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Talented sprinter Jungle Jim looks tough to beat stepping up to 1200m after a strong win at the track last start. Quadzilla with Jett Hatton RACE 6 FIRST LEG Looks an open edition of the Standish. HALVORSEN (2) is shooting for his third win in the race, comes here off two good runs and has a good third-up record. WESTERN EMPIRE (1) the obvious…

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.…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Matt Jones gives his best bets and runs the rule over the Quaddie legs at Gundagai and Canterbury. 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: BLACK ON BEAUTY The John O'Shea-trained…

The Peter and Paul Snowden stable is set to smash the $100m prizemoney barrier if Mazu and Mirra Vision can snare a feature race double across two states on Saturday. Boom sprinter Mazu is favourite for the Group 1 $1m Doomben 10000 (1200m) at Eagle Farm and Mirra Vision among the main chances in the Group 3 $200000 Arrowfield Dark Jewel Classic…

Race 10: The John O'Shea-trained Quantico has stamped himself as a real star of the future with a slashing victory in the Listed MSS Security Sprint (1200m). Winner at five of his first nine starts at home in Sydney, the five-year-old son of I Am Invincible savaged the line to score comprehensively at his first experience up the straight. The…

If horseracing could be purely calibrated by a stopwatch and mathematical tables, if you were good enough at the game, you would literally never lose. Every result would be inevitable - and the story of Winx would be a boring one. But that ignores the abilities and character of horses - the fascination with champions of racing has little to do with…

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…

Brookspire has gone from a dominant race favourite one week to almost be a forgotten runner the next. But jockey Jay Ford has suggested punters should be more forgiving of Brookspire going into the Group 3 $200000 Arrowfield Dark Jewel Classic (1400m) at the Scone stand-alone meeting on Saturday. The Chris Waller-trained Brookspire was all the rage…

The James Cummings-trained Mr Wallace looks hard to beat at Wyong on Wednesday. Picture: Michael Klein News Corp form analyst Mitch Cohen gives his best bets and runs the rule over Wednesday's Wyong Magic Millions meeting. The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form, including video replays and all you need to know about every horse, jockey and…

Confident two former Kiwi gallopers will be getting the money early in the day at Sandown. Racenet form analyst Jett Hatton runs the rule over Wednesday's midweek card at Sandown. BEST BET RHEINBERG (Race 2 No.3 - $5) Wayne Ormond found former Kiwi Mr Brightside and looks to have spotted another talented galloper. Showed good ability at his three…

Trainer Gerald Ryan is aiming for Golden Eagle absentee Flying Crazy to catapult himself into another million dollar feature via Sunday's Goulburn Cup. The son of Flying Artie missed the cut in the $10m Golden Eagle but remains on target to add to his wealth this campaign either north or south of his Rosehill base. Flying Crazy is timed to peak in…

There was never any likelihood Promise Of Success, Kirwan's Lane and Berdibek would meet with the same fate as their boom stablemate Waihaha Falls. The John O'Shea-trained trio are rated 101 or higher and safely made the field for the $1m The Gong (1600m) at Kembla Grange on Saturday. This wasn't the case with Waihaha Falls last week when he was…

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…

Zaaki is not a certain absentee from Saturday's George Main Stakes The showdown between superstars Anamoe and Zaaki is still a possibility in the Group 1 $1m George Main Stakes (1600m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Anamoe and Zaaki were among the 11 nominations for the weight-for-age feature although only the former is a certain starter. Godolphin…

Hall of Fame jockey Hugh Bowman can leave for his three-month riding stint in Hong Kong with winning momentum from The Hunter meeting at Newcastle on Saturday. Bowman has eight rides including the Kris Lees-trained Gem Song in the $1 million The Hunter (1300m). Lees has trained three successive second placings in The Hunter with Wandabaa (2021),…

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…

Trainers Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou can continue their successful Sydney spring carnival with stable star Ellsberg in the $2m Five Diamonds (1800m) at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Ellsberg is racing for a hat-trick of wins after his dead-heat (with Top Ranked) in the Group 1 Epsom Handicap and his last start romp in the Five Diamonds…

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…

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…

Swiss Exile winning at Eagle Farm. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography Zaaki was set to be Annabel Neasham's star attraction at Eagle Farm on Saturday despite not even racing, but Swiss Exile stole the show, breaking his maiden in impressive fashion in the Group 2 Spirit Of Boom Classic. The colt was a beaten odds-on favourite in a midweek…

Some interesting Southern invaders muddy the waters but previous form on the track proved a good guide at Eagle Farm last week and I expect much of same for this big 10-race card featuring the Queensland Cup. They were coming from everywhere to win last week and on a good surface with the rail out two metres there will be few excuses.

Confident we can get the cash late in the day with a Danny Williams-trained galloper looking hard to beat. KEMBLA GRANGE BEST BET Race 7 No. 13: Bella Broadway Grand-daughter of Melbourne Cup winner Jezabeel from the Danny Williams stable coming off two outstanding fifths, the last one in a Highway. The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form,…