Tom Sherry has an outstanding record aboard Kirwan’s Lane (NZ) (Charm Spirit) and he is hoping to enhance it even further when he reunites with the John O’Shea-trained gelding in the Listed Ladies Day Cup (1600m) at Hawkesbury. Sherry has ridden the horse six times for three wins and two seconds and was aboard for his biggest success in the Group 3 Hawkesbury Gold Cup (1600m) in April. That was over the same course and distance as Thursday’s assignment and Sherry says Kirwan’s Lane is well placed to snare Hawkesbury’s…
Year: 2022
Pocket full of ‘Dreams’
Queensland middle distance star Pocket Money is chasing a bundle of ‘loose change’ in the $121,500 Group 1 Sportsbet Hume Cup final (600m) – Race 5, 8.06pm – at The Meadows on Saturday night. The Hume Cup – part of a G1 triple-header highlighting opening night of the $4.1m Sportsbet Dream Chasers Festival – carries a $75,000 first prize. Trained by Keith “Ned” Snow, Pocket Money (a son of dual G1 winner Out Of Range) all but inscribed his name on the Hume Cup silverware with a devastating heat win on…
Five Diamonds preview & betting strategy | November 5, 2022
What 2022 Five Diamonds Where Rosehill Gardens Racecourse – James Ruse Dr, Rosehill NSW 2142 When Saturday, November 5, 2022 | 4:50pm AEDT | Race 8 Prizemoney $2,000,000 Distance 1800m Status Special Conditions Conditions Set Weights | 5YO Visit Ladbrokes The inaugural running of the Five Diamonds will headline the meeting at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday as the Sydney Spring Carnival comes to a close. The Five Diamonds is a new race that has been introduced by Racing New South Wales to entice staying four-year-olds to keep racing into their…
Flemington full racing tips & quaddie | Thursday, November 3
What VRC Oaks Day 2022 Where Flemington Racecourse – 448 Epsom Rd, Flemington VIC 3031 When Thursday, November 3, 2022 First Race 12:40pm AEDT Watch Live Visit Ladbrokes The Melbourne Cup Carnival continues when the fillies take centre stage for VRC Oaks Day on Thursday afternoon. The Group 1 VRC Oaks (2500m) is the feature event on a competitive nine-race card littered with black-type events. Following Melbourne Cup Day, the track has come up a Soft 7, with the rail coming out 5m for the entire circuit. Ladies Day at…
Hawkesbury racing tips & quaddie numbers | Thursday, November 3
What Hawkesbury Races Where Hawkesbury Race Club – 1 Racecourse Road, Clarendon NSW 2756 When Thursday, November 3, 2022 First Race 12:55pm AEDT Visit Ladbrokes It is Ladies Day at Hawkesbury Race Club on Thursday afternoon with a nine-race card to dive into. We should be in for a perfect day of racing on the weather map, with plenty of clear skies predicted for race-day. The Ladies Day Cup features on the Good 4 surface, while the rail sits out +3m between the 1100m-450m markers and true positioning the remainder.…
Donation turned down
Starship Children’s Hospital has declined a A$520,000 donation borne out of one of Australian horse racing’s richest events. Waikato Stud’s Mark Chittick celebrated victory on Saturday when I Wish I Win (NZ) (Savabeel) took out the A$10 million Golden Eagle at Rosehill in Sydney. The triumph earned the gelding’s connections A$5.25m but, under Racing NSW’s rules for the race, 10 percent of any winnings must be forwarded on to a charity. Chittick has now revealed he was forced to redirect the funds after his initial plan to send the money…
Walker on track for record-breaking season
Nine-time Champion trainer Mark Walker is slightly ahead of the record-breaking season achieved by Te Akau Racing in 2020/21. When Jamie Richards eclipsed the previous record to establish a new benchmark of 160 domestic wins, he had 46 victories by the end of October, while Walker currently has 54. After a decade of training for Te Akau in Singapore, where he won Champion Trainer honours on four occassions, Walker returned to take up the reins again of their Matamata operation on 1 April while Richards was preparing to train in…
Bugger the mortgage says Guineas contender
Until last month, Bruce Tapper had never trained a black-type winner. On Saturday, he has two decent chances to win a Group One classic. Tapper heads the South Island assault on the Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton with Specialty and Redmond, both horses he bred himself at his Clearview Park property near Timaru. Specialty and Redmond emerged as contenders for the race when finishing first and second in the Gr.3 Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m) at Ashburton on October 15 – his first black…
Proud mum seeking stakes spoils
Aoife Brennan has had a whirlwind trip campaigning Andrew Forsman’s team in Melbourne this spring, and her mother, Lauren Brennan, is hoping her Cambridge team is enough to entice her back home next week. The 17-year-old horsewoman has been the travelling foreperson for Forsman’s Australian raiding party, where the stable has experienced the highs of winning the Gr.2 Edward Manifold Stakes (1600m) with She’s Licketysplit, the Gr.3 Moonga Stakes (1400m) with Aegon, and the Listed Super Impose Stakes (1800m) and Gr.3 Caulfield Classic (2000m) with Mr Maestro. “She (Aoife) has…
Reserves into Topgun ‘frame’
Victorian-trained reserves Photo Man and Amron Boy have gained runs in Saturday night’s Group 1 Sportsbet Topgun (525m) at The Meadows, following the scratching of interstate duo Good Odds Cash (NSW) and Orchestrate (Qld) on Wednesday. Orchestrate (Box 7), trained by Tony Brett, who won the Topgun in 2005 with Black Enforcer, was a $15 chance with Sportsbet, while National Sprint champion Goods Odds Cash (Box 8), was the $31 outsider. “Just to be in the race is exciting! To have the Topgun on his CV is a huge thing.”…