Tough gelding One Destiny digs deep to win again
Despite a long campaign, Gary Nickson’s tough gelding One Destiny has found career best form in recent starts and landed another fighting win at Randwick on Saturday.
Despite a long campaign, Gary Nickson’s tough gelding One Destiny has found career best form in recent starts and landed another fighting win at Randwick on Saturday.
The Group 3 Winx Guineas along with the Listed Glasshouse Handicap and Caloundra Cup will be run next weekend after rain saw the end of racing at the Sunshine Coast.
Arrowfield Stud’s imported mare Clear Thinking overcame an early incident to score a remarkable win in the TAB Highway to remain unbeaten at Randwick.
The Hawkes training partnership looks to have unearthed a talented youngster in Brave One following his stylish debut win at Randwick.
A proven wet track record and an on-pace racing pattern will prove two key elements as the Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou-trained Candy Women chases victory at Wyong.
Form analyst Adam Sherry is banking on a Peter and Paul Snowden-trained filly to get punters off to a cracking start on Saturday at Wyong.
Trainer Bjorn Baker is banking on the race fitness of Iknowastar and Highlights to handle the heavy track conditions on a seven-day turnaround for the Listed $200,000 Winter Stakes (1400m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday.
Ray Thomas provides his best bets and quaddie selections for Royal Randwick on Saturday, plus he takes a closer look at a fascinating clash that will kick-off the 10-race card.
By a world champion sire out of a Galaxy winner, Clear Thinking was bred to be special. Can she continue her unbeaten run at Randwick on Saturday? Ray Thomas is firmly in the ‘yes’ camp.
Trainer Barry Gibbons Jnr will be chasing a group 1 double at Wentworth Park on Saturday night in the Peter Mosman Opal and Vic Peters Classic.
The Inevitable is set to return to Tasmania after Saturday’s Listed Glasshouse Handicap at Caloundra where it was -3 degrees during the week, but another spring campaign is looming for the evergreen sprinter.
Gai Waterhouse demonstrated her trademark confidence when asked to assess first-starter Mayfair’s chances in the Petaluma Handicap (1100m) for two-year-olds at Royal Randwick on Saturday.
Star jockey Chad Schofield’s form surge could coincide with a return to the winner’s list for under-rated mare Essonne in the Listed $200,000 Winter Stakes at Royal Randwick on Saturday.
Jockey Rachel King almost certainly would have ridden the Stradbroke Handicap winner, but she celebrated as hard as anyone from England where she was getting married.
Bailey Wheeler has been hit with a ban after he told stewards he had not been drinking prior to returning a positive blood alcohol result prior to the races last month.
He still has a bad taste in his mouth from the last time he went from Highway grade to stakes level, but Paul Messara can change all that at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday with the promising Know Thyself.
Radio TAB’s popular presenter and racecaller David Fowler is behind a push to rename a Queensland sprint race after champion racehorse, Bernborough.
Following two handy trials, a Chris Waller-trained three-year-old is ready to start his campaign on a winning note at Randwick on Saturday.
Talented country sprinter and Kosciuszko hopeful, Elson Boy, is looking to claim a season high eighth win and seventh in succession when he heads to Royal Randwick on Saturday.
Duke Of Bronte justified his odds-on quote when he towelled up his rivals at his first ‘country start’ and can go back-to-back when he heads to Goulburn. BEST BETS, INSIDE MAIL
Ray Thomas thinks bookmakers have overlooked a key runner at double figure odds in a Randwick feature on Saturday, while Shayne O’Cass has a Clear pick for the most interesting runner of the day.
Unbeaten mare Clear Thinking, once owned by the late Queen and unable to race in England due to leg issues, will be striving to maintain her unbeaten record at Royal Randwick on Saturday.
The Lloyd Williams-owned stayer was all the rage during a brief campaign for William Haggas in the autumn, but Post Impressionist aim up for new trainers in the spring after a Caloundra Cup kick-off on Saturday.
Darren Flindell, the venerable voice of Sydney racing, maintains there is nothing more difficult for a racecaller than getting through a TAB Highway field – except this.
Trainer Greg Hickman is hoping Tiger Town can do what Braces did at Grafton almost a decade ago but has his more immediate attention focused on Goulburn on Friday.
No two-year-old has won by a bigger space in Sydney this season than Extremely Hardys did at Canterbury on Wednesday.
A former Godolphin gelding can kick off his career for new trainers Robert and Luke price with a first-up win on his home track.
A Matthew Smith-trained gelding is building a solid record and can make it four wins from seven starts at Kembla Grange. BEST BETS, INSIDE MAIL
As the superstar sprinter nears a much-awaited comeback, trainer Clayton Douglas says a host of leading jockeys are throwing their hats in the ring for the prized mount.
A Sara Ryan-trained gelding caught the eye with a fast finishing effort in stronger grade first-up and returns to a track and distance where he is a winner. BEST BETS, INSIDE MAIL
Sydney’s newest training partnership of John O’Shea and Tom Charlton had a winner with their first runner at Scone on Tuesday.
Chief Conductor was a noted on-pace runner but the way he stormed home first-up has trainer Sara Ryan confident a change in tactics will better suit the gelding.
Champion jockey Nash Rawiller will delay plans to take a short holiday this month if he has a chance of winning a fourth Sydney jockeys premiership.
Champion jockey won’t ride this week, revealing there is no time frame on a return to the saddle following a night in hospital last week.
Bjorn Baker believes his stable’s emergence as a genuine Group 1 force is one of the reasons he is now training for American billionaire John Stewart.
Trainer Anthony Cummings is predicting more improvement on Tuesday from Fort Denison as well as a barnstorming performance from a home-bred mare.
A speedy Rubick mare is back from a spell and can cause a major boilover on the nine-race card at Scone on Tuesday. Get Shayne O’Cass’s best bets and quaddie selections.
Herald Sun and Racenet racing writer Gilbert Gardiner’s recap of Saturday’s Caulfield card.
Herald Sun and Racenet racing writer Gilbert Gardiner’s selections for Pakenham.
The 2023 Ranvet and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner caps a banner weekend for stallion Pride Of Dubai with victory in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud in Paris overnight.
As Chris Waller and James McDonald continued to dominate, there was an eye-catching performance from a promising import at Rosehill on Saturday … and Ray Thomas is not talking about impressive winner Bear On The Loose.
Local trainer Gavin Groth says the absence of potential Kosciuszko runner Compelling Truth on Monday can help Foreign Brother tally up his 10th career win.
Shayne O’Cass has come up with some best bets and value plays for Corowa and Gunnedah racing on Monday.
Leading Melbourne rider Damian Lane has sharpened a focus on the jockeys’ premiership.
Bella Nipotina’s win in the Tatt’s Tiara capped one of the best autumn/winter preparations you’ll see — but an even bigger prize awaits in October.
Handy gelding Crop Duster finds himself in a tricky place between country and provincial grade but trainer Jeremy Gask has found an ideal race at Dubbo.
Trainer Daniel Bowen his sights on a shot at the Ramornie Handicap with progressive mare Tectonic Plate who chases a sixth career win at Ballina.
Former English galloper Bear On The Loose was heavily back at his Australian debut at Rosehill and left jockey Nash Rawiller suitably impressed with a fighting win.
Melbourne Cup hero Vow And Declare solidified his standing as Australia’s true ‘war horse’ with a second Tattersall’s Cup victory at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
With his 11-week-old son Copper having his first day at the races, jockey Chad Schofield marked the occasion with a winning double including victory in the feature event, the Listed McKell Cup.
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