What did you think of VAUBANS performance last week Stodge ? Hell of a training masterclass from Waterhouse/Bott to get a previous Melbourne Cup /hurdler to win a race that short. Splits were interesting - 600-400 11.09, 400-200 11.01, last 200 11.20, LAST 600 33.3 ! Doubt even Willie Mullins could believe that ! Next start clash with Dubai Honour or Desert Hero ( maybe Tancred or QE ) will be very interesting.      

Forever Young and Romantic Warrior, the first two finishers in the Saudi Cup (G1) go their separate ways to star in different races on a Dubai World Cup program packed with international intrigue.View the full article

In this week's edition of Porter on Pedigrees: Virginia Derby winner American Promise, a son of Justify out of a Tapit mare, looks well suited for classic distance.View the full article

Three Heating Up for the 2025 Kentucky Derby (G1): American Promise, Owen Almighty, and Lion of JusticeView the full article

With the May 3 Kentucky Derby (G1) a little less than a month and a half away, stables have been mulling their plans for the final two weekends of major preps March 29 and April 5. View the full article

Trainer Brian Lynch confirmed that Donald Dizney's Jimmy's Dailys will make his next start in the $1 million Florida Derby (G1) at Gulfstream Park March 29.View the full article

A quiet week up here and just a couple of snippets of news. The dry late winter and early spring has meant Aintree has begun watering in advance of the Grand National meeting in a fortnight. The aim is to ensure Good to Soft ground for the meeting. Speaking of the National, quite a few scratching at yesterday’s forfeit stage including, not surprisingly, Gold Cup winner INOTHEWAYURTHINKIN but JP McManus retains a strong hand as does Gavin Cromwell. New favourite is INTENSE RAFFLES at 7/1 who won last year’s Irish National and ran a decent second last time over 5200m at Fairyhouse. Quicker ground is a concern with all his Irish form on soft or heavy turf. Last year’s winner I AM MAXIMUS has to carry 6 lbs more and was beaten about the same distance by GALOPIN DES CHAMPS in the 2025 Irish Gold Cup as in the 2024 renewal. IROKO looks the best of the British at 8s and he was only four lengths behind INOTHEWAYURTHINKIN in the 2024 Mildmay Chase at Aintree. The ground should be fine but his jumping has been a concern though the Aintree fences aren’t perhaps the factor they once were. Others well fancied are Cheltenham winner STUMPTOWN and the winner of the big handicap at the Leopardstown Christmas meeting PERCIVAL LEGALLOIS.

The Michael McCarthy trainee heads east after two on-the-board finishes at Santa Anita Park. This will be just his third start out of 13 away from California. Lord Bullingdon has improved his finishing position in each of his last three races.View the full article

Journeyman jockey Francisco Arrieta equaled a career high March 14 at Oaklawn Park, winning five races on the day's 10-race card to garner Jockey of the Week honors by the panel of racing experts.View the full article

With the May 3 Kentucky Derby (G1) a little less than a month and a half away, stables have been mulling their plans for the final two weekends of major preps on March 29 and April 5. View the full article

Sought After posted two wins and a placing in six races for O'Sullivan and Scott.View the full article

Yes have noticed the changing divs when the race is on, seems odd when those divs are unachievable, should be better with the tech available these days, all a bit of a have I reckon

Maybe he had a serious gambling problem many do 

Going to Waller I believe.

Yes there are parents out there who are negligent, but all kids should be given a chance in life. The fact remains that Seymour is all mouth, and he has fucked up the whole school lunch system.  

Pivotal Ten is also likely to be sent to be trained in Melbourne. There's been a big exodus of talented 3yos to Australia this season.

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The fixed odds on Betcha are taken straight from the TAB fixed odds. Betcha do not have their own fixed odds pricing team. The fixed exotics are automatically calculated from an algorithm based on the fixed odds price. The Betcha algorithm is set for a lower payout than its TAB NZ counterpart. And the TAB NZ exotic payouts are on average 30% lower than the actual tote dividend for the same bet type. So the exotic payouts are terrible on both systems but the Betcha payouts are almost tantamount to robbing the punters in my opinion. All the bonus bets and bonus cash that get handed out can only be used on fixed odds bets. If you want to have a exotic bet with your bonus cash even though the bonus cash seems good, punters are actually getting shafted by the algorithm. Most of the big moves in the market happen in the last few minutes as that is when most of the big money is taken and quite often the dividend changes halfway through the race I have found.

There are probably plenty but the problem is they had kids when they shouldn't have.

Well it seems their decision was more drive by the lack of opportunities here in NZ.  Which is a sad indictment in itself.   “He will follow the same pathway and go over to Peter and Katherine for a bit, between Lance and I we looked at things and there’s not many options here in the immediate future,” Mark Chittick said.  “All parties agreed that we would give him the opportunity over there and see whether he measures up.