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One day remains before the running of the 2018 Group 1 Caulfield Cup on triangular Caulfield racecourse. The track is rated Good and the weather forecast is for overcast skies on Saturday, October 20. The $5 million dollar race will…
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Twenty racers, four Aussies by our reckoning. Welcome to the 2018 Group 1 Caulfield Cup. It may be a bit unfair to label a Thoroughbred with a nationality, but it is done all the same. One of the Caulfield Cup…
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We wonder if any of the punters rending their garments and gnashing their teeth over the withdrawal of Yucatan from the Caulfield Cup are cigarette smokers. Australia did not require the pictorial health warnings on packets of fags until 2006,…
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There is no shortage of discussion and there are plenty of punters in the ranks of the disgruntled, but the bottom line, or at least the big news is, Yucatan will not be running in the 2018 Caulfield Cup. After…
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The Group 1 Caulfield Stakes (2000 m) this weekend has a field of 12, unlike 2016, when only Black Heart Bart and He Or She were willing to take on Winx. Since the super mare is biding her time following…
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Suggestions that interstate rivalries be abandoned ahead of a huge weekend of Thoroughbred racing in Victoria and New South Wales fell on our deaf ears. It was somewhat a muffled, buzzing noise that had little impact. Interstate, intercity, inter-code rivalries-we…
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The barrier draw for the 2018 edition of The Everest has come and gone with little permanent impact, yet some would have you believe that the Sydney Opera House has been permanently desecrated. Some of the detractors might have been…
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The 12 runners for the upcoming run of The Everest are a tightly bunched group, so far as the early betting picture goes. From shortest to longest, the market range is $7 to $17. Redzel, Vega Magic and Trapeze Artist…
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What’s it going to take to beat her, then? Watching Winx win her 28th consecutive in the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes (2000 m) at Randwick on Saturday produced the usual sense of wonder we experience when she seemingly rises from…
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Beginning from the early 80s, the seventh barrier has been lucky number seven for 12 winners of the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes (2000 m) at Flemington racecourse. Barrier won has supplied six winners and barrier four has provided five winners….
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