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July 2021

  • James Jordan's Morphettville Parks Track Report & Speed Maps

    Back-to-back meetings at Morphettville, and Racing.com's James Jordan has the key information for today's meeting on the Parks track! Check out a full track report and speed maps here. TRACK REPORT Winning Post-1500m: Not a lot to report in this section. It's in similar shape to the rest of the...

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  • 167-start veteran set for retirement

    Veteran galloper Flow Meter is hoping to farewell racing in style at Morphettville today. The John Hickmott-trained veteran has had 167 starts recording 17 wins from 1200m up to 2050m and running into the placings on no less than 46 occasions throughout a career that has banked connections just shy...

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  • Lincoln Moore's Morphettville Parks Preview

    BEST BET: 6 STAR OF UMA (Race 7) EACH-WAY: 1 BLACK OPAL (Race 4) VALUE: 2 MORIALTA (Race 6)   RACE 1 - 12:15PM Quayclean Two-Years-Old Maiden Plate (1000 METRES) ROYAL DRESS looked primed for this. She jumped out well at Ballarat before going to St Arnaud earlier this month and...

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  • Beau Rossa ready to strike in Lightning

    It's the final black-type feature of the 2020-21 Australian racing season, but Saturday’s $107,250 Listed Lightning Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville shapes as the launching pad to the spring for exciting three-year-old Beau Rossa. A Group 2 winner in the Tobin Bronze (formerly Euclase) Stakes at Morphettville back in May, trainer...

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  • Lincoln Moore's Saturday Preview

    BEST BET: 8 YULONG PHELPS (Race 4) EACH-WAY: 11 HE’S A BALTER (Race 7) VALUE: 9 PEGGY SELENE (Race 8)   RACE 1 - 11:52AM Terry Howe Printing Maiden Plate (1050 METRES) ITALIAN VIKING is in the McEvoy yard and has been given plenty of time. The money is there to...

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  • James Jordan's Morphettville Track Report & Speed Maps

    We're all set for the final meeting of the SA racing season! James Jordan from Racing.com has walked the track, and provided speed maps for all nine races on the Morphettville card. TRACK REPORT Winning Post-1800m: Inside four lanes all quite even here and should race well with the good...

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  • Stacey Callow joins SA Apprentice Academy

    Despite growing up around thoroughbred racing, with her dad Noel and grandpa Kevin both successful jockeys, 19-year-old Stacey Callow wasn’t considering a career in the industry until recently. Callow had her sights set on being a lawyer in her final years at school but when she completed year 12 she...

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  • Jade Doyle begins apprenticeship journey

    It was a chance phone call after seeing him conduct a post-race interview on TV that saw Jade Doyle end up at the Gordon Richards stable – the stable where, from August 1, she will now start learning her craft as an apprentice jockey. The 22-year old (she celebrates her...

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  • Amendment 3 - Race Added

    Racing SA wish to advise an additional race at Balaklava on Wednesday 11 August due to a gap in the programs Race added $21,800 Three-Year-Old Maiden Plate 1050m                      RACING REWARDS SA Nominations close with the Trainers Service Centre at 11.00 am on Thursday 5 August 2021.

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  • Lincoln Moore's Gawler Preview

    BEST BET: 11. FIAMETTE (Race 1) EACH-WAY: 3. CARAK (Race 5) VALUE: 1. ARMAMENT (Race 4)   RACE 1 - 12:05PM TAB Maiden Plate (1506 METRES) FIAMETTE has been ready to win in maiden grade for a while and finds a very winnable race here. She comes up short but has...

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  • FLASHBACK: Nature Strip's dominant Lightning win

    The 2018 Lightning Stakes was built as a match-race between South Australian sprint queen Sunlight and boom Victorian Nature Strip. But it turned into a one act affair. Nature Strip lived up to the pre-race hype to blow his rivals away thrashing the Magic Millions winner and Golden Slipper placegetter...

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  • Amendment 2 - Roxby Downs

    Racing SA wish to advise in conjunction with the Roxby Downs and Districts Racing Club, due to the current COVID restrictions the Roxby Downs meeting on Saturday 7 August 2021 has been postponed to Saturday 11 September 2021. Nominations close with the Trainers Service Centre at 11.00 am on Monday...

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  • Lincoln Moore's Balaklava Preview

    BEST BET: 6. FREE WILMA (Race 2) EACH-WAY: 7. CANIDAE (Race 9) VALUE: 9. LICORICE BULLET (Race 4)   RACE 1 - 11:10AM Lyndoch Motors Two-Year-Old Maiden Plate (1400 METRES) Looks the right race for GOSDEN who was good first-up from a spell behind the smart Mac ‘N’ Cheese in the...

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  • Amentment 1 - Jump Outs

    Racing SA wish to advise the Jump Outs scheduled for Murray Bridge on Monday 2nd August will now be held on Tuesday 3rd August on the Fibre Sand. Nominations close with the Trainers Service Centre at 11.00 am on Monday 2nd August.

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  • Rebecca Horse set to debut at Balaklava

    Adelaide radio personality and TV presenter Andrew ‘Cosi’ Costello has encapsulated his love for his SAFM co-host, horse racing and South Australia’s iconic frog cakes in his latest filly. ‘Rebecca Horse’, named in honour of his breakfast show co-host Rebecca Morse, is set to make her debut in Race 3...

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  • Racing SA COVID-19 Update: 27 July 2021

    All South Australian thoroughbred racing activities to be limited to essential racing personnel only with no spectators No patrons on course for any race meetings, trials, trackwork and jump outs All participants to wear masks on race days (jockeys exempt when riding) Reminder of Mandatory use of QR codes for...

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  • Sydney sojourn suits Sangster winner

    Star South Australian Instant Celebrity is being geared towards Sydney riches in the spring. After a dominant Adelaide Racing Carnival winning the Group 1 Sangster and placing in The Goodwood, the Phillip Stokes filly has her eye on the $7.5m Golden Eagle and The Invitation, a newly announced $2m race. ...

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  • Scene set for SA spotlight

    The loss of key races over the past seven days and a race free week in Victoria will see a bumper end to the 2020-21 South Australian racing season. Four straight days of racing will see out the current season culminating with Saturday’s Lightning Stakes meeting at Morphettville, before the...

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  • Racing Amendment: Morphettville 24 July 2021

    Following the postponement of the meeting at Morphettville today, Saturday 24th July, and taking into account the racing program over the coming months, the decision has been made to transfer the remaining five races to Friday 30th July 2021 at Morphettville on the Parks track. The five races that were...

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  • James Jordan's Morphettville Track Report and Speed Maps

    James Jordan from racing.com has key information for you ahead of tomorrow's meeting at Morphettville. JJ has walked the track, and provided speed maps for all nine races on the card. TRACK REPORT Winning Post-1800m: Some sections within this area are worse that others and I felt it walked in...

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  • Milestone beckons for prolific Pannell

    Todd Pannell could reach a magical milestone at Morphettville on Saturday. Three winners will see the reigning John Letts Medalist record his 1000th career winner. Pannell, who started his career in Adelaide as an apprentice under the guidance of John Hawkes, recorded his third century across South Australian earlier this...

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  • Dexelation ready to bounce back at Morphettville

    Richard and Chantelle Jolly will keep Dexelation in Adelaide as he tries to bounce back to winning at Morphettville on Saturday. The six-yar-old has been a model of consistency this campaign placed behind top-tier sprinting stablemate Kemalpasa in the Group 3 Irwin Stakes back in April before running second in...

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  • Lincoln Moore's Saturday Preview

    BEST BET: MELODY MAN (Race 9) EACH-WAY: NALEIGH (Race 6) VALUE: EXTRA MILE (Race 8)   RACE 1 - 11:47AM Wills and Daniel Two-Year-Old Maiden Plate (1100 METRES) Pretty keen on KEEP READING and not alone with punters quick to snap up the $4.60 on offer in opening markets. He who...

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  • Program provides support for industry participants

    Racing SA has introduced a complimentary assistance program to help protect the welfare of all industry participants. Provided through independent supplier ACCESS, the assistance program offers three free counselling sessions provided by highly qualified and experienced professionals. The service is 100 percent confidential and available for all industry participants immediately....

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  • Light weight, perfect gate primes Clarken galloper for Mildura Cup

    The Will Clarken stable will send Street Tough across the border in search of country cup success as the former Tasmanian galloper tackles Friday’s $100,000 Mildura Cup (1400m). A luckless last-start Murray Bridge placegetter, Street Tough was also among Morphettville acceptors, but a perfect gate and light weight was enough...

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