#Country Championships

Tough as teak gelding Larynx will soon raise the baton on 50 starts and top $200000 in earnings but not before potentially adding the Cowra Cup (1280m) to his win tally at Orange on Sunday. Born and bred at Gooree, the son of the Mudgee nursery's Group 1 winning sprinter Your Song, is closing on his eighth win and/or 28th podium finish at his 48th…

Form analyst Mitch Cohen gives his best bets and runs the rule over the Quaddie legs at Ballina and Gosford. The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form, including video replays and all you need to know about every horse, jockey and trainer. Find a winner here! BEST BET Race 8, No.8: OLAKAU'ATU Won with a bit in hand at Coffs Harbour first-up.…

Colette confirmed herself as Australia's latest weight-for-age star by dominating the Apollo Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. The Apollo Stakes is a good horse's race with a winners list including Emancipation, Beau Zam, Red Anchor, Naturalism, Sunline, Lonhro and the mighty Winx. While not in that category yet, she proved she wasn't just a flash in…

Port Macquarie trainer Marc Quinn is hoping recent addition Auzstar can lay down a marker for a Country Championships tilt in 2023 when he travels south to Taree on Sunday. Auzstar will have just his third start for the Quinn yard in the AG Mowers Country Boosted Benchmark 66 Handicap (1250m). The son of star sire Zoustar has only been in Quinn's…

Form analyst Mitch Cohen gives his best bets and runs the rule over the Quaddie legs at Coonabarabran and Wagga. The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form, including video replays and all you need to know about every horse, jockey and trainer. Find a winner here! BEST BET Race 3, No.3: SEAHAVEN The Paul Messara-trained gelding is racing…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Shayne O'Cass gives his best bets and runs the rule over the Quaddie legs at Beaumont and Grafton. The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form, including video replays and all you need to know about every horse, jockey and trainer. Find a winner here! BEST BET Race 6, No.12: VELVET LADY A John Ramsey-trained…

The Championships is the grand finals of Australian racing - and over the next two weeks, we will see some of the world's best horses battling it out. Over two massive Saturdays at Royal Randwick, there will be a stunning EIGHT Group 1 races. The first day will be headlined by the $3 million Doncaster Mile and $2 million Australian Derby. The…

Sam Clipperton and Cavalier Charles (blue silks) win the Furphy Handicap at Rosehill. Picture: Jeremy Ng-Getty Images Cavalier Charles provided reason to reminisce about retired champ Happy Clapper after his determined win at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. The talented Cavalier Charles produced a stirring finishing sprint to catch Cotehele in…

Daily Telegraph Racing Editor Ray Thomas and form analyst Shayne O'Cass give their best bets for Canterbury and Port Macquarie. The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form, including video replays and all you need to know about every horse, jockey and trainer. Find a winner here! By Ray Thomas BEST BET Race 5, No.1: ITA Ita is a genuine mare…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Shayne O'Cass gives his best bets and runs the rule over every race for Scone. The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form, including video replays and all you need to know about every horse, jockey and trainer. Find a winner here! BEST BET Race 6, No.10: CASINO LORD Barnstorming Tamworth gelding who will relish a…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Shayne O'Cass gives his best bets at Wyong and Narromine and runs the rule over the Wyong meeting on Thursday. The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form, including video replays and all you need to know about every horse, jockey and trainer. Find a winner here! BEST BET Race 1 No.1: DIAMOND DRUMMER Has placed at…

Former champion Sydney apprentice and the state's reigning leader female rider by wins, Winona Costin, will make her first visit to Armidale on Sunday. Costin, a one-time apprentice to Bede Murray, Gai Waterhouse and Peter Snowden, has ridden more than 500 winners all over NSW, but until Sunday has never ridden at Armidale. Costin, not…

Best Bet: Race 2 No.4 THE IRISHMAN Best Value: Race 9 No.16 ROCK Quaddie Leg 1: 3,8,16 Leg 2: 1,2,3,5 Leg 3: 1,2,10,16,18,19,20,21 Leg 4: 3,6,17 The Championships are here! Randwick plays host to my favourite day of racing in Sydney and one of my favourite races of the year, the Group 1 Doncaster Mile. Rail true and a few showers during the week…

Selections based on a soft track. 1. Oriental Tycoon has another chance here with the opportunity to be right on the speed in a race that looks to lack obvious tempo. He was solid first-up then odds-on and couldn't quite pick them up at Hawkesbury. Entitled to go close with the make-up of this race. Dangers: 7. Gelsey made a handy debut at…

Eduardo is on target for the Group 1 T.J Smith Stakes. Picture: Grant Guy Trainer Joe Pride's powerful presence for The Championships including stable stars Eduardo, Private Eye, Brutality and Shalatin, could provide him with a historic Group 1 treble at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Pride's done his job. His talented quartet are primed and ready but…

There will be no Winx or Verry Elleegant racing at Coonamble on Sunday but both of their riders will be there. Hugh Bowman and James McDonald, who together have won eight Sydney jockeys premiership titles and 161 Group 1s between them, are both honoured guests of the Coonamble Jockey Club on WRC Country Championships Qualifier day. Bowman's visit…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Matt Jones gives his best bets and runs the rule over the Quaddie legs at Wyong and Narromine. The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form, including video replays and all you need to know about every horse, jockey and trainer. Find a winner here! BEST BET Race 5, No.3: DUKE OF GORDON The John O'Shea-trained gelding…

Bathurst horseman Roy McCabe believes if there is going to be an upset in the CDRA Country Championships Qualifier at Mudgee, it will be from one of his two runners. Fellow Bathurst trainer Gayna Williams has three runners including favourite Zoo Station and second elect Tags, but McCabe feels he can spring a surprise with The Drover or Know Where…

John O'Shea could win two of the biggest prizes in Australian racing within an hour of each other on Saturday as Lost And Running looks for Everest glory before Maximal and Benaud chase the Caulfield Cup. There is a calmness around O'Shea leading into a week when he will have to split his time between Sydney and Melbourne. It comes from a…

If Ambitious Prince is able to win his way through to the inaugural The Big Dance via Tuesday's Lismore Cup at Grafton, it will be a fitting last waltz for his trainer Warren Gavenlock. The popular Coffs Harbour-based horseman can see the winning post as he prepares to call time on his long career as a trainer. "I will probably be finished by next…

Andrew Adkins is the jockey to follow at Bathurst on Monday. Picture: AAP Image-Mark Evans Young trainer Will Freedman will be looking to take another step towards the Country Championships when he lines up Ang Pow at Bathurst on Monday. BEST BET Race 6 No. 2: Ang Pow Boom horse and for good reason. Currently $17 to win the Country Championships…