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There are four horse racing meetings set for Australia on Thursday, December 5. Our racing analysts here at horsebetting.com.au have found you the best bets and the quaddie numbers for Geelong. Thursday’s Free Horse Racing Tips – December 5, 2024 Geelong 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 for a new bookmaker for the horse racing taking place on December 5, 2024 check out our…

Multiple Group One winner La Crique will contest Saturday’s Group 1 TAB Mufhasa Classic (1600m) at Trentham. Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images) La Crique hasn’t returned to Trentham since she won the Group 3 Desert Gold Stakes (1600m) as a three-year-old, and three years down the track, the star mare will line up as a leading hope in Saturday’s Group 1 TAB Mufhasa Classic (1600m). The Desert Gold was La Crique’s first taste of stakes success and she has scarcely raced out of that company since, winning the Group 2…

Antino stretches out at Sha Tin. Photo: HKJC Australian trainer Tony Gollan admits the path his star galloper Antino has taken to get to the HK$36 million Group 1 Hong Kong Mile (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday is one of racing’s bizarre stories. Antino was bred by Hong Kong-based George Kit Ma’s Blossom Trading & Breeding Company Ltd and was subsequently bought for a meagre HK$135,000 by Hong Kong businessman Jeetu Ramchandani who, virtually on a whim, made the online bid at the 2020 New Zealand Ready To Run…

What Geelong Races Where Geelong Racecourse – 99 Breakwater Rd, Breakwater VIC 3219 When Thursday, December 5, 2024 First Race 1:30pm AEDT Visit Dabble Racing in Victoria this Thursday heads to Geelong, where a competitive nine-race meeting is set down for decision. A perfect summer’s day is forecast, with the track conditions set to replicate those in the sky. The rail is out 5m, with racing set to get underway at 1:30pm AEDT. Best Bet at Geelong: Universal Harmony Somehow, Universal Harmony is still a maiden through nine starts. The…

12 of the world’s best jockeys will contest the International Jockeys’ Championship at Happy Valley. Several returning heroes were among the galaxy of stars present at the International Jockeys’ Championship (IJC) press conference at Tai Kwun in Central, Hong Kong on Tuesday. Among them was Rachel King, who will be hoping to emulate her flawless start to last year’s competition after striking in the opening leg on her Happy Valley debut aboard Oversubscribed. The rider was born in Britain but has reached the pinnacle of Australian racing, and it is…

Without A Fight exercises at Sha Tin. Already the winner of two significant Group 1 races – Caulfield Cup (2400m) and the Melbourne Cup (3200m), both in 2023 – young Australian trainer Sam Freedman is confident Without A Fight can topple a class field of local and international runners in Sunday’s Group 1 Hong Kong Vase (2400m). Freedman, who trains in partnership with his father Anthony, describes the seven-year-old as a world-class galloper with an amazing will to win who can add a third Group 1 to his imposing career,…

What 2024 Northerly Stakes Where Ascot Racecourse – Perth, Western Australia When Saturday, December 7, 2024 Prizemoney $1,500,000 Distance 1800m Conditions Weight For Age 2023 winner Dom To Shoot (1) | T: Sean & Jake Casey | J: Jarrad Noske (59kg) Visit Dabble The Group 1 Northerly Stakes (1800m) will be the feature event on the nine-race card at Ascot this Saturday afternoon. With 18 runners accepting for the 16-horse contest, a full field is expected to take their place in the final Group 1 of the calendar year. Western…

Babylon Berlin will contest Saturday’s Group 3 Concorde Stakes (1200m) at Ellerslie. Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images) Well-performed speed merchant Babylon Berlin will strip a fitter mare for Saturday’s assignment at Ellerslie. The daughter of All Too Hard will bid to add to her impressive black-type sprinting record when she steps out in the Group 3 Concorde Stakes (1200m), a race she won in 2022. Babylon Berlin opened her current preparation in convincing fashion when she romped away with the Listed Legacy Lodge Sprint (1200m) at Te Rapa last month…

Ryan Moore is chasing a third IJC title. Ryan Moore was playing it typically cool over his chances in Wednesday’s International Jockeys’ Championship (IJC) at Happy Valley. Moore was among the 12 superstar riders at the IJC Press Conference in Tai Kwun, the culture and heritage venue in Central, Hong Kong. The 41-year-old has put his hands on the IJC trophy on two occasions in 2009 and 2010 and has been virtually an ever-present in intervening years as well as winning most of the calendar’s noteworthy races. He will be…

Democracy Manifest. Photo: Bradleyphotos.com.au Mark Zahra is determined to claim Group 1 success in Perth this weekend after falling short in the Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600m). Zahra rode Democracy Manifest in the feature race, with the Chris Waller-trained gelding finishing 14th, just four lengths off the winner. Now, Democracy Manifest will take on Saturday’s Group 1 Northerly Stakes (1800m) at Ascot. “He’s not the best horse away, so I ended up in a position where I was back. I got onto the back of Light Infantry Man, but he…