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By PeterLambFan · Posted
I don’t know that. Be great if they already are. -
By Chief Stipe · Posted
Yes. Look at the consortium accounts. They are heavily reliant on the Greyhounds and Harness. -
Yesterday my roughie evangelist at 41, a mobile specialist, stepped from the stand like a pro, unfortunately false start, reared up on the re run, thought it could been a refunded, but don't know what the laws on that, drops in class tomorrow of the mobile and is paying 2.00 at present, interesting, My skatjie deemed a non starter, couldn't see much on the race replay, think it's all a lottery. -
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By Michael Guerin Cran Dalgety shakes his head when he looks at the TAB market for the Trillian Trust Auckland Cup. It is not that the Canterbury trainer doesn’t believe his stable star Republican Party should be a warm, or even hot, favourite for the $250,000 iconic feature at Alexandra Park on Wednesday night. It is just that Dalgety never thought he’d have a pacer paying $1.40 to win one of our great races. “It is kinda crazy when you think about it,” he says. “We don’t often have $1.40 chances in maiden races and here we have one in the Auckland Cup. “I know how hard these really big races are to win and apart from when Mark [Purdon] was really flying you don’t often see those sort of odds in a Cup.” While $1.40 in a 3200m Group 1 sounds incredibly short the Auckland Cup has had even hotter favourites in the last decade, with Vincent paying just when he won in 2017 and Self Assured was $1.40 when he won the Cup for a second time in 2022. It is hard to argue with the bookies’ assessment because in the last 12 months, since he won the Invercargill Cup and Auckland Cup last year, Republican Party has been clearly our best pacer. He has been near perfect: sound, brave, well-mannered and willing whereas plenty of his rivals have been on form or injury rollercoasters. Republican Party bent to the will of the powerful Australians in Kingman and Leap To Fame during New Zealand Cup week but there tends to be less pressure in the Aussie-less races and that could be the case in the eight-horse Cup at Wednesday’s twilight meeting. It is a balanced field with most of the better open class pacers going around but there are few brutes good enough to bully horses so if Republican Party steps safely from barrier 2 not many of his rivals would seem likely to want to get into a battle for the lead with him. The obvious threat is Merlin, who finished second to Republican Party in this race last year. He has yet to win over 3200m, albeit in only three attempts, but has actually looked stronger in the last two months and he did beat Republican Party home in the New Zealand Cup (3200m) when third last month. “He looks like the one we have to beat,” says Dalgety, who worked for Merlin’s co-trainer Barry Purdon for four years at the start of his career. While Republican Party has had a big year, travelling up and down the country and across the Tasman, Dalgety says for a stallion he handles being away from home well. “Especially when he comes up here to Pukekohe,” he explains. “He stays in the same box every time he comes here and while being a colt he yells out a bit and gets boisterous he is all talk.” Merlin will have two Purdon/Phelan stablemates in the Cup in Sooner The Bettor and Better Knuckle Up, Cambridge trainer Arna Donnelly has two in Little Spike and Jolimont while Akuta returns after winning the Cup when it was run in May in 2023. Wednesday’s other Group 1 is the Peter Breckon Memorial National Trot which has also drawn a small field with Mighty Logan a $2 favourite from barrier 2 with Oscar Bonavena on the unruly for the 2700m mobile but still the $2.80 second favourite in a race missing two-time winner Muscle Mountain and Bet N Win. The 12-race twilight meeting starts at 2.55pm. To see the Auckland fields click here View the full article -
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Well-related mare Watersports (NZ) (Ocean Park) added a second win to her record with a track-record-breaking victory in the A$80,000 Big Swing Golf Handicap (1500m) at Cranbourne on Saturday. The promising four-year-old is a half-sister to Grail Seeker (NZ) (Iffraaj), the winner of last season’s Gr.1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) and Telegraph (1200m) for Matamata trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott. Grail Seeker will head to Trentham to attempt to defend that Telegraph title next Saturday. Watersports herself brought strong form credentials into her Benchmark 70 assignment at Cranbourne, having been beaten by small margins when second at Seymour and third at Sandown in her two previous appearances in this campaign. The Archie Alexander-trained mare was sent out as a $3.10 favourite on Saturday, and she produced a well-timed finish to win in the hands of jockey Craig Williams. Drawn gate two, Watersports jumped well and took up a handy position in third along the rail. A strong speed was set by Porter (So You Think), who had a clear lead throughout and poured on even more pressure coming down the side of the track and around the home turn. Porter still had a clear lead halfway down the straight, but Williams angled Watersports off the fence and the pair set their sights on the tearaway leader. Watersports warmed into her work and charged past Porter in the final 50 metres for a narrow but impressive win. The time of 1:28.72 was a new track record for 1500m at Cranbourne. “She had a good spot, but they were going very hard and it’s not easy to sit at that top speed and then quicken in the straight, but she did it,” Alexander said. “We got a bit of luck at the right time with the gap appearing at the top of the straight. It looked like we might be a gallant second, with Porter giving a good kick and going well clear. I thought we might be in trouble. But she’s always been incredibly game. It was a good, strong ride and she got there. “She’s always been on the verge of having a big win like that. She’s had a second at Flemington in the past. Even though she hasn’t won for a while, she’s been a very consistent mare. “She’s well bred, a half to a Group One winner, and she’s a lovely type. This is great for all the connections. “With that page that she has, it would be great to look at an Adelaide autumn stakes race with her. She’s just kept on improving. She’s now a city winner, and we’ll just creep along from here.” Watersports was bred by Jamieson Park and is by Ocean Park out of the Redoute’s Choice mare Starwish. Lime Country Thoroughbreds offered Watersports during the 2023 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale, where she was bought for A$75,000 by Alexander Racing and Rogers Bloodstock. Watersports has now had 13 starts for two wins, seven placings and A$112,100 in prize-money. View the full article
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