Year: 2022

Sight Success chases limelight in Hong Kong Sprint

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Sight Success is a sharp sprinter for trainer John Size. Overshadowed by Hong Kong’s glamour sprinters, Sight Success could emerge as the surprise packet in the HK$24 million Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (December 11) after justifying his claims in key preliminary races through this season and last. Having finished runner-up in last term’s Group 2 Sprint Cup (1200m) and Group 3 Bauhinia Sprint Trophy Handicap (1000m), Sight Success laid down markers to suggest he was capable of capturing a big scalp, especially after…

Wiseman, Crich at the double in Darwin

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Star NT jockey Sonja Wiseman was one of two riders to finish with a brace of winners at Fannie Bay on Saturday. Sonja Wiseman and Phillip Crich were the standout performers during the Darwin meeting at Fannie Bay on Saturday, riding two winners apiece. Wiseman (15) subsequently leapfrogged Jarrod Todd (14), the champion jockey in the Top End for the past three years, as the leading rider for the 2022/23 season. Todd missed the meeting because of suspension, with Wiseman and Todd holding a big lead over the injured Paul…

Change of favourite for ID Trotting Final

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By Adam Hamilton Former Kiwi pair Queen Elida and Mufasa Metro head the betting as the Inter Dominion final took another dramatic twist at last night’s barrier draw. With the shock scratching of Kiwi superstar Bolt For Brilliance still sinking in, the trotter who replaced him as favourite, Just Believe, drew horribly for the final in barrier 12. He drifted from $2.50 to $5.50. Interestingly, there was an avalanche of money for Brent Lilley’s star mare Queen Elida after she drew inside the back row (gate eight) in the 2760m…

Tsaikos finds his groove with Alice Springs treble

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Darwin-based jockey Stan Tsaikos returned to form with three winners at Pioneer Park on Saturday. It has been a relatively slow start to the 2022/23 Alice Springs racing season for Stan Tsaikos, but the Darwin-based jockey hit back in style on Sunday with a winning treble. Tsaikos, the champion jockey in the Red Centre for the past two seasons, won the opening two races on the six-event program before taking out the feature race at the end of the day. Lisa Whittle’s five-year-old gelding Love To Love ($8) got the…

Today’s horse racing tips & best bets | December 6, 2022

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Horse Racing on Tuesday, December 6 will feature four 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 Bathurst. Tuesday Racing Tips – December 6, 2022 Bathurst 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 December 6, 2022 check out our…

Australia beckoning Arabian Blue

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By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk Australia is beckoning Canterbury pacer Arabian Blue, but trainer Steve Dolan is hoping that he can eke out a few more wins from the four-year-old gelding before he heads across the Tasman. En route to Auckland, the son of Auckland Reactor is making a pitstop at Manawatu Raceway on Tuesday where he will contest the T Market Fresh Mobile Pace (2000m). It is a big drop in grade for the gelding and Dolan is expecting a positive result from the meeting. “He will be…

Breakthrough success for big money filly

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A big money purchase at the yearling sales, Moet Shard has earned herself a Christmas break after winning her first race at Motukarara on Saturday. The Bettor’s Delight three-year-old benefited from a copybook Jim Curtin drive to take out the Rob Harneiss Thelma Memorial Fillies and Mares Mobile Pace. “Jimmy’s been great with the horse,” says trainer Jeff Whittaker, “she’s learning a lot about what it is to be a race horse … specially in the last four to six weeks.” With favourite Jezebel breaking early Moet Shard went to…

Australasian Young Drivers kicks off this week

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Harness racing’s big trans-Tasman showdown for the young guns kicks off at Melton just outside Melbourne on Tuesday. Three Kiwis – Sarah O’Reilly, Crystal Hackett and Sam Thornley – will battle it out with six of their Australian rivals in the Australasian Young Drivers’ Championship (Profiles for each NZ driver here) There will be nine heats spread across four meetings, and is held in conjunction with the Inter Dominions, that finish up this Saturday at Melton. Cameron Hart spearheads the Australian contingent while O’Reilly is the official defending champion. She…

Pure power and strength from brilliant Akuta

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By Jonny Turner Akuta treated harness racing fans to the ultimate display of power and brute strength when brilliantly winning the Group One New Zealand Derby on Grand Prix Day at Addington. Settling many lengths off a hot tempo mattered little to the brilliant three-year-old who put away a brave Republican Party in an epic running of the three-year-old colts and geldings classic. Akuta’s backers faced the sight of the New Zealand Cup fourth placegetter settling many lengths off a hot early pace set up by an early lead battle…

Shiny new trophy for Manawatu Cup

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For years Royden Williams photographed literally thousands of presentations to winning connections, especially around the Central Districts. Now he’s about to change things up. He’s bought a glass trophy from a specialist outlet in Florida which will be gifted to the winning owners of the Manawatu Cup at Palmerston North this Thursday, December 8. Why? Because it’s a race he’s particularly fond of. “The stake money for the Manawatu Cup is not much more than an average Friday night at Alexandra Park but to us in the CD it’s a…