By Jonny Turner Huki Fella put adversity well behind him when he registered the first siring victory for Lord Forbes at Wyndham yesterday. The three-year-old impressed when powering home from off the speed to beat a handy line up for trainer-driver Craig Ferguson. Huki Fella is partly raced by the man behind his sire Lord Forbes, in Gavin Forbes. Forbes owned and raced Lord Forbes who won 11 races during an 118-start race track career. There were no grand plans for Lord Forbes to join the country’s siring ranks once…
Month: September 2023
Legarto with target on her back ahead of Tarzino Trophy
Legarto will contest the Group 1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings on Saturday. Photo: Bruno Cannatelli In the upcoming Group 1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings, Legarto is carrying the weight of being the favourite. This daughter of Proisir recently triumphed in the Group 1 Australian Guineas (1600m) during her last race and comes into the weekend with a couple of trial placings under her belt. Trainers Ken and Bev Kelso express their satisfaction with Legarto’s condition as she prepares for her first race of the season, showing no signs…
Darwin Cup Carnival stars prominent in Top End Racing Awards noms
The Darwin Turf Club at Fannie Bay will host the Top End Racing Awards on September 15. Nominations in the four equine categories of the 2023 Top End Racing Awards have been announced. The winners, as well as the Horse of the Year, will be revealed at a presentation ceremony at the Darwin Turf Club on Friday, September 15. The night will celebrate excellence in the Top End during the 2022/23 racing season, especially during the recent Darwin Cup Carnival. Apart from Darwin, the annual Katherine Cup and Adelaide River…
Coastal Babe and Le Major take out Sires’ Stakes heats at Cambridge
By Michael Guerin If you think impressive Cambridge winner Coastal Babe still looks like a work in progress you should have seen her four months ago. The daughter of Downbytheseaside smashed some of the north’s best juvenile pacing fillies in her Dunstan Horsefeeds Sires’ Stakes heat on Thursday night, winning easily from a brave Ultimate Racy Girl and the favourite Kiss, who was three wide for the last lap. But as good as the placegetters were Coastal Babe won too easily in the hands of Matty White to suggest it…
Daffodil Day well supported by racing industry
The racing industry will be showing their support for the Hawke’s Bay Cancer Society at the Tarzino Trophy Daffodil Raceday at Hastings racecourse on Saturday with the return of the Daffodil Day silks. The colours will be carried by a carefully selected horse in each of the 10 races this weekend, with the TAB pledging a donation to the local charity for every winner carrying the silks. “In the past, the TAB has donated $2,000 for every race won by a horse wearing the Hawke’s Bay Cancer Society silks. This…
Legarto ready to spring into action
A big target has been placed on Legarto’s back as she heads to the Gr.1 Westbury Stud Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings on Saturday as a $3.60 favourite. The daughter of Proisir was victorious in the Gr.1 Australian Guineas (1600m) in her last raceday outing and takes a couple of trial placings into the weekend. Trainers Ken and Bev Kelso are pleased with their mare ahead of her first-up assignment and are feeling none of the pressure that comes with the favourite’s tag. “We are very happy going into the…
Stablemates on trial for Group One features
Stablemates Orchestral and Paragon hold upcoming Group One nominations, although connections are approaching the business end of the spring with flexibility. The Roger James and Robert Wellwood-trained three-year-olds will kick off their campaigns on Saturday with the former heading to Hastings for the Gr.3 HBPB Thoroughbred Breeders’ Gold Trail Stakes (1200m). Meanwhile, Paragon will face a more modest test when he runs in the opening event, the Alibaba’s Flying Carpets Kerikeri (1400m), at Ruakaka. They head the betting in their respective events and Orchestral is also currently the $6 favourite…
Tokyo Tycoon resuming at Hastings
Last season’s standout juvenile Tokyo Tycoon is set to get his spring preparation underway when he heads to Hastings on Saturday to contest the Listed El Roca – Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m). The Satono Aladdin gelding wasn’t bested in his five starts as a two-year-old, winning the Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) and Gr.3 Matamata Slipper (1200m), and while he was first past the post in the Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m), he was later disqualified due to a positive result to meloxicam as a result of human error. The stable…
Todd remembers Melanie Tyndall as NT racing honours fallen hoop
Jarrod Todd returns to scale after a win at Fannie Bay. (Photo: Caroline Camilleri – Darwin Photography Professionals) Like everyone associated with NT racing, leading Top End jockey Jarrod Todd will be thinking of the late Melanie Tyndall on Saturday. Tyndall passed away at 32 years of age on August 31, 2019, when falling from the Phil Cole-trained Restless during a Fannie Bay race meeting. The Darwin Turf Club honoured the popular Tyndall, who was also a police officer, by naming a race after her in 2020, and it’s the…
Today’s horse racing tips & best bets | September 8, 2023
Horse Racing on Friday, September 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 Cairns. Friday Racing Tips – September 8, 2023 Cairns 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 September 8, 2023 check out our…