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Timeform Australia handicapper Adam Blencowe says past performances indicate punters and bookmakers have it wrong in betting markets for the $500,000 Group 1 CF Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield. Cox Plate winner Sir Dragonet is the well-backed favourite for the weight-for-age race but the respected form student of racing around the world says the Chris Waller-trained Imaging has the best form going into the race. “If I asked some bloke on the street in Ireland who is going to win a 1400-metre ...

Co-trainer David Eustace will walk the track tomorrow before making a final decision on whether Cox Plate Champion Sir Dragonet will resume.

Link to Share Two Group 1 placings from just a handful of opportunities at the elite level have kept the fire burning for Zac Spain, who will ride Streets Of Avalon in the $500,000 G1 Neds C.F. Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday. The 24-year-old took the opportunity last year to return to his home state of South Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic and in doing so finished second in the Australasian Oaks aboard Moonlight Maid and third when partnering Lyre in the Goodwood Handicap. W...

The flinging open of the Caulfield gates on Saturday could coincide with the unexpected appearance of Cox Plate winner, Sir Dragonet.

Link to Share Western Australias COVID-19 scare has potentially thrown the autumn campaigns of All-Star Mile contenders Arcadia Queen and Regal Power into disarray, with both gallopers unable to trial as planned at Belmont on Monday. The discovery a security guard had returned a positive COVID-19 test resulted in protocols being put into place in Perth on Sunday, forcing Mondays trials to be cancelled along with the closure of Perths public training tracks. Owner Bob Peters said on Monday the c...

LONGINES LISTS AN ANNUAL HEAD-SCRATCHER BUT ALSO REVEAL HARD TRUTHS January 27, 2021 3:22 pm By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor  If nothing else, the good folk of LONGINES provide us with an excuse to roll our eyes and slam keyboards. The World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2020, determined by the very official-sounding International Federation of Horseracing Authorities, and sponsored by LONGINES, today released its controversial best lists; best horses of 2020, best races of 2020. Despite the ...

Sydney’s leading jockey Tommy Berry wasn’t going to let his hectic schedule stop him from riding French Bonnet and Deepfield Magic at Gosford on Wednesday. Berry could easily have chosen to miss the low-key provincial meeting, particularly after riding into the evening at Warwick Farm on Australia Day then backing up quickly to ride at an important Rosehill barrier trials session in the morning. Then there is the Canterbury Friday night meeting ahead of Saturday’s Expressway Stakes fixtur...

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Link to Share Leading trainers Ciaron Maher and Dave Eustace are to release some of their expected autumn stars on Tuesday with Cox Plate champion Sir Dragonet headlining a quality line-up at the weekly jump-outs at Caulfield. Sir Dragonet is listed to contest the first jump-out against seven rivals, including stablemates How Womantic and Southern France. Sir Dragonet took the Cox Plate last spring at his Australian debut before finishing sixth in the Melbourne Cup after failing to stay the 320...

Link to Share Several city winners, including a brother to Exosphere, will be among 14 horses that will be offered as part of the Magic Millions Summer Racehorse Sale. Godolphin has provided 12 of the 14 horses who will go through the ring in an interesting suffix to the Gold Coast Yearling Sale that has been running since last Tuesday. Hilo, a winner of four races and more than $300,000, is the best-performed of the draft, which also includes last-start Warwick Farm winner Deference. Knickpoin...