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Captain Upham paid $235 to win on Betfair and $83 best tote yesterday. Gotta luv monopolies -
Yes a horse called Sinai Sermon, Westport trots last March meeting 32 v 54 took tote odds at reefton 2 days he won again and paid 40s tote odds 34 from memory fixed, been exported to China now, also happen to me with miss onaki, 27s v 42, in fairness did put my bet on a couple hrs earlier due to work commitments, on the other side captain upham I got 67s tote v 40 fixed. All abit suspect to me. -
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The Gr.1 Tancred Stakes (2400m) looms as a possible autumn option for ever-improving stayer Torranzino (NZ) (Tarzino), who on Monday returned to work with Paul Preusker. The Tarzino gelding’s return to stable life comes around two months since his fifth placing in the A$10 million Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m). Preusker was determined to reward his new stable star with a good spell after his career-best campaign and considered giving him a tick-over preparation without a run before resetting for spring, but was now favouring a brief autumn campaign. “He’ll start work Monday and then we’ll just sort of plot away,” Preusker said at the weekend. “I was happy to just put a prep together and go nowhere and spell again, but he hasn’t lost much. “He’s in a good paddock with a couple of mates, so I think he’ll come up alright, and I suppose it’s now just a matter of whether we poke away in Sydney for a little bit.” Torranzino’s autumn preparation will be grounding for another tilt at the Melbourne Cup and Preusker said it was unlikely he would get out to the 3200m of the Gr.1 Sydney Cup. “I’ll probably leave that alone and maybe a Tancred or something like that, just a light staying race, and we’ll see what we can do.” The A$1.5 million Tancred Stakes, a weight-for-age Group One race over 2400m, will be run at Rosehill on March 28. Although six years of age, Torranzino stamped himself a quality stayer last spring with his Melbourne Cup effort coming after a win in the Gr.3 Geelong Cup (2400m) and a second placing in the Gr.3 The Bart Cummings (2500m). He has six wins and nine placings from 34 starts with merely participating in a Melbourne Cup a dream come true for many of them. “They’re all up and about, they’re a great mob of owners – most local people, although there’s a few scattered around – but they were just appreciative to get there and whatever happens is a bonus now.” View the full article -
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In the third instalment of The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Road to the Derby series, we zero in on a pair of Frankie Lor-trained up and comers with the potential to make an impact in the 2025/26 Four-Year-Old Classic Series. With less than four weeks until the first leg of the prestigious series – the HK$13 million Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) on 1 February – and with the 149th HK$26 million BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) on 22 March on the horizon, Numbers and Regal Gem have both built ratings that will ensure them a start should their esteemed handler choose to head that way. Numbers looks certain to play a part in the Four-Year-Old Classic Series after an impressive last-start victory, with the gelding flashing his stamina with an all-the-way victory in the Class 2 Long Ke Handicap (2000m) on 27 December. Smartly away under Derek Leung, Numbers enjoyed a sedate first 400m in front before injecting some serious pace into the race during the second sectional – clocking 1.22 seconds inside standard between the 1600m and the 1200m – before continuing to apply the pressure and eventually finding enough to hold off Winning Wing by a length. By Tivaci out of Zabeel mare Sheezababe, Numbers came to Hong Kong with his stamina credentials already proven after finishing second in the G1 Queensland Derby (2400m) in June. “It was a nice win. The 2000m was good and I think 2400m will still be okay,” said Lor, agreeing Numbers possesses similar traits to his former charge Dark Dream, who won the Queensland Derby before running fourth behind stablemate Furore in the 2019 BMW Hong Kong Derby. “At this moment I can’t see too many four-year-olds that can handle 2,000m – (Sagacious Life) could be one of them but (Invincible Ibis) only won over 1600m last time. But I think there are still some four-year-old PPs to come out so we don’t know exactly at this moment what the Derby will look like.” After securing his owners, the 23/24 Frankie Lor Fu Chuen Trainer Syndicate – who raced Unbelievable in the 2024 BMW Hong Kong Derby – a HK$3 million Private Purchase Bonus for his victory on 27 December, Numbers will have one more run before likely entering the Four-Year-Old Classic Series in the HK$13 million Hong Kong Classic Cup (1800m) on 1 March. “Maybe we will skip the (Classic Mile) because the 1600m will probably be a bit short for him. The Classic Cup could be better,” said Lor. “I will talk to the owners about his next move – we will give him one more race before the Classic Cup. It’s just whether it’s 2000m or 1800m.” Numbers jumped to a rating of 90 after his first Hong Kong win – he finished third on debut in the city at Happy Valley earlier in December – and he’s joined by stablemate Regal Gem as horses impressing during their Classic season. Sitting on a mark of 83 after three Happy Valley 1200m wins from nine Hong Kong starts, Northern Hemisphere three-year-old Regal Gem is the joint leader of the DBS x Manulife Million Challenge and may target the riches in that competition – which concludes on 4 February – rather than the Hong Kong Classic Mile. Regal Gem is a three-time winner at Happy Valley. Photo: Hong Kong Jockey Club “Maybe he will go to the Classic Series, but maybe not because we will be looking at Happy Valley first and trying to win the Million Challenge. Maybe we will aim for that. I’ll run him on (14 January) and then we’ll decide,” said Lor of Regal Gem, who was a recent sixth over the extended Happy Valley mile in his first run over further than 1400m. “For me 1600m should be no problem because last time with Zac (Purton) on at his first time at 1650m he jumped and then he couldn’t get cover. He sat second all the way with no cover and he still finished sixth, only two and a half lengths behind the winner, so it wasn’t too bad.” View the full article -
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Chris Rutten has a knack for selecting Karaka Millions 2YO contenders, and he looks to have struck again, this time with the Roydon Bergerson-trained Sweetest Thing. The daughter of Hello Youmzain impressed when runner-up to Lassified in the Listed Wellesley Stakes (1100m) at Trentham on Saturday, with her runner-up cheque of $18,500 putting her on the cusp of qualifying for the $1 million TAB Karaka Millions (1200m) at Ellerslie on January 24. It’s a race Rutten has a strong association with, having won it with Vespa in 2014, and he has collected minor placings with Touche (2013), Kingsman (2016), Yourdeel (2019), Avonallo (2021) and Wolverine (2022), while he also won the Karaka Millions 3YO (1600m) with Scott Base in 2018. Bergerson trained Wolverine, and the pair also teamed up last year to contest the race with Too Sweet, who was third favourite for the rich feature after her victory in the Gr.2 Eclipse Stakes (1200m) at her previous start, but she was given no favours from her outside barrier in the 14-horse field and finished 11th. The pair could be seeking redemption with Sweetest Thing later this month, however, Bergerson is questioning the timing of the race and said a decision will be made on her immediate future later this week. “I am really happy with her,” Bergerson said. “Wiremu (Pinn, jockey) said she just got a bit lost coming across the crossing, but she hit the line strong and has pulled up well. “She has always shown a lot of ability. She is a beautiful filly and will make a lovely three-year-old. I don’t know what the future plans hold but we will see how she does this week. “It is up to the horse (whether they target the Karaka Millions), I don’t want to push her too hard at the moment, it is pretty hard going into that race second-up. Chris is really keen on the race, he has always tried to win it. “We will likely just give her one or two more (starts) and then put her out and bring her back as a three-year-old. What races we go for I’ll just have to talk with Chris and Ian (Farrelly, part-owner) about it and make up our mind at the end of the week.” Sweetest Thing was purchased by Rutten and Bergerson out of Wentwood Grange’s 2025 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 1 Yearling Sale draft for $80,000, and the pair race her in partnership with Farrelly. Hailing from a European pedigree, Sweetest Thing is out of two-time European winner Ocean Drive, a half-sister to dual Group Two winner Indian Days, Group One performer Reply and Group Three performer Binou. Bergerson was impressed when inspecting Sweetest Thing at Karaka on the behest of Rutten, but glancing at her pedigree he questioned her precocious qualities. “She was a really scopey filly, a really nice horse,” he said. “She is a well-balanced filly with a bit of strength behind her. “It was quite surprising when Chris picked her out, I said ‘the mare won over 2600m Chris and you are trying to buy her for the Karaka Million?’,” Bergerson said. “He is a great judge.” Meanwhile, Bergerson said Too Sweet is currently having a freshen-up before returning to the stable to prepare for autumn targets. “She had a bit of a viral infection after her last start, so we put her in the paddock for three weeks,” he said. “She will come back into the stables next Monday and we will just see how she comes back up.” View the full article
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