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Things You Might Have Missed - April 7

2 weeks ago | punters.com.au | Luke Sheehan

The track at Jundah in western Qld is underwater Check out a few things you might have missed in the wide world of racing over the past week. QUIRKY (from abroad)Expensive filly struggling to hit the board (NZ)Million-dollar horses are a dime a dozen these days, but still, you'd be holding hope of them producing something on track. NZ-based filly Sister Cynane certainly has carried expectation, sent out at $1.70, $1.70, $1.60 & $1.30 in her four goes.
James McDonald to ride ex-Chris Waller horse in Dubai

2 weeks ago | punters.com.au | Luke Sheehan

You've probably heard J-Mac is riding Romantic Warrior this weekend. The superstar partnership is aiming at taking the horse's prizemoney earnings to around AUD$47m - eye-watering stuff - if they can win the Dubai Turf, Race 7 on the card. What you might not have heard is McDonald is also hopping aboard a horse he's had a few rides on earlier in the evening. Ex-Waller galloper Sword Point is in the G2 Godolpin Mile at Meydan, the horse now with Hong Kong trainer Frankie Lor.
Things You Might Have Missed - March 31

3 weeks ago | punters.com.au | Luke Sheehan

The loose horse trotted back through the crowd Here's a few things you might have missed in the wide world of racing over the past week. QUIRKY (from abroad) Precarious situation negotiated with consummate ease (UK)Five-year-old gelding Break Point might be a bit smarter than anyone could credit him for. At the first hurdle on Saturday, he gave his rider Philip Armson the flick - but that wasn't the end of his party tricks (the jockey's OK btw).
Well-fancied flops and forgives from Saturday's racing

3 weeks ago | punters.com.au | Luke Sheehan

The ever-polarising Pride Of Jenni Here are some of the more well-fancied beaten runners on Saturday and what we're doing with them here on in. READ: Saturday racing in review FORGIVENunthorpe ($10) - Flemington R1 (1100m)She wasn't exactly a strong fancy to fire first-up, but think she can improve sharply back around a bend - this was her first go down the straight, and while she was beaten 4.5L, she also wasn't in the ideal part of the track. Could see her improving sharply second-up.
Visibility at a premium as Toowoomba inundated

4 weeks ago | punters.com.au | Luke Sheehan

King Of The Mountain? More like King Of The Fountain. It was deadset hosing down in Toowoomba on Friday for their feature meeting, headlined by the $750,000 slot-race, the King Of The Mountain (1200m). Of course it was Who Ordered Dafish to salute in the slop, the slippery fish froffing the conditions to win the Benchmark 65 by 8.3 lengths.
The Australian Cup where no-one had the Answer

4 weeks ago | punters.com.au | Luke Sheehan

A century ago, the Australian Cup was run and won - but most punters were probably wishing it wasn't in the end. It's a time-honoured race, the Australian Cup. First run in 1863, the race has changed complexion a fair bit in the subsequent 162 years. The distance has whittled away from initially being about 3600m to the 2000m it is today. We had a flick through its history, and stumbled across this wild result exactly a century ago from the 1925 edition.
WATCH: Awesome ride helps jockey land 1100-1 double

4 weeks ago | punters.com.au | Luke Sheehan

Jockey Angus Chung could've been forgiven for 'doing an Avdulla' and taking a bow here. Instead, he delivered the more traditional fist-pump salute and it was deserved. Chung was riding the Tony Cruz-trained California Star in a 1200m handicap, the horse being sent out at $20 in the market - only three of his 11 rivals priced longer.
Things You Might Have Missed - March 24

1 month ago | punters.com.au | Luke Sheehan

Good bit of theatre from the jock here Here's a few things you might have missed in the wide world of racing from off-Broadway over the past week. QUIRKY (from abroad)One-horse race draws a sporting salute (UK)The old 'one-horse race' struck again in the UK this week, when there were two scratchings that left 6YO gelding Yealand as the lone competitor in a race at Haydock.
Barrier rogue blasts them away on debut in NSW

1 month ago | punters.com.au | Luke Sheehan

It's not about how you start the race, it's how you finish it. Chautauqua taught us that a long time ago. Albury-based filly One Hard Lady is a subscriber to that theory. In her first official outing in an Albury trial on Caulfield Guineas day last spring, she bungled the start and finished over 27L off the heat winner Flying Season. Granted, she has - for the time being - improved her manners at the gates to produce a debut ambush to hose up on day one of the Albury carnival.
William Reid noms: 16 entered for $1m G1

1 month ago | punters.com.au | Luke Sheehan

Imperatriz winning the William Reid last year It is 100 years since the first running of the William Reid, and we could have a capacity field trying to win a slice of history. Sixteen horses hold an entry for Saturday's weight-for-age sprint, with four hailing from the Ciaron Maher conglomerate.