. The highlight events on the nine-race program will be the Group 1 JJ Atkins and Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap, with every other race being at Listed or Group level. The track is currently rated a Soft…

Sandown Hillside best bets & quaddie tips | Saturday, June 10

What Sandown Hillside Races Where Sandown Racecourse – 591-659 Princes Hwy, Springvale VIC 3171 When Saturday, June 10, 2023 First Race 11:50am AEST Visit Ladbrokes The Hillside track at Sandown Racecourse is the destination for metropolitan racing in Victoria this Saturday afternoon with nine events scheduled. A fair amount of rain has fallen in Melbourne’s southeast leading up to the meeting, and despite better weather forecast for Friday and Saturday, we expect to be racing on a Soft 6 or 7 throughout the card. The rail comes out 5m, which…

Take After Me to have his 200th start as a trotter

By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk Dual-gaited warhorse, Take After Me will clock up his 200th start as a trotter at Addington on Friday night, and it seems he’s nowhere near finished. The Holmes Hanover 12-year-old has had a total 323 starts, since first racing as a three-year-old, with four pacing wins and 14 as a trotter. “I knew he was close to 200 because my old mate Trevor Grant and Rachmaninov brought up 200 the other day and I knew we were next,” says Take After Me’s trainer…

Today’s horse racing tips & best bets | June 8, 2023

Horse Racing on Thursday, June 8 will feature four meetings in Australia. Our racing analysts here at horsebetting.com.au have found you the top bets and the quaddie numbers for the meeting at Gosford. Thursday Racing Tips – June 8, 2023 Gosford Racing Tips As always there a plenty of promotions available for Australian racing fans, check out all the top online bookmakers to see what daily promotions they have. If you are looking for a new bookmaker for the horse racing taking place on June 8, 2023 check out our…

The Stir Up featuring Unleash Collinda, Baby Jaycee and Rejuvenate

GRV’s Peter Quilty, Gerard Guthrie and Trent Langskaill provide their thoughts on some of the star greyhounds racing in Victoria.   Keep an eye on these, they are worth saving in your WatchDog Blackbook!   Quilts  Fellas, I hope you’re set for a whirlwind period of greyhound racing, which is highlighted by heats of the lucrative Sportsbet Pink Diamond series. Gerard  Quilts, Hector Fawley is one of the stars at Shepparton this afternoon and he returns from an unlucky run at Albion Park last Thursday night in a heat of the…

‘Sniper’ hits Pink Diamond target

The brave decision to turn down a $50,000-plus offer for unraced youngster Lethal Sniper went a long way to being vindicated when he set Warragul alight on debut in the Sportsbet Pink Diamond Maiden Sprinter heats (460m). Lethal Sniper, a superbly bred son of Hooked On Scotch and Gwydion, is bred and owned by Steve White, who trained Gwydion, a Group 1 Hume Cup finalist in 2019, and her three-time Group 1-winning litter brother Sennachie. Lethal Sniper is prepared by White’s son Mitch, 29, who enjoyed a dream start to…

Kurtis Pertab continues strong form

Matamata trainer Kurtis Pertab. Photo: Trish Dunell It has been a season to remember for young trainer Kurtis Pertab, but he hasn’t finished winning just yet. The Matamata horseman extended his season’s winning tally to eight from 23 starts when he welcomed back Rhapsody Chic following their victory at his local track on Wednesday. The son of Sacred Falls was making his debut for Pertab, who was confident of a bold showing and his gelding duly obliged, running out a three-length victor over Bulleeze One, with a further half-length back…

Purton edges closer to Moreira record with Happy Valley treble

Seasons Wit gives Zac Purton a three-timer. Zac Purton continued a relentless march towards Joao Moreira’s record of 170 wins in a single Hong Kong season with a treble at Happy Valley on Wednesday night, edging ever closer to the Brazilian’s towering mark. With 11 meetings left in the season, five-time Hong Kong champion jockey Purton has 149 wins and, with a 69-win lead over Vincent Ho (80) in the 2022/23 jockey championship, most interest now centres on whether the Australian can overhaul Moreira’s mark, set in 2016/17. Purton saluted…

Aussie News – June 8

By Adam Hamilton Star former Kiwi pacer Magnificent Storm continues to scare off his rivals in WA’s free-for-all ranks. Not long back, his scheduled race was scrapped due to lack of entries. Last week, Magnificent Storm thrashed his only four rivals. And Friday night there are only three rivals left in the $A30,000 Members’ Sprint (1730m). It should be another cakewalk for WA’s best pacer as he prepares for his first interstate trip when he heads to Brisbane early next month for three races, starting with the $50,000 Mr Feelgood…

Springbank Mason head big Wallis-Hackett team at Alexandra Park tonight

By Michael Guerin Champion trainer of trotters Michelle Wallis says Springbank Mason is the best chance of the six she has starting in the main trot at Alexandra Park tonight but that assessment comes with a warning. “We are the worst tipsters of our own horses,” laughs Wallis about the horses she trains with husband Bernie Hackett. The couple almost always have the biggest hand in trotting races at Alexandra Park tonight but even for them six in the main trot of the night is an impressive display of horsepower.…