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Race 1 – Master Builders Association Class 1 Handicap 900m Confess Our Dreams will be at short odds and looks the winner. The filly was undefeated in two trials before a narrow win on debut over this course on September 30 and she draws okay.…

Randwick trainer Michael Freedman has a good strike rate on the Newcastle track, and he will send three of his team to the track for Newcastle Jockey Clubs eight race program on Tuesday. The trio includes lightly raced Kiwi bred three-year-old Panic which contests the…

Scone five-year-old Russley Crown will be set for the 2024 Country Championship Series following his tough win in Saturday’s TLE Jungle Juice Cup (1350m) at the Newcastle Racecourse. Trained by part owner Scott Singleton, the gelding a huge drifter in the betting blew from an…

Race 1- APS Industrial Class 1 & Maiden Plate 2300m Every Effort has a poor win record but his last two placings on the Beaumont track and Gosford indicate he can win this race. Talented apprentice Anna Ropa’s 3-kilogram allowance is gold, and he races…

The Jungle Juice Cup, Cessnock’s flagship race from its inception in 1981 until the track ceased racing in 2020 will be run on the Newcastle course proper on Saturday. The past three Jungle Juice Cups have been held at Newcastle, and this years Cup, worth…

New South Wales’ two leading apprentices Zac Lloyd and Dylan Gibbons rode the first two winners at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Tuesday. Those punters who took the odds-on about Grand Larceny in the opening event, the PFD Food Services 3yo Maiden Handicap…

Race 1 – PFD Food Services 3YO Maiden Handicap 900m Grand Larceny will be an odds-on favourite, and the colt has genuine speed. He had his only start at Bendigo on September 14 when he was favourite in a 1000m maiden where he led and…

The Hawkes family training partnership have bright prospects of winning the opening two races at Tuesday’s Newcastle race meeting. Leading apprentice Zac Lloyd has been booked to ride the Hawkes pair Grand Larceny and Allapercanto. Grand Larceny will be an odds-on favourite in the PFD…

Former Newcastle trainer Ben Smith, based at Kembla these days, put punters on the back foot in the early stages of Saturdays Newcastle Jockey Club race meeting. Smith who was at Randwick, trained the first two winners at Newcastle at odds of $61 and $21.…

Race 1 – Hunt Hospitality Provincial Benchmark 64 Handicap 1850m Owari was run down late at Hawkesbury last start, and he has been placed twice on this track. He has a positive barrier and 2kgs off for Amy McLucas. Three Wise Men drops in class…

Kris Lees’ three-year-old filly Kind Words can return to the racetrack a winner when she contests the Harcourts Super Maiden (1200m) at the Newcastle Jockey Clubs race meeting on Saturday.  The Written Tycoon filly carries the colours of Lees’ three-time Group 1 winner Lucia Valentina,…

Punters who like betting on favorites had a bonanza at Wine Country Race Club’s meeting on the Beaumont track on Tuesday, when favorites won six of the seven races. The weather was perfect, and the Beaumont track was on fire, and as predicted the powerful…