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Plans to run Group One winner Northern Meteor in England have been cancelled by the colt's owner, Eduardo Cojuangco of Gooree Stud.Trainer Gai Waterhouse was keen to campaign the colt at Royal Asco...
Diminutive but gutsy filly Romneya, who was consistently thereabouts during the spring without winning, made up for it with her success in the Group Three The Vanity at Flemington.Weighing in at ar...
Toowoomba sprinter Azzaland convinced trainer Ritchie Stephenson he was worthy of an interstate campaign following a narrow win at Doomben.Backing up following his six-length defeat by Burdekin Blu...
A return to winning form has expanded the options for Zavite with trainer Anthony Cummings eyeing races like the Hobart and Adelaide Cups.Zavite won the Australia Day Cup (2400m) at Randwick to rec...
Star Queensland sprinter Burdekin Blues is heading to Sydney for a dress rehearsal before his Newmarket Handicap mission.The four-year-old will leave Brisbane by float on Tuesday and race in either...
A decision on an Expressway Stakes start for Patinack Farm's flagship sprinter Raheeb will be left until later this week.Raheeb is among 10 nominations for the Expressway at Rosehill but trainer Ja...
Champion jockey Damien Oliver will test the Blue Diamond Stakes credentials of Real Saga when the exciting Sydney colt makes his much anticipated Melbourne debut.Unbeaten in two starts, Real Saga i...
The depth of nominations for the CF Orr Stakes has prompted trainer David Payne to keep Gallant Tess in Sydney and delay her tilt at an overdue Group One victory.There were 16 entries for Saturday'...
Darren Beadman will return to race riding in Hong Kong on Wednesday after a month on the sidelines due to injury.Beadman obtained a medical clearance on Friday and also passed a crucial test when h...
Trainer Colin Little will delay a decision until just before acceptance time on Wednesday on whether to run El Segundo in Saturday's CF Orr Stakes at Caulfield or wait another week for the Australi...
If you want to secure 'value' with your betting, how can you do it if you don't have a guideline price about a selection? This is a question few punters want to confront. I think they should c...
There are many ways by which you can turn a field of horses into a field of horses PLUS estimated 'true' prices. There are mechanical ways and 'instinctive' ways. In this article, I'll be looking...
Many punters who don't have the time, or the inclination, to go through the sometimes challenging process of drawing up a priceline on a race, might like to consider the approach of a friend of mi...
One racing publications price assessment for Catapulted in Race 8 at Eagle Farm this weekend was an amazing $7.50 and I am sure all punters would have run barefooted over broken glass to try and ge...
In the first article in this series, I talked about the difficulties of framing your own betting market on a race - and advised you of ways and means to do so. This article takes the subject furth...
A common gripe about harness racing is that there are too many short priced favourites. Some punters complain that because the form is so exposed and the animals so reliable, there is no value to ...
Ratings, though some scoff at them, are a terrific way of placing a value on each runner in a race. A second way to get a race completely in focus is to assign a price to each runner. But compili...
A friend of mine told me recently that he always knew when he was getting a 'value' price on a selection. He experienced, he said, a tremendous rush of anticipation a tingling feeling he often fel...
I don't care about the price, at least I've backed a winner," I heard a chap say at my local TAB recently. He'd just had $10 on a winner that paid $2.20. Good luck to him, but ... long term, what'...