Month: August 2023

What Bairnsdale Races Where Bairnsdale Racing Club – Racecourse Rd, Bairnsdale VIC 3875 When Monday, August 21, 2023 First Race 1pm AEST Visit Ladbrokes The Bairnsdale Racing Club is the destination for racing in Victoria on Monday afternoon with an eight-race program scheduled. With unseasonably warm weather forecast for Bairnsdale over the weekend and on Monday, we expect the current Soft 7 rating to be closer to a Soft 5 come raceday. The rail sticks to the true position, with racing set to get underway at 1pm AEST. Best Bet…

Del Mar, a premier horse racing venue in California, has preemptively cancelled its Sunday races due to the impending threat of a hurricane. Though the decision may seem abrupt, it was deemed a necessary precaution, to protect the racing horses, jockeys, and the larger racing community. This unfortunate event mirrors similar incidents of the past, whereby adverse weather conditions have led to significant changes in the racing schedule. As Joe Harper, Del Mar’s CEO and President clarified, “We have been carefully monitoring the development of this storm. Our foremost consideration…

Autumn Ballet returned with a first-up win in the Group 2 Silver Shadow Stakes. Photo: Racing NSW Adam Hyeronimus and the Waterhouse & Bott training duo have combined to take out the Group 2 Silver Shadow Stakes with Autumn Ballet ($17) in the penultimate event at Randwick on Saturday. The now three-year-old filly took out the Group 3 Black Opal on debut to put the writing on the wall, and seems to have returned in terrific order, storming down the center of the course to secure victory in the first…

Cylinder ($1.50) and Ouroboros ($11) have produced one of the best finishes to a race that we have seen in sometime, with the James Cummings-trained colt defeating the Mick Price & Micheal Kent Jnr-trained colt in the Group 3 Vain Stakes. After being set out as a long odds-on favourite with most online bookmakers, many punters would have been worried when Cylinder looked as though he wouldn’t get there; however, Blake Shinn got every little bit out of the son of Exceed And Excel and he got his head down…

Fangirl ($5) has finally chalked up her second career Group 1 victory on Saturday with a barnstorming performance in the Winx Stakes. The Chris Waller-trained mare was all the rage when markets opened on Wednesday afternoon, getting into as short as $4 with online bookmakers; however, with rain hitting the track on Wednesday and Thursday, punters were nervous about conditions heading into the weekend. This meant a drifting second favourite prior to race-day, but with the drying conditions, punters were willing to back the multiple Group 1 performer. It paid…

Chris Waller‘s class mare Fangirl relished the retirement of last year’s champ Anamoe improving on her second last spring to hand her trainer his 150th career Group 1 success in Saturday’s $1 million Winx Stakes (1400m). 2023 Winx Stakes winner Fangirl improved on her second in the race last year to kick off her spring with a Group 1 win. Photo: Steve Hart. Waller enjoyed his impressive seventh win in the race formerly known as the Warwick Stakes and renamed in honour of his classy mare Winx who herself won…

Charm Stone and Skirt The Law have fought out the finish in the Group 3 Quezette Stakes at Caulfield, with the Mick Price & Micheal Kent Jnr-trained filly getting the better of the Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner. From when markets opened on Wednesday until the jump on Saturday, both the winner and runner-up fought for favouritism, but the smart punters loaded Charm Stone late and landed the spoils. The daughter of I Am Invincible had to make her run from the 600m mark – but to her credit –…