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Saturday’s Caulfield Cup has History of Rewarding Obscure Runners
The Everest has gotten the bulk of the attention, but the Caulfield Cup is also being run this Saturday. The track looks good, currently Good 4 and it should hold up fine for the ninth race of the day, a…
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The Everest Field and Barrier Draw Offers No Clear Picture
Brave Song, Champagne Cuddles, Home of the Brave and Brutal will all be ridden in the 2019 The Everest by the same hoop, some bloke or lass by the name of J. Unknown. Actually, those four are the emergencies should…
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Schillaci Stakes Winner Trekking to The Everest – Maybe
Punters who ventured to Caulfield Saturday had to wait until the 10th race to learn that Trekking will be the Melbourne Racing Club’s horse in The Everest at Randwick next weekend. Trekking came out of the fifth barrier with Kerrin…
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Field for The Everest Still Offers Intrigue
If Kerrin McEvoy’s carries any influence with Godolphin, Alizee will be the operations’ runner for 2019 in The Everest. “There’s your Everest horse I would say,” McEvoy told the Godolphin team following a barrier trial at Randwick. We would be…
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V’landys Seems Keen on Running Racing Victoria as Well as RNSW
Could The Race that Stops a Nation Stop the Nation be run on a day other than the first Tuesday of November? Racing NSW chief executive Peter V’landys thinks the racing interests of Australia would be better served if the…
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Handicappers Must Contend with Heavy Randwick Riders
It is not true that Maccas’ have a ride-through window at Randwick, so the jockeys are not overweight as a result. They have found other ways to tip the scales, yet the stewards overseeing Saturday’s racing at Randwick will allow…
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Weekend Thoroughbred Racing at Flemington and Randwick Offers Buffet
We lack the skill, but more importantly, the finances to cover all the big Group level racing the first week of October has on offer. Flemington has the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes, slightly unusual not for its distance (2000 m)…
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All Good Things End They Say but Hopefully Cronk Does not go Away
Cooper Cronk will ring the final gong on his 16-year football career at the end of the Telstra 2019 NRL Premiership competition Grand Final and while he has indicated that he has no interest in coaching, we hope he will…
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Black Heart Bart has Evergreen Lungs to win Group 1 Underwood
We old fogies have much over which to be chuffed after the running of the 2019 Group 1 Underwood Stakes at Caulfield. The race was won by Black Heart Bart, a horse so old that he may have pulled the…
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Something for Everyone in Big Weekend of Spring Racing
Adapting to L.A.W.*, Chris Waller has the hot favourite for the Group 1 Charter Keck Cramer Moir Stakes at Moonee Valley. He will field Nature Strip, currently $2.90 and a heavy favourite agasint a field that currently stands at 15….
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