Racenet has analysed where the early money has gone for Saturday’s meetings at Rosehill, Moonee Valley, Gold Coast and Morphettville.
Frankie Dettori was left red faced after celebrating victory aboard Lady Aurelia in Friday’s Group I Nunthorpe Stakes (5f) at York.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Saturday’s meeting at Morphettville.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Saturday’s meeting at Port Macquarie.
A Gosford maiden on August 17 holds the key to our best bets at the Beaumont Newcastle circuit on Saturday with the second and third horses holding the interest.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Saturday’s meeting at Beaumont Newcastle.
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With two new Northern Hemisphere stakes-winners in the past two days, Darley shuttler Teofilo (IRE) has quietly cracked the milestone of 70 stakes-winners with his latest success achieved by two year-old colt Mildenberger, who won the Listed Stonehenge Stakes at Salisbury overnight.
Today’s August Thoroughbred Sale was an outstanding success at Oaklands in Melbourne.
In proud partnership with TAFE NSW, the Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders Association (HTBA) is pleased to announce the graduates of the 2017 Equistart Work Ready Program.
Golden Slipper winner She Will Reign impressed everybody when seen out for the first time this campaign at the barrier trials.
With the first two year-old trials still a week or two away we’re focussing on the three year-olds of which there were plenty in the past week, including some spring types in Sydney, so here's the list of barrier trial placegetters from around the country in the past week with breeding and sale details.
Current 2017 Caulfield Guineas favourite Royal Symphony started his spring build up with an easy jumpout at Flemington on Friday.
Finding a winner is not getting any easier and the Racenet analysts have put their heads together to give punters another tool to help them turn a profit with the Racenet lays of the day.
The punters have fired up in early pre-post betting with some big bets being written by Australia’s largest bookies on this weekend’s meetings.
Each week Racenet's video review analysts highlight a runner from each state to follow and here are the horses recently blackbooked that are racing around Australia on Saturday.
Damian Lane will need to appeal a suspension incurred at Warrnambool on Thursday if he is to ride at the $1m Memsie Stakes meeting next month.
The winning strike rate for horses carrying 61kg or more at Rosehill since January 1, 2013 is just 6.8% for a loss on turnover of 67.2% with only one horse winning this calendar year with that weight or more.
Punters have opened the shoulders with a good few horses targeted in early betting on Saturday's Gold Coast meeting.
Racenet's stable of bookies have come to the fore with their selections for a big weekend of racing.
Punters have zeroed in on two debutants in the first race at Morphettville on Saturday.
Laurie Sainsbury holds the title of "Racenet's most popular ever tipster” and has stayed with Moonee Valley this week and whilst his selections aren't massive odds he thinks there is still money to be made.
Welcome to Weekend Winners, your one-stop tipping sheet for Saturday's big meetings.
The Racenet Speedmaps and form analysts have combined to give punters a leg-up in the $125,000 Listed Premier’s Cup (1900m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
The major focus on any Saturday is metropolitan racing but there's plenty of us out there that don't mind a dabble at the support meetings across the country so here's our best bets.
Jockey Matthew McGuren started the working week with a winning double at Grafton on Monday and a similar result is on the cards at Murwillumbah on Friday including a great ride in the Murwillumbah Cup.
"When you are on a good thing stick to it" is a well-known saying and it is apt for a winning way we have discovered on the Canberra Acton track.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Friday’s meeting at Canberra Acton.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Friday’s meeting at Murwillumbah.
Champion sire Snitzel racked up his fifth stakes-winner of the new season when progressive four year-old gelding Arbeitsam landed the Listed Rowley Mile at Hawkesbury on Thursday for the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable.
Darley flagship sire Exceed and Excel has another juvenile star on the rise with exciting filly Threading remaining unbeaten to win the Group II Lowther Stakes at York overnight.
I’ve dug deep into Rosehill and Moonee Valley in quest of a winner and mixed them up between the two venues but reckon I’ve found a few and consequently betting with a good deal of confidence.
The quality catalogue for the 2017 Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale is now online.
Grandview Stud is pleased to welcome horse racing and breeding enthusiasts along to an open day for their 2017 Stallion parade.
The 12th foal of a superb producer, Street Cry filly Leather’n’lace looks like bringing something to her family too after a stylish first-up win at Warrnambool on Thursday.
The money trail says a former Robert Heathcote-trained runner will be hard to beat on Saturday at Moonee Valley.
Superbly bred and winner of his only trial, Workdrinks curiously started at the roughies odds of $21 but it didn’t stop him making a winning debut.
Arrowfield and Darley Studs will be hoping the career of Dubai World Cup hero Animal Kingdom (USA) mirrors that of another World Cup winner, Street Cry (IRE).
The Lindsay Park team will go back to go forward again with talented three-year-old Muraaqeb in Saturday’s Listed McKenzie Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.
A last start place-getter has been fancied in early betting to return to the winners stall at Rosehill on Saturday.
Lovani has been a slight mover in the market but trainer Robert Smerdon suggests a cautious approach from punters looking for a betting lead on Saturday’s Dr Sheahan Plate (1200m) at Moonee Valley.
I am keen to play at Rosehill on Saturday with some class horses resuming off strong trials along with a speculator at big odds.
I copped a few punting uppercuts last weekend but I’m not going to take it lying down, heading into Saturday’s Rosehill meeting with a fight back attitude.
Mornington trainer Pat Carey will front the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board next week to answer a charge of belting a fellow trainer at trackwork.
Bonny O’Reilly is set to make her return to racing in Saturday’s Fiig Handicap (1200m) at Randwick and Bjorn Baker believes the mare is in even better condition than last preparation.
Lady Esprit will get at least one factor in her favour for her return bout with Heatherly in Saturday’s Listed Carlyon Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley.
It was only a couple of years ago Matthew McGillivray was earning $100 a day painting houses for a living as the young jockey served a drug suspension.
Champion trainer Chris Waller brings a strong mixed bag to the table in Saturday’s Pacific Boating Benchmark 82 Handicap (2000m) including a horse he says could be a “lightweight chance in the Metrop”.
Bjorn Baker is confident promising colt Addictive Nature will be more suited with a step up in distance in Saturday’s Group III Ming Dynasty Quality (1400m).
The $150,000 Listed Aristocrat Technologies Hawkesbury Rowley Mile (1600m) has a red-hot favourite engaged and there has also been plenty of betting action on the support card.
Godolphin trainer James Cummings will trot out some more of the stables potential spring carnival three-year-olds at Rosehill on Saturday.
They don’t race at Moonee Valley often enough on a Saturday these days but hopefully we can make a handy profit at the track’s first meeting of the season.
I’ve been in the doldrums with my tips recently but the Gold Coast has always been a happy hunting ground and I’ll be attacking it with gusto.
Ex-pat Australian jockey Danny Beasley has announced his retirement from the saddle.
Stuart Kendrick wouldn’t be shocked if his talented filly Italia Bella wins on resuming but is worried she may get too far back over 1100m at the Gold Coast on Saturday.
It's hard to tip against Arbeitsam in the Rowley Mile at Hawkesbury on Thursday but just as hard to come in at the $1.60 early quote so I'm going away from the feature race to find some value.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Thursday’s meeting at Hawkesbury.
On-site inspections for Friday’s August Thoroughbred Sale begin at 9am today, Thursday August 24.
Aquis Farm shuttler Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) looked in great shape at their Queensland stallion parade two weeks ago and was in the frame overnight with a new stakes-winner in Ireland.
Keeneland has unveiled an enhanced digital catalog for the Book 1 select session of its premier September Yearling Sale that features yearling conformation photos, walking videos and interactive Keeneland Pedigrees with full updates and race replays for winners found within the pedigrees.
Windsor Park Stud-bred Mastercraftsman filly Century Miss had an impressive win today in the Mills Reef Maiden at Tauranga.
Josh Adams has been suspended for failing to ride out his mount the final event at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
Mudgee trainer Cameron Crockett is hoping stable star Nictock can provide him with his first Saturday metropolitan win after the gelding took his record to six wins from seven starts at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
$900,000 Snitzel colt Mutamayel is set for better races after making it two from two in an impressive display at Sandown on Wednesday.
Last year’s winner Heatherly has opened as a warm favourite to make it back-to-back Carlyon Stakes wins at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
The equal top priced lot at the Magic Millions second session last year, Written Tycoon colt, Written Choice started his career with a bang at Sandown on Wednesday.
A Mornington trainer will spend at least nine months out of racing after pleading guilty to stomach tubing a horse before a race at Moe in May.
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott have Group I aspirations for Pandemonium after the filly made it two wins on the trot in the TAB Benchmark 70 Handicap (1600m) at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
Sandown could become a pivot point for Mutamayel after the colt remained unbeaten in Wednesday’s Dream Thoroughbreds Handicap (1500m).
Gai Waterhouse has a great record of winning the Group I ATC Flight Stakes at Randwick and she and co-trainer Adrian Bott believe they have a contender in Sebring filly Pandemonium, who beat the colts to win at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
The 2017 Sun Stud brochure - featuring seven stallions in Victoria and five at its Queensland property - is now available online.
The young High Chaparral mare, Alta Donna, is one of the highlights in the current gavelhouse Australia catalogue with bidding set to close on Monday 28 August from 7pm AEST.
The Cranbourne Turf Club still refuses to identify runners in its jumpouts but it was happy to point out classy mare Yankee Rose was in action on the track on Tuesday.
The Group III San Domenic Stakes is one of three black-type contests that are the features of a bumper nine-race card at Rosehill on Saturday.
Melbourne Cup winner Almandin could be the drawcard at Saturday’s Moonee Valley meeting for which Racenet has the fields and form available online.
Racenet has analysed where the early money has gone for Wednesday’s meetings at Warwick Farm, Sandown Hillside, Sunshine Coast and Gawler.
One of Australia’s most accomplished middle-distance performers Happy Clapper will have a new jockey in the saddle when the Pat Webster-trained galloper resumes in the Group II Tramway Stakes (1400m) at Randwick on September 2.
Racing NSW stewards say the video footage and final margins were the catalyst to no protests being lodged in an action-packed race at Muswellbrook on Tuesday where the $1.28 favourite Floki was beaten after suffering severe interference in the straight.
Queensland Racing Integrity Commission senior steward Jamie Dart has been sacked after an ongoing investigation which has lasted nearly a year.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Wednesday’s meeting at Gawler.
Sadly for Australian breeders, the mighty stallion Street Cry (IRE) is no longer with us, but we do have the legacy of his exceptional daughter Winx and a number of his sire sons including blue-blooded Wolf Cry, who makes his debut at Larneuk Stud this spring.
We are three weeks into the new racing season and already reigning champion sire Snitzel has taken up residence in the top slot of the Australian Leading Sires List as the first stallion to post progeny earnings of $1million since August 1.
The second season sires division is off and running with Your Song and All Too Hard trading blows at the top of the list.
Aquis Farm were overwhelmed with the positive response to brilliant Snitzel sprinter Spill the Beans last spring when he emerged as the busiest first season sire in Australia and his first foals are delighting breeders.
Scat Daddy’s brilliant Group I winning son No Nay Never (USA) is settling into Coolmore for his second season in Australia and was making news in Europe this week with a strong showing for his first Northern Hemisphere offspring at the Arqana Deauville Yearling Sale in France.
The 2016/17 racing season bore witness to an incredible run of success for graduates of Coolmore Australia.
Black Caviar’s half-brother All Too Hard is rapidly making a name for himself as a sire with no help from his famous sibling and added an impressive debut winner to his tally at Pakenham on Tuesday.
Supporters of the Ben Smith-trained Floki best look away and not view the attached vision of the Vancouver @ Coolmore Class 1 Handicap (1000m) at Muswellbrook on Tuesday.
Trainer Robbie Laing has never been afraid to tilt at windmills and will pitch promising colt Frankel My Dear straight into stakes class at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
Mid-North Coast hobby trainer Bob Haire will be watching intently to Sky Racing on Wednesday when his smart mare I Am Serious has her first start for new trainer Chris Waller at Warwick Farm.
The dog days might be over for promising Melbourne apprentice jockey Ben Thompson, but he retains a keen interest whenever his parents have a runner in an elite greyhound race.
Jumping from maiden grade hasn’t been an issue for recent winners of Saturday’s Listed McKenzie Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.
One of his best track workers gave trainer Tony McEvoy a guide on the progress of a last start winner at Moonee Valley on Tuesday.
An interesting viewpoint opened Racing Victoria’s summary of the numbers surrounding the 2016/17 racing season.
We’re heading back to Warwick Farm on Wednesday and I’ve found a quartet of bets I think all represent good value on a day that should produce some competitive racing.
Chris Waller hopes the Queensland sunshine will work wonders for Colosimo as the filly strives to return to form at the Gold Coast on Saturday.
Several horses nominated for Moonee Valley on Saturday were able to gallop on the course Tuesday ahead of their races at the weekend.
Champion jockey Damien Oliver has lost the ride on Vega Magic in the Memsie Stakes after failing in an appeal against the severity of a careless riding suspension he incurred at Sandown last Wednesday.
All hands were on deck for Caulfield Cup hope Single Gaze’s first Melbourne appearance in a Caulfield jumpout on Tuesday morning.
Queensland hobby trainer Kelvin Hickmott will be pitted against some of the biggest names in Australian racing when he runs his aptly-named mare War Baby at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
Jockey Bobby El-Issa heads to Muswellbrook races on Tuesday which marks the two-year anniversary since he left hospital after beating acute myeloid leukaemia.