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News.com.au
06-05-2025
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Warwick Farm best bets, inside mail for Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Racenet and The Daily Telegraph form analyst Adam Sherry provides his best bets and quaddie analysis at Warwick Farm on Wednesday. â– â– â– â– â– WARWICK FARM TIPS BEST BET Race 5 No.5: SIGIRIYA ROCK Just behind the placegetters in Group company his past two starts. Gets his chance to break through. NEXT BEST Will be improved by her first-up sixth in stakes company. Is a second-up winner. VALUE BET Race 8 No.4: HELLBENT ON YOU Consistent mare who was just pipped by a smart one last start. QUADDIE Race 5: 3, 5, 7 Race 6: 7, 9 Race 7: 10, 11, 13 Race 8: 4, 5, 6, 9 JOCKEY TO FOLLOW Hard to go past JAMES McDONALD in the TAB Jockey Challenge. â– â– â– â– â– WARWICK FARM INSIDE MAIL REGULATED AFFAIR (6) went back to last from the outside gate before coming wide from the 700m and closing strongly to finishing a nose second to Farnicle on debut on the Kensington. Can settle closer from the inside gate. EQUERRY (4) is a debutant by Snitzel. Closed well for second to Rainbow Glow in his Apr 24 Randwick trial. FERNWEH (5) is a first starter by Turn Me Loose. Pushed up after a slow start to share lead and beat Rosa Incanta in his Apr 17 Warwick Farm trial. BET: REGULATED AFFAIR to win. AGARWOOD (1) is a first starter by Wootton Bassett and a half-sister to recent stakes winner, Lilac. Jumped to the front and raced away to score by nearly eight lengths ion her Apr 24 Randwick trial. LIPSTICK (5) was third to stablemate Tempted on debut in December. Returned with a second Impact Zone on a heavy track at Newcastle. SYLPH (13) raced keenly back in the field before making ground out wide when fourth on debut at Hawkesbury on Apr 9 behind Grand Eagle who has won at Randwick since. BET: AGARWOOD to win. FRANKLY SUBLIME (5) is a daughter of Snitzel and stakes-winning mare Frankely Awesome. Well backed on debut but raced greenly in the straight when a head second to Roman Forum at Gosford. WALK THE PIER (4) was a neck second to Correon on debut at Kembla when seven to Tomba at the same track last December. Returns as a gelding and has trialled nicely with two close seconds at Randwick. WINNER OF KOWLOON (8) will take improvement from her debit third behind Silver Wedding over 1100m here on Apr 21. BET: FRANKELY SUBLIME to win. STRUCK GOLD (5) improved off his first-up sixth when a length fourth to Tuned at Warwick Farm. Loves sting out of the track and should get an ideal run from the pole. NEGOTIATIONS (2) kicked off last preparation with a head second to Tanglewood over 1000m on the Kensington. Won his previous two first-up runs on soft ground over 1100m and 1000m. EXTRAVAGANT LAD (3) drop sin grade from his seventh to Miss Icelandic at Randwick. Nice win in the Cup Day Sprint at Orange first-up. BET: STRUCK GOLD to win. SIGIRIYA ROCK (7) was fifth to Evoporate in the Group 3 Carbine Club over 1600m at Randwick second-up then became unbalanced near the 150m when bumped in the Group 3 Packer Plate over 2000m. Drops in grade and back to 1600m. SEAFALL (5) has been unplaced in three first-up runs but battled away for fourth to Our Empress Zoe at Canterbury. Is a second-up winner and has won two from three on the soft. CORMAC T (3) resumed with a nice third behind Our Empress Zoe when resuming. Drawn out but won't be far away again. BET: SIGIRIYA ROCK to win. DAME COMMANDER (9) did a nice job in her first campaign with a maiden win second-up over 1600m before a sixth in the Callander-Presnell and a third in the Spring Stakes at Newcastle. Will be improved by her first-up sixth to Lilac in the Group 3 James Carr. VILLASAURUS (5) raced wide without cover when a length third in the SDRA Qualifier at Wagga on Mar 1. Bounced back with a good win at Albury. MISTERKIPCHOGE (7) ran on well for fourth to Enter The Dragon at Hawkesbury first-up. Settled closer when second to Collect Your Cash on the Kensington last start. BET: DAME COMMANDER to win. PINK SHALALA (10) placed in five of his first six starts before breaking through with a tough win from Up To Mischief at Canterbury on Feb 21. Resumes here and can go on with it. SECURE (11) returned from a spell with a smart win by over two lengths from Donwon at Canterbury on Apr 21. Looks the hardest to beat. KYEEMA (13) raced well in Australia two years ago with placings in a couple of Midways before going to Hong Kong but he didn't fire there. Has been good in his two recent trials including a win in his Apr 24 Wyong heat. BET: PINK SHALALA to win. HELLBENT ON YOU (4) resumed with a narrow but handy win from Formal at Hawkesbury before a long head third to Seascape on the Kensington and a nose second to Candlewick over 1200m here. Will run a big race again. JUST FEELIN' LUCKY (5) kicked off this campaign with a handy win at Newcastle from a wide gate. Drawn to get a nice run. MISS KIM KAR (6) ended last preparation with a hat-trick. Resumed with a strong closing third to Candlewick.
New Paper
29-04-2025
- Sport
- New Paper
Top Field can show his wares second-up
Horses can sometimes be off their game and a bit of a break could get things running again. Trainer Winson Cheng Han Yong will be hoping this holds true for his horse, Top Field. The Real Impact six-year-old has not visited the winner's enclosure since Oct 21, 2023. That was when he scored his fourth consecutive win while under the charge of Singaporean trainer Jason Ong at Kranji. The four-time winner in Singapore (1,600m to 2,000m) ran two more times for Ong, with the last being an unplaced run on Nov 25, 2023, before relocating to Cheng's yard at Sungai Besi. He resumed active duty on Feb 4 and looked good when running third to War Star in a 1,000m trial. Top Field stepped it up and won his next trial on March 11. That day, with Andre da Silva in the saddle, he took that sprint in a smart 1min 0.32sec. He needed to bring that form to the races, but it was not easy as the 1,100m trip in a Class 4B race on March 16 was hardly his cup of tea. Still, he ran good first-up. In that tight finish on March 16, Top Field ran 2¾ lengths behind One Abracadabra in sixth. After a break from racing, Top Field will line up in the Class 4B race (1,500m) on May 3. His workout on the morning of April 29 was rather inspiring. Taken out on a track rated yielding to good, the Happy Baby Stable-owned gelding ran out the 600m in a leisurely 40sec, after some serious cantering on Sungai Besi's turf track. The longer trip of 1,500m will be more to his liking, as two of his four wins at Kranji were over the mile. He deserves respect and can race well fresh, hence a first win in Malaysia will not come as a surprise. Cheng, who is seventh on the 2025 Malaysian trainers' premiership with 10 winners to his name, could pull another out of the hat when Golden Cup races over the 1,020m in that Class 5A sprint on May 3. Another six-year-old, Golden Cup has been winless since June 16 in a Class 5A race (1,200m) in Ipoh, but he turned in a good training gallop when running the 600m in 37.8sec. At his last start on April 20, Golden Cup - who also races in the colours of the Happy Baby Stable - went off as one of the outsiders in a Class 5A contest (1,150m). But he was never in the hunt, finishing eighth in that contest won by Lim's Sinai. The Turn Me Loose gelding had excuses. He had to race wide for most of the trip. A three-time winner from 34 starts, Golden Cup enjoys shorter sprint races, having won twice over 1,200m and once over 1,250m. While his favoured track appears to be in Ipoh, where he has scored two of his three victories, Kuala Lumpur is where he is based at. And, on the strength of his training gallop, we should see him raise his game and, with some luck, register a fourth win. Outside of Cheng's twosome, the Class 4A race over the 1,500m looks to be an interesting affair. Trainers Ananthen Kuppan and Simon Dunderdale, whose runners - Forever Sixty-One and Thunderous - fought it out and took first and second in Race 3 in Selangor on April 27 - could be involved in another duel. Ananthen's Ocean Jupiter and Dunderdale's Military Award were also impressive on the training track, clocking 38.6sec and 39.8sec respectively. Ocean Jupiter would have caused a huge boilover had he won at Selangor on April 5. Carrying little support when ridden by Wong Kam Chong, his win would have paid $107 in dividends, but he ran third to Fire. That was over the 1,200m on the short course. The son of Ocean Park will appreciate the extra 300m he has to see out on May 4. As for Military Award, he had a baptism of fire. On April 12, before his debut run in the Class 4A event (1,200m), a heavy downpour turned the grass track into a padi field. The field of 12 raced in mud and, with visibility down to near zero, Military Award plodded home in seventh spot, finishing 12¼ lengths behind the winner, Boomba. The Shamus Award gelding had come into the race on the back of a decent trial when running second to RS Dream. Now a four-year-old, Military Award came from Australia, where he won a race at Geelong, Victoria on Dec 27, 2023. That was over the 1,547m and Military Award won it with some authority, holding second spot until the final furlong where he hit the front and kept going. Should the weather hold on May 3, Military Award could start paying for his keep. Have him as a horse to follow. brian@
