By Jonny Turner New Zealand Cup contender Robyns Playboy’s standing start manners will be key to his chances of winning the ‘Battle Of The Playboys’ at Ascot Park on Saturday. The Hannon Memorial runner-up will clash with Pembrook Playboy as the pair take another step towards the second Tuesday in November in the Northern Southland Trotting Club’s 2700m feature handicap pace. Robyns Playboy must give his main rival a 10m headstart, with Pembrook Playboy starting in front of him on the 20m mark. The way the 5yr-old has been beginning…
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Flashback: Cranbourne Great Chase
The TAB Great Chase is Victorian greyhound racing’s number one community event, distributing almost $650,000 to the disability sector since 2003. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The TAB Great Chase community days will not be running as per normal this year. Instead, we will be revisiting some of our favourite memories from last year including when five community groups brought 35 members to the Cranbourne Greyhound Racing Club for a fun day out. There may have been some strategy at play when the Cerebral Palsy Education Centre (CPEC) and…
Pirates Patch eyes Meadows treasure
Glenn Maxwell celebrated his first city winner when Pirates Patch, the only greyhound he trains, scored at The Meadows last month and he’s hoping lightning strikes twice in Saturday night’s KCR Pet Transport Grade 5 Final (525m). Pirates Patch will tackle an outstanding line-up, headlined by Music Event, winner of his last five in a row, but she’s in career best form herself, having won four of her last six, with two of those victories coming at The Meadows. “She’s flying now,” said Maxwell. “She had a period where her…
Spanish Whisper to be sold on Gavelhouse Plus
High-class mare Spanish Whisper has been retired from racing and will be offered for unreserved sale via Gavelhouse Plus. The triple Group Two winner and Group One-placed mare is an outcross to Danehill as a daughter of internationally acclaimed sire Lope de Vega and the Encosta de Lago mare Cutting Remark, a sister to multiple Group One performer Glowlamp. Bred by New Zealanders Darren Brady and Daniel and Elias Nakhle, Spanish Whisper initially raced from the Byerley Park stable of Peter and Dawn Williams. Precocious enough to win on debut…
AUDIO: Lance O’Sullivan
Andrew Bensley talks with Wexford Stables co-trainer Lance O’Sullivan about their runners over the weekend.
AUDIO: Mark Brosnan
Andrew Bensley talks with trainer Mark Brosnan about his runners over the weekend.
Richards arsenal on track for 1000 Guineas
Matamata trainer Jamie Richards has confirmed Miss Aotearoa ($5.50) and Cornflower Blue ($12) both remain on track for a tilt at the Gr.1 Barneswood Farm 48th New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton on November 14. The pair make up two of the top four runners in betting in early 1000 Guineas markets, despite Cornflower Blue being beaten into fourth behind Matchmaker in last Saturday’s Listed Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m). “I think Cornflower Blue just found it a bit firm down there (Riccarton),” Richards said. “A number of runners that…
First NZ winner for Mongolian Khan
Windsor Park Stud stallion Mongolian Khan recorded his first win in New Zealand as a sire on Friday when Supreme Khan won on debut in the Onceuponatime At Belmont Park 1200 at Phar Lap Raceway. Supreme Khan was purchased out of Windsor Park Stud’s 2019 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 1 Yearling Sale draft by Te Akau Principal David Ellis for $160,000 and the three-year-old has been patiently handled by trainer Jamie Richards. Windsor Park Stud Principal Rodney Schick was delighted with the win, but said there was a fair bit…