#Jason Collett

Metropolitan racing heads to Rosehill Gardens on Saturday afternoon for a competitive 10-race program. We should be racing on a Good 4 surface throughout the afternoon with very minimal rain forecast in the lead up to raceday. The rail moves out+5m for the entire circuit and should be playing fair throughout the day, as it did last weekend when we…

Brilliant mare I Am Me has burst onto the radar of The Everest slot-holders after blitzing her rivals at Royal Randwick last Saturday. I Am Me scored her third win in as many starts this preparation - and improved her overall race record to six wins from 11 starts - when she blazed home in 1m 7.77s for the 1200m course. There was a strong tailwind…

Trainer Cherie Curtis has come to expect her stable's snub from the bookies. The latest example is with their grey mare Bacio Del Mist, rated a $34 for the NJT Supports Jockeys Handicap (2000m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Certainly, there are some in-form stayers in the field including $2.80 favourite Secret Glamour, Worthily ($3.50), Zoumon…

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…

Jason Collett is the only senior jockey currently in the Sydney top 10 rankings this season riding at the Group 3 $200,00 Summer Cup meeting at Royal Randwick on Boxing Day. Therefore, it is not surprising the talented Collett has a full book of eight rides including Diamil in the feature race. Sydney's reigning premier jockey James McDonald, Tim…

Selections based on a good track. 1. California Press was solid last start in a high-rating race at this track which has since produced a subsequent winner. Further, the gelding found the line well and ran one of the fastest final 600m splits of the meeting in 33.44. The Snowden galloper must contend with a tricky draw, but the anticipated genuine…

Form analyst Clinton Payne runs the rule over Thursday's card at Hawkesbury. BEST BET Race 5 No.2: LUNA ROCKS Looks the perfect race for her to kick off the campaign in. Classy filly that will win better races than this. The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form, including video replays and all you need to know about every horse, jockey and…

Jason Collett rides El Padrino (right) to victory in the Inglis Nursery at Randwick. Picture: Getty Images Trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace are aiming El Padrino and the luckless Boldinho at the Golden Slipper - but they still have to catch brilliant stablemate Coolangatta. The Maher-Eustace stable claimed their second successive…

Huetor will make his comeback in the Group 2 $2m The Ingham while connections of Nugget and Dajraan are sweating on a start in the rich Royal Randwick mile next Saturday. The Ingham, formerly known as the Villiers Stakes, is likely to attract a very strong field requiring a rating close to 100 at least to be guaranteed a start. This leaves boom…

Kote has led all the way in the Listed Brian Crowley Stakes (1200m) at Royal Randwick to claim his first Stakes victory for Anthony Cummings. The progressive three-year-old is building a nice record and was coming off a dominant front running win in a 1200m Benchmark 72 Midway at Randwick on October 8. A drift in betting saw Kote step out today as…

The Golden Slipper is the crown jewel of the Sydney Autumn Carnival, and we will be treated to another exciting edition of the world's richest two-year-old race this Saturday at Rosehill. The $5 million feature has attracted some of the top juveniles from around the country, including Ciaron Maher and David Eustace's undefeated filly Coolangatta,…

The Flemington finale takes place at 4am UK time, so it will be an early start for punters looking to kick start their Tuesday with a winner. But it's a British raider who could reward bettors with James Ferguson's Deauville Legend heading the betting. Who does Sun Racing tipster Templegate fancy for the big one though? Read on for his tip below…

Another weekend, another A$1 million race in New South Wales. For the ninth weekend in a row, there's a seven-figure race in Australia's most populous state; this time it's The Gong, a handicap over about a mile at Kembla Grange, near Wollongong, south of Sydney. TwinSpires' Rest of the World Bet Back offer, where those who opt in can get up to $10…

The finish of the Premiere Stakes proved champion Nature Strip will have some real competition for the $15m The TAB Everest in a fortnight. Lost And Running narrowly defeated Mazu and Masked Crusader with the trio showing they will be worthy rivals to Nature Strip in the world's richest turf race at Royal Randwick on October 15. Throw spectacular…

Go on, ask yourself the question. "What just happened?" "Did that thing just show us that the upcoming Gr 1 Golden Slipper could be won by an as yet raced juvenile?" Couldn't be. No 2YO wins the Slipper having not started by late January. That's not how the system works. God, or the universe, or both conspiring, considering God created the damn…

Gary Portelli's sliding doors moment came as Clarry Conners was singing "New York, New York" on the dance floor. Conners had just won his fourth Golden Slipper with Belle Du Jour and invited Portelli to join the celebrations that night. The year was 2000 and as Conners was doing his best Frank Sinatra impersonation, Portelli realised what he needed…

The winter carnival reaches its zenith with Stradbroke day at Eagle Farm and with the track playing fairly all horses will get their chance. Recent history shows that with the rail out four metres they can come from anywhere to win but on big days staying with top riders and trainers is usually profitable. Race 1- Oxlade Stakes (Two-Years-Old…

Trainer Gary Portelli says there is a bit of "deja vu with She Will Reign" about brilliant colt Sejardan going into the $5m Golden Slipper in two weeks. "When you've got one of the best two-year-olds, you can do different things with those horses,'' Portelli said. "What Sejardan has done today shows me he is the real deal. He is still a bit…

With the new racing season underway we've put it to our stable of experts to lay their reputations on the line and hand out some predictions for the next 12 months, including their early selections for The Everest and Melbourne Cup plus what's the next'big thing' we've got to look forward to. THE NEXT BIG THING RAY THOMAS - Dylan Gibbons: The son…

The results for the 2022 Melbourne Cup are in with the punters' favourite - Gold Trip - storming to victory. 1. Gold Trip (FR) 2. Emissary (GB) 3. High Emocean (NZ) 4. Deauville Legend 5. Realm of Flowers 6. Daqiansweet Junior 7. Smokin' Romans 8. Stockman 9. Knights Order 10. Vow and Declare 11. Arapaho 12. Hoo Ya Mal 13. Without A Fight 14. Grand…

Former Hawke's Bay jockey Michael Dee and Durston, winners of the Caulfield Cup on October 15. Now he goes for the double, booked for Lunar Flare in Tuesday's Melbourne Cup. Photo / Getty Images Hawke's Bay could hold two of New Zealand's more significant hopes in the 2022 Melbourne Cup, the three minutes and 20 seconds gallop that stops two…

Caulfield Cup favourite Smokin' Romans has drawn barrier five. Picture: George Sal-Racing Photos via Getty Images Jamie Kah's Caulfield Cup mount Smokin' Romans has drawn perfectly for Saturday's $5m Group 1 to comfortably hold favouritism. Smokin' Romans leapt to the top of Caulfield Cup betting after his last-start win in the Group 1 Turnbull…

AS one The Everest champion prepares to take on the world, another is about to resume trackwork after injury. Nature Strip, winner of The Everest last year and the number one ranked sprinter in the world, has arrived in England to prepare for the Group 1 King's Stand Stakes (1000m) at Royal Ascot on June 14. But back in Sydney, the "grey flash"…

Warwick Farm plays host to seven metropolitan races on Wednesday afternoon. HorseBetting's New South Wales racing analyst presents you with his best bets, value bet and quaddie numbers for the meeting, which is scheduled to get underway at 12:50pm AEST. The track is rated a Heavy 10 and the rail is in the true position for the entire course. Call…

The Chris Waller numbers continue to astound as the master trainer fell just short of $50m in prizemoney with 352 winners while the Wizard of the West headed east to put his wares on show landing 189 winners to be the most prolific jockey in the land. James McDonald kisses the Melbourne Cup. Picture: Quinn Rooney-Getty Images THE NATIONAL HONOUR…

The most improved horse among Australian staying ranks has finally received a ringing Caulfield Cup endorsement from his stable as Smokin' Romans bids for one of the spring's signature races. Master trainer Ciaron Maher concedes Smokin' Romans has confounded him twice in the past month, creating a spring detour that has catapulted the horse into…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Matt Jones gives his best bets and runs the rule over the Quaddie legs at Warwick Farm and Dubbo. 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 7, No.9: CAMINO REAL The James Cummings-trained mare…

Crack colt Best Of Bordeaux is Coolmore Stud Stakes-bound after bouncing back to winning form in the slush at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Best Of Bordeaux, trained by Kacy Fogden, overcame a recent setback in training and led most of the way to win the Group 2 Roman Consul Stakes. Coolmore Australia supremo Tom Magnier confirmed Best Of Bordeaux…

Startantes is a $9 chance in the Silver Eagle on Saturday. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography. It was a horror watch for Startantes punters and Rob Heathcote last start, but the Eagle Farm trainer is looking for silver linings as his Group 1 winner heads to the $1m Silver Eagle on Saturday at Randwick. His pint-sized mare never got a crack…

Zougotcha has been the early firmer with Ladbrokes.com.au for the Group l Flight Stakes (1600m) this Saturday at Randwick. The Chris Waller trained filly was a strong winner of the Tea Rose two weeks ago and looks primed for the 1600m assignment. Opened $3.10 and has been crunched, into $2.70. Fireburn opened the $2.70 favourite but with the…

Surefire has drawn barrier 13 for The Metropolitan. Picture: Mark Evans - Getty Images Trainer Chris Waller nearly makes up half the field for Saturday's The Metropolitan (2400m) at Randwick having seven of the 15 which accepted on Tuesday morning. The champion horseman has taken out the race three times, including in back-to-back years with…

Yankee Hussel can race herself into much better races if she keeps progressing at Canterbury on Wednesday for trainer Kris Lees. The American Pharoah three-year-old will run in a Benchmark 78 Handicap (1550m) against odds-on pop Roots after winning second-up as a well backed horse at Hawkesbury over 1330m. Lees wasn't talking her up too much and…

Racing's "Mr Reliable" Tim Clark is riding for a unique three-peat in the Group 1 $600000 Coolmore Classic (1500m) when he partners classy mare Vangelic at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Clark has won the last two Coolmores on Krone (2021) and Con Te Partiro (2020). No jockey has ridden a hat-trick of winners in the feature fillies and mares race…

GUN three-year-old Anamoe has firmed into favouritism for the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes after a stunning victory in the Group 1 Rosehill Guineas. The son of Street Boss ($1.70 fav) annihilated a quality field by six-and-a-half lengths, dashing clear to defeat Converge ($3.80), with Forgot You ($11) three-quarters-of-a-length away third. The…