Racenet's stable of bookies have come to the fore with their selections for a big weekend of racing.
Champion jockey Damien Oliver is appealing the severity of a 14-meeting suspension incurred at Sandown on Wednesday.
Swettenham Stud proudly presents the Greendale Estate Draft at Inglis August.
With 14 Australian winners since August 1, Star Witness has made a blazing start to the new season and was in the spotlight last night in Sydney when his outstanding filly Global Glamour was honoured as the NSW Champion 3YO at the annual awards night conducted by the NSW Racehorse Owners Association and Racing NSW.
Talented three year-old Choisir colt Alexios Komnenos has come back from a serious illness to claim a deserved win in the Group III Desmond Stakes at Leopardstown in Ireland for owners who include Australian bloodstock investor Neil Werrett.
The Racenet Speedmaps and form analysts have combined to give punters a leg-up in the $150,000 Group III Show County Quality (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday.
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Winx and the team behind the champion mare have swept the awards conducted by the NSW Racehorse Owners Association and Racing NSW.
An irrigation malfunction at Bathurst will make punting interesting at Bathurst on Friday but I am still planning to have something on a John Sargent-trained three-year-old.
It's the first day of the two-day Taree Cup Carnival on Friday and I am confident of returning a profit on the meeting with three standout bets.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Friday’s meeting at Bathurst.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Friday’s meeting at Taree.
Patience looks like paying off for connections of this four year-old Foxwedge stallion, who opened his account at Gosford on Thursday with a dominant five length win.
Group One-winning colt Hall Of Fame has been purchased for a seven figure sum by offshore interests.
It was straight to the lead for the promising Miss Jane at Morphettville on Saturday and it was there she stayed, the lightly raced and talented four-year-old kicking clear early in the straight and holding a 2 1/4 length winning margin to the line.
The cream are returning to the track and we get to see Winx back at Randwick on Saturday but while she’s not a betting proposition I’m confident we can pick up some winnings elsewhere and just enjoy cheering for the champ.
Racing NSW stewards have handed down their findings in the Godolphin strangles case against former high-ranking employees, trainer John O’Shea and managing director Henry Plumptre.
Only one of the top two in the Quezette Stakes betting is likely to take their place at Caulfield on Saturday.
An unbeaten colt from the Ciaron Maher yard has been strongly fancied in early betting for the KS Environmental Vain Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
"Racenet's most popular ever tipster" has a liking for a runner at Randwick which he states “may be mentioned as a Cup horse later in the spring”.
A Chris Waller-trained mare has been well-supported to make a winning return to racing at Randwick on Saturday.
A well-related daughter of Shocking is one of the highlights of the current gavelhouse New Zealand catalogue with bidding set to close from 7pm NZT on Monday.
Randwick trainer Peter Snowden worked his way to the top of his profession so he takes great delight overseeing the rise of a promising stayer that will tackle Saturday class for the first time at Randwick this weekend.
Punters are confident in the horse’s chances but jockey Brad Rawiller says favourite Black Heart Bart will improve significantly on his performance in Saturday’s Group II PB Lawrence Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.
I’m confident my patience will be rewarded on Saturday with one I have been waiting for since May.
Some of New Zealand's best horses will be on show before racing gets underway at Taupo on Friday.
Trainer Stuart Webb has a recent guide to Crown Witness’s chances of measuring up to stakes company at Caulfield on Saturday.
I love punting when there’s a transition of horses at the start of a carnival and I’m keen to get my teeth into Saturday’s Randwick meeting knowing we’ll be playing on a firm track.
Buoyed by the unexpected first-up win of Mishani Bullitt, Brisbane trainer Chris Anderson likes the chances of another couple of Mishani horses at Doomben on Saturday.
Champion mare Winx has impressed in her final piece of work in preparation Saturday’s Group II Warwick Stakes at Randwick.
Ed O’Rourke is a name most punters wouldn’t know but over the coming season will start to appear in more formguide so we spoke to the young Irishman to learn a bit more about him.
Can a jockey engagement provide punters with a tip?
I reckon Doomben will be a day for the ladies on Saturday as I’ve narrowed my focus to two promising girls who have the x-factor to get the job done.
The rise of champion sire Fastnet Rock as a sire of sires has been clearly illustrated by his brilliant sons Hinchinbrook, Foxwedge, Smart Missile and now Your Song, so Neville Murdoch of Larneuk Stud is more than hopeful he has the horse to write the next chapter of success for this emerging sire dynasty.
Not much luck from a small number of bets at Flemington last week but the better horses returning at Saturday’s Caulfield meeting means more chances for a profit.
Chris Waller’s Group I-placed mare Omei Sword will return to racing in the Suttons Show County Quality (1200m), five months since a bleeding attack saw the star mare sidelined.
Tony Gollan is in Melbourne but his spring carnival hopeful Most Important is stuck in Brisbane after the flight from the Sunshine State was cancelled on Wednesday night.
The fastest growing bloodstock empire in Australia, Aquis Farm opened the gates last Sunday at their Canungra property with hundreds of visitors enjoying brilliant sunshine and the warm hospitality of the Fung family.
"Very easy on the eye," is how Oritah Park, Kerang's Andrea Otto describes Raheeb, the former Queensland based stallion who makes Victoria his home this spring.
April 30, 2009 - A well bred colt makes his debut at Sale - Despite drawing an outside he is kept safe - He is, after all, a son of the outstanding Shamardal and the previous spring's VRC Derby had been won by his half-brother Rebel Raider.
There are three form factors that come before anything else when I start to analyse a race these days and they all come together in me wanting to take on a favourite at Gosford on Thursday.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Thursday’s meeting at Gosford.
By champion sire Fastnet Rock from the family of Galileo, royally bred filly Alluringly gained her first Black Type success when winning the Listed Hurry Harriet Stakes at Gowran Park in Ireland overnight.
Globe-trotting Group I winner Our Ivanhowe (Ger) has found a home at stud in France and will stand at Haras du Thenney in Normandy next year.
Tommy Berry and Adam Hyeronimus have both been suspended following incidents that took place in the final event at Canterbury on Wednesday.
Scoring a winning double at Canterbury on Wednesday were progressive four year-olds Lubiton and Street Pursuit, both purchased as yearlings from Newgate Farm.
Your Song and All Too Hard have been trading blows since August 1, posting winner after winner with All Too Hard adding his 14th winner when well-bred Aberro saluted at Sandown as a short priced favourite on Wednesday.
Larneuk Stud's Neville Murdoch has always been proud of his underrated consistent stallion O'Lonhro - all the more so when the quite achiever was recognised at last week's Northern Region Thoroughbreds Awards.
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott’s English impressed when she stepped out at Canterbury on Wednesday for an exhibition gallop between races.
Champion jockey Damien Oliver will miss the first $1 million race of the new racing season after being handed a 14 meeting suspension at Sandown.
The Mark Newnham-trained Super Ex has taken his record to two wins from three starts after an impressive victory in the Casino Prince@Vinery Handicap (1200m) at Canterbury on Wednesday.
Racing Victoria stewards have charged Ballarat trainer Simon Morrish with alleged raceday treatment of Show A Star before a meeting at Flemington last month.
Kobayashi has drawn the outside gate but bookies have him near the top of the early betting on Saturday’s Group III Vain Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.
Bjorn Baker’s promising filly Songlike has proved too slick for her rivals in the Mcgrath Estate Agents Handicap (1100m) at Canterbury on Wednesday.
With race fitness on her side and a pull in the weights, talented Your Song filly Songlike proved too good for stakes-placed Snitzel colt Showtime, who will have to wait for another day to break his maiden.
Patience is paying dividends for supporters of the Westbury Stud-stallion Redwood (GB), with the Group One-winning son of High Chaparral starting to hit his straps as a sire.
A good spell has landed smart colt Jukebox in better condition for his bid to remain unbeaten in Saturday’s Group III Vain Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield.
Highlighted as a Breednet ‘One to Watch’ when bolting in on debut at Echuca last month, Godolphin runner Esperance looked the goods again when cruising clear for an easy win at Sandown on Wednesday.
Four Group 1-winning Arrowfield graduates, all purchased from the Inglis Easter Sale, were the only Australian-bred finalists for South Africa's 2016/17 Equus Awards, and two of them won their respective categories.
A star-studded field will clash in Saturday’s A$200,000 Group 2 Charge Of The Light Horse PB Lawrence Stakes (1400m), the first of four races in the 2017 New Zealand Bloodstock Caulfield Spring WFA Championship.
Godolphin three-year-old Esperance struck early trouble but kept his unbeaten record intact with a comfortable win at Wednesday’s Sandown meeting but the vision of the early trouble really does put you on the edge of your seat.
Australia’s best horse Winx makes her return to the races at Randwick on Saturday where a bumper nine-race card is programmed.
A field of 14 has accepted to contest Saturday’s Group II PB Lawrence Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.
Racenet has analysed where the early money has gone for Wednesday’s meetings at Canterbury, Sandown Lakeside, Doomben and Balaklava.
It’s that time of year when I have to drag myself away from Daybreak Farm and put boots on the ground in far flung places to see some of these stallions I spend so much time thinking about and writing about.
The Irish are planning a crack at Winx in the Cox Plate…with a former hurdler.
Some of the programming of a couple of Australia’s best race mares in recent seasons hails from a lesson learned from a late Hall of Fame trainer back in 1987.
The success of young High Chaparral (IRE) son So You Think has put the spotlight on his sire sons to follow including his dual Australian Group I winning son Contributer (IRE), whose first foal has been born at Mapperley Stud in New Zealand.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Wednesday’s meeting at Balaklava.
Fresh from siring his first Australian winner on Tuesday with an impressive victory for Merovee at Newcastle, Frankel kicked in with a Group double at Deauville in France overnight with a Group III win for Lady Frankel and a Group II victory for the Sir Peter Vela owned colt Eminent.
Just days after siring his first Group I winner in Al Wukair, Aquis Farm shuttler Dream Ahead (USA) was back in the stakes groove at Deauville with promising filly Pursuing the Dream claiming Black Type success in the Listed Prix de la Vallee d'Auge.
Lisa Latta believes she can get a maximum result from Five To Midnight on a minimum of racing.
The racing industry is not commonly referred to as the ‘Sport of Kings’ unless many of its participants did not have decent incomes and/or assets behind them.
After performing above and beyond expectations when third as his career debut as a 40/1 shot at Pakenham back on March 2, the Jason Warren-trained Bel Sonic was sent off the punters choice in an 1100 metre maiden at Geelong on Tuesday and he did the right thing by supporters but it was not without a few heart palpations.
A beaten favourite at Newcastle back in March when making his only appearance at two, high-priced Frankel colt Merovee broke his maiden status over 1350m on the Beaumont track on Tuesday.
I'm keen to have a bet at both Canterbury and Sandown with my best being later in the day at the Sydney venue.
Jockey Mark Zahra went a long way to test his mount for Saturday’s PB Lawrence Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.
It’s a strong card on Wednesday at Canterbury and I’m heading into the meeting with the confidence levels high.
Katelyn Mallyon made the most of a lucky escape from serious injury when booting home Sistine Saint at Tuesday’s Geelong Synthetic meeting.
Peter and Paul Snowden will attempt to rewrite the record books on Saturday with a method that champion trainer Peter describes as “unconventional”.
Godolphin sent Hartnell to Caulfield on Tuesday morning to give the import a look at the track ahead of Saturday's Group II PB Lawrence Stakes (1400m).
Chris Waller's $1.6m son of racing superstar Frankel made a winning return at Newcastle on the Beaumont track on Tuesday.
One thing Rob Heathcote learned from his days as a Contiki tour guide was there was always a fresh face and an exciting adventure around the corner.
While Washington Heights and Tom Melbourne were getting all the attention after Saturday’s Rosehill meeting sneaking back to the scene of his own major controversy in the third at Canterbury tomorrow is Up ‘N’ Rolling.
Bookies have the Darren Weir-trained Black Heart Bart and Godolphin galloper Hartnell at the top of their all-in markets on Saturday’s Group II PB Lawrence Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.
A quiet morning on Tuesday as runners at the weekend prepared for their races.
Bletchingly Stakes winner Ability won’t run in Saturday’s Regal Roller Stakes at Caulfield because trainer Robert Smerdon has his eye on a bigger prize for the rapid improver.
Trainer Mick Price says Lankan Rupee’s wellbeing will come before a bid for a guaranteed start in the Group I Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield next month.
Our video analysts have supplied you with their number one run from the weekend's metropolitan meetings.
Horses that settle near the speed over the 1516m at Lismore have an excellent winning record and a John Shelton-trained on pacer has the credentials to add to the winning statistics on Tuesday.
The names Waller, Bowman and Lees are prominent in early betting for racing at Beaumont on Tuesday but a couple of lesser lights will more than hold their own.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Tuesday’s meeting at Lismore.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Tuesday’s meeting at Beaumont Newcastle.
After more than 30 years as a staple in the Thoroughbred breeding and racing community, Ben Walden Jr has announced the full dispersal of more than 50 horses owned by he and his wife, Elaine, at the upcoming Keeneland September and Keeneland November sales.
Dream Ahead was not the only Aquis Farm shuttler to taste stakes success in the Northern Hemisphere last weekend with Artie Schiller (USA) also in the frame with unbeaten juvenile Artie B Good, winner of the $55,225 Jess Jackson Juvenile Stakes at Santa Rosa.
The Saratoga Sale concluded its two-night run on Tuesday with gains across the board and an historical high in median, bolstered by a deep buying bench with purchasers from North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, and Dubai.
What have Fasliyev, Minardi, Johannesburg, Spartacus, One Cool Cat, Holy Roman Emperor, Mastercraftsman, Alfred Nobel, Zoffany and Air Force Blue have in common? They were all trained by Aidan O’Brien to win the Group I Phoenix Stakes, who found their way to Australasia.
A Group-winning Melbourne jockey is relocating to Sydney to ride for the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable.
The well-travelled four-year-old colt Washington DC, a son of former shuttler Zoffany (IRE), earned a fifth stakes win and a first at Group level, when downing his Fastnet Rock stablemate Cougar Mountain in Sunday’s Group III Phoenix Sprint (6f) at The Curragh.
Jockey Chad Lever has been released from hospital in Newcastle almost a week after suffering head, hand and facial injuries in a fall at Scone.
After safely landing in Australia for the 17th consecutive year, Vinery Stud’s flagship stallion More Than Ready (USA) was greeted with the news his two-year-old son Copper Bullet dominated Sunday’s $200,000 Grade II Saratoga Special Stakes.