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Daily Express
03-05-2025
- Sport
- Daily Express
Classy field at Tambalang tracks
Published on: Saturday, May 03, 2025 Published on: Sat, May 03, 2025 Text Size: Beautiful Princess. Tuaran: Tambalang Race 5 (Class 3) over 1100m sandtrack this Sunday will be a scorcher. The field of eight starters all have declared ambitions to finish first amongst equals. The magnificent Ratu First is in fabulous form this season and must be closely watched. Vastly experienced Water Princess is a proper runner that can throttle hard in the last furlong. Beautiful Princess, always prepared well by RX Stable, has a decent chance of topping this race. Do not disregard Dedek Beauty, a quality and hardworking-type, who will start the race at gate 2 advantage. Race 4 (Novice) over 1100m sandtrack has four runners fighting for first position. The smart Mamboo enters this race as favourite. Finishing a close second on 6 April, he can go one better. Honey Prize is well-tuned and always try her best. The consistent Ria Novilla is proven quality and can put up a title challenge as well. Last but not least, Delilah is expected to excel at this level. Today (Saturday), Royal Sabah Turf Club's Sabah Star and Kinabalu Light are expected to improve from their previous outings at Selangor Turf Club. Scheduled at Race 4 (Class 4B) over 1020m, Sabah Star is competitive at this level and has a place chance. In Race 11 (Class 5A) over 1600m, Kinabalu Light can compete for first place but he has to overcome a strong field of Run Buddy Run as favourite, Flying Warrior and Dragon Whisperer. Saturday also includes two exciting Group 2 races from Australia's Eagle Farm track. Race 7 (Group 2) over 1600m features Australia's brightest three-year olds competing for a total prize money of A$350,000. Shangri La Spring is early favourite with Wonder Boy, Boomtown Boss, Our Benefactor going all in. Race 8 (Group 2) over 1200m sees Coleman going head on with a freshened Golden Mile. New Zealand bred Jedibeel will have a crack at these two favourites. Look out for Hidden Wealth with an excellent record of four wins in his last six outings. The local totalisator pools for Australian races are commingled into larger Australian pools which is well-received by local race-goers. Race goers can visit the Tambalang Racecourse, RSTC's off-course centres in Tanjung Aru or Keningau to watch 'live' Australian (Eagle Farm and Hawkesbury) & Selangor races this Saturday, and local, Hong Kong & Selangor races on Sunday. For detailed race timings and details, please visit * Follow us on Instagram and join our Telegram and/or WhatsApp channel(s) for the latest news you don't want to miss. * Do you have access to the Daily Express e-paper and online exclusive news? Check out subscription plans available. Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express's Telegram channel. Daily Express Malaysia
News.com.au
02-05-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Adrian Bott doubts whether Gai Waterhouse will be up in the early hours of the morning in the US to watch Shangri La Spring in the Queensland Guineas
Adrian Bott doubts whether his high-profile training partner Gai Waterhouse will be up in the early hours of the morning in the United States to watch classy colt Shangri La Spring run around in the Group 2 Queensland Guineas at Eagle Farm on Saturday. But Waterhouse, who is in the US to attend the famous Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville on Sunday morning (AEST), will be there in spirit at least as favourite Shangri La Spring looks to strike an early blow for the powerful stable in the $350,000 race over 1600m. Bookmakers have listed the last-start Frank Packer Plate winner as the $4.80 favourite ahead of the Nathan Doyle-trained filly Churchill's Choice ($5), Victorian gelding Wonder Boy ($5) and Depth Of Character ($5.50) from the Annabel Neasham and Rob Archibald stable. Judging by her social media posts, Australian racing's queen of the turf Waterhouse looks to be having a ball in Kentucky. But whether she will still be awake at around 1.40am on Saturday (Kentucky time) to watch the winning horse cross the post in the Queensland Guineas remains to be seen. 'If it's that time of morning, I doubt it,' Bott said. 'She is awake at odd hours so never say never but it does make it difficult. 'The coverage of Australian racing over there is pretty good so there's plenty of exposure. 'I think she's really enjoying her time there so far. We don't have any horses over there but there are plenty of clients who race in Australia that we train for and I think it's important to spend some time over there and appreciate the industry.' Tim Clark will again ride Shangri La Spring on Saturday after he led all the way for a convincing victory as a $16 chance in the Group 3 Frank Packer Plate (2000m) at Randwick on April 19. 'It opened up a few more options for him, going out to the 2000m,' Bott said. • 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! 'He's the type of horse who seems to have plenty of tactical and natural speed. 'I'm hoping that can offset him dropping back to the mile off that run. 'I think he can be effective in doing that but we'll plan on stretching him out again after the run on Saturday.' Bott said the plan after Saturday was to run Shangri La Spring in the Group 3 Rough Habit Plate (2000m) at Doomben in two weeks' time before his winter grand final, the $1m Group 1 Queensland Derby (2400m) at Eagle Farm on May 31. Meanwhile, Wonder Boy's trainer Jerome Hunter said his gelding looked 'great' after also winning his last start, the $200,000 Listed Bendigo Guineas (1400m) on April 12 in an aggressive ride from Jamie Mott, who will stay on for Saturday's Queensland Guineas. Wonder Boy spent a week in Sydney with stablemate Magarten before travelling to Brisbane. 'He just takes a bit to wind up so he's certainly crying out for 1600m,' Hunter said. 'I'm actually glad Shangri La Spring is there because he'll add some speed which will help us.' Hunter said he loved coming to Brisbane where he had enjoyed success with mare Barb Raider, who won the Group 2 The Roses (2100m) at Eagle Farm in 2022 before backing up to finish second in the Group 1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) behind Gypsy Goddess. 'It's been a long preparation,' he said about Wonder Boy's campaign. 'I've had a lot of success at Eagle Farm so I can't wait to get back there. 'Barb Raider won The Roses last time I came up here, and then was second in the Oaks so it's a good hunting ground, Eagle Farm.'
