By Jonny Turner Rory McIlwrick will be out to continue his hot form in the sulky at Wyndham on Sunday, but whether he can do it might not be up to him. McIlwrick teams up with two horses that have a good amount of ability, but they have to be in the right mood to show it. Top Pocket Chance, who steps out in race 6, is known as a trotter with the capability of pulling off an upset when the mood strikes. The Craig Buchan trained sqauregaiter doesn’t bring…
Year: 2022
Scone races betting preview, top tips & quaddie picks | 7/11/22
What Scone Races Where Scone Race Club, 434 Bunnan Rd, Scone NSW 2337 When Monday, November 7, 2022 First Race 1:50pm AEDT Visit Ladbrokes We head to Scone Race Club to start our punting week on Monday afternoon for a seven-race program full of big fields and some competitive racing. We’ve got a Soft 6 track listed, but with some clearing weather prior to race-day we’re likely to be racing nearer to a Good 4 come the first, scheduled for 1:15pm AEDT. The rail is out +3m from the 800m…
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Picture perfect Topgun ‘Photo’
Photo Man completed an incredible Topgun double for reserves with an upset all-the-way victory in the $233,250 Group 1 Sportsbet Topgun (525m) at The Meadows on Saturday night. Trained by cousins Gavin Clifton and David McKenzie at Tynong North in Gippsland, Photo Man was selected as first reserve for the Topgun and was elevated into the field on Wednesday following the scratchings of interstaters Goods Odds Cash and Orchestrate. Earlier on the opening night of the inaugural Sportsbet Dream Chasers Festival, first reserve Moraine Suzie stormed home to take out…
Topgun ‘Suzie’ has “that loving feeling”
Jet-like Moraine Suzie flew home in ‘MiG’-like fashion to be “up there with the best of the best” in the Group 1 Sportsbet Topgun Stayers (730m) at The Meadows on Saturday night. Coming into the race as a reserve – due to the shock scratching of NSW ‘maverick’ Super Estrella ($1.50 pre-race favourite) – Moraine Suzie proved there are “no points for second place” with an F-16 display on opening night of the world’s richest inaugural $4.1m Dream Chasers Festival. And, in another first, the night’s G1 triple-header was broadcast live…
Snapper lands Flemington catch
Five-year-old gelding Snapper (NZ) (Power) capped a bumper day for Trans-Tasman trainer Michael Moroney when winning the $A150,000 World Horse Racing Grand Handicap (1100m), the final race of the Flemington carnival. The son of Power was another Kiwi bred sprinting success story down the straight course at headquarters, following Moroney’s earlier Group One triumph in the Champions Sprint (1200m) with Roch ‘N’ Horse (NZ) (Per Incanto). Like his Group One winning stablemate, Snapper is a graduate of Moroney’s Matamata stable which is headed by training partner Pam Gerard. Sent out…
Iffraaj mare makes short work of city win
Kiwi mare Short Shorts (NZ) (Iffraaj) recorded her first metropolitan Saturday victory when landing the Ranvet Handicap (1400m) at Rosehill on Saturday. The Brad Widdup-trained four-year-old daughter of Iffraaj was sent straight to the front by jockey Tom Sherry and never looked like getting beaten in the A$150,000 race, going on to score by three and a half lengths on a track that favoured those on speed. The chestnut mare has now won four races from ten starts, with a further three placings. Widdup’s wife Melissa races Short Shorts in…
Kiwi sprinter proves she’s the Champion
The Michael Moroney-trained Roch ‘N’ Horse has reiterated her class with a second Group One victory at Flemington when defeating Nature Strip in the A$3 million Darley Champions Sprint (1200m). The daughter of Per Incanto has hardly put a foot wrong since transferring across the Tasman earlier this year from Moroney’s Matamata stable, where he trains in partnership with Pam Gerard. Despite being a Group One performer in her homeland, Roch ‘N’ Horse was sent out a 100-1 outsider when she landed the Gr.1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) down the Flemington…
Deserved Group Two win for Atishu
Former Kiwi mare Atishu (NZ) (Savabeel) relished the good tempo in the Gr.2 Matriarch Stakes (2000m) to take out the feature mares’ race on the final day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival at Flemington. Sporting the silks of syndicators Go Racing, the five-year-old daughter of Savabeel had put the writing on the wall when finding the line well when fifth in last week’s Gr.1 Empire Rose Stakes (1600m). On the back of that performance, the Chris Waller-trained mare was sent out $2.50 favourite and punters had little to worry about…