2025 Golden Eagle Runner-by-Runner Preview & Tips

2025 Golden Eagle Runner-by-Runner Preview & Tips

• Lucy Henderson

With $10 million on the line and a field of star four-year-olds ready to soar – the 2025 Golden Eagle is set to take flight at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Derby Day might be taking place in Melbourne as Flemington’s Melbourne Cup Carnival kicks off, but the racing action further north is out to steal the spring spotlight with Sydney gearing up for the seventh edition of the world’s richest race for four-year-olds. NSW’s second most-wagered race has drawn a top-class field dominated by Chris Waller’s unbeaten young mare with the golden touch – Autumn Glow.   So, will the emphatic…

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Hendo’s Hopefuls: Saturday’s Best Roughies

Hendo’s Hopefuls: Saturday’s Best Roughies

• Lucy Henderson

Overs with impact – Ladbrokes Saturday roughies are lining up to deliver big value and bigger surprises across two stacked metrop race cards! We uncovered some outstanding runners at huge odds last weekend including Geegees Mistruth who ran second in the Caulfield Sprint at a massive price and the Sydney Stakes third placegetter With Your Blessing. Attention now turns to The Valley on Saturday where Via Sistina is out to defend her Ladbrokes Cox Plate crown, but we’ve found the value in the field to challenge the reigning queen. We have all our Moonee Valley roughie selections plus the longshots…

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2025 Spring Champion Stakes Runner-by-Runner Preview & Tips

2025 Spring Champion Stakes Runner-by-Runner Preview & Tips

• Lucy Henderson

The three-year-olds hit Royal Randwick this Saturday chasing Group 1 glory in the Spring Champion Stakes — 2000 metres of staying pressure where pretenders get found out and future stars announce themselves. It’s the last big Sydney test before the classics, and with Victoria Derby dreams on the line, we’ve got our full Spring Champion Stakes 2025 preview for punters right here. Won in recent years by subsequent Derby stars including Monaco Consul (2009) and Ace High (2017), the $2 million clash is a proving ground for classic contenders. With the Gloaming Stakes a consistent form line to follow into…

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2025 The Everest Runner-by-Runner Preview & Tips

2025 The Everest Runner-by-Runner Preview & Tips

• Lucy Henderson

Twelve sprinters. One mountain. $20 million on the line. Welcome to the ninth edition of the Group 1 The Everest where the world’s richest turf race will determine the sprint sensation of the season. Royal Randwick will come to life on Saturday in a truly global event as Hong Kong hero Ka Ying Rising descends on the Sydney track to put his tag of the best sprinter in the land on the line against the local speedsters. The flying visitor is odds-on in the markets to add a fifth Group 1 to his glowing CV, but will he be able…

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Hendo’s Hopefuls: Saturday’s Best Roughies

Hendo’s Hopefuls: Saturday’s Best Roughies

• Lucy Henderson

Big odds, big moves – Ladbrokes Saturday roughies are primed to cause a stir as always! The Sydney and Melbourne race cards this Saturday are loaded with talent with wall-to-wall contenders lining up at Randwick and Caulfield. Of course, the talk of the town is the ninth running of the world’s richest turf race where Hong Kong hero Ka Ying Rising is odds-on to beat the locals in the $20 million The Everest. But we’ve got the value for an Each Way play if he doesn’t fire down under as well as the best longshots across The Everest Day card…

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Hendo’s Hopefuls: Saturday’s Best Roughies

Hendo’s Hopefuls: Saturday’s Best Roughies

• Lucy Henderson

Long odds, live chances – Ladbrokes Saturday roughies are ready to shake up the weekend’s racing cards! The spring action goes up a notch with a triple-shot of Group 1 racing on Melbourne’s Caulfield Guineas Day card, and we’ve unearthed the forgotten hopes at juicy odds in the features including a 60/1 shot in the Caulfield Guineas worth a second look. Further north and Rosehill Gardens comes to life for a lucrative Hill Stakes Day meeting with plenty of in-form Sydney gallopers flying under the radar. Lucy Henderson’s lining up a few longshots – check out The Value Whisperer’s Saturday…

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2025 Caulfield Guineas Runner-by-Runner Preview & Tips

2025 Caulfield Guineas Runner-by-Runner Preview & Tips

• Lucy Henderson

One of Australia’s leading three-year-old races and arguably the country’s most important stallion-making event will be run and won in Melbourne this Saturday, and we’ve got a talented line-up of young guns to go through in our 2025 Caulfield Guineas Preview. A mile classic that always draws the cream of the three-year-old crop, the now $3 million Group 1 Caulfield Guineas has been won by a host of turf greats over the years including the likes of Ajax, Hydrogen, Tulloch, Storm Queen, Vain, Surround, Luskin Star, Manikato, Red Anchor, Mahogany, Redoute’s Choice, Lonhro, Weekend Hussler, and All Too Hard. What…

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2025 Turnbull Stakes Preview & Tips

2025 Turnbull Stakes Preview & Tips

• Lucy Henderson

The countdown to the Ladbrokes Cox Plate continues this weekend with Flemington host to the race which produced last year’s eight-length champion, and we have a star-studded line-up of middle-distance gallopers to consider in our 2025 Turnbull Stakes Preview. The mares have a lovely record in the Group 1, 2000m clash with victories from the likes of Lucia Valentina (2014), the brilliant Winx (2017, 2018), the fellow Chris Waller-trained Verry Elleegant (2020), and another Waller mare in Via Sistina (2024). Via Sistina returns to defend her title as the deserving favourite on Saturday, but can she bounce back after a…

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Hendo’s Hopefuls: Saturday’s Best Roughies

Hendo’s Hopefuls: Saturday’s Best Roughies

• Lucy Henderson

Some hidden gems are popping up in the Ladbrokes markets this weekend—don’t miss your chance at these Saturday roughies! Plenty of roughies got up last weekend – just not the ones we had flagged. With a couple of our selections getting scratched and others having luckless runs a week ago, we’re back this Saturday across an absolutely bumper line-up that tempts even the most reserved of punters. In Melbourne Via Sistina chases another Turnbull Stakes win at HQ, and we’ve got our eye on a long shot in the Group 1 to chase her over the line. Flemington’s card is…

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2025 Epsom Handicap Preview & Tips

2025 Epsom Handicap Preview & Tips

• Lucy Henderson

One of Australia’s time-honoured classics runs at Royal Randwick on Saturday, and we’ve got a very smart field of milers to sort through in our 2025 Epsom Handicap Preview. Run and won since 1865, the Epsom Handicap takes place over the famous Randwick mile and has been claimed by many of the greats including Sky High (1961), Gunsynd (1971), Imposing (1979), Super Impose (1990 & 1991), and Desert War (2004 & 2005). Desert War was the last back-to-back champion and this year Ceolwulf returns looking to be the next. He’s at single figures in the markets to do so but…

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