Saturday Speed Clash
The world’s three highest-rated sprinters threaten to scare off rivals and produce the smallest field in 141 years of the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on Saturday
9th March 2015
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The world’s three highest-rated sprinters threaten to scare off rivals and produce the smallest field in 141 years of the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on Saturday
To win the Newmarket Lankan Rupee will have to be probably be better than before and the signs were there on Saturday that he may be
The economies of scale may differ, but do the Aussies make our Equus selection look pedestrian? They have an electorate of 60 – the chief handicappers from the nation’s race clubs were augmented by selected members of the racing media
A second straight defeat for Lankan Rupee has taken the gloss of his rating as the world’s best sprinter, a title that does not sit well with some of his rivals
“Even though you geld a horse, it doesn’t improve them close to the 10 lengths I would say he has improved. He’s touted the best sprinter in the world, which I think he is and I think he will show that tonight”
That will blow the cobwebs out, if ever he was going to beaten, this was the day. But it still sucks.
Labelled the new generation Black Caviar, the world’s top-rated sprinter Lankan Rupee returns to action on Saturday.”I’ll be pretty smashed up if he doesn’t perform right up to his best. I think he’ll win,” says his trainer
The extraordinary story of Chad Little’s comeback to race riding at the age of 40 in November last year after teetering on the brink of the abyss of a nearly wasted life, received a Netflix-type boost at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Saturday
Oh Susanna and her stakes winning paddock pals are not only continuing to add to the burgeoning Drakenstein trophy cabinet through their progeny, they are also establishing powerful female dynasties which should serve the stud well in years to come
Some 23 years after booting home his first victory in August 2002 at Clairwood Park, Sean Veale reached the milestone of his first century of winners in a season at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Wednesday
