This is one of the great racing weekends on the Australian Calendar. We’ll be flicking between Randwick and the MCG on Saturday to keep abreast of Sydney’s classic card, including four Group Ones amongst a litany of race names that resonate with turf followers…The Gimcrack, Craven Plate, Roman Consul, Flight Stakes, Spring Champion Stakes, Metrop, [Read more]

It’s great to be excited about some sport this weekend – with the Bulldogs’ slow death finally certified, I can focus on Moonee Valley’s terrific meeting on Friday night without any diarised distractions. Get there if you can – the races are just 30 mins apart, with a companion card at Canterbury – and Group [Read more]

After Underwood Stakes Day punters have generally sorted their priorities for the major Spring prizes. That is not to say that priorities can’t change radically over the forthcoming weeks, but if the shorties salute tomorrow, the favs for the Guineas, both Cups and the Plate will be entrenched. The next race day here at the [Read more]

There can be very few good reasons for any keen racing fan not to be at Money Valley this Saturday. Unfortunately, in their greed and excitement, administrators have scheduled a 9 race programme – too many for bookies, punters, caterers, drinkers, tipsters…- but I’d recommend at the very least getting down there in time to [Read more]

I used to love Craiglee Stakes Day, though that was a double-edged sword. We’d jokingly say that it suited Doggies fans perfectly coming one Saturday after our season finished and allowing us to get to Flemington and see the freshly-weighted Spring stars step out over a mile and, in the Ascot Vale, watch the former [Read more]

Accept my indulgence, those of you who’ve not followed the bland circuit of winter’s racing and can’t countenance the thrill I needed to share when I opened my Winning Post this (Thursday) afternoon. Fortunately Tom was home from school – the FOXtelly suspiciously warm  – and doing a passable impression of trying some Math homework.  [Read more]

This Saturday’s Moonee Valley card is a bit of a letdown after the excitement of Group One horses last weekend, but we’ll have to wait until The Memsie meeting next week for another juicy offering in Melbourne. Warwick Farm will be the focus of Australian racing with an excellent Quaddy. The major caveat on Sydney [Read more]

A fascinating day’s racing is in store for those who venture to Caulfield this Saturday with some seriously good horses returning only to be confronted with a heavy track and some strong winter performers. The punt, therefore, looks a tricky prospect but my advice is to study the parade ring, look at the racing pattern [Read more]

A rider must accompany this rant, warning that I have overnight returned from an extended visit to Darwin which encompassed the last three days of their Carnival. My best tip, therefore, is to book early and go next year. Great fun is assured, but it can be tough going and may have taken its toll [Read more]

Tomorrow’s meetings (Saturday 31/07) are the last of the 09/10 season with the official horses’ birthday following on August 1. From then the slow build-up begins to Spring with the better horses beginning to reappear. To access the fields I went to the “Racing and Sports” site, though I thought that I’d mistakenly found a [Read more]