Sydney mare Flippant has met with plenty of support in the early betting on Saturday’s Group III Aurie’s Star Handicap (1200m) at Flemington.
It has not taken long for Springview Farm's Peter Smith to become smitten with new arrival Mezyaan, the handsome young stallion impressing him in every way.
The presence of Australia’s champion mare makes Moonee Valley a highly unlikely spring destination for a quartet of Group One performers from Cambridge.
Five NSW country features have received significant prizemoney increases this season.
Tim Martin is not a regular visitor to Taree but has an impressive winning strike rate when he does head north and with three runners at the mid-north coast track on Thursday is the trainer to follow.
Confident a Peter and Paul Snowden-trained runner will win the benchmark 76 at Kembla on Thursday but which of his two runners will salute is not quite as clear.
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This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Thursday’s meeting at Taree.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Thursday’s meeting at Kembla.
With just four crops of foals running for him, all conceived at a fee of $11,000, the achievements of Yarraman Park’s flagship sire I Am Invincible in 2016/2017 make for eye opening reading and he is poised for another big season with star mare Invincible Gem returning in hot form last Saturday to win the Group II ATC Missile Stakes.
On a day that featured smart wins for a number of lightly raced promising three year-olds, Widden Stud sires Sebring and Your Song chimed in with Gold Standard successful at Canterbury and Your Song’s first starter Setoga saluting for Aquis Farm at the Sunshine Coast.
With a double on Wednesday afternoon at Canterbury Park by Runaway and Gold Standard, followed by unbeaten runners Siege Of Quebec and Whypeeo racing on Saturday, the Blue Sky Bloodstock purchased three-year-old’s are heading into the spring full of gusto.
For the second Wednesday in a row Godolphin have unleashed a talented daughter of Sepoy with Alizee successful last week and unbeaten Regimen scoring at Canterbury today.
Runaway's success to break his maiden at Canterbury has Tulloch Lodge eyeing a possible assault on the Group I Spring Champion Stakes.
Apprentice Jag Guthmann-Chester has taken the first step towards his aim of being the state's top apprentice with his first metropolitan class win at the Sunshine Coast.
As a three-quarter brother to a pair of Oaks winners, it’s no surprise the Group I ATC Spring Champion Stakes is on the agenda for promising three year-old Runaway, who broke the ice with his first win at Canterbury on Wednesday.
A $450,000 NZB Premier purchase for Rosemont Stud, blue-blooded Exceed and Excel filly True Excelsior opened her account at Geelong on Wednesday to become the latest winner for the famed Eight Carat (GB) family.
The first foal of unbeaten champion Black Caviar is set for her second race start at Geelong.
Another racing season has just finished and another son of Fastnet Rock is the leading first crop sire.
Racenet has analysed where the early money has gone for Wednesday’s meetings at Canterbury, Geelong, Sunshine Coast and Gawler.
The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board has set a date to hear a charge against trainer Trent Pennuto over the alleged stomach tubing of a horse on race day.
Jockeys Chad Lever and Daniel Pitomac remain in hospital after falls at Scone.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Wednesday’s meeting at Gawler.
Eureka Stud’s exciting young sire Spirit of Boom nailed it in NZ with his first official trial winner scoring by a commanding eight lengths over 600m at Waverley race course on Tuesday.
There was an air of anticipation before the 1000 metre maiden at Scone on Tuesday with big things expected from a Hinchinbrook first starter, who opened up to win by more than eight lengths.
A $900,000 Inglis Easter purchase for Shadwell Australia from the Milburn Creek draft, good looking Snitzel colt Mutamayel made a winning debut on the synthetic surface at Pakenham on Tuesday.
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Flemington trainer Steve Richards is confident a return to racing around a bend will see Knowable bounce back on his home track on Saturday.
Lindsay Park’s classy brigade of three-year-old fillies trialled together on Tuesday but will be kept apart during their spring campaigns.
Champion mare Winx appears to have frightened away some potential opposition for the 2017 Ladbrokes Cox Plate when nominations closed on Tuesday.
Former Racing Victoria chairman David Moodie did leak information during a wide-ranging inquiry into the misuse of cobalt, a court has heard.
Flemington trainer Danny O’Brien has his eye on a race at Moonee Valley later this month for Merriest after the mare’s five-length trial win at Cranbourne on Tuesday morning.
It was impossible for Tasmanian trainer Brendan McShane to hide his disappointment when confirming his stable star would not race this season.
All eyes were on Winx at the Randwick barrier trials on Tuesday but there were plenty of other notable performances by some key spring carnival contenders.
I’m back from a brief spell and keen to bet tomorrow with a couple at Canterbury, including one we can get $61 about! Plus, there’s a four-year-old at Geelong I’m expecting to win on his resumption from a ‘bleed’.
For the first time since 2012, the Queensland Horse Of The Year title will not be awarded to the now-retired champion sprinter Buffering.
Two horses set to resume at Flemington at the weekend prepared with sharp gallops on Tuesday.
Brave Smash’s connections are unsure where to start his Australian career so punters will face a task lining up the form of former Japanese galloper if he runs at Flemington on Saturday.
Former brilliant dual Group I winning two year-old Pride of Dubai has his first foals on the ground this spring and it only seems fitting that one of the first to be born at Coolmore is for his breeder Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum.
Sun Stud’s exciting young stallion, Squamosa has taken out the title of Victoria’s Champion First Season Sire for the 2016/17 racing season.
GROUP 1 Doomben 10,000 winner REDZEL resumed this preparation with a quiet barrier trial at Royal Randwick on Tuesday morning with Blake Shinn reporting ‘he felt terrific’ after guiding him through the 1000m hit out.
Hours spent standing beside a motorway could have been a reason for a winner trading as high as 999-1 in a race in the UK on Monday.
Our video analysts have supplied you with their number one run from the weekend's metropolitan meetings.
Adelaide is likely to be the next stop for five-time Group I winner Lankan Rupee after his impressive return to racing at Sandown on Sunday.
Australia’s premier racehorse Winx had amazingly never won a barrier trial before Tuesday morning.
Following another below-par performance on the weekend trainer Aidan O'Brien has declared Caravaggio as extremely unlikely to travel down-under for a tilt at The Everest in October.
The Racenet free form provides a wealth of information for punters and there is an under-estimated factor included in the guides which is an excellent starting point to assess the quality of a past race with a good example at Scone on Tuesday.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Tuesday’s meeting at Scone.
The 2016/2017 Australian racing season has been analysed from many bloodstock points of view, but interesting to many are the nicks between certain sires that delivered above average success.
Two year-old colt Continental Divide scored a stylish win in the $US100,000 Graduation Stakes at Del Mar on Sunday to give Animal Kingdom (USA) his second stakes-winner from 11 first-crop US runners.
It was fourth time lucky for Royal Request who carried topweight to victory in Monday’s $200,000 Darwin Cup (2000m) at Fannie Bay.
Champion trainer Darren Weir gave us the One to Watch on Monday with a brilliant return for this three-year-old half-brother to a Group I sprint winner.
Champion Riverina trainer Richard Freyer has died aged 69 after a long illness.
Developing three-year-old Confluence is likely to get an easier run than his last outing irrespective of where he draws in Saturday’s Flemington assignment.
The nominations for Rosehill on Saturday are available online with the Listed The Rosebud (1100m) highlighting a nine race card.
Sunday’s Port Hedland Cup (2200m) winner Totes Amaze was disqualified after the jockey weighed in light.
Tiberian’s connections will need to decide whether to give the partly Australian-owned stayer another run before he travels to Melbourne after his strong win at Deauville on Sunday.
A Grant and Alana Williams-trained galloper emerged as the one to beat in next month’s Kalgoorlie Cup after a resounding win on Saturday.
It may have been a restricted event at a rainswept Sandown but victory on Galileo’s Pearl held great significance for Michael Walker on Sunday.
Trainers have nominated 17 gallopers to tackle Saturday’s Group III Aurie’s Star Handicap (1200m) at Flemington.
Former Racing Victoria chairman David Moodie has been devastated by the racing integrity commissioner's findings against him over a cobalt investigation leak, a court has heard.
The Racenet team found six winners across the country over the weekend including the feature winners in both Sydney and Melbourne.
A mare which finished last at Warrnambool on debut before scaling the heights to win at Group I level has been retired.
BOBS bonuses have made racing horses in NSW all the more lucrative so it’s always interesting to look back and see just which horses raked in the BOBS money for their lucky owners with top honours for the past season shared by two fillies.
Flemington hosted the first Melbourne meeting of the 2017/18 season and there was plenty to like about the day from a future viewpoint.
A change in the ownership of Perfect Fit hasn’t altered plans for the Group I winner.
An exciting opportunity exists for a horseperson to manage boutique thoroughbred stud Rheinwood Pastoral located in the picturesque Southern Highlands of NSW, just 1 ½ hrs south of Sydney.
Melbourne Cup favourite Red Cardinal will continue his build-up to November’s great race with an outing in France on August 20.
Racenet has analysed where the early money has gone for Monday’s Darwin Cup meeting at Fannie Bay.
Faaltless (Faltaat), who cost $65,000 and $160,000 in his two trips through the Karaka sale ring in 2012, took his prizemoney earnings past S$500,000 with a second win in the S$200,000 Listed Garden City Trophy (1200m) at Kranji on Sunday.
My horses to follow from Randwick on Saturday are obvious but I want to back winners going forward and I’m confident these three will be winning again.
Three horses touted as candidates for The Everest later this year failed in Sunday’s Group I Prix Maurice de Gheest (1300m) at Deauville as Brando triumphed for England.
The statistics, weights and measures totally confused this writer's analysis of Monday's Forbes Cup so relying on recent form looks the way to go.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Monday’s meeting at Forbes.
Scoring an easy debut win at Turffontein in South Africa on Sunday was three year-old colt Alwahsh, the highest priced yearling by Sepoy from his second crop.
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Tommy Berry will surrender the prized ride on dynamite sprinter Chautauqua this spring so who does he think is the right man for the job?
Brenton Avdulla will ride promising Godolphin colt Trekking in his return to Sydney racing at Rosehill on Saturday.
Fog shrouded Flemington early but it did not prevent some lesser lights from standing out on a morning where Group I winners trialled.
Spendthrift Australia will stand four stallions at their Victorian base this spring and among them is Jimmy Creed (USA), who sired his first stakes-winner in the US on Saturday with exciting filly Spectator landing the Group II Sorrento Stakes at Del Mar.
Ability graduated to weight-for-age level in style with victory in Sunday’s Group III Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) at Sandown Lakeside.
The 2016/17 QTIS Premiership winners were too strong, dominating for most of the season, and despite a last minute dash in the final four weeks for the title, no one could catch this year’s winners – Krystle Johnston, John and Chris Meagher, Paradis Imperial and Our Beebee.
Ability signalled he could be a contender in feature races in the spring with victory in Sunday’s Group III Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) at Sandown Lakeside.
Fans let out a roar when former Horse Of The Year Lankan Rupee hit the front 250 metres out in Sunday’s $150,000 Group III Bletchingly Stakes at Sandown but out of the corner of the eye, the red, white and blue silks of the in form Reward For Effort gelding Ability were looming large.
The 'real' Armchair Punter is back this week and I’m marvelling at the winning association Kris Lees has with Randwick while also delighted those who put in the effort to raise money for charity received some winning karma on Saturday.
Ancient King made his flat speed tell to win Sunday’s Grand National Hurdle (3900m) at Sandown Lakeside.
Wells gave another faultless display of jumping to win Sunday’s $120,000 Crisp Steeplechase (3900m) at Sandown.
Shadwell Stud’s Sanadaat pulled a mild surprise when winning on debut at Morphettville back in February before backing up with a luckless third in the Listed Talindert Stakes at Flemington a fortnight later.
Lindsay Park Racing will aim Sanadaat at better company following her comfortable win in Sunday’s Jim Conway Handicap (1200m) on the Lakeside course at Sandown.
There were some kind results for the layers at Flemington on Saturday with some big bets going under.
Punters had their eye in at Randwick on Saturday with some good bets landed throughout the day.
There will be no racing in South Australia on Sunday following the postponement of the Naracoorte meeting.
Racenet has analysed where the early money has gone for Sunday’s Bletchingly Stakes meeting at Sandown Lakeside.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Sunday’s meeting at Devonport Synthetic.
Since January 1 2013, favourites launching from the inside barrier over the 1000m journey at Muswellbrook have a superb winning record and the hot run looks set to continue Sunday.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Sunday’s meeting at Muswellbrook.
Exciting Star Witness filly Crown Witness made it two wins in as many starts when she defeated stakes-winning filly Madeenaty at Flemington on Saturday.
Trainer Kelly Schweida executed a successful hit and run mission to Sydney with Written Tycoon gelding Shogun Sun in Saturday’s walking2help,com,au Sprint at Randwick.
Many punters were knocked out of the quaddie by a $151 shot but the win was a breakthrough success for a new arrival to Melbourne.
The Group II Missile Stakes (1200m) ushered in the first signs of spring at Randwick on Saturday while stewards continue their investigation into the strangles inquiry.
Corey Brown took out the feature Group II Missile Stakes although Jason Collet claimed the riding honours picking up a late double at Randwick on Saturday.