Will Carlton fans jump on this enticing AFL/Greyhounds sports offer? You Betts-cha! And if it gets up, they won’t be ‘singing the Blues’. TAB is offering $6.50 about Blues idol Eddie Betts kicking 2+ goals against the Dockers and the aptly named Run And Carry winning at Warragul greyhounds tonight. Betts has kicked 10 goals from nine matches this season – an average of 1.1 goals a game, with Carlton sitting 13th on the AFL ladder. Fremantle are 14th, with both teams on 16pts and only separated by a percentage…
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Spirit of ‘Ghosty’
‘Show stealer’ Catch The Thief was at his elusive best in a heat of the Group 3 Cranbourne Classic (520m) this afternoon. Trained at Briagolong by Matt Clark, Catch The Thief will now chase his third age-restricted group race final. He won the Group 2 WA Derby (520m) at Cannington in late May and the Group 3 Warragul St Leger (460m) last week. Engaged in Heat 1, Catch The Thief ($1.30F) jumped smartly from Box 6 and quickly turned the race into a procession leading all the way to defeat…
Whistling ‘Dixon’
May the ‘Brute’ force be with punters on this TAB cross-sports offer. The betting giant is offering $3.50 about key Port Adelaide forward Charlie Dixon kicking 2+ goals against the Geelong Cats tonight and the up-and-coming Brute placing at Geelong greyhounds. Dixon is equal third in the race for the Coleman Medal with 21 goals from 10 matches – an average of 2.1 goals per game. Port Adelaide (36pts) is the AFL ladder leader, with Geelong (28pts) third. Meanwhile, the Rebecca Gibbons-trained Brute – an all-the-way last-start winner at Warragul…
Javi to fend off Meadows rivals
Passionate Richmond fan Marlene Schmidt refers to her Meadows specialist Javi as ‘Dusty’ after superstar Dustin Martin and she’s hoping he can deliver a trademark don’t argue to his rivals when he returns to his favourite circuit on Saturday afternoon. Javi – kennel name Dusty – has an obvious love affair with The Meadows, with five of his six career victories coming at the track, and he’s TAB’s $3.60 favourite to boost that record in his heat of the Nestor/Schofield Memorial (race 3 at 4.10pm). “He grows a leg at…
Julius on track for Foxbridge Plate assignment
An eye-catching run at the Taupo trials last week has trainer John bell confident his stable star Julius is right on track for his first assignment of a new campaign. The lightly raced nine-year-old was slowly away in the 1100m trial but was seen to be making up good ground in the run home for regular rider Jason Waddell, finishing off strongly in behind eventual winner Avantage. Bell, who has the Gr.2 Valachi Downs Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa on September 5 set down as the first up target…
Saracino breaks long drought with stakes win in Perth
A three-year absence from the winners’ enclosure was ended in spectacular style on Saturday when ex-Kiwi galloper Saracino led all the way to take out the Listed Heineken-Belmont Newmarket (1200m) at Belmont. Originally prepared by Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman at Cambridge, Saracino had enjoyed spectacular success in the early stages of his career when finishing third in the Gr.1 Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) as a two-year-old before defeating the older horses in the Gr.2 Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa and then crossing the Tasman to win the…
Moseley collects winning treble at Riccarton
One of the elder statesman of the South Island jockey ranks was to the fore at Riccarton as he collected a winning treble and went within a whisker of tearing off the major prize on the day. Fifty three-year-old Terry Moseley is riding as well as he ever has in a career that stretches nearly fourty years in the saddle yet still finds plenty of satisfaction in days like he had on Saturday where he won three of the first four races on the card. Moseley kicked off his winning…
Crown Poker produces winning hand
The rise to stardom of last start Group 3 Warragul St Leger hero Catch The Thief has reminded Geoff Scott-Smith about the unique nature of greyhound racing and in particular the vagaries of breeding a topliner. Scott-Smith, who also won a feature event on the Warragul St Leger card with staying prospect Motor City Tiger careering away with the President’s Cup, has played his own behind-the-scenes role in Catch The Thief’s story, breeding his mother Dundee Ally. “Dundee Ally is out of a bitch called Crown Poker,” Scott-Smith explained. “I’ve…
WOOTTON BASSETT SALE WELCOME NEWS FOR CAMBRIDGE STUD
The arrival of Almanzor at Cambridge Stud on Friday in preparation for his third Southern Hemisphere breeding season coincided with a major announcement from Coolmore Stud overnight. Coolmore announced that they have purchased Almanzor’s sire Wootton Bassett from Haras d’Etreham and he will take up residence at the international powerhouse’s Irish base. The announcement of Wootton Bassett’s sale and departure for Coolmore vindicates the decision made by Cambridge Stud in 2018 to purchase the Southern Hemisphere rights to his best son, the European Champion three-year-old of 2016, Almanzor. At the…
AUDIO: Kenny Rae
Andrew Bensley talks to trainer Kenny Rae on Zoltan’s win at Riccarton on Saturday and Major Tom who lines up in the feature of the day, the Gr.3 Winter Cup.