Month: March 2022

Daily Mail: Boy, ‘Amron’ loves Sandown Park

Editor BOAY

Potential topliners Amron Boy – victorious in 29.07 seconds last Sunday – and Kelsey Bale – triumphant in three of her five races – clash in a 515m Mixed 6/7 Final as part of Premier Racing at Sandown Park tonight. Saturday night’s G1 Australian Cup runner-up Paddy Wants Pats faces dual G3 winner Barooga Smoke and G2 placegetter Werina Express in a 515m Free For All. G3 winner and Sandown Park 595m track record holder Collinda Patty lines up against Invictus Jaxson and G2 Geelong Gold Cup winner Weblec Jet…

Today’s horse racing tips & best bets | March 3, 2022

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Horse Racing on Thursday, March 3 will feature three meetings in Australia. Our racing analysts here at horsebetting.com.au have found you the top bets and the quaddie numbers for the meeting at Pakenham. Thursday Racing Tips – March 3, 2022 Pakenham Racing Tips As always there a plenty of promotions available for Australian racing fans, check out all the top online bookmakers to see what daily promotions they have. If you are looking for a new bookmaker for the horse racing taking place on March 3, 2022 check out our…

A big night for Butcher, Ranger and Hackett at Cambridge

NZHarnessNews

By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk It was a night of celebration for Shane Butcher at Cambridge Raceway on Wednesday. The South Auckland horseman recorded his first New Zealand training success courtesy of Sharkine in the Team Teal Fundraiser 10 March At CR Mobile Pace (2200m). While pleased to get the win, Butcher was more animated for his partner Monika Ranger who reined home the mare, posting her second driving success. “When I was in Perth, I trained a winner over there, but it was pretty good to get a…

Club News : Winton

NZHarnessNews

Twilight racing is back again this week when the Riverton Trotting Club host an impressive twelve race card at Central Southland Raceway in Winton this Friday, 4 March. The first race is scheduled to start at 1.47pm with the last at 7.29pm. It is another perfect opportunity to leave work a little early on a Friday afternoon and enjoy a twilight evening whilst enjoying harness racing trackside. Feature races include a heat of the Alabar Southern Supremacy Stakes for a stake of $15,000, the Diamond Creek Farm 3 Diamonds Series…

Tactics key for Cox from tricky draws

NZHarnessNews

By Jonny Turner Jonny Cox doesn’t have the best draws to work with at Addington on Thursday night, but he will have the right kind of horsepower in front of him. Cox puts the All Stars colours on in two races on the nine-race card to combine with Riveered and Samhara. Riveered has a workable alley in race 2, starting from barrier 2 on the second line behind another leading hope in Steph’s Boy. Riveered returned to racing with a fourth placing at Addington last month after a freshen up…

Hewitson, Yeung share limelight with Purton, Size

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Lyle Hewitson notches his first win since December. On a night dominated by the milestone achievements of Zac Purton and John Size, the enduring resilience of Lyle Hewitson and Keith Yeung was deservedly rewarded when the pair ended frustrating absences from the winners’ circle with overdue success at Happy Valley on Wednesday (2 March). Purton extended his lead over arch-rival Joao Moreira to four wins with a treble, reaching 80 wins for the season in the process, while 11-time champion Size was the first trainer hit 50 victories for the…

Self Obsession cements Oaks favouritism

NZRacingDesk

The Jamie Richards-trained Self Obsession (NZ) (Shocking) cemented her place at the top of the Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand Oaks (2400m) market with yet another game victory when landing the Gr.2 Little Avondale Lowland Stakes (2100m) at Hastings on Wednesday. The daughter of Shocking has now won her past four starts, three of them at stakes level, with her only defeat when finishing third on debut. It is the third Group Two victory for the strong staying filly, who previously landed the Gr.2 Royal Stakes (2000m) at…

O’Shea switches top-class sprinters to Melbourne

NZRacingDesk

With the near-certainty of a heavy Randwick track on Saturday and no sign of the wet weather abating in Sydney, John O’Shea has opted to send two of his best sprinters to Melbourne. Lost And Running (NZ) (Per Incanto) was set to be one of the drawcards for Saturday’s Canterbury Stakes (1300m) at Randwick but was not among the final acceptances when fields were declared on Wednesday. O’Shea confirmed the multiple stakes winner had already arrived in Melbourne where the Gr.1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday week would…

Horsham Cup Final: Armchair Guide

Editor BOAY

Typhoon Sammy may have been the ‘slowest’ of the six Taylor’s Palace Hotel Horsham Cup heat winners, but the perfectly drawn Group 2 Traralgon Cup hero is set to start favourite in Friday night’s $47,000 to-the-winner Group 2 final. After being beaten as favourite in a heat of the Group 1 Australian Cup, Typhoon Sammy – trained by champion three-time Horsham Cup winner Jason Thompson – made his Horsham debut in last Friday’s heats where he dug deep in a gutsy 27.22sec victory, boosting his imposing strike rate to 25…

Noverre to stand at Waikato Stud

NZRacingDesk

Noverre, a Group One-winning son of Savabeel, will join his sire at Waikato Stud this coming breeding season. An exceptional type, the brown colt was an $800,000 purchase for Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis at the 2020 New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale at Karaka, topping the Waikato Stud draft that year.  After finishing second on debut as a two-year-old over 1200m, he broke his maiden three weeks later. He won the Gr.3 War Decree Stakes (1600m) in late October before displaying a scintillating burst to go from last…