Month: January 2024

Friday free racing tips and best bets | January 12, 2024

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Friday, January 12 promises an exciting day of horse racing with five meetings scheduled across Australia. Our dedicated team of racing analysts at horsebetting.com.au has curated the top bets and provided quaddie numbers specifically for the upcoming Gosford meeting. Friday Racing Tips – January 12, 2024 Gosford Racing Tips Best Horse Racing Bets For January 12, 2024 Place these horse racing bets in a multi for $57.77 odds return: Friday, January 12, 2024 Gosford – Race 3 #3 Community Gosford – Race 6 #1 Ekeler Cranbourne – Race 6 #1…

Darwin Guineas winner Tubthumper eyeing Magic Millions success

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Darwin trainer Phil Cole with wife Rhonda and apprentice Emma Lines after they combined to win the $75,000 Darwin Guineas (1600m) with Tubthumper at Fannie Bay during the 2023 Darwin Cup Carnival. With $13.5 million in prizemoney up for grabs, the racing universe will be glued to the Magic Millions program at the Gold Coast on Saturday. Interest will emanate from the Northern Territory with last year’s Darwin Guineas (1600m) winner Tubthumper lining up in the final race on a spectacular 11-event program. The four-year-old mare, who won the Guineas…

Bookie offers and promos for Friday horse racing | January 12

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Horse racing bookmakers have unveiled an array of enticing racing promotions for Friday, January 12. Among the highlights are multiple generous bonus back offers that add an extra layer of excitement to your horse racing experience. Explore these free promotions from top online bookmakers to make the most of your betting opportunities. The top Australian racing promotions for January 12, 2024, include: Today’s best horse racing promotions Cranbourne Races 1 & 2 – 2nd or 3rd Bonus Back up to $50 Back a runner in races 1 & 2 at…

Former Hong Kong galloper wins in NZ debut

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It’s been a long road back to the racetrack for six-year-old gelding Master Fay (Deep Field), but he made a winning return at Tauranga on Friday when taking out the Ray White Pukehina 1200 for owner-trainer Chad Ormsby. It was full circle for Ormsby, who purchased the son of Deep Field out of Highden Park’s 2019 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 1 Yearling Sale draft for $100,000 as a pinhooking prospect. However, Master Fay didn’t make it back to the sales ring and was sold to Hong Kong interests following two…

Roulade secures final golden ticket

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Chris Bothwell has got his hands on the final golden ticket for the $350,000 Remutaka Classic (1600m) at Trentham on Saturday-week, and the Stratford trainer couldn’t be more excited. He will head to the inaugural running of the rich feature with his six-year-old mare Roulade, who broke through for her maiden win at the most opportune time when taking out the Palamountains Animal Nutrition Maiden 2040 at Wanganui on Thursday, a ballot exempt race for the Remutaka Classic. Bothwell went into the race relatively confident, with Roulade having finished runner-up…

Sacred Mountain in record-breaking win at Cambridge

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By Barry Lichter “We were running but I didn’t think we were going that fast.” It came as news to trainer-driver Nicky Chilcott that Sacred Mountain broke the New Zealand mares’ record for a mobile 2200 metres in Thursday night’s $40,000 Cambridge Trotters’ Flying Stakes – but she described as “insane” the feeling she had while flying along in front. “It’s just the best feeling when you’re in front and charging. “I like to look at the sectionals on the semaphore board but it wasn’t working tonight. The way she…

Te Akau back to happy hunting ground

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A bumper contingent of 29 entries this weekend for Te Akau Racing includes three-pronged attacks on a pair of races that hold special recent memories for the syndication juggernaut. The first of those is Saturday’s Gr.1 Cambridge Stud Levin Classic (1600m) at Trentham, in which Quintessa, Trobriand and Certainly give Te Akau a trio of leading chances to land their third consecutive win in the race alongside Imperatriz (2022) and Romancing The Moon (2023). A day later in the long-awaited reopening of Ellerslie, Te Akau will be represented by Maracatu,…

Bonny Lass looking for reversal in Telegraph

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Matamata trainer Graham Richardson has previously had much better luck in the Gr.1 Railway (1200m) than the Gr.1 JR & N Berkett Telegraph (1200m), but he is hoping to flip that script with Bonny Lass at Trentham on Saturday. Richardson has won the Railway with Kailey (1997) and Volpe Veloce (2018), and both horses carried on down to Wellington to contest the Telegraph a couple of weeks later. Neither of them had all favours in the Trentham feature and both performed well below their best, finishing sixth and seventh respectively.…

Capo Dell Impero vying for more Cup success

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Wingatui local Capo Dell Impero will be vying for more Cups success when he heads to his home track on Saturday to contest the WAE Waikouaiti Cup (2200m). The six-year-old son of Ghibellines has two Cup victories to his name amongst his six career victories, including the Founders Cup (2000) and Cromwell Cup (2030m) two starts back. The Group Three performer followed that up with a ninth placed run in the Timaru Heritage Cup (1600m) last month and trainers Brian and Shane Anderton believe his run was better than the…

Frocking it up for Team Teal – Fashion in the Field

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Some next level glitz and glam will feature in the 2024 Team Teal campaign. Since 2018 Harness Racing New Zealand has been involved in the annual campaign to increase awareness of ovarian cancer, and raise funds for research. This year it will be involved again and a number of fresh initiatives have been confirmed, including a new competition to encourage racegoers to get dressed up in their best teal-coloured outfits. “Frocks at the Trots” is a fashion in the fields competiton – but with a twist. The top two contestants…