Weekend Best Bets: Tips for Caulfield and Rosehill
Check out our tipsters’ best and value bets for the weekend at Caulfield’s Memsie Stakes meeting and Rosehill.
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Our experts give you an early shot at finding a winner this weekend.
Saturday: RANDWICK (10 races, start 11.35am), CAULFIELD (9 races, 12.25pm), DOOMBEN (9 races, 11.43am), MORPHETTVILLE PARKS (10 races, 12.04pm), BELMONT (9 races, 2.38pm). All times EST
CAULFIELD
BRAD WATERS (Racenet)
BUFFALO RIVER (Race 4, No.2 – $6)
Buffalo River turned in an excellent fresh run behind Mr Brightside in the Lawrence Stakes and drops in class on Saturday. He’ll be hard to run down.
Value bet: CALLSIGN MAV (Race 8, No.6 – $21)
GLENN McFARLANE (Herald Sun)
PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE (Race 7, No.7 – $2.20)
Super talented mare building an impeccable record and latest trial win was outstanding.
Value bet: PASCERO (Race 3, No.7 – $5)
SIMON MOY (NewsRacing)
PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE (Race 7, No.7 – $2.20)
Trialled well. Continues to impress and gets ideal conditions again to extend unbeaten run.
Value bet: JACQUINOT (Race 5, No.6 – $6)
JETT HATTON (Racenet)
TOFANE (Race 8 No.12 – $6.50)
Back from retirement and think she’ll go a long way to winning her fifth Group 1. Her first-up record only reads one win from seven starts but she just went down narrowly to Behemoth in this race last year and won the C.F Orr resuming in spring. Drawn well in barrier three to sit on the speed, Tofane can be back with a bang.
Value bet: GRACEFUL GIRL (Caulfield Race 7 No.1 – $10)
NICOLE THOMAS (TAB)
GENTLEMAN ROY (Race 4, No.9 – $4.60)
Drawn perfectly for another frontrunning win first-up from a spell, after notching up five wins from seven starts last campaign.
Value bet: CROSSWINDS (Race 5, No.4 – $12)
ROSEHILL
MATT JONES (Daily Telegraph)
FRUMOS (Race 2 No.2 – $1.90)
It was a horror show last start when she got blocked for a run when looking like she had plenty to give but she can redeem herself here with even luck here.
Value bet: BACKROWER (Race 8, No.6 – $11)
STEPHEN BRASSEL (National Racing Editor)
ARNAQUEUR (Rosehill Race 7 No.10 – $13)
Impressive when resuming and always shown promise. Drawn wide but there looks speed and with even luck a great bet at odds.
Value bet: GRACEFUL GIRL (Caulfield Race 7, No.1 – $10)
CHRIS VERNUCCIO (Racing News Editor)
BORN A KING (Race 3, No.1 – $3.20)
Steps back to 2000m where he was a dominant winner two starts ago. Doesn’t want the track to get too wet.
Value bet: ILLATION (Race 8, No.11 – $6.50)
MITCH COHEN (Racenet)
GRACE AND HARMONY (Race 5, No.10 – $3)
Group class mare that returned in fantastic order with a fast-finishing runner-up to Yukon at Randwick earlier this month. Should improve second-up, having been a winner at that stage of her preparation before. Step up to 1400m should also suit.
Value bet: HOPE IN YOUR HEART (Race 2 No.4 – $9)
Originally published as Weekend Best Bets: Tips for Caulfield and Rosehill
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