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The idea of moving the Cox Plate to the end of November - a radical change to the structure of the spring racing carnival - was always going to spark fierce debate among industry participants and fans. It is the biggest switch among a raft being considered by Racing Victoria, which includes the Thousand Guineas going back a month, new dates for the…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Shayne O'Cass gives his best bets and runs the rule over the Quaddie legs at Newcastle and Wagga. 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.13: DEAR JEWEL A Snitzel half-sister to Divine…

A tour of Coolmore Stud in Fethard, County Tipperary is a wonderfully enriching experience for any Flat racing fan, the site being home to so many champions from years gone by. To drive the point home, simply check out the stud's roster for 2021 which counted 16 stallions and the winners of 44 Group/Grade 1 races between them. Of course, winning…

Spacewalk and Steel City have attracted plenty of support from TAB Fixed Odds punters going into the Rosehill Gardens meeting on Saturday. "When markets opened on Wednesday, Spacewalk was the first horse backed," TAB spokesman Andrew Georgiou said. "We wrote a lot of big bets against him in the first 20 minutes of betting and since then, although…

Don't be a plonker - go with Jubiloso to land the Coronation Stakes (4.20, ITV) on Friday. Sir Michael Stoute's filly, whose uncle is the great unbeaten champ Frankel, faces a big step up in class but could hardly have made a more promising start to her career. An easy winner at Chelmsford at the end of April, Jubiloso went on to blitz her rivals…

Form analyst Mitch Cohen gives his best bets and runs the rule over every race for Warwick Farm. 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.4: THINK ABOUT IT Highly promising galloper returning from a spell. Won two…

Plenty of great Coral Eclipse winners over the years since the race was first run in 1886. So, as we build up to the 2022 Coral Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park this Saturday (2nd July), we've picked out our favourite Coral Eclipse scorers from the last 30 years - let's take a look. We've also got the latest betting from 888Sport ahead of the 2022…

Almost 150 years of racing are covered in this week's look at Australia's best thoroughbreds, with horses on the list racing between 1866 and 2004. Who is included? Read on to find out who Justin Cinque, Andrew Hawkins and sheek have rated from 31 to 35. 35. Justin Cinque - The Barb (b. 1863) 22/16/2/1 (73%) The Barb is one of the first champions…

Colette confirmed herself as Australia's latest weight-for-age star by dominating the Apollo Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. The Apollo Stakes is a good horse's race with a winners list including Emancipation, Beau Zam, Red Anchor, Naturalism, Sunline, Lonhro and the mighty Winx. While not in that category yet, she proved she wasn't just a flash in…

Join our channel to stay up to date on the latest in marketing Successful Ryan Moore rides are often significant, but there was a major milestone for the jockey at Deauville on Sunday. Steering Blackbeard to victory in the Prix Morny was his 100th Group 1 winner for trainer Aidan O'Brien. Moore's first top level victory for the master of Ballydoyle…

All the action, as it happened, at Prestbury Park Another fantastic week of racing at the Greatest Show on Turf. And the Cheltenham Gold Cup certainly lived up to the hype amid a titanic tussle between Native River and Might Bite. Relive that, and the rest of Friday's coverage, below... 1:30pm JCB Triumph Hurdle 1. Farclas 9/1 2. Mr Adjudicator…

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…

Developing three-year-old Carlisle will shoot for a hat-trick of wins for trainer John Moloney at Flemington on Saturday. Picture: Getty Images The autumn months have been kind to two families surrounding trainer John Moloney. Moloney's nephew, jockey Patrick Moloney, rode his first Group 1 winner on Roch'N' Horse in the Newmarket Handicap while an…

Joe Cleary will make his annual pilgrimage to the Gold Coast next month hoping to build a war chest for the Magic Millions Yearling Sale courtesy of his talented sprinter King Gutho. That quest begins on Sunday at a jam-packed festive Moruya racetrack where King Gutho steps out in the Narooma Cup (1300m). "King Gutho heads to the Gold Coast after…

Sydney trainer John Sargent will test two-year-old Perfect Thought as a Victoria Derby hopeful at Flemington on Anzac Day. Picture: Mark Evans-Getty Images. The Victoria Derby is months away but Randwick trainer John Sargent will audition a candidate at Flemington on Monday. Sargent will give Perfect Thought his debut in the Listed ANZAC DAY Stakes…

SHE'S a living treasure, a sporting legend, the best thing since sliced bread and Black Caviar, and up there with our national pastime of "Flick the Prime Minister" as the most famous thing about Australia just now. The beauty part is, she's still racing in our lifetimes. And the even beauter part is, this Saturday could be the biggest celebration…

The barrier is the biggest obstacle for 5. Bandi's Boy. The Danny Williams-trained sprinter made his debut in the group 3 Kindergarten last preparation as a two-year-old, catching the eye late as an $81 chance, before backing that up with an impressive win at Randwick, getting the better of race favourite Zougotcha despite still doing plenty wrong.…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Shayne O'Cass runs the rule over every race, including suggested bets, for the Randwick 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. Track: Soft 5. Rail: True. Overview: Supido Beauty…

We have expert betting tips for the cards this Sunday at Hawkesbury and Werribee. There is plenty of value available with bookmakers at the Sunday meetings and we have our best bets across the two cards. New Betting Brand!100% Australian!Best Mulitbet Odds! - - #4 - Lady Gold @ $3.50 - Lady Gold has improved by one position every start and if that…

Epicenter, shown training before his second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, meets the winner of that race, Rich Strike, again Saturday in the Grade I Travers Stakes at Saratoga. Photo courtesy of Churchill Downs Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The "Midsummer Derby" at Saratoga pits the first three finishers from the Kentucky Derby against one another again in…

Lost And Running finished second in a trial at Randwick on Friday. Picture: Mark Evans-Getty Images Hall Of Famer Hugh Bowman gave his tick of approval as gun sprinter Lost And Running took early strides towards another $15m The Everest tilt with a comfortable trial at Randwick on Friday. Bowman, who hadn't sat on John O'Shea's talented galloper…

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…

GET set for the Prince Of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot - the feature race on day two of the meeting. We'll keep you up to date with all the latest odds, news and tips from our top tipsters. The 2017 renewal of the Prince Of Wales's Stakes will take place on Wednesday, June 21 at 4.20pm and will be live on ITV. It is a Group 1 Flat race run over…

Punt Drunk takes a look back over the weekend that was, which saw some of our best horses race. Eduardo paid ridiculous odds and won like Winx, the Queensland form rang true once again in Melbourne, and the return of two horses got us thinking: could the Cox Plate be a three-horse match race this year? A few punters that were keen on the nation's…

Hall of Fame trainer Chris Waller is optimistic favourites Naval Seal and Bella Rouge are ready to strike winning form at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Naval Seal is one of the shortest favourites on the program at $2.90 for the Quayclean Handicap (1800m). "I think he is a great chance, he is going terrific,'' Waller said. Naval Seal ran very well…

The Coral Eclipse runners and riders for the 2022 renewal are starting to take shape as a high-class field of middle distance performers battle it out for the £448363 top prize. We take a look at the 2022 Coral Eclipse runners and riders ahead of this weekend's huge Sandown Park Group One race. VADENI @ 15/8 with 888Sport Trainer: J-C…

Get live updates for the 2022 VRC Oaks race day this Thursday November 3, 2022. Jump to the most recent updates using the links above or scroll down to see all of today's updates. 10:30am • 03 November 2022 by Jett Hatton 04:00pm • 03 November 2022 by Jett Hatton The Everest form stands up with former Hong Kong galloper Joyful Fortune proving too…

The Eclipse is one of Europe's major middle-distance prizes and the 2009 renewal is one which will be firmly imprinted on the memory of any racing fan lucky enough to witness it, the performance of the winner, Sea The Stars, up there with the very best in the race's long and illustrious history. It was always the way of Sea The Stars to save…

The Coolmore partners owned Love (11/10f), not seen since her victory in the Yorkshire Oaks in August 2020, made a belated 2021 seasonal bow at Royal Ascot this afternoon, and the daughter of Galileo certainly did not disappoint. The Aidan O'Brien-trained filly made all under rider Ryan Moore in the day's highlight, the Group 1 Prince Of Wales's…

Daily Telegraph form analyst Matt Jones gives his best bets and runs the rule over every race for Kembla Grange. 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.7: BLACK IRIS Not much went right for her on debut at…

The Queen Elizabeth II Stakes has produced any number of top-class winners over the years, but the 2011 renewal, at the inaugural British Champions Day at Ascot, was won by a horse like no other in Frankel, who put up another scintillating performance to extend his winning sequence to nine on his final three-year-old start. The eight-strong field…

The cream of the flat racing crop assembles at The Curragh and Leopardstown over the course of the weekend for Longines Irish Champions Weekend. As Aidan O'Brien said: " It's an unbelievable two days' racing, we're very lucky to have it, and we want to run as many as we can." O' Brien will run plenty judging by the five-day declarations. The…

The Cranbourne Turf Club will be hosting its annual Pinker Pinker Plate meeting on Friday night with a massive nine-race card to open the night racing season. The track is currently rated a Good 4, but after a day of rain on Wednesday and 5-10 millimetres of rain predicted on Friday we could be on a Soft-rated track by the time the first race kicks…

Track likely heavy 8 and rail true. We start over the mile trip on a surface that will settle in heavy range with constant rain about. Consistent provincial four-year-old 3. Satness is very fit deep into his prep, and right at home on wet tracks. Won his maiden here four starts back, and has been in the money in three runs since, when settling a…

Christmas for punters is finally here, with the best month and a half of racing in Australia kicking off last Saturday with two massive Group 1 meetings at Randwick and Flemington. We have focused this week's Follow Files on those two meetings, where we have found some horses that produced very good runs on their way to Victoria's top Cup…

THE Prince of Wales's Stakes is the fourth race on day two of Royal Ascot and we've got all the latest news, views and top tips ahead of this year's renewal. To get you in the mood for the contest - here's a run-down of the race. The 2018 Prince of Wales's Stakes will take place on Wednesday, June 20 at 4.20pm and will be live on ITV. It's a Group…

The Daily Telegraph's racing editor Ray Thomas and Sky Thoroughbred Central's form expert Ron Dufficy debate the chances at The Gong meeting at Kembla Grange 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! BEST BET R6 No.1: EASY…

Group 1 racing will head to Sandown on Sunday 25th September, with the running of the $1 million Underwood Stakes. The race will be contested under weight-for-age conditions over 1800m, and has been classified as a G1 event since 1979. The winning connections will take home $600000, with this year's favourite Zaaki taking out the 2021 edition of…

Group 1 racing continues at Eagle Farm this weekend as the staying fillies headline a truly fantastic day of racing. Our full 2022 QLD Oaks Day Preview can be viewed below. The Tony Gollan trained Youngblood has been ticking along nicely throughout this prep and racing consistently. The five year old gelding has been placed in 19 of his 29 career…

Verry Elleegant: will be the first New Zealand-bred Arc contender since 2011 Verry Elleegant will join the line-up for the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe after connections announced on Monday that they would supplement last year's Melbourne Cup winner for the race. Owners Jomara Bloodstock Ltd have said they will pay the £120000 fee for the…

Local trainer Stirling Osland knows how horses win races at Armidale which is why he thinks Special Day will have to race a little more promising if she's to win the fourth race on Sunday. "It can be tough at Armidale for horses that like to drop back so I hope we don't get too far out of our ground to reel them in there," he said. "There's not…

The thousands of Southern Motorway commuters who stream past Karaka every day will be largely oblivious to the fact next week they will be just 100m from sporting greatness. The only problem is the greatness at the thoroughbred racing's National Yearling Sales is still to be discovered, hidden inside horses a year or usually more away from starring…

John Ingles looks at the five best horses owned by Queen Elizabeth II based on their peak Timeform ratings. AUREOLE (Timeform rating 132) As well as being one of the best horses to race for the Queen, Aureole was also one of the very first, as she inherited him as an unraced two-year-old on the death of her father, King George VI, in 1952. Trained…

As well as being one of the best horses to race for the Queen, Aureole was also one of the very first, as she inherited him as an unraced two-year-old on the death of her father, King George VI, in 1952. Trained by Captain Cecil Boyd-Rochfort at Newmarket, Aureole ran just twice at two, finishing sixth in the Middle Park Stakes after making a…

Her own racecourse will be patriotically decked out with four miles of bunting, but the biggest compliment Royal Ascot could ever pay to its treasured patron in Diamond Jubilee year is the unrivalled quality of the equine cast this week. The Queen may have conjured up her dutiful smile when Grace Jones and Wil.I.am received dubious call-ups for the…