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Antino is a $2.50 favourite to win in his Melbourne debut. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography Racing in the Victorian spring carnival is a different gravy to racing in Queensland, but Tony Gollan insists untapped Antino is the perfect horse to set for a major Melbourne assault. Antino is the hype galloper who has won eight from nine in the…

Star galloper Think It Over has been well backed ahead of his return in next Saturday's Group 1 Winx Stakes (1400m) at Randwick. Punters have rallied behind Kerry Parker's stable star in the first Group 1 of the season and TAB has pushed his price into $8 in its pre-nominations market after he opened $15. "There's been good early support for Kerry…

Fairytale horse King Colorado landed the Group 1 JJ Atkins for trainers Ciaron Maher and Dave Eustace and a large group of owners. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography. "From a maiden at Kembla Grange all the way to a Cox Plate …. Why not! We're not going to die wondering." So says syndication boss Christian Jantzen, as he revealed the…

Tony Sears trained a $31 winner at Doomben last Saturday but feels punters won't need to be looking nearly as wide to find a winner from his team at Eagle Farm seven days later. Red Top, trained by Sears and his daughter Maddysen, has faced off against rising star and potential Cox Plate candidate Knight's Choice in his last two…

New sensation Knight's Choice demolishes his opposition in the Group 3 Winx Guineas on the Sunshine Coast for trainers Sheila Laxon and John Symons and apprentice jockey Jaden Lloyd. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography. A monster offer of more than $2.3m has been knocked back for new racing sensation Knight's Choice as Cups queen Sheila…

Kovalica looks hard to beat in Satueday's Queensland Derby. Picture: Grant Peters - Trackside Photography. One question. One answer. Name a Queensland Derby starter capable of running third in a Group 1 Doomben Cup? Kovalica is your only possible answer. Yes, Kovalica enjoyed a charmed run along the rail when third, 1.2 lengths behind Huetor last…

Yellow Brick will resume in Gold Coast Guineas en route to a potential Stradbroke Handicap mission and with an eye on the rich Golden Eagle later this year. Picture: Nev Madsen. Boom Queensland youngster Yellow Brick will resume on Saturday at the start of a Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap campaign and with an eye on the $10m Golden Eagle in Sydney…

Rothfire fought off the challengers to win the Victory Stakes at Eagle Farm. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography Gun Sydney jockey Nash Rawiller helped to write another fairytale chapter in the extraordinary Rothfire story as the Group 1-winning gelding went bang in his own Eagle Farm backyard. Rothfire has staged several injury comebacks…

Think About It is fancied to win the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap. Picture: Getty Images Saturday's Eagle Farm meeting is a pipe-opener to Queensland winter carnival dreams, but punters are already eyeing off a potential Stradbroke Handicap contender who won't resume until seven days later. The Queensland Guineas/Victory Stakes meeting on Saturday…

A leg knock is expected to delay the autumn return of Caulfield Cup winner Incentivise. Trainer Peter Moody said Incentivise had been progressing well in his bid to resume racing having not raced since finishing second to Verry Elleegant in the 2021 Melbourne Cup where it was later discovered the gelding had damage to both suspensory ligaments and…

Queensland's famous Stradbroke Handicap will be catapulted to one of the richest sprint races in the country after receiving a huge boost on the back of sweeping prizemoney reforms across the state. It can be revealed the time-honoured Group 11400m handicap will be doubled from $1.5m to $3m from next year, in what is the most significant boost in…

Without Revenge will race at Kembla Grange on Saturday. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography David Vandyke thinks so much of his latest European import Without Revenge, he will send him to Sydney in just his third Australian start on Saturday. The gelding has taken Queensland racing by storm in his two undefeated starts to date, but Vandyke…

Former bush jockey Josh King snares his first city win as a trainer with Enabler winning at Doomben on Saturday. Picture: Grant Peters, Trackside Photography. More than a year on from enjoying the magic carpet ride with Caulfield Cup winner Incentivise, former bush jockey Josh King nailed his first city winner as a trainer. King, who grew up in…

Queensland rugby league legend Allan Langer in action. Picture: David Kapernick Rob Heathcote has likened Group 1 winner Startantes to pint-sized rugby league legend Allan "Alfie" Langer, as the diminutive equine pocket rocket embarks on a rich Sydney spring campaign starting Saturday. Last-start Group 1 Tatt's Tiara winner Startantes is the mare…

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…

Numerian and Tommy Berry didn't look back to claim The Q22 at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography If you had been told Annabel Neasham would win both the Hollindale Stakes and rich Q22 at the start of the winter carnival, just about anyone would have assumed freak horse Zaaki had stayed on for an extended Sunshine…

Desleigh Forster landed her first Group 1 with Apache Chase on Saturday. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography. After a month of relentless rain, Group 1 racing finally returned to Queensland on Saturday, as the winter carnival rolls on towards the Stradbroke Handicap. YAYS 1 - Nash Rawiller The star hoop had every right to be more concerned…

Zaaki goes into Saturday's Doomben Cup as a prohibitive odds-on favourite. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography Superstar Zaaki announced himself with a seven-length demolition job in last year's Doomben Cup, but trainer Annabel Neasham would be happy to see him win in a photo finish this time around on what will likely be a heavy…

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…

Exo Lady caused a boilover in the Dalrello Stakes at Eagle Farm. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography Desleigh Forster has some big fish to fry during the Queensland winter carnival and got off to the best possible start when exciting filly Exo Lady was the giant-killer in the Listed Dalrello Stakes. Eagle Farm trainer Forster will send her…

Australia's greatest race could easily be Incentivise's to lose after the most exciting and improved racehorse in the country romped home in the Caulfield Cup. Capping a meteoric rise, Incentivise trounced his rivals in the $5 million spring handicap to take a stranglehold on betting for the Melbourne Cup. In spite of covering more ground than any…

Chris Waller claimed his first Lexus Melbourne Cup after Verry Elleegant ($16) raced away to win the race that stops the nation. The champion mare, who scored her 10th Group One win, drifted out to as much as $18 throughout the afternoon but a late rally saw her start a $16 chance. Although extremely popular with punters, she held less than a third…

A Queensland campaign is in the offering for Floating Artist but first there will be a stopover in NSW for the former UK galloper. Floating Artist is among nominations for the Group 3 Hawkesbury Gold Cup (1600m) on Saturday ahead of travel further north to Brisbane for the Winter Carnival. The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained galloper has had…

Tips and best bets for racing around the country on Melbourne Cup day, including Flemington, Royal Randwick, Eagle Farm, Morphettville and Ascot on Tuesday, November 2. - Flemington preview and tips, Melbourne Cup day - Melbourne Cup runner-by-runner preview, tips and betting strategy - Eagle Farm preview and tips, Melbourne Cup day MELBOURNE CUP…