Year: 2022

Giga Kick produces jaw-dropping performance to claim The Everest

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Giga Kick ridden by Craig Williams have claimed The Everest. You had to be a very good judge of a horse to have Giga Kick in your thoughts if you were parting with your hard-earned for The Everest. One of those very good judges was the three-year-old’s astute young trainer, Clayton Douglas, who is now a winner of the world’s richest race on turf at just 27. When the great Nature Strip got to the front on the straight, thousands of punters around Australia would have been breathing sighs of…

Rocketing By causes boilover in Sydney Stakes

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Rocketing By scrapes the paint to claim the Sydney Stakes. He has overcome knee surgery and feet issues, but Rocketing By is now a Group winner on Everest Day having caused a massive boilover in the Sydney Stakes for David Pfieffer. It was a gutsy finish on the inside for the five-year-old to lunge and hold off In The Congo at the post for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott. 2022 Sydney Stakes Replay https://horsebetting.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-Sydney-Stakes.mp4 Pfieffer was thrilled for everyone who stuck by him when his gelding had plenty of hurdles…

Asfoora proves way too speedy in the Caulfield Sprint

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Asfoora ridden by Jye McNeil wins the The McCafe Sprint at Caulfield. (Photo by Reg Ryan/Racing Photos) Jye McNeil and Asfoora has managed to lead all the way to win the Group 2 Caulfield Sprint over 1000m, giving Asfoora her first Group win of her career. Asfoora led from barrier to finish post, beating the fast finishing Kallos and Generation. The Henry Dwyer trained mare jumped at $4.40 with online bookmakers and was never in any serious threat of losing the race as Jye McNeil gave her an outstanding front…

Renaissance Woman shows Oaks talent

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Renaissance Woman rocketed to the top of the market for the Gr.1 VRC Oaks (2500m) with a gutsy win in Saturday’s Gr.3 Ethereal Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield. The Bjorn Baker-trained filly came from near-last and over-came a bumping duel with the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained runner-up Foxy Cleopatra at the top of the straight, before registering the second win of her six-start career. Renaissance Woman, who started $5 second favourite, had three-quarters-of-a-length to spare over $4.80 favourite Foxy Cleopatra on the line with Pavitra ($6), who ran the field…

Times Ticking claims incident packed Hastings sprint

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A sustained closing burst carried veteran galloper Times Ticking to a fresh-up victory in an incident packed finish to the Gr.3 Red Badge Spring Sprint (1400m) at Hastings. The Alby MacGregor-trained seven-year-old hadn’t been seen since finishing third at the venue back in early July, however MacGregor had him in peak condition off the back of an easy trial win over 1000m at Foxton earlier in the month. In a race where numerous runners wanted to take advantage of being close to the pace, rider Opie Bosson sat back towards…

Mr Maestro lands Caulfield Classic

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Andrew Forsman sent out an early race to race double at Caulfield on Saturday as Mr Maestro reinforced his Derby credentials by landing the Gr.3 Caulfield Classic (2000m) a race after stablemate Saint Bathans had scored in BenchMark 80 company. A son of Savabeel, Mr Maestro made it three wins in succession with a dogged victory over the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained Muramasa. Ridden by Harry Coffey, Mr Maestro dropped back to the rear of the field from the jump before making a searching early run to wear down…

Specialty upsets in Ashburton feature

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Trainers Bruce Tapper and Varma Ramhit set the cat among the pigeons at Ashburton on Saturday when they produced lightly raced three-year-old Specialty to win the Gr.3 Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m). For good measure the combination also provided the quinella with stablemate Redmond however it was Specialty, a son of Rip Van Winkle, who claimed the major spoils at outside odds ($23) as he produced a powerful home straight burst to down a host of well performed contenders including race favourites One Kiss ($4) and Perfectly Suited ($2.60). Rider Brandon…

Front Page conquers The Kosciuszko

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Tyler Schiller celebrates aboard Front Page in The Kosciuszko It was third-time lucky for Geoff Duryea and Front Page in The Kosciuszko at Randwick, and how did he feel about it? “Bloody good”. Duryea’s gelding was an impressive winner in the $2 million sprint for top country horses, and it was a just reward for the short-distance star. In 2020, he was scratched after becoming fractious in the float enroute to Sydney. And last year, he had to be withdrawn a couple of days before the race after sustaining a…

2022 Chase For Charity | McAuley

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GRV Chair Peita Duncan today announced on SEN’s Off The Bench with Craig Hutchison and Liam Pickering the winner of the 2022 Chase For Chairty… McAuley. Sportsbet’s Barni Evans joined Peita Duncan to announce that Sportsbet will double the Chase for Charity donations for McAuley, Ronald McDonald House and Men’s Shed. McAuley – $21,342 ($10,671) Ronald McDonald House Charities – $17,336 ($8,668.52) Men’s Shed – $15,034.40 ($7,517.20) TOTAL donated – $53,712.40  greyhoundracingvic · Chase for Charity with Peita Duncan, Felicity Pringle and Barni Evans (15/10/22)

A very fine ride for A Very Fine Red in the Alinghi Stakes

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Joshua Parr returns to the mounting yard on A Very Fine Red after winning the Alinghi Stakes. (Photo by Brett Holburt/Racing Photos) A Very Fine Red has taken out the Listed Alinghi Stakes over 1100m, getting the better of Shalstar in a very tight photo and beating home Melba Storm who ran home nicely into third place. The money came for this Mark Newnham-trained mare as she was backed into be second favourite at $5 with online bookmakers before they jumped. Josh Parr has chalked up a double for the…