Monthly Archive: November 2017
Rock Magic Looks to End Bad Winterbottom Stakes Fortune
One of the most fascinating aspects of weight-for-age thoroughbred racing and handicaps is the chance to see champions return to try to defend a win, or even to increase their haul to three. If Racing Victoria officials are successful in…
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Promising Three-Year-Old Capital Gain to Try Winning Rupert at Doomben
Capital Gain is set to resume after Paul Butterworth held him out of the Melbourne spring carnival to give the promising three-year-old a good freshen ahead of fielding him Saturday at Doomben. Butterworth has designs on a $500,000 bonus that…
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Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes Attracts Quality Field of 13
While we are still waiting for the barrier draw for this Saturday’s Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes (1200 m weight for age) at Ascot this weekend, we at least know that it will be a field of 13, for the time…
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Winx Back to Work Waller Plans to Keep Her Options Open
After a little over a month in the paddock, Winx is returning from a spell to begin preparing for her autumn campaign. Trainer Chris Waller, keeping to his routine of maintaining various routes for the horse that has sealed his…
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Group 2 Australian Guineas Showcases WA Three-Year-Olds
It feels inappropriate to mention the Group 1 Railway Stakes, yet completely ignore the Group 2 Western Australian Guineas, so here is some information that about the other important race going off at the same Ascot meeting Saturday. The WA…
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Group 1 Ascot Stakes Historical Facts and Figures
The Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600 m) at Ascot was first run in 1887. Since it is an open handicap race, we had a look at the history of Perth’s premier mile event and found some interesting trivia associated with…
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Smith Hopes Scales Of Justice can Tip in his Favour for Railway Stakes
About the only justification we can determine for Scales of Justice occupying the role of favourite for Saturday’s Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600 m) at Ascot is the fact that he won last year. It was his first and only…
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Railway Winterbottom Stakes Kingston Town Classic Last 2017 Group 1s
With just three Group 1 races remaining in 2017, all three jumping in Western Australia, here is a brief rundown on the Railway Stakes (1600 m) on November 25, the Winterbottom Stakes (1200 m) on December 2 and the Kingston…
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Williams True Mastermind of Macedon Lodge Says Williams
The recent proclamation by Lloyd Williams regarding who wields the true power at Macedon Lodge seems to have stirred a bit of a ruckus in the racing community. The departure of Robert Hickmott as head trainer, with his positon to…
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Kingston Town Classic will Feature Big Time Horses in 2017
Quiz for all of you racing punters out there. What do these six races have in common? The Marlboro 50,000, the Western Mail Classic, the Rothwell’s Stakes, the Winfield Stakes, the Beat Diabetes Stakes 2 and the Fruit ‘N’ Veg…
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