Videos tagged with "chances"

The Races TV | 1 Mar 2013 | Carlton Draught Port Lincoln Cup and Boag's Lord Reims Stakes [05:27]
The Races TV catches up with jockey Simon Price to preview his Carlton Draught Port Lincoln Cup and Boag's Lord Reims Stakes rides. We also chat to trainer Kylie Huxtable to discuss Waratone's chances in tomorrow's Boag's Lord Reims Stakes at Morphettville.

Barakey's Newmarket challenge [02:02]
As Saturday's G1 Newmarket Handicap draws closer, trainer Jim Taylor previews the chances of his stable star Barakey. The WA speedster missed a vital lead-up run when he was scratched at the barriers before the Oakleigh Plate but Taylor is still confident the horse can win at Flemington.

Newmarket Handicap weights announced [02:30]
Catch up on today's Melbourne Festival of Racing news headlined by today's announcement of the weights for the $1M G1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m). Racing Victoria Senior Handicapper Neil Jennings discusses the key weight allocations and gives viewers his horse to follow. Also hear from Paul Snowden about the the leading Darley chances at Flemington on Saturday.

Melbourne Festival of Racing Round-Up - 24 Jan [02:34]
Paul Snowden and Mark Kavanagh preview their leading chances in the G2 Australia Stakes. Catch up with all the latest news around the 2013 MFR including the Group 1 Championship, Racing Victoria's Tipwiz, G1 pavilion and the National Jockeys Trust Cricket game

1989 Alabama Stakes [03:38]
For those hard-to-please critics who had been complaining that Open Mind is a brilliant horse with a bland style, the 3-year-old filly responded with a gritty performance on a rainy day at Saratoga. At the top of the stretch of the $232400 Alabama Stakes, Open Mind's chances appeared to be as gloomy as the day itself. She was ahead of only one horse, stablemate Lea Lucinda. She trailed the front-running Dearly Loved by more than five lengths and was running in the middle of the track, where the muddy surface had the consistency of butterscotch pudding. Open Mind had gone into Saturday's 109th Alabama with a nine-race winning streak dating to last November, but now, at 1-5 odds, she looked hopelessly beaten. Her critics were ready to add Open Mind's name to the list of fallen Saratoga favorites, which includes Man o' War, Gallant Fox and Secretariat. Before a crowd of 30309, Open Mind chose not to become a part of that gallery. "Of all the fillies I've ridden," Angel Cordero would say later, "I've never been on one who tries as hard as this filly. If she were a person, she'd want to work seven days a week." Cordero went to his whip 16 times--seven times from the right and nine from the left--and it took that 16th whack to get owner Gene Klein's filly to the wire, a neck before Dearly Loved. Open Mind might win 10 more races in a row, if she is allowed to stay on the track long enough, but no victory will come any harder than Saturday's. Jean Cruguet was aboard Dearly Loved ...