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New Zealand trainer Alexander Fieldes says owner Kevin Myers will probably take the harder option with Capecover by running him in Friday night's JRA Cup at Moonee Valley over Saturday's RM Ansett ...
Lee Freedman is hoping Fly Higher can defy a moderate fillies record and give him his second Bill Stutt Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday night.Only six fillies in the last 50 years, including just...
New Zealander Capecover could be a surprise starter in next Saturday's Metropolitan Handicap in a bid to cement a Caulfield Cup berth.Capecover as doing his best work late when seventh in the JRA C...
Plans to start the promising Iamzeus in next month's $1 million Caulfield Guineas are in danger after his narrow defeat at Flemington.Trainer Danny O'Brien was counting on the colt winning the Lord...
Trainer Mark Kavanagh is looking to strengthen his claims on the Caulfield Guineas-Thousand Guineas double when Cats Whisker backs up in Saturday's Group Two Edward Manifold Stakes at Flemington.Ka...
Jockey Hugh Bowman has not heard from Samantha Miss' trainer Kris Lees this week and that's the way he likes it.The star filly will become the first horse since Angst in 1993 to win all four legs o...
Champion jockey Damien Oliver has warmed up for Saturday's Turnbull Stakes meeting with five winners at Geelong.Oliver rode the winners of the first five races and his haul included a quartet for t...
Trainer Mathew Ellerton finds himself in familiar territory with Sunburnt Land who is first emergency for Saturday's Gilgai Stakes at Flemington.This is the third time this spring the five-year-old...
A Group One day at Randwick would not be complete without Gai Waterhouse who had to wait until the last of the four features to claim the biggest prize with the Epsom Handicap quinella courtesy of ...
Trainer Greg Hickman believes Samantha Miss is one of the best fillies he's seen but he also knows there is no such thing as a sure thing - especially in the Flight Stakes.Hickman has Flying Tryst,...
Ever since Andy Beyer and Howard Sartin’s speed theories were imported from the USA into Australian racing, a doting band of time and speed aficionados have chipped away at weight-based principles...
In the final article of his two-part series, PPM's Richard Hartley Jnr talks about the relationship between speed and weights in racing-and adds to your knowledge with a helpful chart. In certain...
Time handicapping has been very much maligned over the years, with many racing experts making negative comments on times as an important form factor in horse-racing. The legendary Pittsburgh Phil...
Many years ago, a respected racing man told me that about 90 per cent of races are won by one of the three best 'weight contenders' which also rate highly on other essential handicapping factors. ...
In this article, provided by the respected UK website Flatstats ( www.flatstats.co.uk ), some pertinent points are made about the effects of weight on racehorses. The article refers to British rac...
Jockey James Winks, who nailed one of the biggest weight-for-age upsets in recent times on Douro Valley, is hoping to repeat the dose in the Group One Futurity Stakes on another Danny O'Brien-train...
In the final part of his two-part special feature, leading Queensland ratings expert George Tafe talks about times, handicapping, fitness and distance. Many are the arguments about weight a...
It was very refreshing to read Ynez Ybarbo's two articles in the July and August issues of Practical Punting Monthly. Early in her first article, Ynez mentions Andrew Beyer, one of the gurus of ...