Perth-based father-daughter training duo Grant & Alana Williams quinellaed the event last year and now it is their star mare Arcadia Queen tipped to go back-to-back in the $5 million The All-Star Mile for the stable this Saturday in Melbourne despite fitness concerns. Arcadia Queen is favourite to win Saturday’s $5 million The All-Star Mile at The Valley. Photo: Steve Hart. The second edition of the lucrative weight-for-age event ran at Caulfield last autumn and saw the Williams-trained Regal Power defeat his young stablemate Superstorm in a thriller. This season…
Month: March 2021
Horse betting bookmaker promos for All Star Mile Day Saturday, 13 March 2021
Horse Betting has reviewed Australia’s best horse racing bookmakers and found today’s best thoroughbred bonus promo offers and specials for All Star Mile Day on Saturday, 13 March 2021. Horse racing promotions are still available almost each and every day with one of Australia’s best thoroughbred bookmakers. If there isn’t a promo on at one, then there is bound to be another bookie with some kind of promotional offer on the table on the gallops. HorseBetting.com.au brings you the best horse racing bookmaker bonuses each and every day. See the…
All eyes on Forbidden Love in the Coolmore Classic | Punt Drunk
Punt Drunk Daily – 13/3/21 It is finally here Punters! The much anticipated All Star Mile is only hours away from being run and won, and hasn’t the build up been drama-filled over the past 48 hours? Anyway, we will try and bring you up to speed with what is going on in the world of racing. So sit back, relax, crack open a beer and find your Saturday best because today is all about redemption on the punt after a shitshow last weekend! The Queen is on the drift…
Sky Darci, Tourbillon Diamond and Panfield shine in Hong Kong Derby hitouts
Sky Darci (left) stretches out under Joao Moreira. Caspar Fownes is confident Sky Darci is on target for a stellar BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) performance after the gelding breezed through a vital 1200m barrier trial on the dirt at Sha Tin on Friday morning (12 March) ahead of next week’s Classic. The top-rated entry for the HK$24 million contest on Sunday 21 March, Sky Darci was allowed to balance up before streaming to the line impressively for Joao Moreira behind David Hayes’ talented Packing Award and Goldie Flanker this…
Toffee Tongue scores sweet victory in Sky High
Regally bred filly Toffee Tongue (NZ) (Tavistock) added another Group win to her tally on Saturday when taking out the Gr.3 Sky High Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill. A winner of last year’s Gr.1 Schweppes Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville, Toffee Tongue was third-up this preparation after finishing unplaced last start in the Gr.1 Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m), though trainer Chris Waller said she was building up to Saturday’s winning performance. “I think she just found the track a little bit wet last start,” Waller said. “Third-up last year she was beaten…
Battling Billy causes minor upset in Auckland Cup
Rotorua galloper Ocean Billy (NZ) (Ocean Park) gave trainer Bill Pomare his biggest thrill on a racecourse when he proved too tough in the concluding stages when taking out Saturday’s Gr.1 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup (3200m) at Ellerslie. The rugged Ocean Park five-year-old won the Gr.3 Waikato Cup (2400m) back in December to frank his credentials for Saturday’s two-mile classic but had been strangely absent from most of the pre-race discussions before the race. Settled well beyond mid-field by Johnathan Parkes, who was having his first ride on the…
Melody Belle sets Group One record at Ellerslie
Champion mare Melody Belle (NZ) (Commands) created a piece of New Zealand racing history at Ellerslie on Saturday when she strode to victory in the Gr.1 Bonecrusher NZ Stakes (2000m), her fourteenth win at the elite level, to surpass the mighty Sunline (NZ) (Desert Sun) for the most Group One wins in the modern era for a New Zealand-trained galloper. The six-year-old daughter of Commands had attracted her share of doubters as to whether she could produce another Group One victory after being beaten at Te Rapa over the same…
Bosson puts rivals to the sword in Sistema Stakes
Quality two-year-old Sword Of State (Snitzel) and rider Opie Bosson made it a one-horse affair at Ellerslie on Saturday when they blitzed their rivals in the Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m). Sent out a dominant $1.60 favourite off the back of a six-length win in the Gr.3 Waikato Stud Slipper (1200m) on his home track at Matamata last time out, the Snitzel colt never gave his rivals a look in, courtesy of a copybook effort from Bosson. Bosson made full use of an inside barrier as he bounced Sword Of State…
AUDIO: John Galvin
Andrew Bensley catches up with Fortuna Syndicate’s John Galvin after Melody Belle brought up her record breaking 14th Group One win.
Big upset continues family tradition
by Michael Guerin One of the biggest shocks of the Alexandra Park season wasn’t a shock at all if you ask the man behind it. Because not only did Andrew Neal co-train and drive Harder Than Diamonds to score a 50-1 win in race two at Alexandra Park on Friday night but he told a couple of mates to back it. Harder Than Diamonds led all the way at her second start to hold out trainer Te Amo and the late run of Alta Wiseguy in one of those races…