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Daily Telegraph
3 days ago
- Business
- Daily Telegraph
Brisbane Cup on cards for Kiwi import Campaldino after third straight win at Eagle Farm
Don't miss out on the headlines from Horse Racing. Followed categories will be added to My News. Former Kiwi Campaldino must have felt like he was back in his former homeland as he relished the heavy Eagle Farm conditions to take out the Group 3 Queen Elizabeth II Cup (2400m). There were wild betting fluctuations in the staying event, raced on a Heavy 8 surface, as one-time favourite Immediacy took a bath in betting and blew from $4.20 to $7. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Immediacy was given a good run in transit by James McDonald but the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained gelding never fired a shot and was beaten out of sight. Punters zeroed in on former import Dillian, trained by locals Will and Peter Hulbert, and he was backed from $10 to $5.50 favourite in the belief he was a swimmer. Dillian was also well beaten but, meanwhile, Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Campaldino ($7.50) was enjoying the conditions under jockey Tim Clark. This was a big step up from wins at a midweek event and the Orange Cup. But the four-year-old who started his racing career on the other side of the ditch has now put three consecutive wins on the board. 'He relished the conditions and he's been a progressive horse and he is starting to put is all together now,' Bott said. 'There's more upside there and he is racing with a bit of confidence. 'We came up here with a bit of confidence the way he'd been working since his last run and the way he's been all preparation. 'When the rain came it filled us with confidence.' Bott said it was onwards and upwards towards the Group 2 Brisbane Cup over 3200m on Stradbroke Handicap day at Eagle Farm in a fortnight. Clark said Campaldino felt like a new horse. 'He made a really big leap there coming from midweeks,' Clark said. 'He's just been a different horse since Gai and Adrian took the blinkers off him. 'He was wanting to overdo it. With the blinkers off he relaxes really well. 'He conserves his energy and it was a really dominant performance there. 'The way he's relaxing in his races is the key and I'm sure over two miles he'll do the same.' The Waterhouse and Bott and Clark team was back in business in the following race with New Endeavour taking out the Group 3 Lord Mayor's Cup (1800m). It was the former import's first win Down Under but he did boast a runner-up finish in last year's Group 1 Doomben Cup. Originally published as Brisbane Cup on cards for Kiwi import Campaldino after third straight win in Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Eagle Farm
News.com.au
21-05-2025
- Climate
- News.com.au
Randwick meeting predicted to go ahead on Saturday despite dire weather forecast
Racing's return to Royal Randwick on Saturday is set to go ahead despite a deluge of rain forecast for Sydney in coming days. Randwick's capable course manager Michael Wood is confident the track surface 'will be fine' to host the 10-race program. 'The water is moving off the track as well as it ever has,'' Wood said. 'We are on the back of a track renovation after the autumn carnival which helps and there is no surface water on the track. 'Saturday's meeting is in no doubt at this stage.'' Wood confirmed he was factoring in the rain forecast to fall at Randwick over the next 48 hours and is also cognisant fine weather is likely on Saturday. 'There is about 30mm forecast for Thursday and another 30mm on Friday,'' Wood said. 'This will bring the total this week to about 70mm by Friday afternoon but then the weather is clearing for the weekend. 'I'm not too worried about rain during the week so if the forecast is right and we don't get any rain on Saturday, then we will have no problem going ahead with the Randwick meeting.'' The Randwick track surface was rated a Heavy 9 late on Wednesday but will almost certainly be downgraded for Saturday's meeting, the first on the track for a month. Despite the expectation of a heavy track surface there are a bumper 171 entries for the 10-race program. With the rail out 10m from the 1600m to the winning post, this has meant field size restrictions with eight races having a capacity 13 starters and the other two races with a 12-horse maximum. But there are full fields all day with only one race, the Charity Challenge Handicap (1600m) not having emergencies although it has the maximum 13 starters. The juvenile opener, the Sporting Chance Cancer Foundation Handicap (1200m), features a possible clash between the talented Chris Waller -trained colt Regulated Affair and boom unbeaten filly Agarwood from the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable. Regulated Affair and Agarwood are being readied for the Group 2 $1m BRC Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm on May 31. The Waterhouse-Bott stable also has promising three-year-old filly Bella Montagna continuing her preparation for the Group 1 $700,000 Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm on June 7 either at Royal Randwick or Doomben on Saturday. Bella Montagna, the former New Zealand filly who was so impressive at her debut for the stable at Kembla Grange earlier this month, is entered for the Chalouhi Handicap (1800m) at Randwick and also the Group 2 $300,000 Red Roses Stakes (2000m) at Doomben.
