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The Australian
04-08-2025
- Sport
- The Australian
Moruya preview: Absent trainer Joe Cleary to monitor Gerry Harvey pair on way back from Darwin
The dynamic duo of trainer Joe Cleary and Gerry Harvey can add to their extraordinary tally of shared winners in back-to-back races at Moruya Joe Cleary will be somewhere in the vicinity of 33,000 feet in the air when two of his spring, in partnership with the man he affectionately knows as 'Uncle Gerry', compete at ground level at Moruya on Tuesday. Cleary, as has often been the case, spends the first few days of each new season in the Top End where he invariably saddles up, or owns, a few in action on Darwin Cup day. With his flight home to Queanbeyan, via Canberra, taking up most of the daylight hours on Tuesday, Cleary will be monitoring the Gerry Harvey-bred and raced duo Feedback and Vermicella from the skies. • 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! Blue-blooded mare Vermicella is likely to start a warm favourite in Tuesday's feature Benchmark 66 Handicap despite being rolled at $1.60 at her last start at Moruya on July 11. That said, the Cleary/Harvey mare was a close runner-up in the Benchmark 74 and lost no love at home. 'She was good,'' Cleary said. 'It was probably half my fault. I rode her too close. I just thought Capital Heart would be out and rolling and try and pinch it but as it turned out, it just fell into Your Not The Boss' hands whereas we should have probably been back where it was and have one crack them. 'She will be ridden colder on Tuesday, getting her back into her comfort zone, and I think you'll see the real Vermicella. 'She just runs straight over the top of them.' Cleary has been for years Harvey's go-to man to improve the respective resumes of fillies and mares before they return home to the Widden Valley to join Harvey's elite broodmare band. There is no doubt Vermicella will have a home there given her royal family but it seems that it will be later rather than sooner in her case. 'If she comes out and wins easily on Tuesday maybe we go to a Goulburn Cup and then that's a back door into the Little Dance,'' Cleary said. 'She is only going to get better with age. I can see her being a real nice country cups horse over Christmas.' — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) July 11, 2025 Vermicella's pedigree has Harvey's fingerprints all over it. Not only is she out of a mare by his New Zealand-based, hugely underrated stallion Swiss Ace, she is also a direct descendant of one of Harvey's most prized and successful foundation mares, St Kate. As for Vermicella's co-traveller and stablemate Feedback, his future earnings relies solely on his racetrack performances given he is a gelding. The son of Kermadec's first three runs were in Victoria when housed with Mitchell Freedman. Feedback changed states and stables over the autumn, resurfacing at Gundagai on June 28 finishing third on the Heavy 9. He followed that encouraging effort up with another third, this time over 1280m on the infamously on-pace Acton track in the nation's capital. 'The other day at Canberra, it was just a road for the leaders so in hindsight his run was a lot better than what it looked on paper,'' Cleary said. 'And he's trained on well. 'Before I came up here to Darwin, I gave him a gallop on the course proper and he worked super.' Feedback was listed as a $12 chance to win Tuesday's Tyre Torque Maiden Plate (1435m). 'Obviously I have got a healthy respect for Matty Dale's horse (Brannum/$1.95 fav), it's probably the one to beat on paper but Feedback has been screaming for seven furlongs,'' says Cleary. 'I think the addition of blinkers on his last start has really switched him on. 'He'll be ridden forward on Tuesday, look, he's not far off breaking his maiden.' ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Bayou won't rest on Laurels Keith Dryden will hand over one of the sport's most recognisable sets of silks to Doncaster Handicap-winning jockey James Innes Jr on Monday when the Laurel Oak mare Blue Bayou steps out at Moruya. Canberra icon Dryden famously steered iron horse Handle The Truth to almost $2m in revenue for Laurel Oak including the 2019 Kosciuszko. Others to promote the Laurel Oak brand in recent times were Golden Slipper winner Fireburn and her Sir Rupert Clarke and Manikato Stakes-winning father Rebel Dane, both housed at Gary Portelli's Warwick Farm digs. Small in stature but big on heart, Rebel Dane is in fact the equine equivalent of an 'uncle' of the Moruya-bound Blue Bayou. Tuesday will be her second consecutive visit to the venue in quick time having finished runner-up there on July 21. 'Great run first-up I thought,'' Dryden said. 'She finished off well. Probably this race might be fractionally stronger than that one but I can see Blue Bayou being pretty competitive. 'I thought each-way, she is probably my best of the day.' Dryden, and his co-trainer Libby Snowden, saddle up an inviting $11 chance in the North Ryde RSL Maiden (1310m) in Brume De Soliel, a direct descendant of the broodmare gem Easy Date (the mother of Snippets). The daughter of Everest winner and current Randwick 1200m track record holder Yes Yes Yes has finished seventh at her two runs this campaign, both holding more merit than it appears. 'When Jeff Penza rode her at her first race, he gave her a real good report but she pulled up young and sore and immature,'' Dryden explained. 'So we gave her a good spell and then brought her back. 'She was disappointing first-up, even though it was only a 1000m, but the second run was a lot improved and I thought she has improved again since. 'I wouldn't think she could win but I reckon she is a place chance.' Dryden and Snowden's other likely runner on Tuesday's south-coast card is Bon River. The daughter of Bon Hoffa was $16 on debut on the Acton track but has seemingly been unduly punished for her underwhelming performance, priced at 100/1 to win on Tuesday. 'It'll improve,'' Dryden said. 'It was a bit hard to work out the other day on the synthetic because everything that led, won. 'And it got well back but its sectionals were actually quite good.' Horse Racing Form analyst Shayne O'Cass provides his best bets and race-by-race analysis for Moruya on Tuesday. Horse Racing Champion mare Via Sistina will lead an all-star cast of horses at Thursday's delayed barrier trials as the full list of finalists for the Australian Racehorse of the Year awards were announced.
The Australian
04-08-2025
- Sport
- The Australian
Moruya best bets, inside mail for Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Racenet and The Daily Telegraph form analyst Adam Sherry provides his best bets and race-by-race analysis at Moruya on Tuesday. • 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! MORUYA TIPS BEST BET Race 3 No.3: LAGUNA SECA Local who races well here at home and is a known fresh performer. NEXT BEST Race 4 No.2: HELLINDA Raced 19 times, won twice, runner-up seven times. Beat a good field when won here. VALUE BET Race 2 No.5: BRUME DE SOLIEL Could be ready to deliver third-up. Headed in the right direction. DAILY DOUBLE 1st Leg: 11, 2nd Leg: 1. QUADDIE Race 4: 2, 5 Race 5: 2, 5, 12 Race 6: 7 Race 7: 1, 4, 5 JOCKEY TO FOLLOW Quayde Krogh has a red-hot chance of winning the TAB Jockeys Challenge. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ MORUYA INSIDE MAIL RACE 1: MAIDEN PLATE (1020m) PERFORMING DIVA (7) has a globally recognisable pedigree, her fourth dam is the mother of Storm Cat while her fifth dam foaled down Royal Academy. Trainer Pat Murphy scratched Performing Diva from Forbes on Sunday and Wagga on Monday to run here and for good reason. AZZUCCA (4) has finished runner-up twice in six starts to date. In a good stable, Jeff Penza on, and has done enough in better races than this one. EAGERLY AWAITS (9) is very hard to line up with two starts, two seconds, one at Morphettville Parks and at Murray Bridge. BET: PERFORMING DIVA to win. RACE 2: MAIDEN HANDICAP (1310m) BRUME DE SOLIEL (5) is '8x77' leading into this but the two runs this preparation, she was beaten 'only' 4½ then six lengths but keep in mind that she was in a field of 14 last time and closed off rather well. This is not an especially deep race. SHOREMAN (9) who races in the colours of the Northern Suburbs Shute Shield team, is yet to score in his six starts but he's pretty nippy and could be hard to catch from box one in this line-up. ICONIQUE (1) was $101 first run for Nick Olive on July 21 and ran a career-best third. Might have turned a corner? BET: BRUME DE SOLIEL each-way, box trifecta 1, 3, 5, 9. RACE 3: CLASS 2 HANDICAP (1020m) LAGUNA SECA (3) is by Sebring, both horses are named after motor-racing tracks in California and Florida respectively. Laguna Seca is a locally-trained gelding who has three thirds from four Moruya starts. While all of his best form is on good tracks, it wouldn't be right to say he is a duffer. Tom Wilson has had GIZA (5) flying since he bought her off Godolphin. She has won twice and placed twice in nine runs including a really impressive one here last start. COMMANDORO (10) has some fabulous numbers here at home. BET: LAGUNA SECA to win. RACE 4: BENCHMARK 58 HANDICAP (1210m) HELLINDA (2) has finished first or second at nine of his 19 starts; that said only two of them are wins so he has been quite costly for punters. That said, he is a lot more consistent and competitive than most. What really makes him almost impossible to go past here is that he won over this track and trip three runs back beating Winning Emotions (goes well!). BLUE BAYOU (5) was $18 into $13 and almost landed the plunge when a close and closing second to Deni Girl in a 1210m Benchmark 58 here on July 21. Reliable type. SNAPPY JIM (1) excels on Heavy tracks. BET: HELLINDA to win, quinella 2, 5. RACE 5: COUNTRY BOOSTED MAIDEN PLATE (1435m) SAWMILL (12) is a Gerry Harvey-bred son of All Too Hard out of Testa Rossa mare with broodmare sires including Secretariat, Nasrullah and Man O' War. Apart from being rather well bred, Sawmill is rather handy too, certainly by maiden standards, given she has placed in all five starts to date and in some uncommonly strong maidens too. BRANNUM (2) likewise has placed at every start he's had so far, that's two seconds and a third. Big run here first-up, not sure about the draw though. FEEDBACK (5) is another Gerry Harvey-bred participant; only he kept this one. BET: SAWMILL to win, Daily Double 1st Leg 12, 2nd Leg 1. RACE 6: COUNTRY BOOSTED BENCHMARK 66 HANDICAP (1435m) VERMICELLA (7) is owned and bred by that man again, Gerry Harvey! The Joe Cleary-trained mare will be off to Baramul to join the broodmare band next spring rather than this one you'd think. By the by, she is a daughter of Pierro is from one of Harvey's best families – St Kate. Cleary has ensured that she will retire with a handy little record of (as it stands today) three wins and three seconds from eight starts. Run twice at Moruya and KO'ed Stallone at the first one. Let's stay with the 'Rocky' theme for a minute given the presence of EPAULLO CREED (2) (close enough!). In fine form. BET: VERMICELLA to win, box trifecta 2, 3, 4, 7. RACE 7: BENCHMARK 58 HANDICAP (1660m) PERUNO (1) was bred by guess who? Gerry Harvey. A son of the aforementioned Pierro, this gelding is a descendant of Denise's Joy. Though born and raised at Baramul in the Widden Valley, Peruno is very much a Moruya local having raced there 19 times for three wins, three second and five thirds. On top of that, he has a win and a second from three runs at the track/trip. One for one on heavy too. BEAUER (5) paid for himself in the trip away to Grafton with back-to-back placings. Go well here. EASEMENT (4) and SOUL TAKER (6) have claims. BET: PERUNO each-way. Horse Racing The dynamic duo of trainer Joe Cleary and Gerry Harvey can add to their extraordinary tally of shared winners in back-to-back races at Moruya Horse Racing Champion mare Via Sistina will lead an all-star cast of horses at Thursday's delayed barrier trials as the full list of finalists for the Australian Racehorse of the Year awards were announced.
News.com.au
04-08-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Moruya best bets, inside mail for Tuesday August 5, 2025
Racenet and The Daily Telegraph form analyst Adam Sherry provides his best bets and race-by-race analysis at Moruya on Tuesday. MORUYA TIPS BEST BET Race 3 No.3: LAGUNA SECA Local who races well here at home and is a known fresh performer. NEXT BEST Raced 19 times, won twice, runner-up seven times. Beat a good field when won here. VALUE BET Could be ready to deliver third-up. Headed in the right direction. DAILY DOUBLE 1st Leg: 11, 2nd Leg: 1. QUADDIE Race 4: 2, 5 Race 5: 2, 5, 12 Race 6: 7 Race 7: 1, 4, 5 JOCKEY TO FOLLOW Quayde Krogh has a red-hot chance of winning the TAB Jockeys Challenge. â– â– â– â– â– MORUYA INSIDE MAIL PERFORMING DIVA (7) has a globally recognisable pedigree, her fourth dam is the mother of Storm Cat while her fifth dam foaled down Royal Academy. Trainer Pat Murphy scratched Performing Diva from Forbes on Sunday and Wagga on Monday to run here and for good reason. AZZUCCA (4) has finished runner-up twice in six starts to date. In a good stable, Jeff Penza on, and has done enough in better races than this one. EAGERLY AWAITS (9) is very hard to line up with two starts, two seconds, one at Morphettville Parks and at Murray Bridge. BET: PERFORMING DIVA to win. BRUME DE SOLIEL (5) is '8x77' leading into this but the two runs this preparation, she was beaten 'only' 4½ then six lengths but keep in mind that she was in a field of 14 last time and closed off rather well. This is not an especially deep race. SHOREMAN (9) who races in the colours of the Northern Suburbs Shute Shield team, is yet to score in his six starts but he's pretty nippy and could be hard to catch from box one in this line-up. ICONIQUE (1) was $101 first run for Nick Olive on July 21 and ran a career-best third. Might have turned a corner? BET: BRUME DE SOLIEL each-way, box trifecta 1, 3, 5, 9. LAGUNA SECA (3) is by Sebring, both horses are named after motor-racing tracks in California and Florida respectively. Laguna Seca is a locally-trained gelding who has three thirds from four Moruya starts. While all of his best form is on good tracks, it wouldn't be right to say he is a duffer. Tom Wilson has had GIZA (5) flying since he bought her off Godolphin. She has won twice and placed twice in nine runs including a really impressive one here last start. COMMANDORO (10) has some fabulous numbers here at home. BET: LAGUNA SECA to win. HELLINDA (2) has finished first or second at nine of his 19 starts; that said only two of them are wins so he has been quite costly for punters. That said, he is a lot more consistent and competitive than most. What really makes him almost impossible to go past here is that he won over this track and trip three runs back beating Winning Emotions (goes well!). BLUE BAYOU (5) was $18 into $13 and almost landed the plunge when a close and closing second to Deni Girl in a 1210m Benchmark 58 here on July 21. Reliable type. SNAPPY JIM (1) excels on Heavy tracks. BET: HELLINDA to win, quinella 2, 5. SAWMILL (12) is a Gerry Harvey-bred son of All Too Hard out of Testa Rossa mare with broodmare sires including Secretariat, Nasrullah and Man O' War. Apart from being rather well bred, Sawmill is rather handy too, certainly by maiden standards, given she has placed in all five starts to date and in some uncommonly strong maidens too. BRANNUM (2) likewise has placed at every start he's had so far, that's two seconds and a third. Big run here first-up, not sure about the draw though. FEEDBACK (5) is another Gerry Harvey-bred participant; only he kept this one. BET: SAWMILL to win, Daily Double 1st Leg 12, 2nd Leg 1. VERMICELLA (7) is owned and bred by that man again, Gerry Harvey! The Joe Cleary-trained mare will be off to Baramul to join the broodmare band next spring rather than this one you'd think. By the by, she is a daughter of Pierro is from one of Harvey's best families – St Kate. Cleary has ensured that she will retire with a handy little record of (as it stands today) three wins and three seconds from eight starts. Run twice at Moruya and KO'ed Stallone at the first one. Let's stay with the 'Rocky' theme for a minute given the presence of EPAULLO CREED (2) (close enough!). In fine form. BET: VERMICELLA to win, box trifecta 2, 3, 4, 7. PERUNO (1) was bred by guess who? Gerry Harvey. A son of the aforementioned Pierro, this gelding is a descendant of Denise's Joy. Though born and raised at Baramul in the Widden Valley, Peruno is very much a Moruya local having raced there 19 times for three wins, three second and five thirds. On top of that, he has a win and a second from three runs at the track/trip. One for one on heavy too. BEAUER (5) paid for himself in the trip away to Grafton with back-to-back placings. Go well here. EASEMENT (4) and SOUL TAKER (6) have claims.
News.com.au
20-07-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Bathurst, Moruya Tips and Inside Mail for Monday from Shayne O'Cass
Form analyst Shayne O'Cass has provided his best bets and race-by-race analysis for the quaddie legs at Monday's NSW country meetings at Bathurst and Moruya. â– â– â– â– â– BATHURST TIPS BEST BET Runner-up at his only two starts for the new stable and ready to win. Scratched from the Kensington meeting last Wednesday with this race in mind. Has some talent. VALUE Local whose sole win was here and first-up as is the case in this. â– â– â– â– â– QUADDIE Race 4: 5 Race 5: 3,4,6 Race 6: 2,3,4,6 Race 7: 2,7,5,6 â– â– â– â– â– JOCKEY TO FOLLOW Grant Buckley has ridden 144 winners at Bathurst and has a good book on Monday. â– â– â– â– â– BATHURST INSIDE MAIL RACE 4 – Benchmark 58 Handicap (1300m) Green Pineapple 's lone win in 10 starts was here at Bathurst and first-up over this very same trip back when Roy McCabe had him. The horse's last four runs are for Gayna Williams who has found a suitable race at home to resume in. Thoughtful, who races in the same colours as his close relative Happy Clapper, has the job ahead with a wide draw and a big weight but if he brings his A-game, he's a chance. Slush Fund is ready for the 1400m and barrier 1 (hopefully) can't hurt. Bet: Green Pineapple each-way. Skiing is a former Ciaron Maher-trained galloper who has raced seven times for Robert Quinn inclusive of two fourths and two fifths, three of them at provincial level. In terms of the trip, he was in a strong Midway class race at Newcastle last start and ran fifth; very fit and drawn 3. The best Final Comment is better than most of his rivals. Needs it fairly dry. Outcast Girl has claims. Island Legend used to wear the Classique Legend colours of Bon Ho back in the early days. Fast forward to more recent times and this son of Capitalist calls Wyong home with Nikki Hodgson calling the shots. Resumes here off a lovely trial win with Winona Costin the key booking. Starane is a terrific little bush horse. This will be his 40th start and he's won five and placed 13 times – and always in good country class races. Navios was huge in his local debut. Pressnell has drawn the outside alley twice in six starts and hasn't fared a whole lot better here with 14 although he'll come in a few closer to the inside rail after scratchings. There is no doubt the talent is there, and everything says 1400m will be his go. Saint Philomena beat a decent field at Mudgee on July 6 to shed her maiden status. No reason why she can't climb another rung in this. Ditto that for Bonnie And Bruce. Bet: Pressnell to win. â– â– â– â– â– MORUYA TIPS BEST BET Race 4 No. 9: Beauty Dash Really is racing herself ever closer to a first win. NEXT BEST Race 5 No. 10: Miss Steffi Graff filly (of course) on debut off some lovely trials. VALUE So You Think, granddaughter of Let's Elope and she is on the improve. **** LAY OF THE DAY **** SPICE BABY (Race 5 No. 11) Has trialled well but has competition from the likes of 6, 10 and 11 others hence lay in a full field only. â– â– â– â– â– RACE 5 – Maiden Handicap (1020m) Miss Steffi is a daughter of Graff and was bought for $20,000 at the Magic Millions. her three trials can summed up this way; 'good, very good and 'not as bad as it looks'. Love the draw for her here and has an experienced jockey on. The astute Trevor Lobb paid $15,000 at the HTBA Yearling Sale for Molteuno knowing it was way too cheap for granddaughter of Dizelle. There was a lot of hidden merit in her debut. Bet: Miss Steffi to win, Molteuno each-way, exacta 10 to beat 6. Rippana will turn six on August but only has five starts on her CV for one reason or another. What is important is that she has won twice, finished third once together with a fourth and a fifth. That win came first-up last prep and she thrashed them too. This will be Selhurst Park 's 14th run at the track and trip. He has one win and five placings. Watch him charging home late as always. Bet: Rippana to win, exacta 8 to beat 10, box trifecta 1,4,8,10, Daily Double 1st Leg 8, 2nd Leg 1. Gooloo Bucky put the writing on the wall first-up that a win was close at hand and sure enough he came back to Moruya two weeks later and won by nearly three lengths in that 1200m maiden. Bad alley this time but she has the confidence up. Teepee Princess is an American Pharoah out of a Savabeel, so with breeding like that, it only enhances her debut win over 1200m no less. Lady Revolution and Dame Annie have claims. Gorush Lightning finished an honourable third in quite a respectable Benchmark 66 here last start. That was his 80th career start and his 29th run at home here at Moruya. In that time, he has won six times and placed on 10 other occasions so he is very reliable really. His danger could come from within, that is his stablemate Peruno who has a lot of ticker and a better draw than his Michael Gatty-trained rival on Monday. is so, so consistent.
News.com.au
11-07-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Randwick Inside Mail: Amazing stat will put Pep in your step
If racing had its own version of the Dally Ms, Luke Pepper would just about have to be voted Trainer of the Year. Going into Friday's Moruya meeting, Pepper's tally of wins stood at 50. His stable earnings? $997,355. His strike rate of winners-to-runners? A truly remarkable 25 per cent. 'It's been unbelievable,'' Pepper said. 'The move back to Canberra was the starting of it all I guess. We obviously trained a few winners before we left Scone but it has been amazing being back home. 'I've got to sort of pinch myself all the time. There's a lot of hard work going on, I've got a really good team behind me but it is good to see it is all paying off. 'We've got to about 30-31 in work at the moment now and for the majority of the season, we have had less than 20. 'So to get this amount of winners and the amount of prizemoney we've been able to earn is a credit to all my staff and the support of the owners.' Consistency is one thing but Pepper, like all trainers large and small, is eager for another 'banner-horse', in his case another Opal Ridge. 'I'd love to run into another 'Opal' but look, we just keep working hard and hopefully one comes through the door, that's all you can do,'' Takeover Target's trackwork rider said. 'At the moment, I am just happy working hard and getting winners.' Pepper can add to his season total by two on Saturday should the stablemates Soul Taker (TAB Highway) and recent Highway winner Bengal perform accordingly. 'We have obviously got a big opinion of Bengal and we brought him back this time of year to see if he can step up and see if he can get himself a slot in the Kosciuszko so he'll have to keep improving and put his profile out there to hopefully get a spot,'' Pepper said. Bengal hangs on in the TAB Highway for Luke Pepper and @brodie_loy ðŸ'° @aus_turf_club — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) June 7, 2025 Pepper's weekend Highway runner is the well-bred Soul Taker who was scratched from a scheduled engagement at Moruya on Friday to participate in her first TAB Highway. 'She was very good first-up,'' Pepper said. 'She had to go back from a bad barrier and they (the winners) were all on-speed the whole day at Moruya so it definitely wasn't going to help her winning chances but it was a good, solid effort. 'The owners are keen to have a crack with her and obviously being a set-weights race she is probably not the best weighted in the race but she's a tough little horse and she'll run out the mile nice and strong.' â– â– â– â– â– BEST BET Race 7 No.3 LULUMON won arguably one of the strongest 'form races' on the winter when she skittled Storm The Ramparts and Hi Dubai here at HQ on June 21. For the record, both of the beaten duo won at their respective next starts at Rosehill last weekend. That win was Lulumon's first run at the Randwick 1000m and interestingly, her other win over the 'five furlongs' was art Gosford in May when she beat none other than the Storm The Ramparts. Lulumon dives and gets there in a close one at Randwick, and that's a double to Jason Collett! 🙌 @jason1coyle @aus_turf_club — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) June 21, 2025 â– â– â– â– â– BEST VALUE Race 9 No.7 RAZORS is a Godolphin gelding who resumed here in a very strong Benchmark 94 Handicap on June 21 off two solid trials. The market, as it so often does, told the story with Razors. He opened at $12 but drifted to start $18 but for all intents and purposes, he ran much more akin to a $12-shot than an $18-pop when a 2.35-length sixth behind Accredited. Worth noting that the only other time Razors has raced at the 1400m at HQ was when he was beaten a lip in the South Pacific at the Championships. 🥳 @PrideRacing ends the day with a double as Accredited wins the last! @nashhot @ProvenTbreds @aus_turf_club — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) June 21, 2025 • Market Movers: $14 into $6 in quaddie closer â– â– â– â– â– EARLY QUADDIE Race 3: 4,9,10 Race 4: 5,9,11 Race 5: 3,4 Race 6: 1,2,5,10 QUADDIE Race 7: 3 Race 8: 4,5,11 Race 9: 3,7,10 Race 10: 1,2,3,5 â– â– â– â– â– PRICE CHECK Race 6 No.1 AGE OF KINGS was a handy horse back in his early days. He won a 1207m Maiden at the Curragh by four then ran in stakes races for his remaining five starts in Ireland, culminating in the Group 3 Jersey Stakes. Since he has been in Australia, he has contested a Golden Eagle. Linlithgow, Hall mark Stakes and Luskin Star Stakes. At the end of the day, you'd like (and need) to see him do something in a winter Benchmark 88 and he's $23 for the gamble. Another #RoyalAscot winner for Aidan O’Brien! Age Of Kings wins the Jersey under Wayne Lordan... @Ascot — At The Races (@AtTheRaces) June 24, 2023 • ' I've learnt a lot': Sherry keen to build on breakthrough Group 1 â– â– â– â– â– SECTIONAL STARS Race 8 No.11 KING RATEL was two years, three months and 27 days between runs when he resumed, beating half the big field home here on June 7. The son of a Kentucky Derby winner and Coolmore Classic winning mum was just as good the next time finishing fifth behind It's A Knockout and credited with two of the quickest 200m sectionals of the race. It's A Knockout KO's them first up at Randwick! 🥊 @cmaherracing @NockBraith @aus_turf_club — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) June 21, 2025 Race 10 No.2 GENTLY ROLLED is a stablemate to King Ratel and like him, she too is possessed of a whirlwind finish. This daughter of Press Statement sends out every signal that she was near to her peak after two runs back, that last one a closing third behind Changing Colours at Rosehill Gardens where she clocked three of the fastest furlongs from the 600m home. Changing Colours sails past them at Rosehill for a deserved win! 🎨 ðŸ'� @cwallerracing @aus_turf_club — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) June 28, 2025 • â– â– â– â– â– TRIAL POINTERS Race 9 No.3 SUPER HELPFUL will join the ranks of 'millionaire galloper' if he wins today. The Joseph/Jones trained gelding's earnings presently stand at $940,735; a stunning 'ROI' on the 'JJR' $20,000 outlay at the 2020 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale. Super Helpful has a fascinating record at Randwick. He's been there 11 times and came away with one third – but he did collect a whopping $300,000. Yep, it was The Big Dance. Looked the part in a Canberra trial last Friday. Super Helpful wins the Nowra Cup! ðŸ�† Apprentice jockey Claire Ramsbotham gets her third win for the day ðŸ'� @JJRacing_ACT — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) December 15, 2024 Race 1 No.6 KOKATAHI is a son of the Golden Slipper winner Farnan. As good as he is going as a sire, the most likely reason for this horse's hefty $425,000 price-tag at the Karaka Yearling Sale is that his third dam, Scandinavia, is the grandmother of Black Caviar. This Chris Waller-trained gelding has trialled in unhurried fashion since that most encouraging debut third to his star stablemate Central Coast at the midweeks. Regally bred Central Coast gets the job done at Canterbury, and that's the First 4 to @cwallerracing after he trained the Quinella in Race 1 at Doomben as well! ðŸ'° @aus_turf_club @coolmorestud — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) June 18, 2025 • â– â– â– â– â– • 47.8% – Race 4 No.4 BENGAL (Nick Heywood / Luke Pepper) • 42% – Race 8 No.8 PUNTIN (Ashley Morgan / Bjorn Baker) • 21% – Race 10 No.6 VERY SEWREEL (Josh Parr / Bjorn Baker) • 19.7% – Race 5 No.9 HOVLAND (Andrew Adkins / John O'Shea-Tom Charlton) • 19.6% – Race 9 No.6 TIME QUEST (Ashley Morgan / Matthew Smith) RATINGS RULER (best three Racenet iQ ratings for the meeting) • Race 6 No.10 PIPPIE BEACH ($3.40) • Race 9 No.10 IT'S A KNOCKOUT ($3.00) • Race 10 No.5 CHANGING COLOURS ($4.20)
