#Deep Field

Spanish Kiss (outside) is going to relish a mile and a half on Saturday. Picture: Vince Caligiuri -Getty Images Trainer Trent Busuttin is keen to see what talented import Spanish Kiss does when he steps out to a mile and a half at Sandown on Saturday. The son of Lope de Vega came to Australia with a bit of hype around him but hadn't delivered in…

It's the last day of summer, which means that the autumn is just one sleep away. South-East Queensland tracks continue to get hammered by rain and floodwater, a clash of the titans beckons down in Victoria, while seven years on from'the other Weir runner', we get stung by'the other Waller runner'. It's never good to see natural disasters take…

Game lines are courtesy of SI Sportsbook and may change after publication Point spread: Ohio State comes into the game as 8 point favorites against Michigan, according to the lines at SI Sportsbook. Total: 55.5 points Moneyline: Michigan+240 | Ohio State -333 Where Michigan is right now: The No.3 ranked Wolverines have passed every test and…

Bjorn Baker believes there is improvement left in Infatuation for the Magic Millions Classic in a fortnight and is also toying with the addition of some headgear on the Gold Coast after she scored her first win at Randwick on Saturday. Infatuation ($4.40) confirmed her top prizemoney seeding for the Magic Millions by breaking her maiden with a…

Paul Messara trains our best bet at Muswellbrook. Picture: AAP Image-Simon Bullard Excellent day of Showcase Country Racing at Muswellbrook with plenty of chances in most of the races. Muswellbrook Summary Best Bet: Race 7 (13) Ceasefire Next Best: Race 3 (1) Deep Expectation Value Bet: Race 1 (5) Forever Jude Race by Race Preview Race 1 SHOWCASE…

A Triple Crown sweep lies silent this year with Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike side-stepping Saturday's Preakness Stakes. But a trio of big-time talents make this year's middle jewel a fabulous, triple-threat race. Kentucky Derby runner-up and beaten favorite Epicenter was installed as the 6-5 morning-line favorite by Pimlico oddsmaker Keith…

We start group 3 Belle of the Turf day with a very competitive maiden for the boys at set weights on a surface that could settle closer to a good 3 with no rain in sight. Drawn to sit right behind the speed on debut, like Real Impact three-year-old 5. Bias who starts as a gelding. Given plenty of maturing time at the trials, the latest at the…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Mitch Cohen gives his best bets and runs the rule over every race for 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 4, No.4: PER INAWAY After racing without luck last time, this Kris…

Defending race champion Mishriff will once again take on a strong group of American shippers when he tops a field of 14 entered for Saturday's $20 million Saudi Cup at King Abdulaziz Racetrack. Mishriff is well proven on dirt, but has done all his recent running on the turf. Trained by John and Thady Gosden, the 5-year-old son of Make Believe has…

The Inglis Digital Online sales have been the platform for a number of bargain buys along the way, but with the growing popularity of digital sales, we are now seeing some big bucks spent at the auctions. In Part One, we take a look at the sale-toppers from January to June, not including those sold purely as broodmares. The list includes a host of…

Sandown Hillside will play host to a nine race meeting on Saturday. The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is in the true position for the entire circuit. WATCH LIVE RACING AT tab * Above offers may only be available to select customers.Back Me 3 Cantolago (Bet Now: $SP.00) on top. Team Hayes trains this daughter of Per Incanto,…

Ray Acevedo-USA TODAY Sports Breeders' Cup Juvenile offers a first look at potential runners for the Kentucky Derby 2023 Bob Baffert's Cave Rock looks like a solid favorite in the betting The Breeders' Cup is nearly upon us, as the world's very best racehorses descend on Keeneland for two days of high-quality Grade 1 action. The competitive races…

Flightline wins his third straight race in style in Sunday's Grade 1 Malibu at Santa Anita. Benoit photo, courtesy of Santa Anita Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Epicenter entered the Kentucky Derby picture with a handy win Sunday at Fair Grounds while a sparkling Opening Day program at Santa Anita featured a dazzling performance by budding superstar…

BUCKLE up and prepare for lift off as supersonic Flightline seeks equine immortality. The Breeders' Cup at Keeneland features Euro stars like Highfield Princess, Nashwa, Tuesday and Modern Games. But there is no doubt Flightline's date with destiny in the Classic is the talk of the town. I'm lucky enough to bring you all the interviews for the…

Sunday afternoon (27 Nov.) harness racing at Addington Raceway posed as a last-chance saloon for some of the budding juveniles hopeful of working their way into calculations for the upcoming Grand Prix Day at the same track this weekend. With entry qualifications based on stake money earnt, only the top 13 two-year-olds in each gait and sex will…

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…

1pt win Sacred in Breeders' Cup Mile at 25/1 (Sky Bet, Unibet) There have been 11 three-year-old winners of the Breeders' Cup Mile since its inaugural running in 1984, nine of which were trained in Europe. Four of those nine were fillies - namely Miesque, Ridgewood Pearl, Six Perfections and Goldikova - and in total (US and Euro-trained) the race…

Second last time to the highly regarded and unbeaten Smile Happy in the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club, Classic Causeway will look to begin his three-year-old season with his first stakes victory when he tops a deep lineup in Saturday's $250000 Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. A son of Giant's Causeway, Classic Causeway was an impressive…

Get ready, racing fans! As usual, the $2 million, Grade 1 Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff is shaping up to be among the most competitive and exciting races of the Nov. 6-7 Breeders' Cup World Championships at Keeneland. The expected field for the 1 1/8-mile event is stacked with elite fillies and mares - approximately eight Grade 1 winners and one…

Star Of Lady M reeled in long-time leader Primrose Ridge to get back to winning ways in the Hilary Needler Trophy Fillies' Conditions Stakes at Beverley. Winner of her first two starts at Redcar and Ripon, she failed to handle Chester's tight turns when odds-on for the Lily Agnes last time out. As a result she was able to be backed at 7-1 in what…

Since its inception, the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) has been the highlight of the season for two-year-old females. Here is a look at the race by the numbers. Those were Meadow Star's odds in the 1990 Juvenile Fillies. No horse had started at shorter odds, even as part of a joint entry, but Meadow Star was sent out at those odds after…

Already a three-time stakes winner this year, Hazelbrook is in search of another when she tops a field of nine in Saturday's Grade 2 Bessarabian Stakes, going seven furlongs on the all-weather track at Woodbine. Trained by Lorne Richards, the 4-year-old daughter of Bayern, has won four of five starts in 2022 which includes victories in the Grade 3…

There will be a touch of Royal Ascot at Sunday's Coonamble Showcase meeting thanks to in-form trainer James Ponsonby. The former harness racing identity takes three horses west from his base at The Oaks on Sydney's outskirts, one a former stablemate of Nature Strip, another a son of 2003 King's Stand Stakes and Golden Jubilee winner, Choisir. That…

It's hard to believe, but the Breeders Cup is in just three weeks. That leaves the stakes schedule a little light, as the best horses currently in the country have all run their prep races, and will be training up to the big event. Into this void, fortuitously enough, is the biggest day of the year for steeplechasers: the one-day Far Hills meeting…

Led by the unbeaten and highly regarded La Crete, a field of eleven 3-year-old fillies will look to prove worthy to remain on the Kentucky Oaks trail in Saturday's Grade 2 Rachel Alexandra Stakes at Fair Grounds. A very impressive debut winner at Churchill Downs, La Crete lived up to expectations last time in her stakes debut when she battled back…

Two of the crown jewels in the West Country racing calendar are combining for the first time this weekend - with a star-studded equine line-up helping the region take centre stage. The idea of creating the "double" was a Jockey Club initiative that has seen Exeter's Haldon Cup Day move from its traditional Tuesday slot to a Friday, joining it onto…

Streaking into her biggest test yet off four consecutive victories, Goodnight Olive looms the one to beat in a full field of 13 set for Saturday's $1 million Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) at Keeneland. A 4-year-old daughter of Ghostzapper, the Chad Brown-trained filly was an impressive winner of the Grade 1 Ballerina in her most recent…

The Breeders' Cup World Championships return to Kentucky this weekend, and fans will get a look at some of the top thoroughbreds from the United States and abroad. Keeneland will be hosting the Breeders' Cup for the third time after the event made its debut at the track in 2015 and returned in 2020. There are 14 races on the Breeders' Cup slate,…

It won't be long before Tuncurry mare Robarge is on the freeway to a Highway but not before she warms up in the Coastal Fire Protection Handicap (1200m) at Port Macquarie on Sunday. The Terry Evans trained four-year-old has quickly established herself as one of the most progressive mares on the state's mid-north coast with two wins and five…

A $1000000 purse and an automatic berth to the Breeders' Cup Turf are at stake Saturday, September 10 in the Kentucky Turf Cup (G2)! As with so many of Kentucky Downs's rich races, the Turf Cup drew an overflow field: 12 in the starting gate, plus one horse on the also-eligible list. Thanks to both the field size and the undulating, pear-shaped…

Coffs Harbour trainer Trevor Hardy didn't think he'd still be preparing to win races but Aheadofhistime has kept him in the game. The six-year-old runs in the Jacaranda Cup (1115m) at Grafton on Wednesday off a last start win at Port Macquarie so he's in the right shape to take out the feature on the NSW north coast. Hardy was nearly lost to racing…

In this biweekly series, racing analyst Keeler Johnson shares promising horses from his handicapping watch list, reviewing runners who have recently caught his eye and previewing horses scheduled to run back in the near future. Upcoming Entries Victorious in the Raven Run (G2) at Keeneland last fall, Caramel Swirl kicked off 2022 with a flashy 3…

Ohio State ATS: 4-2-1 Penn State ATS: 4-3 Over/under: 61 Moneyline: OSU -752, PSU+450 FPI pick: Ohio State 79.6% 1. A fast start. Both these teams have been good at getting their opponents out of sorts in the early part of games. Penn State has outscored teams 42-15 in the first quarter of matchups this season. Ohio State has blitzed the opposition…

Led by Red Knight, the winner of the 2020 edition, a loaded field of 16 older turf males have been entered in Friday's Grade 3 Sycamore Stakes at Keeneland. The 8-year-old gelding has been perfect so far in 2022 for trainer Mike Maker, with a pair of stakes wins at the same 1 1/2-mile distance he will see on Friday. Most recently, the stakes record…

A full field of 14 juvenile fillies will travel 1 1/16 miles over the Keeneland main surface in Friday's $500000 Alcibiades S. (G1). In addition to the lucrative purse in the affair, the winner will also receive an automatic entry to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies S. (G1) on the surface on Nov. 4. There are numerous contenders in the deep field…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Matt Jones gives his best bets and runs the rule over the Quaddie legs at Gosford and Armidale. 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.2: EDGE OF REWARD He's racing under new trainer…

The Grade 3 Iroquois Stakes, Saturday at Churchill Downs, represents the first points race for the 2022 Kentucky Derby. Continue reading to see how the experts are playing the race. Ron Flatter, Horse Racing Nation Winner: #9 Guntown On the board: #6 Stellar Tap Longshot I like: #7 Red Knobs Analysis: Guntown had a troubled debut but made up for it…

Our virtual trip around the international world of horse racing continues over the July 4-5 weekend with a bevy of important races in England and France. Four postponed classics are on the agenda, including the coveted Oaks and Derby in England, but the highlight of the weekend is undoubtedly the Coral-Eclipse Stakes, in which superstar Enable will…

The horses for the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby are listed in order of post position, with comments by Joe Drape and Melissa Hoppert of The New York Times. The morning-line odds were set by Mike Battaglia of Churchill Downs. (Note: International Star, who was to start from the No. 12 post, was scratched Saturday morning with a hoof issue.…

How many more tricks does the Magic Man have up his sleeve? Joao Moreira's health problems came back to haunt him at Happy Valley on Wednesday, when he was "stood down until further notice" after drawing a blank from eight rides including several well-backed favourites. The 38-year-old Brazilian had surgery on a troublesome left hip at home during…

A full field of twelve 3-year-olds, headed by the decisive winner of the local Sam F. Davis Stakes, Classic Causeway, will battle it out on the Kentucky Derby trail when they meet in the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby on Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs. A very impressive debut winner at Saratoga, Classic Causeway was bumped right up into graded stakes racing…

A pair of perfect 2-0 teams meet in Raleigh as NC State hosts Texas Tech in college football's Week 3 action on Saturday. NC State checks in at No. 16 in the latest top 25 rankings while Tech is coming off an 2-OT win over a formerly ranked Houston at home. Here's what you need to know about Saturday's matchup. When: Sat., Sept. 17 Time: 7 p.m.…

Link text An overflow field of juvenile fillies will seek a berth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) in Wednesday's $200000 Jessamine S. (G2) at Keeneland. The "Win and You're In" affair will be contested at 1 1/16 miles on the lawn and has attracted a fantastic field of good-looking prospects. While it is difficult to land on just a…

Saturday brings another Big Ten vs. Pac-12 matchup as No. 11 Michigan State goes out west against Washington in college football's Week 3 action. Both clubs are perfect through 2 games, but the Spartans had the advantage of being in the preseason top 25 rankings, whereas the Huskies did not. That could change with a win over the Big Ten visitors,…

Odds, point spreads for Week 3 college football games Week 3 of the schedule is here and the wise guys in Vegas have wasted no time updating the point spreads and betting lines for college football's top games. This week offers more non-conference games with major programs taking on more overmatched competition, but there are some intriguing…

Notre Dame has a tough draw to open 2022 by playing at Ohio State. We don't know if the Irish have an upset in them, but you better believe it would vault them even higher in the rankings than they already are. If there are any actual believers in the Irish for this contest, we'd be interested to know why because they sure aren't many. Let's look…

A pair of Big Ten rivals open up the 2022 college football season in a conference matchup as Penn State heads out to Purdue on Saturday. A pair of veteran quarterbacks lead both teams, with Sean Clifford back for Penn State and Aidan O'Connell starting again for Purdue, setting up what could be an exciting, more wide open game to kick things…

Two college football superpowers meet in the Horseshoe to open the 2022 season as Ohio State hosts Notre Dame in the Week 1 opener. Both teams come in ranked in the top five of the AP top 25 poll, with each hoping to use this game as a launching pad for an eventual College Football Playoff appearance. The winner gets a major leg-up in the playoff…

Racing at Doomben on The Ekka holiday always attracts plenty of spectators, and it should be no different this Wednesday with a sellout crowd expected. HorseBetting's Queensland racing analyst presents his best bets and quaddie selections for the program, which is scheduled to kick off at 1:08pm AEST. The track is rated a Soft 5 and the rail is out…