Callsign Mav (NZ) (Atlante) now has some stiff competition for Jamie Mott’s favourite horse of the spring, but he gets the chance to cement his position at Cranbourne this Saturday. The ex-Kiwi gelding will be reunited with Mott in the $500,000 Listed Cranbourne Cup (1600m), seven days after the popular jockey logged his second elite-level success aboard Roch ‘N’ Horse (NZ) (Per Incanto) in the Gr.1 Champions Sprint at Flemington. Mott concedes the Danny O’Brien-trained six-year-old has been disappointing since they combined to win the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes, which…
Year: 2022
Share in champion mare Verry Elleegant for sale on Gavelhouse Plus
A significant share in champion racemare Verry Elleegant (NZ) (Zed) is set to be offered through online platform Gavelhouse Plus. With reluctance, Auckland businessman Tim Barry has made the decision to part with his 12.5 percent share in the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) winner and offer it to a global audience due to personal reasons. Barry joined Verry Elleegant’s ownership group following the second of two New Zealand wins that led to her relocation to Australia. Along with childhood friends and a group of New Zealand and Australian interests, over…
Homecoming for Vidiano
Pierro mare Vidiano has returned to her homeland after several years in Australia and will make her New Zealand debut in the CR Grace LTD Handicap (1600m) at Hastings on Sunday. Initially in the care of Cambridge trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman, Vidiano placed in both of her trials in New Zealand before her owners decided to send the filly to Peter Moody in Victoria. Vidiano showed good early promise and even competed at Group Three level. She had eight starts for the Pakenham horseman, including a win and…
Team Telfer – “we will lead”
By Michael Guerin Team Telfer are approaching a Group 1 double at Addington with the same attitude that is winning them the New Zealand trainers’ premiership. So expect take-no-prisoners tactics from their drivers in both the Airpark Canterbury $200,000 New Zealand Pacing Free-For-All and the Dunstan Horsefeeds $150,000 Sires’ Stakes Fillies Final at Addington on Friday. The brother and sister team of Steve and Amanda Telfer may be just seven weeks away from winning the trainers’ premiership for the first time, with a seven-win margin over the Dunns and the…
Morphettville betting preview & quaddie tips | November 12, 2022
What Morphettville Finals Day Where Morphettville Racecourse – 79 Morphett Rd, Morphettville SA 5043 When Saturday, November 12, 2022 First Race 12:17pm ACDT Visit Ladbrokes Racing returns to the Morphettville main track on Saturday for the club’s Finals Day, with all nine races on the card serving as the main event for horses have qualified throughout the year. The track is currently rated a Good 4, but there is rain on the forecast for Friday night and Saturday, so we may be on a deteriorating track come raceday. The rail…
Ascot full racing preview & quaddie tips | November 12, 2022
What WA Champions Fillies Day Where Ascot Racecourse When Saturday, November 12, 2022 First Race 12:28pm AWST Visit Ladbrokes The Western Australian Turf Club will host WA Champion Fillies Day at Ascot Racecourse on Saturday, with the highlight events being the Group 3 WA Champion Fillies Stakes and the Listed $500,000 Placid Ark Stakes. This is the first day of the newly named five-day event, The Pinnacles, for the Perth Summer Carnival. The track is currently rated a Good 4 and we expect it to stay in that rating until…
Stackhouse keen to end trip on a high
Fresh from a winning midweek double, Daniel Stackhouse will be hoping for further success at Riccarton on Saturday before he returns to Australia. The expatriate Kiwi jockey returned home for a fleeting visit to combine business with pleasure and in the former role will have 10 rides on the closing day of the New Zealand Cup carnival. “It’s been great to be home and get the monkey off the back and bang a couple of winners in and hopefully I can get some more on Saturday,” Stackhouse said. He is…
Green Light On | Episode 82 – The Meadows form plus Korie Heinrich
In this edition of Green Light On, James Van de Maat and Corey Smith examine Friday night’s Premier Racing at The Meadows. James also catches up with Korie Heinrich, a rising star in the training ranks. greyhoundracingvic · Green Light On – Episode 82 – The Meadows Friday 11/11 Don’t forget, you can listen to Green Light On every Thursday and Saturday on your favourite podcast app.
The Shootout: Armchair Guide
The inaugural $4.1 million world’s richest Sportsbet Dream Chasers Festival moves into ‘pistol-smoking’ mode at Sandown Park this Saturday night. Four sprinting ‘sharpshooters’, who have amassed a staggering $4,136,615 in prizemoney, will strive to be ‘fastest on the draw’ in the Group 3 Shootout (515m). In what is sure to be a fascinating face-off, the quartet is chasing a $50,000 ‘bounty’. The second, third and fourth placegetters ‘ride out of town’ with $7500 each. KEY TIMES 6:40pm First race 7:38pm First of eight Melbourne Cup preludes 8:00pm Race 5 (first…
The Stir Up – Shootout Edition
GRV’s Peter Quilty, Gerard Guthrie and Trent Langskaill provide their thoughts on some of the star greyhounds racing in Victoria. Keep an eye on these, they are worth saving in your WatchDog Blackbook! Quilts Fellas, Saturday night is set to be a Shootout for the ages. The four greyhounds in the Group 3 event have won over $4.1 million in prizemoney. Staggering! Gerard She’s A Pearl creates plenty of interest after breaking the all-time prizemoney record last start. How will she fare in her first race outside of New…