July 2023
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Weekend wrap: Brown wins Lightning, Stubby's 2000th, Potter's big Saturday
Mornington trainer Cliff Brown added another South Australian feature to his resume when La Danseuse Rouge claimed Saturday’s $120,000 Listed Lightning Stakes at Morphettville. It was a race filled with drama. Second favourite Outback Miss was withdrawn on race morning and then short-priced favourite Exploring was scratched at the barrier...
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Four new faces welcomed to Apprentice Academy
Four new faces have been welcomed to the Racing SA Apprentice Academy, as Polly Brewster, Sophie Mitchell, Brooke King and Monika Wolanin signed their official paperwork on Monday. The four new riders will be formally inducted at a ceremony at Morphettville on Thursday. Brooke King (bottom right) boasts an impressive...
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Clarken chasing third consecutive Lightning Stakes
Will Clarken will chase a third consecutive $120,000 Listed Lightning Stakes (1050m) victory, a first in partnership with Niki O’Shea, at Morphettville on Saturday. The top Adelaide stable have enjoyed a strong finish to what they have described and indifferent season producing five winners form their past 10 runners (including...
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Jollys & Jake set for premiership glory
South Australia’s leading trainers Richard and Chantelle Jolly can put the icing on the cake of their 2022-23 season with a training double at Morphettville on Saturday. The Jollys will claim a second successive Adelaide Trainer’s Premiership this season having produced 47 winners and trail last year’s tally by one...
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Morphettville track report and speed maps
Track walked at 1pm, Thursday 27 July 2023. Winning post-1800 metres: Racing returns after a break to the main track for Lightning Stakes Day on Saturday, albeit with some showers around ensuring that we will be returning on a soft surface. With 5 mls of rain in the last 24...
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Fairytale milestone on the cards for Holder, Macdonald
It would be a romantic end to Hall Of Fame trainer Leon Macdonald’s decorated career if Jason Holder can claim his 2000th career win at Morphettville on Saturday. Macdonald has three runners at his final day of metropolitan racing before retiring with 1276 wins and 11 Group 1 victories to...
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Stable staff to be recognised at Industry Awards
Following on from the success of the last year the hard work and dedication of South Australia’s stable staff will be recognised as part of the annual 2023 TAB Racing SA Industry Awards. The gala event will again include two award categories – one for trackwork riders and one for...
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Lincoln Moore's Saturday Preview
BEST BET KARACASU (Race 7) EACH-WAY BLACKCOMB (Race 4) FINAL FIELDS RACE 1 - 11:52AM SkyCity Handicap (1200 METRES) ESSENTRIC NATURE was $1.80 out to $2.80 before winning by 1.5 lengths at Murtoa on debut. He draws a good gate and looks well placed here for his city debut. Plenty...
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Taylor, Bain join forces for 2023/24 season
Ned Taylor and Aaron Bain will have their first official runners in partnership at next Wednesday’s opening meeting of the 2023-24 racing season on their home track at Gawler. Taylor, who has been Bain’s right hand man since the dual code horseman branched out into thoroughbred racing 2021, is the...
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2023 TAB Industry Awards announced
South Australian racing's night of nights will descend on the Adelaide Convention Centre in September. Saturday, 9 September will see the SA racing community come together to celebrate the 2022/23 season, culminating in the John Letts Medal count, where the state's premier jockey will be revealed. Other awards that will...
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Lincoln Moore's Murray Bridge Preview
BEST BET CRIMSON VINE (Race 3) BELMONT AVENUE (Race 5) EACH-WAY PLAY TICKETY BOOM (Race 6) FINAL FIELDS RACE 1 - 12:45PM Dutton’s Easy to do business with!! Maiden Plate (1200 METRES) AIKHAL was sent out big odds but good beaten 1.1 lengths in 3rd behind Gusty Way at $51...
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Thorough Care partner with HorsemedSA
Thorough Care SA has joined forces with Horsemed SA – Morphettville Equine Clinic and Horsemed SA Hills Equine Clinic. The new partnership with Horsemed SA will allow Thorough Care SA Assistance Pack recipients access to selected services and procedures at a 25% discount in the first year following retirement from...
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Weekend wrap: Lakota Fire's dominant win, Balfour's big day
Former Adelaide trainer Mark Kavanagh’s decision to take a chance on European sire Sioux Nation at the 2022 Gold Coast Magic Millions Yearling Sale looks a smart one after Lakota Fire’s impressive win on the Parks at Morphettville on Saturday. Kavanagh paid $210,000 for the colt who followed up a...
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Group 2 winner headlines Lightning Stakes noms
Image Scott Barbour/Racing Photos Group 2 Blue Diamond Prelude winner Exploring headlines nominations for Saturday’s $120,000 Listed Lightning Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville. James Cummings has booked Celine Gaudray to ride the two-year-old filly who comes off a last-start Flemington win. There are 28 nominations for the two and three-year-old feature...
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Rawiller continues strong association with Exalted Fire
Exalted Fire can continue his ultra consistent form since joining the Michael Hickmott stable on the Parks at Morphettville on Saturday. The five-year-old has finished out of the placings just three times from 13 starts since joining the Murray Bridge horseman, a $28,600 purchase from the dispersal sale of the...
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Validated heads to Caulfield
Morphettville trainers Peter and Belinda Blanch head into uncharted waters with promising three-year-old Validated at Caulfield on Saturday. They cross the border for the first time since officially becoming a training partnership at the start of the 2022-23 racing season which has been a successful one having produced 15 winners...
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Morphettville Parks Track Report and Speed Maps
Track walked at 2pm Thursday 20 July Winning Post-1500m: Racing returns to the Parks track again, being in consecutive weeks given the break from racing on the Main track. With only 2 mls of rain in the last week, the track walked in the genuinely Soft 5 range on Thursday...
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#ThoroughCareMonth: Fulton Street settles in at 'David Jolly’s Living Legends'
When Fulton Street retired there was never any doubt the much loved journeyman would end up under the care of apprentice jockey Caitlyn Munro. She shared her first race ride with the eight-year-old gelding and has known him since he was a young buck. “What isn’t there to love,” gushed...
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Lincoln Moore's Saturday Preview
BEST BETS ALHAMBRA LAD (Race 1) STORM HUNTER (Race 4) FINAL FIELDS RACE 1 - 11:47AM The Junction Handicap (2400 METRES) ALHAMBRA LAD is flying winning his past three the last two at Sandown fighting off Funambulist. He draws out but rolls forward and is the horse to beat. DIXIE...
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#ThoroughCareMonth: Assistance pack milestone for Thorough Care SA
Thorough Care SA has distributed its 500th Retired Thoroughbred Racehorse Assistance Package. Five-year-old gelding Arthur which raced under the name Friendly Ghost, and his new owner Bella Masters, received the pack at his new home in Mylor. Prolific show jumper Bella has grand plans for her much loved ex-racehorse. “He’s...
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TAB Finals Day lead ups revealed, alongside black type changes
Racing SA has released the important lead up races to their spring feature race meeting, TAB Finals Day, to be run at Morphettville on Saturday 25th November, 2023. With a total of nine finals on the day, six at prizemoney of $105,000, almost $1 million prizemoney is up for grabs...
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Crowther booked for exciting Lightning Stakes ride
Leading jockey Kayla Crowther has been booked to ride exciting Victorian filly Outback Miss in Saturday week’s $120,000 Listed Lightning Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville, the final feature of the 2022-23 South Australian racing season. The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained Outback Miss is unbeaten in two starts winning a...
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Horse illness and sudden horse deaths in Victoria
Racing SA refers to recent notices by Racing Victoria and Agriculture Victoria in respect of sudden horse illnesses and deaths on the Mornington Peninsula, south-east Melbourne (Cranbourne) and near Ballarat and Colac in the west. To date, there have been no reports of cases in South Australia. Early indications from...
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Lincoln Moore's Gawler Preview
BEST BET HOSTESS SUSIE (Race 4) SON OF BIELSKI (Race 5) EACH-WAY FIAMETTE (Race 6) FINAL FIELDS RACE 1 - 12:45PM Terrace Function Centre Maiden Plate (1500 METRES) JAJITTA BUG was placed at two runs before a break and then resumed running 2nd behind Enchanting Eagle at Balaklava before running...
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Final Determination: G Lynch
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