| What | Weetwood Day |
| Where | Toowoomba Racecourse – Hursley Rd, Toowoomba City QLD 4350 |
| When | Saturday, September 24, 2022 |
| First Race | 1:13pm AEST |
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The solitary Queensland metropolitan meeting for this Saturday will be at Toowoomba Racecourse with the annual Weetwood Handicap raceday. The Weetwood over 1200m for the sprinters will be the highlight event on the card, along with the Toowoomba Cup over 2000m for the stayers. This very competitive nine-race card features some big fields where we hope to find some value for punters. The track is currently rated a Soft 5 with no rain expected on raceday with potential for an upgrade, while the rail will be back in the true for the entire course. Weetwood Day is set to get underway at 1:13pm AEST.
Weetwood Handicap Best Bet – Mass Destruction
The feature event on the card will be the Weetwood Handicap over 1200m, and the Tony Gollan-trained Mass Destruction looks to be the one to beat after flashing home and just missing over 1100m at Doomben last start. Ben Thompson will stick with this son of Spirit Of Boom after getting so close first-up, and will be looking to go one better with the extra 100m second-up. This guy has drawn the carpark in barrier 17, but due to his get-back-and-run-on racing pattern, this will be more of a positive than a negative. This guy has – without doubt – the best turn of foot in this field, and if he is within three lengths of the leaders at the top of the straight, he will give them wind burn as he flies by them late.
Weetwood Handicap
Race 8 – 
#12 Mass Destruction (17)
5yo Gelding | T: Tony Gollan | J: Ben Thompson (54kg)
$7 with Palmerbet
Toowoomba Cup Best Bet – Aussie Nugget
The $125,000 Toowoomba Cup will be the only event on the card for the stayers over 2000m. Our tip is the Tony Gollan-trained Aussie Nugget, who was too strong in the concluding stages over 1630m at Doomben last start on September 3. This son of Dansili has recently changed trainers after leaving Anthony & Sam Freedman and heading up to Queensland to now be with Gollan. After only having three starts in Queensland and already chalking up a win, it looks as though Gollan and his team have got this guy back on track. Drawing barrier 11 doesn’t concern us, as this guy loves to get back in his races and run on, so hopefully Ben Thompson can have him in the running line as they round the home bend and set it up for him to prove too strong again.
Toowoomba Cup
Race 7 – 
#3 Aussie Nugget (11)
7yo Gelding | T: Tony Gollan | J: Ben Thompson (54kg)
$6 with Palmerbet
Best Bet at Toowoomba – Goldeel
Our best bet on the card will come up in race five, where we will be backing Goldeel to record her fifth win at her 10th start. The Tony & Maddysen Sears-trained four-year-old will be looking to add to her already very impressive record after only missing the placings at three of her first nine starts to date. After winning by the barest of margins last start over 1630m at Doomben, she will now drop back slightly to 1625m and look to improve again third-up. This girl will drop from 57kg last start to carry the minimum of 53kg with the aid of Angela Jones’ claim, and if she can sit just behind the speed, she will be very hard to beat again.
Best Bet
Race 5 – 
#9 Goldeel (7)
4yo Mare | T: Tony & Maddysen Sears | J: Angela Jones (a3) (53kg)
$3.60 with Bet365
Best Value at Toowoomba – Funny Money
The Stuart Kendrick-trained Funny Money has returned from her four-month spell in cracking form, recording a win and a second in her first and second starts back. The four-year-old mare won her first-up run at the Sunshine Coast on August 28, before running second at her most recent start behind Self Indulgent over 1200m at Doomben on September 10. Brodie Loy will take the ride on this daughter of Capitalist in a race that seems to lack speed, so hopefully this girl can fire out of the barriers and be outside the lead or lead them after the first 200m. If she gets it her own way out in front, we expect her to prove very hard to run down at the end of 1000m.
Best Value
Race 2 – 
#10 Funny Money (7)
4yo Mare | T: Stuart Kendrick | J: Brodie Loy (57kg)
$11 with Ladbrokes
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