Author: Editor BOAY

At his sixth start, Mr. Audacious will attempt to repeat his track record-breaking heroics in tonight’s $47,000 to-the-winner G2 Shepparton Cup Final against defending champion and multiple G2 winner Ferdinand Boy, G1 winner Idolize and G2 winner Robbie Rotten. Two-time G2 champion Typhoon Sammy and G2 Bendigo Cup winner Paua Of Buddy duel in the $10,000 winner-take-all Cup Night Match Race. Premier Racing at The Meadows features G1 Brisbane Cup champion Equalizer, while Group winners Hill Top Jack and Collinda Patty plus the in-form Golden Quest clash. Today’s Racing Shepparton:…

Kelly Bravo is concerned Box 8 may prevent in-form sprinter Paddy Wants Pats turning the tables on Australian Cup conqueror Lala Kiwi in Saturday night’s Group 1 Sky Racing Perth Cup final (520m) at Cannington. Andrea Dailly’s Lala Kiwi (Box 4) and Paddy Wants Pats, head TAB’s market on the $150,000 to-the-winner Perth Cup (Race 4 at 11.08pm) at $2.30 and $3.60 respectively, striving to give Victoria a fourth straight victory in the race. Paddy Wants Pats, a superbly-bred son of Black Magic Opal and three-time G1 winner and 2018…

Form expert The Watchdog is boldly taking on newly-crowned track record holder Mr. Audacious in Saturday night’s $47,000 to-the-winner Group 2 CKH Painting Shepparton Cup Final. Like the rest of the Australian greyhound racing public, The Watchdog was suitably impressed with the sensational 24.66sec heat victory of Mr. Audacious, which smashed the previous record of 24.75sec, set by Ferdinand Boy in the 2021 Cup final. Click HERE  for TAB’s latest Shepparton Cup Final market TAB currently has Mr. Audacious listed as $3.40 favourite ahead of first reserve Paua Of Buddy…

Greyhound racing’s ground-breaking Pink Diamond series will be bigger and better in 2022 thanks to a number of key enhancements including a boost of almost $300,000 taking total prize money and bonuses up to $1.175 million. A regional series open exclusively to greyhounds bred in Victoria, the Pink Diamond will again cater for race dogs of various abilities over a range of distances and venues before culminating in a bumper finals night at Warragul on Friday 17 June. Here’s what we can look forward to in 2022: – A significant…

When defending champion Ferdinand Boy won his heat of the $70,335 Group 2 CKH Painting Shepparton Cup on Monday night, going just a length outside his own 450m record, he was on target to become just the second sprinter to win the race twice. Thorgil Magic, which went back-to-back in 1985-1986, is the only multiple Shepparton Cup winner. But Ferdinand Boy’s task became much tougher when young upstart Mr. Audacious sensationally smashed his course record in the final heat, running 24.66sec at just his fifth start. Click HERE  for TAB’s…

Gippsland trainer Rachael Busuttil says she’s “still on cloud nine” after boom youngster Mr. Audacious’ sensational record-breaking performance in Monday night’s Group 2 CKH Painting Shepparton Cup (450m) heats. At just his fifth start, Mr. Audacious, which doesn’t turn two until April 6, clocked a jaw-dropping 24.66sec. His scintillating time smashed defending Shepparton Cup champion Ferdinand Boy’s previous course record of 24.75sec, established in the 2021 Cup final. After beginning only fairly, the son of Beast Unleashed demonstrated rarely seen acceleration in defeating G2 Warragul Cup winner Robbie Rotten by…

Sandown Park 29.24 winner Cybertruck and Shepparton Classic finalist Jungle Panther should provide a great clash in a 500m Grade 5 final at Bendigo this afternoon. G1 Silver Chief placegetter Papi Go Fast and the promising Hill Top Jonnie are expected to bolster their respective strike rates, while G3 placegetters Hushing Dusk and My Name’s Stacey face G1 finalist Caroline in a Mixed 4/5 500m race. Zipping Scorcher – victorious in five straight races before finishing third in a heat of the G2 Shepparton Cup – stands out in a…

Dual Group 1 winner Jarick Bale can confirm his status as Australia’s premier middle distance greyhound in Saturday night’s inaugural Stockman & Paddock Country Classic final (605m), being staged in Dubbo. Trained by Mark Delbridge, Jarick Bale will lead an imposing Victorian trio in the world’s richest middle distance race, with Immunity and Aston Ulysses also eyeing off the $125,000 winner’s purse. Jarick Bale, a half-brother to former Delbridge-trained 600m dynamo Christo Bale, has claimed two of the most prestigious middle distance events on the calendar in recent months. He…

Favourite Lala Kiwi and Paddy Wants Pats won’t be the only two sprinters flying the flag for Victoria in Saturday night’s Group 1 Sky Racing Perth Cup final (520m) at Cannington. Equal fastest heat winner Rostered Off (Box 1) and Vice Grip (Box 5) are trained in Western Australia, but the superbly-bred Aston Dee Bee x Bells Are Ringin litter brothers are bred and raced by the Vic-based Four Frothys Syndicate. “They’re sort of half and half,” quipped syndicate manager Glenn Pask, when asked where their allegiances lay. “They started off…