Horse Racing: Newmarket Handicap

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This weekend at Flemington, Mark Walker's champion mare Imperatriz will attempt to etch her name further into racing history by winning the 2024 Newmarket Handicap. The nine-time Group 1 winner, a daughter of I Am Invincible, will carry the top weight of 58kg in the prestigious $1.5 million sprint race over 1200m. Imperatriz kicked off her campaign…

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We have expert horse racing tips for the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on Saturday, which features the likes Imperatriz and Buenos Noches. We have a runner-by-runner betting guide available for the Newmarket Handicap, which runs at 3:05 pm. Best Bet: #1 Imperatriz @ $2.50 Best Each Way: #3 Buenos Noches @ $4.80 Best Roughie: #14 Cylinder…

Trainer Matthew Smith is radiating confidence in Buenos Noches, aiming to transform its consistent runner-up status into a victory at the prestigious Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington. After a seventh-place finish in the same race last year and notable performances in other sprints, Buenos Noches is seen as a strong contender this…

News Corp form analyst Brad Waters takes an early look at Saturday's Group 1 Newmarket Handicap at Flemington. BEST BET FOXY FRIDA (Race 8, No. 1) The classy mare looked to need the run but hit the line well when resuming. She'll be much fitter for that and has a strong second-up record. VALUE BET VIBRANT SUN (Race 3, No. 13) Vibrant Sun is a…

Espiona will return to Sydney for the Group 1 Canterbury Stakes this weekend. Picture: Jeremy Ng/Getty Images Brilliant mare Espiona will return to Sydney and take on The Everest winner Think About It in Saturday's Group 1 $750000 Canterbury Stakes (1300m) at Royal Randwick. Trainer Chris Waller accepted in the Randwick sprint as well as the Group…

A trip to Flemington for a jump-out consisting of horses in the Newmarket Handicap provided Magic Time with the ideal lead-up to the Group 1 handicap. Trainer Grahame Begg took advantage of giving Magic Time a look at the straight 1200m course over which the mare will race first-up on Saturday. Magic Time finished fourth in the 800m jump-out last…

When New Zealand trainer Chad Ormsby sold Master Fay to Hong Kong, he was expecting the horse to potentially develop into a champion sprinter. Ormsby was over the moon when Master Fay scored at his Hong Kong debut on New Year's Day in 2021 and was eagerly awaiting to see when the gelding would next appear. Unfortunately, that day did not eventuate…

New Zealand trainer Chad Ormsby has set his sights high as he prepares his sprinter, Master Fay, for the prestigious Group 1 Newmarket Handicap at Flemington. With a blend of anticipation and confidence, Ormsby believes Master Fay, a horse with a mere three races under its belt, has the raw ability to contend among Australia's sprinting elite.…

Champion Kiwi mare Imperatriz is set to shoulder 58kg as she vies for her 10th Group 1 triumph in Saturday's $1.5 million Newmarket Handicap (1200m). With weights unveiled Monday evening, Imperatriz leads the pack in her bid for glory. Notable contenders include Buenos Noches (55.5kg), Bella Nipotina (55.5kg), Private Eye (58kg), Espiona (54.5kg),…

As the racing world turns its eyes towards the prestigious $1.5 million Newmarket Handicap at Flemington, trainer Chris Waller is caught in a strategic decision-making process for his talented mare, Espiona. With the weights announcement imminent, Waller's choice between the Newmarket Handicap and the Group 1 Canterbury Stakes in Sydney will…

Available soon. The Newmarket Handicap is one of the most prestigious horse races in Australia, held annually at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Victoria. This race is a Group 1 handicap race for open class sprinters and is run over a distance of 1200 metres. The race was first run in 1874, and since then, it has been an important fixture on…

Will Imperatriz (right), Private Eye (middle) and Espiona (left) renew acquaintances in the Newmarket Handicap? Imperatriz, as expected, will have to carry 58kg in her bid to win Saturday's $1.5 million Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m). Weights were released on Monday evening, and the champion Kiwi mare will carry the top weight as she aims to…

Flemington gears up for the prestigious Group 1 Newmarket Handicap, featuring a top-tier lineup including Imperatriz, Private Eye, and Bella Nipotina. Notable jockeys Damian Lane, Jamie Kah, and Mick Dee are set to pilot Ruthless Dame, Cylinder, and Magic Time, respectively. Despite the caliber of contenders, a full field isn't expected perhaps…

The Te Akau racing team has officially announced that the next challenge for their star mare, Imperatriz, will be the prestigious Newmarket Handicap. The nine-time Group 1 victor, who was a top contender for the Canterbury Stakes in Sydney, will instead showcase her talent in Melbourne. William Reid Stakes at The Valley, with aspirations to…

The three-year-olds dominated the Newmarket Handicap 2023 results at Flemington on Saturday with Godolphin's gun filly In Secret defeating Lofty Strike in the 150th edition of the famous sprint. The James Cummings -trained daughter of I Am Invincible became the first filly to win the Group 1 $1.5 million Newmarket Handicap (1200m) since Sunlight…

The Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield is one of the toughest sprint races run in Australia with the pressure on from the outset. The 1100m Group 1 sprint on Saturday is a race Peter and Paul Snowden have won previously with Russian Revolution and the Sydney trainers are back again with three-year-old King's Gambit. The Oakleigh Plate has been the…

In Secret wins the Light Fingers Stakes at Randwick in 2023. Picture: Bradley Photos Two-time Group 1-winning sprinter In Secret has been ruled out of the Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning Stakes (1000m) on February 17. The winner of last year's Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m), In Secret will bypass the $1 million sprint after the James Cummings…

Valuable colt I Am Unstoppable will trial against Group 1 performers Imperatriz and Bella Nipotina at Cranbourne on Monday. Picture: Racing Photos via Getty Images. A trial at Cranbourne on Monday will give trainers Lloyd Kennewell and Lucy Yeomans a glimpse of where they stand with valuable colt I Am Unstoppable leading in Saturday week's Group 1…

Big day of racing around the country wit four Group 1 events set to take place and there's been a stack of support for the favourite in the feature at Flemington. The punters are backing three-year-old filly September Run in the Newmarket Handicap with multiple five figure bets while smart juvenile Profiteer is best backed in the Todman Stakes…

Swats That will have another crack at a Group 1 in Saturday's Newmarket Handicap at Flemington. Picture: Racing Photos via Getty Images. Smart mare Swats That will have a new jockey for her latest crack at a Group 1 win in Saturday's Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington. Damien Oliver rode the Leon and Troy Corstens-trained four-year-old when…

Uncommon James will be set for the Oakleigh Plate prior to the Newmarket Handicap. Picture: Vince Caligiuri-Getty Images Excitement machine Uncommon James is back in work and gearing up for a Melbourne campaign that will feature appearances in the Oakleigh Plate and Newmarket Handicap. The Queensland star set tongues wagging in the early part of…

A different venue and more accomplished set of rivals posed no problem for Imperatriz, who completed an unbeaten Victorian spring campaign in Saturday's Champions Sprint at Flemington. The flying Kiwi mare took her career Group 1 tally to eight when she held off The Everest runners Buenos Noches and In Secret to win the $3 million event. The…

Cylinder is looking to repeat the effort of Yes Yes Yes in 2019 and become the second three-year-old to win The Everest. Picture: Grant Guy Godolphin has shaken up the formula with trainer James Cummings relying on untapped potential and proven class to deliver the racing and breeding powerhouse a maiden $20m TAB Everest (1200m) this Saturday at…

Katherine Coleman accepted the trophy on behalf of Peter Moody after Sigh's Group 3 win at Caulfield on Saturday, but there is a chance she could play an even more prominent role in a bigger win later in the year. Moody and Coleman have applied to Racing Victoria to form a training partnership before the start of the 2023/24 racing season on August…

Dean Holland was remembered as beautiful, loving, cheeky, funny, energetic, fearless and competitive at a moving funeral service at Flemington racecourse on Monday afternoon. A huge crowd turned out at the scene of Holland's biggest success to farewell the popular jockey who died, aged 34, from injuries suffered in a race fall at Donald on April…

The lone filly in the Newmarket Handicap In Secret has taken out the Group 1 feature at Flemington on Super Saturday, with Dean Holland picking up the ride to win his second Group 1 of his career. With Jamie Kah being involved in the fall earlier in the program, James Cummings and the Godolphin team were tasked with finding a replacement jockey for…

Sam Clipperton, left, will ride Mazu for the 12th time this weekend for Peter and Paul Snowden. Picture Getty Images Top class Sydney sprinter Mazu gets his chance to win one of Melbourne's sprinting features in Saturday's $1.5 million group one Newmarket Handicap at Flemington. Mazu makes his Victorian debut against 15 rivals in the 1200 metre…

Asfoora came up less than a length short in her quest for a maiden Group 1 in last month's Oakleigh Plate, but Henry Dwyer is optimistic she can go a couple of spots better in this Saturday's The Galaxy. The daughter of Flying Artie will be one of the leading fancies for the $1 million Group 1 handicap over 1100 metres at Rosehill. Asfoora will…

Form experts are looking to the bottom of the weight scale for the winner of Saturday's $1.5 million Group 1 Newmarket Handicap at Flemington. James Cummings' star filly In Secret will carry 51.5kg in the 1200m sprint down the Flemington straight and firmed this week into $4.20 favourite with Betr. She has replaced Peter Moody's Kiwi import I Wish…

Will the Newmarket Handicap winner come out of Coolangatta's Lightning Stakes win? Vince Caligiuri - Getty Images Newmarket Handicap and Coolmore Classic day is one of the great days on the Australian racing calendar. Take advantage of our special $1 joining offer for Racenet iQ to unlock all the bells and whistles on Racenet. To ensure you keep up…

In Secret has provided Dean Holland with his biggest victory, taking out the Newmarket Handicap. Win, lose or draw, Dean Holland wanted to keep his emotions in check having landed the ride on In Secret in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington. Holland picked up the ride in Saturday's Group 11200m sprint after Jamie Kah was transferred to Royal…

James Cummings and Godolphin have seen what a three-year-old filly can do when they line up in the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap. The Tony McEvoy-trained Sunlight defeated Godolphin galloper Osborne Bulls in the 1200m sprint down the Flemington straight in 2019. This time around the shoe is on the other foot, with Cummings and Godolphin having the…

The autumn carnival is in full swing and Australia's best racehorses are lighting up the turf. Saturday's Newmarket Handicap at Flemington and the Coolmore Classic at Rosehill are classic Group 1 races. Today, join thousands of others and become a Racenet iQ member for only $1 for the first two months (that's only 50c a month for the first two…

Some of the world's best sprinters will descend on Flemington's famous'Straight Six' on Saturday for the 2023 Newmarket Handicap. Won by countless stars of the turf throughout its storied existence, the Newmarket Handicap has also almost always been a terrific betting race, and this year's edition doesn't look like being any exception. I've run the…

Let us start this week's edition of Payney's Punt with an apology. We owe Zac Standish one after we knocked him a fortnight ago ahead of Blue Diamond Stakes Day. Young Standish, who is a real numbers man, has been in red-hot form in our new segment Giddy up with Punter. The Adelaide export is 4-4 with his best bets and value bets and one keen eye…

The 2023 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) shapes up as a cracking contest with so many elite straight track sprinters entered on a great day of racing. Roch'N' Horse ($21) tries to go back to back but will find some red hot speedsters in his way such as Golden Eagle winner I Wish I Win ($3.20), the minor placegetters from The Everest in Private Eye ($6)…

Peter Moody has ruled out running I Wish I Win in the All-Star Mile preferring to keep the gelding for sprint races at Flemington. I Wish I Win sits on the third line of betting for the All-Star Mile, but Moody has the Group 1 sprint double of the Lightning Stakes (1000m) and Newmarket Handicap (1200m) in mind for the gelding he part-owns with New…

Kiwi superstar Levante is set to have another crack at group 1 glory on Australian shores this year. The six-year-old daughter of Proisir was seen twice in Melbourne throughout 2022, running fourth in both the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap and Champions Sprint - both won by fellow Kiwi star Roch'N' Horse. Trainer Ken Kelso has set Levante on a carbon…

Trainer Scott Brunton will walk onto the track for the Tasmanian Racing Club meeting in Hobart today in the sure knowledge that he will train the winner in the $125000 Tasmanian Stakes … even though the race is only due to go off at 4.47pm local time. In an extraordinary turn of events Brunton will saddle all four runners in the Listed event with…

Apprentice Josh Richards has one key luxury in his favour ahead of his maiden Group 1 ride in Saturday's Newmarket Handicap at Flemington. Richards will ride the Danny O'Brien-trained Finance Tycoon at 50.5kg in the $1.5m sprint. Most of his colleagues would need to spend hours training to shed weight to ride at the unusually light weight. But…

Promising sprinter Asfoora has been installed as a $6 favourite for the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) and trainer Henry Dwyer believes she won't get a better chance to break through at the top level. A six-time winner from just eight starts, Asfoora heads TAB's Pre Noms market from last year's victor Marabi at $8. "She'll likely get around 53kg…

Asfoora wins the The McCafe Sprint at Caulfield. Picture: Reg Ryan-Racing Photos via Getty Images Promising sprinter Asfoora has been installed as a $6 favourite for the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) and trainer Henry Dwyer believes she won't get a better chance to break through at the top level. A six-time winner from just eight starts, Asfoora…

Bookmaker TAB have released their fixed odds markets for a host of Melbourne feature races over the summer and autumn period. Identifying value in these markets is harder than it used to be - shrinking market percentages being the main reason - but below is our suggested $100 spend across four of the Group 1s. *Bets in chronological order BLUE…

Trainer Julius Sandhu has his quality three-year-old Lofty Strike back in work with two of Victoria's big sprints races on his radar. The Group 1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield in February and the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington are high on Sandhu's agenda. After going through his two-year-old year undefeated which culminated…

Connections of TABtouch-Gold Rush (1400m) winner The Astrologist want to get the star galloper back to Perth for April's Quokka (1200m) at Ascot. The Astrologist ensured he wouldn't leave Perth empty handed by winning Saturday's $1.5 million feature, following his unplaced effort in last month's Winterbottom Stakes (1200m). With the TABtouch-Gold…

Chris Waller says there may need to be a rematch between Home Affairs and Nature Strip after the stablemates ran the quinella in the Group 1 Lightning Stakes at Flemington. Home Affairs ($7.50) under James Mcdonald held-off the $2.20 favourite Nature Strip (Jamie Kah) by a short-half-head at the end of the 1000m dash with Eduardo ($3.80) a further…

As has been expected for a few weeks, September Run is a short priced elect with Sportsbet.com.au for the Newmarket Handicap (1200m) this Saturday at Flemington. The three year old filly out on the writing on the wall with a slashing return in the Lightning when second to Nature Strip and up to 1200m, down in the weights, clearly looks the one to…