Michelle Payne chases another dream cup win in her hometown of...
"I have always wanted to win the Ballarat Cup": Michelle Payne.Photo: Getty ImagesThe group 1 attention has headed west but for racing's golden girl Michelle Payne the focus is on winning a second dream cup in her hometown of Ballarat on Saturday.Payne rode into the history books when she won the Melbourne Cup on Prince Of Penzance at the beginning on the month but the next day she was back in the saddle looking towards the Ballarat Cup with another Darren Weir-trained stayer, Akzar.The nine-yea..>> view originalWhat You Need To Know - Ballarat Cup Day | RACING
Akzar (Image: Todds Race Photos) It’s the final day of the Spring Racing Carnival and the road show is heading to the country for the Ballarat Cup.HEADLINE ACTBallarat Cup:The final feature of the spring carnival is an open race with bookmarkers making it $5.50 the field. TheRobert Smerdon-preparedUngrateful Ellenis favourite with form around very good horses likeWinx,Lucia ValentinaandFenway. TheMelbourne Cup-winning combination ofDarren WeirandMichelle Payneis trying to collect their ..>> view originalBallarat a step closer to hosting AFL games at Eureka Stadium | HeraldSun
Concept designs for the new Eureka Stadium in Ballarat.THE Western Bulldogs look all set to bark in Ballarat in 2017 after concept designs for the city’s revamped Eureka Stadium were unveiled.Bulldogs chief executive Peter Gordon has revealed negotiations with the AFL are now complete and games would be scheduled for Ballarat during the 2017 season providing construction work was finished on time.The Doggies hope to play two games a season at Ballarat as it spreads its roots into Western Victori..>> view originalEllen form stacks up for Ballarat bid | RACING
Ungrateful Ellen (Image: Slickpix) TrainerRobert Smerdonsaid the form aroundUngrateful Ellenis strong, ahead of her bid to claim theListed Sportsbet.com.au Ballarat Cup (2200m)on Saturday.Smerdon's four-year-old mare is the $5.50 favourite with CrownBet to claim the $300,000 feature, and the Aquanita trainer agreed her last-start fourth in theGroup 2 Matriarch Stakes (2000m)at Flemington was a worthy showing.Ungrateful Ellen was just 1.8 lengths back from 2014 Caulfield Cup placegetterL..>> view originalSustained bidding on massive Ballarat yarding | Stock & Land
Buyers from across Gippsland, the northeast of Victoria and interstate NSW and South Australia flocked to the monthly sale that offered higher than normal numbers off-loaded from southwest properties due seasonally tight water and feed reserves.David Tatman, Navigators and John Tuddenham, TB White and Sons sold the opening pen of the Ballarat sale at $1660 a head.The demand for steers in particular was extra strong as heavy steer lines made to a top of $1720 and collected average sales of 285c/k..>> view originalWhere the early money's gone - Ballarat, November 21 | Sportal Australia
Ballarat will conduct the final meeting of the Melbourne Spring Carnival and punters have dived right in on Saturday's 10-race card.The meeting will start at 12.25pm (EDST) on a track rated soft (5). The rail will be true for the entire circuit.The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast a mainly fine day. The expected top temperature is 18 degrees.Below are the best-backed runners leading into the meeting: Odds as at 11am(EDST) on Saturday.Scratchingshave affected some fluctuations.Legend:BEST PUSH ..>> view originalMetier wins Eureka Stockade at Ballarat - Bloodstock
Mathew ToogoodBallaratSaturday 21 November 2015, 3:36pmTony McEvoy's decision to give Metier his chance in the $100,000 Eureka Stockade at Ballarat has been rewarded.Three-year-old Metier finished strongly on the outside in Saturday's 1400m race to land his first win at his fourth start."It was a bit of an aggressive play, running him in this race today as a maiden when there was plenty of really good options, but I've got faith in him," McEvoy said."The blinkers really got him to travel today a..>> view originalSymons Takes Out Ballarat Magic Millions Classic With Murt The Flirt - HorseRacing
Popular jockeyChris SymonssteeredMurt The Flirtto victory in the 2015Magic Millions 3YO&4YO Classicat Ballarat this afternoon in his first race meeting since he suffered a nasty injury in a horror fall at Bendigo in June.Symons was ridingHampshirewhen the mare broke her leg and sent him into the ground in brutal fashion and the fall left him with a severe concussion, significant whiplash, a broken shoulder blade and a compression fracture to his T6 vertebrae.There was a point where it looked..>> view original2015 Ballarat Cup Field the best of three for Zayam | Sports News Australia
Trainer Matthew Smith isn’t one to shy away from a challenge. And that’s why he has chosen the Ballarat Cup over two other races for French-bred stayer Zayam on Saturday.Zayam could have been running in a lesser race at Doomben in Brisbane or even closer to home at Rosehill in Sydney, but with $300,000 prize money on offer, the Ballarat Cup (2200m) won out.“You’ve got to take risks to get ahead in whatever you do and if you don’t you end up nowhere,” the Warwick Farm-ba..>> view originalBallarat Cup 2015 day Racing Tips - Ballarat 21/11/2015 | Sports News Australia
Ballarat racecourse will host their feature race meeting of the year today which is 2015 Ballarat Cup day. We take a look at each of the races on the card and give our tips as well as our best bet and best roughie for the meeting. Race One:8 OsteriaRace Two:19 Catherine LouiseRace Three:11 Lips AreiosRace Four:2 KrackenRace Five:4 HellmuthRace Six:9 DarraghRace Seven:11 Wild RainRace Eight:5 AkzarRace Nine:4 OrionRace Ten:3 Hard Stride Best Be..>> view original
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