Year: 2025

Snow In May overcomes slow start to win Canberra Guineas

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Snow In May wins the Listed Canberra Guineas. Photo: Bradley Photos Snow In May continued her rise through the ranks with an impressive victory in the Listed Canberra Guineas (1400m) on Sunday, March 9 at Canberra. Trained by John O’Shea & Tom Charlton and ridden by Tyler Schiller, the filly overcame a slow start to power home late and claim the $165,000 feature. Jumping awkwardly from barrier five, Snow In May found herself towards the rear of the field early as Shangri La Spring dictated the pace up front. French…

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First Group win for Faithful at Ascot Park

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By Jonny Turner  Chelsea Faithful took her training career to another level when Ideal Crown dug in to win the Group 3 Caduceus Club and Alabar Fillies Classic at Ascot Park on Saturday. Both horse and trainer were having their first starts in Group company and for Ideal Crown it was her first test of any kind under the pressures of raceday. And amid a highly competitive feature event, both Ideal Crown and Faithful produced the perfect result. “It is unreal, it was sort of a dream and for it…

Tomlinson after more success at Reefton

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By Mike Love  After achieving win number 300 in the sulky at Westport on Friday, in-form Canterbury driver Sheree Tomlinson will be looking for more success at Reefton today.  Tomlinson drove a double on Friday, bringing up her milestone win on a horse she also part owns in Rosary, trained by Ken Ford and Amanda Tomlinson.  “I wasn’t expecting it to be on her (Rosary). She was disappointing at Addington in the start before, and I wasn’t even really going to bring her over but there was space on the…

Sunday’s horse racing tips & free previews | Sunday, March 9

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There are five horse racing meetings set for Australia on Sunday, March 9. Our racing analysts here at horsebetting.com.au have found you the best bets and the quaddie numbers for Ascot, Canberra, Echuca & Sha Tin (HK). Sunday’s Free Horse Racing Tips – March 9, 2025 Ascot Racing Tips Canberra Racing Tips Echuca Racing Tips Sha Tin (HK) Racing Tips As always, there are 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…

Linebacker completes Group One double for Super Seth

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Waikato Stud’s rising star stallion Super Seth has sired his first two Group One winners within the space of seven days, with Linebacker capturing Saturday’s A$1 million Gr.1 The Agency Randwick Guineas (1600m) a week after Feroce’s heroics in the Gr.1 Australian Guineas (1600m). Both Linebacker and Feroce come from the first crop by Super Seth, who was New Zealand’s leading first-season sire in 2023-24 and heads the second-season standings in 2024-25. His 28 winners include six at stakes level, with Feroce and Linebacker backed up by La Dorada, Sethito,…

Fresh Jedibeel sparkles in Challenge Stakes

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Lining up for his first start in 84 days, Jedibeel collected the eighth and most important win of his promising career in Saturday’s A$500,000 Gr.2 Schweppes Challenge Stakes (1000m) at Randwick. The five-year-old Savabeel gelding scored his first black-type win in the Listed Razor Sharp Handicap (1200m) in December, and then trainer Brad Widdup elected to freshen him ahead of autumn targets. Saturday’s Challenge Stakes was his first start since, and he announced his return to racing in style. Guided through a narrow opening in the straight by jockey Tyler…

Dominant Derby redemption for Willydoit

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Memories of a confidence-denting defeat in last month’s Gr.2 Avondale Guineas (2100m) were blown away on Saturday as Willydoit powered to a dominant victory in the Gr.1 Trackside New Zealand Derby (2400m) at Ellerslie. Willydoit strung together three increasingly impressive wins at the Auckland track during the summer and spent most of the last three months at the head of fixed-odds betting for the $1.25 million classic. However, the Tarzino gelding dropped out to a distant third-last among a 15-horse field in the Avondale Guineas on February 22 and made…

Hasseltoff continues to makes waves in Alice Springs

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Hasseltoff ridden by Jamie Kah winning at Flemington when under the care of Phillip Stokes. (Reg Ryan/Racing Photos) Hasseltoff enhanced his Alice Springs Cup hopes with yet another convincing win at Pioneer Park on Saturday. The Dick Leech-trained eight-year-old gelding proved too classy for Terry Gillett’s stablemates Vinnie’s Spirit and Great Buy when he saluted in an open 1600m handicap by 5.8 lengths. That followed a comfortable win on debut in the Red Centre when he prevailed by two lengths in a BM66 over 1600m on February 22. Formerly linked…