Check out the tips and best bets for Saturday’s racing around Australia, headlined by the G1 Doomben Cup in Brisbane.
READ: Katelyn Mallyon’s Saturday tips and best bets
BEST BETS
Sandown Hillside R1 No.2 Saluted
Good race to open proceedings. With the low draw and a bit more experience on her side, the unbeaten Saluted (2) goes on top. She won in fast time on debut before running a four-horse field into the ground at The Valley last start. She’s fast and professional.
Jye McNeil (58.5kg)
Robbie Griffiths
2yoF (bay/brown) I Am Immortal x No Reward
Randwick R4 No.3 She’s A Dealer
I respect Roger James at any racetrack at any time of the year but times that by 10 when it’s Brisbane in the winter time. He and co-trainer Robert Wellwood are making their way up there, via Randwick, with this incredibly gifted and untapped filly, She’s A Dealer (3). Hard to line up New Zealand form at times, but she just looks like a good filly. She could win the Oaks.
George Rooke (57.5kg)
R & R James & Wellwood
3yoF (b) Ace High x Say No More
BEST VALUE
Sandown Hillside R8 No.1 Oscar’s Fortune
Oscar’s Fortune (1) just needs to repeat what he produced last start to get into the money again at each-way odds. Stepping up to this trip for the first time, he was ridden positively to lead and pinched a margin on War Machine early in the straight before being run over late. This is no harder, he gets the claim again, and will be fitter fourth-up.
Logan Bates (60.5kg)
Gavin Bedggood
4yoG (bay/brown) Rich Enuff x Oscar Award
Randwick R9 No.15 Kazalark
Kazalark (15) was balloted out of a 1400m race at Sandown tomorrow so runs here at the same trip but with the advantage of a Heavy track bearing in mind that his only win so far was on an 8 at Hawkesbury just before his neck second in the Spring Stakes at Newcastle. Pedigree fans take note; his third dam is Riverina Charm. Shapes a big improver.
Adam Hyeronimus (56.5kg)
Chris Waller
5yoG (br) Vadamos x Skywards