#Kris Lees

The Bopper resumes at Randwick on Saturday. Picture: Getty Images Newcastle trainer Kris Lees is expecting a bold performance from his sharp galloper The Bopper when the gelding resumes in the Schweppes Benchmark 78 Handicap (1000m) at Randwick on Saturday. The four-year-old son of Nicconi, also the sire of The Everest winner Nature Strip, has been…

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.…

Form analyst Mitch Cohen gives his best bets and runs the rule over every race for Canterbury, Orange 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! BEST BET Race 4, No.2: FRENCH MARINE Talented Kris Lees-trained…

Star jockey Tommy Berry is ready to hit the ground running as he prepares for his first day back at the races from a timely break to recharge the batteries while preparing to fight a range of betting charges. Berry last rode in Sydney on December 9 but elected to hang up the saddle for a Christmas sabbatical to get his mental and physical health in…

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…

Brigantine has been well tried with Ladbrokes.com.au for one of the key races at Doomben this afternoon, The Buffering (1350m). This race gives the winner ballot exemption for Magic Millions and Godolphin they can get that win via their four year old, who is fitter and up to 1350m with J Mac to steer. Opened $2.90 and is now into $2.40. Ucalledit,…

Port Macquarie Race preview, Saturday 27 August 2022 Despite resuming from a spell since scoring at the track last April, Miss Santorini is poised for a successful return in the Club North Haven Camden Haven Cup at Port Macquarie on Saturday. After breaking her maiden status with a commanding victory over Father's Day at Mudgee earlier in the year,…

Trainer Annabel Neasham prepared Anavinci to go from a maiden win to an upset victory in the Gosford Guineas. ANAVINCI completed the quantum leap from provincial maiden to stakes level and maintained her unbeaten record in the Listed $160000 Gosford Guineas (1200m) at Gosford on Wednesday. The Annabel Neasham-trained Anavinci, who had won a Wyong…

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 every race for Coffs Harbour. 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.1: TERRAMEADES Two from two second-up from a break and can add to that…

A midweek wedged between Christmas and New Year often provides the unexpected and market leads should not be ignored. With the rail out seven metres on a good track all will get their chance and staying with the better stables and in-form riders usually proves profitable.

Well hopefully you enjoyed the Christmas cheer with family and friends, and imbibed responsibly of course. Now it is on to a new year and all those fatuous resolutions will be thought about. Punters - as you are - might even suggest it worth keeping a record of your investments (well at least for the first week or so of January) so as to know your…

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…

Selections based on a good track. Monitor for bias/pattern. Forgive 6. Power Legend's last start at Gosford, where the race was run in torrential conditions. Prior to that, he was well backed $9-$5.50 and hit the line hard in a high-rating race relative to the day. Further, he clocked one of the meeting's fastest final 200m splits in 12.24. The…

Only seven races but a Saturday level prizemoney two-year-old race which has attracted some Magic Millions hopefuls certainly brightens the Sunday meeting. The track should be good and with the rail out eight metres all horses will get their chance. BEST BET: TRACY'S SPIRIT (Race 3 No 5) NEXT BEST: NATALIEANN (Race 4 No 4) VALUE BET: LEORED (Race 5…

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…

Sydney's star apprentice jockeys Tyler Schiller, Zac Lloyd, Dylan Gibbons and Reece Jones have more in common than just their riding skills. On the racetrack, the four young men are fierce rivals and each has premiership ambitions but away from it they often team up to take on the world … in video games. "We like to get on our Xbox or PlayStation…

Horse racing has taken back its rightful place as king of the spring due to the strength of Sydney and Melbourne's competing carnivals, but the evolution must continue. For too long racing depended on Melbourne in the spring. While it will always have history on its side, competition has taken the sport to another level. In six years, The Everest…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Shayne O'Cass gives his best bets and runs the rule over every race for Kensington. 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.7: MICRO Strikes the perfect race off two trials which…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Shayne O'Cass gives his best bets and runs the rule over every race for Coffs Harbour. 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.1: SHOW ME YOUR LOVE Kris Lees-trained mare who is…

A ten race card has been set down for Rosehill on Saturday. The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is out five metres for the entire circuit. WATCH LIVE RACING AT tab * Above offers may only be available to select customers.Back Me 2 Secret Glamour (Bet Now: $6.00) is a progressive mare for the Maher/Eustace camp that has good…

Lightly raced galloper Lovero bolted in at the same track/distance first-up, and the four-year-old receives a similar setup today at Gosford in the Bees Knees Eatery F&M Benchmark 64 Handicap (1100m). The Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou runner was heavily backed that day late in the trade from $2.40-$1.90, and she didn't let punters down. The mare…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Shayne O'Cass gives his best bets and runs the rule over every race for Tamworth. 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.4: OUR BOY OLLIE Tamworth local who was arguably the run of…

NSW based mare Samoot is the all in favourite with Ladbrokes for the feature race at Doomben this Saturday, the George Moore Stakes (1200m). The Kris Lees trained mare is flying but hasn't been helped with poor steers her last couple. She brings the right and strong form, and the early market agrees. She sits at $3.70. Garibaldi is on the second…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Shayne O'Cass has analysed all the chances for Monday's Sapphire Coast and Taree meetings. SAPPHIRE COAST BEST BET Race 4 No. 2: Dragons Breath Sent out some signs that he was back in business when runner-up, first-up, at Canberra in a good quality race. NEXT BEST Race 7 No. 8: Jessandi Has done some really good things…

Eight races will be run and won at Canterbury under the lights this Friday. The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is out two metres for the entire circuit. WATCH LIVE RACING AT tab * Above offers may only be available to select customers.Back Me Not much of a race this so leaning towards the first starter, 10 Nostalgia (Bet…

Imported stayer Without A Fight is the Ladbrokes.com.au favourite for the feature race this Saturday at Caulfield, the Zipping Classic (2400m). The UK stayer is now with Team Freedman and is having the first run for the new camp since a down the track effort in the Melbourne Cup. He heads the marekt at $3.70. Vow And Declare and Luncies sit on the…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Matt Jones gives his best bets and runs the rule over every race for Wellington on Sunday. 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.2: SIZZLE MINIZZLE Loaded with promise, his maiden win…

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…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Shayne O'Cass gives his best bets and runs the rule over every race for Wyong. 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.5: QUEENMAKER Came away late and was strong through the line when…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Shayne O'Cass gives his best bets and runs the rule over the Quaddie legs at Beaumont and Murwillumbah. 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.5: BONJOUR RUPERT Came from a mile back…

Selections based on a good track. 2. Maurice's Medad is a short price for a horse with one win from 20 but he won't know himself in this company. Placed in a BM88 first up this prep then went into the Silver Eagle. Massive class drop for him on just about everything he's contested. Clearly on top. Dangers: 4. Raffish would be just about a good…

The big track at the Sunshine Coast takes centre stage in Queensland on Saturday with good depth in most races. BEST BET HILLCREST AVENUE (Race 2 No. 9) NEXT BEST GREEN REIGN (Race 4 No. 4) VALUE BET TAPILDOODLEDO (Race 3 No. 3) Quaddie numbers are: Race 6 - 5.9,11 Race 7 - 2,4,6,9 Race 8 - 5,8,10,16 Race 9 - 6,9,11 144…

We kick off our punting week with an enormous nine-race card at Scone on Monday afternoon. The track is currently listed in the Good 4 range for race-day and with only minimum rain forecast across the region, that should be a spot-on prediction heading into the first race scheduled for 1:15pm AEDT. The rail is out+3m between the 800m to winning…

Gypsy Goddess has barrier 22 for Saturday's Queensland Oaks. Picture: Grant Peters - Trackside Photography Handy filly Gypsy Goddess has drawn extremely wide for her latest Group 1 mission in Saturday's Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm. A full field of 18 plus five emergencies accepted for the race on Tuesday morning. The daughter of Tarzino…

Australia's leading bookmaker the TAB gives an overview of today's betting markets from the feature races and race meetings from around the country. See which races punters cleaned up on and lost on. *Existing customers only. 2nd Racing bet. Excl SA & WA. T's & C's apply. Gamble responsibly. FUTURES Zaaki $8-$4.50 AND THEN $4 (after winning…

Race-by-race preview and tips for Newcastle on Saturday We're sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We're working to restore it. Please try again later. The barrier looks problematic for 1. Cylinder but we'll leave that to James McDonald to overcome. The Godolphin colt has the benefit of two trials and he has looked professional in both…

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),…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Matt Jones runs the rule over every race, including suggested bets, for the Newcastle meeting on Saturday. 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. NEWCASTLE Track: Good 4. Rail: True Overview: The…

If the theory is right that you need to lose one to win one then Kris Lees and the Australian Bloodstock team are overdue. There has been three renewals of the $1m The Hunter at Newcastle and each time the trainer and owners have had to settle for second place. In the inaugural running of The Hunter, they had Tactical Advantage beating all but…

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…

Newcastle racing Monday on the Beaumont track with nine races to be run on a heavy surface. BEST BET Race 1 No. 4: Rockbarton Ruby Ultra-consistent mare, a winner of one from eight and placed six times, most of those in unusually strong Maidens and Class 1's. NEXT BEST Race 2 No 1: Misty Dreams Would have thought that she would have a race by now,…

Rodney Northam is counting on two of the stable's designated swoopers, Very Sharp and Joey's Chance, to deliver him a double at Gosford on Tuesday, following on from a treble at the same venue last month. Home-bred mare Very Sharp was at her barnstorming best when sealing Northam's trio of winners when she charged down the middle and over the top…

Champion sprinter Nature Strip can edge closer to Winx's world prizemoney record if he wins the Group 1 $3 million Darley Champions Sprint (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday. Nature Strip, the world's number one-ranked sprinter, took his career earnings to just over $20 million when he ran fourth to Giga Kick in The Everest last start. In latest TAB…

With fine weather the track may even get into the good range though with the rail out eight metres, I will be looking for those that can go forward and take a position. BEST BET: ZATTASTAR (Race 1 No 6) NEXT BEST: SAFEEYA (Race 3 No 2) VALUE BET: ROCKIN' ARTIE (Race 6 No 8) Quaddie numbers are: Race 5: 2,3,8 Race 6: 2,5,8 Race 7: 1,3,4,5 Race 8:…

Sam Clipperton is looking to break through for his first Group 1 since 2016 in the Doomben 10000 on Saturday. Picture: Mark Evans-Getty Images Sam Clipperton is looking to end an extraordinary streak in Saturday's Group 1 Doomben 10000 that dates back to 2016 when he was one of the rising stars of Australian racing. The popular hoop, who has ridden…

News Corp form analyst Brad Waters takes an early look at Saturday's Champions' Day meeting at Flemington. BEST BET NATURE STRIP (Race 6, No.1) Beaten but not disgraced in The Everest. However, Nature Strip flies down the straight and can bounce back to square the ledger with Giga Kick on Saturday. VALUE BET LUNCIES (Race 4, No.9) Did it tough out…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Matt Jones gives his best bets and runs the rule over the Quaddie legs at Kempsey and Albury. 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: FOUR EGOS He's on fire at the moment and has…

Rustic Steel will tackle the Five Diamonds at Rosehill on Saturday after his win in the Big Dance at Randwick on Tuesday. Rustic Steel has already won The Coast and Big Dance - now for the $2m Five Diamonds. Trainer Kris Lees revealed the horse he calls "The Prizefighter" Rustic Steel has bounced through his win in the Big Dance on Cup Day and will…

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…