#Little Dance

Selections based on a good track. 6. Willinga Tyson is the up and comer of the field and despite being a drifter in betting was dominant in his maiden win at Muswellbrook. Led there and the extra trip should hold no fears. Sure to run well. Dangers: 3. Brunel Kingdom just failed to lead all the way at Grafton over 2200m a couple of weeks ago. It…

Monday's NSW meetings are at Moruya and Gilgandra and no surprise we'll be dealing with good tracks at both venues. MORUYA BEST BET Race 2 No. 4: Quire Belied her $41 SP on debut when splitting a couple of handy types at Goulburn. Go well. NEXT BEST Race 6 No. 3: Kattegat Was off his game on the Town Plate Prelude but too good around here to punish…

Selections based on a good track Kembla-based runners are set to dominate the opener on Showcase Cup day, with a progressive three-year-old the one to beat. All Too Hard-sired 1. Mr Rock It closed off strongly in a much deeper metro BM 72 16 days ago, and desperately wants to get back out over more ground deep into the prep. Naturally a big jump in…

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…

3. Diabelli had a lot against him at Flemington on debut in the Maribyrnong Plate. He got back in a slowly run race down the straight where the winner slipped home in some of the fastest closing splits of the meeting. The son of Fastnet Rock was disappointed for a run late too. At start two he draws a soft gate to track the speed and James McDonald…

What usually is a positive can bring down Roman when he races. The eight-year-old contests the Queanbeyan Cup (1600m) on Sunday and his jockey Quayde Krogh needs to hold him up a little in the opening stages of the race or risk the same result as last start. He ran last in a Saturday race at Randwick three weeks ago because he raced on the…

Trainer James Ponsonby participated in the inaugural The Little Dance with the luckless Phillipsburg and is now intent on having the first horse picked for the second annual The Big Dance via Sunday's Taree Cup. Ponsonby has former Group 1 competitor Socrates in career-best form ahead of Sunday's Taree Cup which doubles as a qualifier for the next…

Selections based on a soft track. 1. Oriental Tycoon has another chance here with the opportunity to be right on the speed in a race that looks to lack obvious tempo. He was solid first-up then odds-on and couldn't quite pick them up at Hawkesbury. Entitled to go close with the make-up of this race. Dangers: 7. Gelsey made a handy debut at…

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…

Racing NSW chief executive Peter V'landys has hinted at further stakes increases in coming months after releasing details of a massive $30m prizemoney package. "These increases are absolutely sustainable and fully funded, and there is a possibility we will be announcing further prizemoney increases in the next six months," V'landys revealed at a…