Year: 2020

Here’s to the Sydney Cup

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Here’s Tears has added the Group 3 Sydney Cup to his resume tonight after a dominant all the way victory at Wentworth Park. Fellow Victorian Sunset Bourbski came from nowhere to finish second in the $100,000 to the winner event over the 720 metre distance. Here’s Tears, who is trained by master staying conditioner Robert Britton, was without his older brother Tornado Tears after he was scratched from the race due to a torn pad he sustained in the heats last week. The son of Fernando Bale and Tears Siam…

Paint Peeler’s surprise Great Chase finish

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Jason Whybrow received the surprise of his greyhound racing life when Paint Peeler qualified for the Group 3 Great Chase Final with a stunning last-to-first semi-final victory on Wednesday afternoon. On the drive from Wangaratta to The Meadows, Whybrow and partner Nicole Lummas were just hoping Paint Peeler would run well enough to earn a return trip to Melbourne next Wednesday for a low key 600m Grade 5 affair. But Paint Peeler, amazingly Whybrow’s first city starter in a training career that began as a Year 10 student back in…

Golden Sixty makes it nine in a row with Sha Tin Trophy victory

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New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale graduate Golden Sixty (Medaglia D’Oro) took another important step toward December’s LONGINES Hong Kong International Races riches with victory in the Gr.2 Oriental Watch Sha Tin Trophy Handicap (1600m) at Sha Tin, a result that all but confirmed a changing of the guard at the very top of Hong Kong’s pecking order.   The Francis Lui-trained gelding scored his ninth straight win and his 12th from 13 starts as he comfortably dispatched several of Hong Kong’s best performers of recent seasons including dual Horse of the Year Beauty Generation (NZ) (Road To Rock).  Last season’s Four-Year-Old…

Cornflower Blue takes Ashburton three-year-old feature

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Matamata filly Cornflower Blue (NZ) (Savabeel) reinvigorated her challenge for next months Gr.1 Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) with a determined win at Ashburton on Sunday. The Jamie Richards-trained three-year-old had her halo dented slightly when battling home for fourth in the Gr.3 Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton at her last start but made no mistake today when she produced a determined home straight burst to down fellow northern raider Embers (NZ) (Darci Brahma) in the Gr.3 Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m). Embers had tried to lead throughout and looked…

‘Tornado’ out of Sydney Cup

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Ageless staying king Tornado Tears is a shock scratching from the Group 3 Sydney Cup (720m) at Wentworth Park on Friday night. His bitterly disappointed trainer, Robert Britton, advised that the five-time G1 winner had stripped off a back pad winning a heat last week in 42.18sec. “It’s very disappointing and I’d say he’ll be out for a few weeks… But we’ll have to see how it heals,” he said. Britton’s hopes in the final now rest with Tornado Tears’ younger brother Here’s Tears, who clocked the fastest heat time…

Waging MDC War!

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Waging War received his racing sobriquet from a Rod Stewart song, “I Was Only Joking”. But there’s no time for jest – albeit trainer Glenn Rounds hopes for the ‘last laugh’ – when he chases a $1 million winner’s purse in Sydney on Friday night. Waging War is one of two Victorians – the other Wallbanger – contesting the TAB Million Dollar Chase final (520m) at Wentworth Park. He’s drawn Box 4 in the world’s richest greyhound race and is a $26 outsider on TAB’s fixed odds market. (Waging War…

Bartolo steps down from GRV board

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Ray Bartolo has advised the chair of GRV that he will be stepping down as a director of the GRV board. One of Victoria’s most respected greyhound breeders, trainers and owners, Ray was on the GRV board for over 12 months. During his time on the board, Ray held positions on the animal welfare committees of Greyhound Clubs Australia and GRV, as well as serving on GRV’s Animal Welfare Taskforce. He has also previously been a director at the Geelong Greyhound Racing Club and the Melbourne Greyhound Racing Association. “Ray…

Melbourne Cup target for gallant The Chosen One

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A gallant run for third in Saturday’s Gr.1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) has connections of the New Zealand-bred and trained The Chosen One excited about his prospects for the big event at Flemington next month, the Gr.1 Lexus Melbourne Cup (3200m). The five-year-old Savabeel entire cast off some indifferent lead-up form for Saturday’s Caulfield feature to put his best foot forward in a race won by another Kiwi-bred in Verry Elleegant. A positive ride by Daniel Stackhouse from an inside barrier saw The Chosen One stalking the leaders on the home…

Paisley Park a summer cups contender

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Progressive galloper Paisley Park bounced back to winning form when he out-finished his rivals over 1600m at Ellerslie on Saturday. The Dunstan Feeds Stayers Championship Final (2400m) winner earlier in the year at the venue was having his third start in a new campaign and looked ready for a big performance based on his first two efforts. Apprentice Darren Danis used his two-kilogram allowance to good effect as he bided his time on the Azamour six-year-old before unleashing a powerful finish to claim race favourite Cheval Promettuer in the shadows…