Jake Bourke

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This is a masterpiece.

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There are three major factors that could influence a decision to send the horse, rated the best in the world last year, to Melbourne this spring for our premier weight-for-age contest.

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Like shelling peas, @TheSharkTweet 👏

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It's safe to say @TheSharkTweet won't be taking the $1.50 on offer for She's An Artist this Saturday... 🫣

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@Moore17C Oh boy!!!

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@Racing You remember this one, @AlexWHampton?

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@m_felgate … on the floor 🫠

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@TMS_Cashy That we can agree on.

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Don’t understand the chat around this race… the best sprinter in the country won it 12 months ago. The Galaxy and Moir should be under far more pressure.

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Can they skip a tier and drop oakleigh plate straight to G3?

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@TMS_Cashy Private Harry, Zapateo, Maramia and Shelby Sixtysix are the most recent winners of the Galaxy, but I don’t hear anybody calling for it to be downgraded. Why?

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@TMS_Cashy No, but it’s a handicap… Check out the list of winners of most handicap G1s and you’ll find similar. My point was about the Oakleigh Plate being singled out when there are plenty of other races ahead of it when it comes to the idea of downgrading.

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@Mattunchained It doesn’t, and we probably agree on the wider point, I just reckon there are plenty more G1s here that should be under the microscope harder.

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Get her over here!

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New Zealand Oaks | Ohope Wins

It's a powerful performance from the 3YO filly who justifies the favourite tag to take out her first G1 victory 🙌

📺 Ch. 78/68, Foxtel 529, Kayo or via our app

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2018 was the last time @FreedmanRacing didn’t have a Blue Diamond runner.

In the seven editions since…

🥇 x 3 (‘19, ‘21, ‘22)
🥈 x 2 (‘20, ‘25)

Daumier and Artorius both got blinkers first time when they won.

Zambales gets that gear change today.

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Give us Zane every week, @cwallerracing 🤑

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That was absolutely electric. What a colt.

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Loved this snippet from @NoverreMan

When Takeover Target won the Lightning in ‘06, he was the same age as Giga Kick is today.

He’d go on from there to win a Newmarket, Doomben 10,000, Winterbottom, Goodwood and a TJ, as well as races in the UK, Japan and Singapore. Incredible.

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Jacaranda will run in Sydney this weekend.

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You can put the pen through Sepals as an All-Star Mile contender. He’ll return in the Shaftesbury Avenue on the same day at Flemington, with the G1 George Ryder firming as his main target this campaign.

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Damian Lane has picked up the ride on Tentyris in the G1 Lightning Stakes, with Mark Zahra sidelined.

Jamie Melham has been booked to ride Point Barrow in the G1 Oakleigh Plate.

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They are special, special animals.

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"She watched the mares lead the foals around the areas that were already burned... they are just remarkable animals. Not one of them had a scratch on them. Not one."

@TheSharkTweet shares some incredible stories of survival from Leneva Park after bushfires ripped through their property.

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