Year: 2022

Russian Emperor building for Jockey Club Cup

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Russian Emperor is a two-time Group 1 winner. Douglas Whyte expects Blake Shinn will experience familiar sensations of power and quality when the Australian returns to Sha Tin on Sunday (November 20) to partner Russian Emperor in the HKD$5 million Group 2 BOCHK Jockey Club Cup (2000m). Shinn last season partnered Hong Kong’s champion stayer to victory in the Group 1 Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup (2000m) and Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2400m) before departing for Australia. Pointing to Russian Emperor’s performance trend of improving markedly…

Vincent Ho cements International Jockeys’ Championship hopes with double

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Vincent Ho kicks off a double. Preparing to reunite with champion galloper Golden Sixty at Sha Tin on Sunday (November 20), Vincent Ho has almost certainly secured a coveted berth in the International Jockeys’ Championship (IJC) next month with a double at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (November 16). With three places still to be assigned in the star-studded 12-rider roster for the December 7 IJC – including one for Hong Kong’s leading home-grown jockey – Ho (18 wins) holds a commanding six-win lead over his closest fellow Hong Kong…

Today’s horse racing tips & best bets | November 18, 2022

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Horse Racing on Friday, November 18 will feature six 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 Moonee Valley. Friday Racing Tips – November 18, 2022 Moonee Valley 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 November 18, 2022 check…

Divas dispute Cup favouritism

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Wow She’s Fast has been displaced as favourite for the Group 1 Sportsbet Melbourne Cup, ahead of Saturday night’s star-studded heats at Sandown Park, despite a remarkable last-to-first victory in the Group 3 Shootout last weekend. The Victorian superstar overcame a poor start to win the four-greyhound Shootout in a scorching 29.28sec, her 16th win from 23 starts. “That’s the second time she’s stumbled off the mat at Sandown, the previous time was in the (G1) Sapphire Crown heats,” co-trainer Kel Greenough said. “I was thinking ‘What’s going on’. But…

Vale Alan Jones

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A key figure in the New Zealand standardbred breeding industry Alan Jones has died, just months shy of his 100th birthday. Set on 500 acres (200 hectares) in Balfour in Southland, Kina Craig Stud was set up by Alan Jones and son Ross in 1980 and carried on through to 2016. “For a while we would have been the second biggest stud in the country behind Nevele R,” says Ross Jones, “for the last 10 years we would have had around 200 foals a year. It was a big operation.”…

Abby May breaks three-year drought

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By Jonny Turner The little mare that could finally did, with Abby May breaking through for her first victory in three years at Winton yesterday. The evergreen and ever-consistent trotter was finally rewarded for the grit and determination she has shown since her last win at Wyndham in November of 2019 when she scored a front-running victory for trainer Lyndon Durham and driver Mark Hurrell. With only 29 starts to her name, Abby May looks to have plenty of opportunities in front of her despite being firmly placed in the…

Hot And Treacherous looks the goods in Auckland tonight

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By Michael Guerin Rarely does a pacer who has been unplaced in two of his last three starts look as good a thing as Hot And Treacherous does at Alexandra Park tonight. Because while driver Maurice McKendry is his conservative self when assessing his chances in tonight’s main pace, the reality is the four-year-old should be way too good for his opponents. Hot And Treacherous has two seconds and two well beaten runs in four starts this campaign but a closer look at his form reveals the huge class edge…

Carter makes presence felt in a different role at Karaka

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Morgan Carter is a familiar face around the Karaka sales complex and is most commonly seen with a gavel in his hand, but he made his mark in a different capacity on Thursday’s second day of the 2022 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale. Carter operates a bloodstock management business alongside his auctioneering role, and on Thursday he put in a winning bid of $520,000 for a Justify colt from the draft of Ohukia Lodge. Catalogued as Lot 249, the colt is out of the winning Foxwedge mare Santa…

Fireworks Closes Out Ready to Run Sale

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Tremendous results were achieved at the conclusion of New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2022 Ready to Run Sale, confirming the confidence buyers have in kiwi educated and prepared two-year-olds. The momentum increased off the back of Day One’s results, which saw a buoyant market strengthened throughout the second day of trading. “At the end of the first day I was satisfied, and at the end of Day Two I was ecstatic,” commented NZB Managing Director Andrew Seabrook. “Today we witnessed one of the greatest Ready to Run Sale days that I’ve ever…

House bookends Manawatu card

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By Joshua Smith, Harness News Desk Michael House continued his dominance at Manawatu Raceway on Thursday when posting another five-win haul, while his son Wilson House wasn’t to be outdone, bookending the seven-race meeting for the stable. The Canterbury junior reinsman kicked off the night in winning style for his father when making light work of Break Free’s 40m handicap in the Cartown Handicap Trot (2500m) to record a three-quarter of a length victory. “He did trot really well but went a bit rough coming into the straight, but that…