racing-sa--racing
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Fifth time lucky for Spying On You?
South Australian chaser Spying On You will try to complete an historic Great Eastern and Grand Annual double when he returns to Warrnambool today. Murray Bridge trainer Grant Young was on the road at 4am to make the trip for the final day of the three-day Warrnambool carnival with Spying...
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Lincoln Moore's Murray Bridge preview
BEST BET: BIARCHI (Race 6) EACH-WAY: BOLT I AM (Race 4) VALUE: VINDEX (Race 7) RACE 1 - 12:05PM Murray Bridge Club Three-Year-Old Benchmark 58 Handicap (1200 METRES) COOL MAGNUM comes out of a strong race in town, beaten just 2.3 lengths in the Listed Nitschke Stakes. His previous behind...
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Wide gate a worry for Jolly stable's Wangoom hope
RICHARD Jolly is worried by a wide gate for Dexelation in today’s $175,000 Listed Wangoom (1200m) and Warrnambool. Despite coming off an eye-catching effort behind his star sprinting stablemate Kemalpasa in the Group 3 Irwin Stakes, the lack of horses making ground on the opening day of the famous three-day...
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Jack favourite to land third 3YO major
Ciaron Maher and David Eustace’s Explosive Jack is a $3.50 favourite in his quest for a third three-year-old major in the $502,250 TAB South Australian Derby at Morphettville on Saturday. The Tasmanian and ATC Derby winner will jump from barrier 10 and is favourite ahead of the Cindy Alderson-trained Liqueuro...
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Rising star to fly SA flag at Murray Bridge NARS opener
Rising star Ben Price will represent South Australia in the 2021 National Apprentice Race Series (NARS), which starts in Murray Bridge tomorrow. The opening two legs of the 2020 series were held in Tasmania and Western Australia in March last year, before the final three legs were postponed in the...
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Stories flow from Group 1 features
Two Group 1 features and three very different stories came from the track at Morphettville on Saturday. Adelaide owner Trevor Robertson claimed an eighth major as an owner when Instant Celebrity won the Group 1 TAB Classic (Sangster Stakes), while Geelong trainer Chris Calthorpe upstaged the big players to win...
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Lincoln Moore's Naracoorte preview
BEST BET: KYSHAKA (Race 7) EACH-WAY: BLUEBERRY BOY (Race 4) VALUE: MULGA LIL (Race 3) RACE 1 - 12:50PM Combined Carriers Maiden Plate (1000 METRES) SHE’S A TOFF is on debut for David Jolly and looked pretty good winning a recent Strathalbyn jump-out with ease. She looks to have talent,...
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Adelaide Racing Carnival: Day 1 track report
From the 2000m start to the 1200m, lanes 1-4 are uniform. Beyond that is slightly inferior but unlikely to have traffic. The track is even across from the 1200m to the 900m. From the 900m to the 400m mark the inside four lanes are noticeably better than the wider lanes....
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From unfamiliar to face of our carnival
Self-isolating in Mount Gambier ahead of an optimistic three-month SA sojourn, not even Jessica Eaton could have imagined less than a year later she would be the face of the Adelaide Racing Carnival. “I probably would’ve laughed,” Eaton says, while having her hair and makeup done for the 2021 carnival...
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Instant Celebrity keeps Classic in SA, while roughie nabs Oaks
Instant Celebrity ensured the first Group 1 of the 2021 Adelaide Racing Carnival stayed in South Australia with a scintillating win in the 1200m TAB Classic at Morphettville today. Aided by a perfect rails ride by Craig Williams, who didn’t go around a horse, Instant Celebrity ($8) surged to victory...
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2021 Australian Racing Hall of Fame Inductees Announced
Tie the Knot, Darby McCarthy, Les Bridge and Bob Charley are among the list of 10 thoroughbred racing greats to be elevated to the Australian Racing Hall of Fame (ARHOF) in Adelaide next month. The ARHOF spreads across four categories – horses, trainers, jockeys and associates – and induction is...
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Lincoln Moore's Saturday Preview
BEST BET: TRANSLATION (Race 1) EACH-WAY: RANTING (Race 6) VALUE: PELONOMENA (Race 4) RACE 1 - 11:45AM Without Fear Stakes (formerly Queen Adelaide Stakes) (1050 METRES) TRANSLATION has speed to burn and was brave behind subsequent winner Cloudy here last time in the Dequetteville. She will take some running down...
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Blue Army teams up with the Wizard at Morphettville
Godolphin's Blue Army partnering with the Wizard of the West, William Pike, are an ominous combination and one punters will be searching for at Morphettville on Saturday. Pike has been sourced to ride Flexible for James Cummings in the $502,250 Group 1 Australasian Oaks (2000m) where the pair have drawn...
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Mill Park vet features in Not One Day campaign
Fittingly, with the females on show at Morphettville this weekend, one of the mainstays of Mill Park Stud, Dr Sian Hazell, will be featured in the TAB’s ‘Not One Day’ campaign celebrating women in racing. Hazell has been the resident vet at the historic Limestone Coast stud, owned by the...
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Is Celebrity really special?
Trevor Robertson’s decision to keep a Not A Single Doubt filly and sell her mother, Celebrity Girl, can reap the ultimate reward at Morphettville in Saturday’s $502,250 Group 1 TAB Classic at Morphettville. Robertson, chasing an eighth Group 1 win as an owner, eventually sold Celebrity Girl through the Magic...
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Tassie star will be Hela hard to beat in Oaks
Tasmanian filly Hela can live up to some massive wraps when she makes her mainland debut in Staurday’s $502,250 Group 1 Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville. Described by respected scribe Peter Staples as “the best horse he’s seen” in Tasmania, Hela will make her own luck from a perfect barrier...
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Live free-to-air coverage for SA’s Autumn Racing Carnival
The 2021 Adelaide Autumn Racing Carnival – which starts tomorrow – will again be broadcast live and free to homes across the country. An arrangement between Racing SA’s vision rights holder, Racing.com, and the Seven Network will bring viewers all three feature race days at Morphettville Racecourse in their entirety,...
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Queensland beckons for Detox’s daughter
The Queensland Winter Carnival is a possibility for exciting three-year-old En Francais after her brilliant debut at Gawler last Sunday. With the Adelaide Racing Carnival coming up too soon, trainer Jake Stephens said connections were assessing all options with the daughter of Puissance De Lune after she settled back and...
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Wide-gate no worry for SA staying filly
Wide gate, no worry. That’s Murray Bridge horseman Mick Huxtable’s assessment of local filly Ecumenical ahead of Saturday’s $502,250 Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville on Saturday. Ecumenical will have just two horses on her outside when the barriers are released and is marked a $23 chance with tab.com.au with Victorian...
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Out of big sister’s shadows
Sisstar can step out of her big sister’s shadow and add some serious value to her breeding career in Saturday’s $502,250 TAB Classic (Sangster Stakes) (1200m) at Morphettville. The full-sister to Sunlight, who banked more than $6.5m in a career that netted 11 wins and nine placings from just 24...
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Lincoln Moore's Balaklava preview
BEST BET: GREAT LEVELLER (Race 6) EACH-WAY: MORIALTA (Race 2) VALUE: BARTENDER BLUES (Race 5) RACE 1 - 12:45PM Balaklava Prime Dental Maiden Plate (1400 METRES) SILENT DON is well-bred, being out of former handy mare Silent Surround, and started with McEvoys before joining Ashton Downing. He won a recent...
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Brooklyn’s barrier barely raises a brow
Trainer Jason Warren barely raised an eyebrow on Tuesday morning when he plucked barrier 15 for his perennially unlucky – but talented – sprinter Brooklyn Hustle. It might seem like more of the same, but few horses in the $502,250 Group 1 TAB Classic would be better suited to the...
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Oaks an appetizer for NZ staying filly
The 2000m of Saturday’s Australasian Oaks might be a mere appetizer for New Zealand staying prospect Llanacord. The Group 1 event at Morphettville is likely to be the first of two Adelaide starts for trainer Stephen Nickalls’ three-year-old, who finished an outstanding third in the Group 1 NZ Oaks over...
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Local best backed in open TAB Classic at Morphettville
Instant Celebrity has been best backed to win Saturday’s $502,250 Group 1 TAB Classic (Sangster Stakes) at Morphettville. The Phillip Stokes-trained filly opened on the fourth line of betting at $11 but quickly displaced Sisstar as favourite and finds herself the $7 top elect in one of the most open...
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Local hope draws well for Group 1 at Morphettville
South Australian filly Instant Celebrity has drawn perfectly in barrier six for Saturday’s $502,250 Group 1 TAB Classic (Sangster Stakes) over 1200m at Morphettville. Star jockey Craig Williams will replace Kayla Crowther aboard the filly, who finished fourth in the Redelva Stakes first-up from a spell. Last year’s runner-up Lyre...
