A near capacity field of 17 three-year-olds are due to face off in the 2010 Turpoint Royal Randwick Guineas including current pre-race favourite at $3.80 with [iasbet] Shoot Out.

Trained by John Wallace, the son of High Chaparral is coming off a last start second place in the Hobartville Stakes and has drawn well with barrier five. Shoot Out will be looking to recreate the sensational winning form that saw the gelding claim victory in the Royal Sovereign Stakes two starts back.

Some of Shoot Out’s biggest challenges are likely to come from the Peter Moody-trained Encosta De Lago gelding Hanks in barrier seven, Sir Hallowell in barrier 3, and Hobartville Stakes winner and third placegetter Monton and Captain Sonador starting in barriers 16 and six respectively.

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An elite eight race line up will run at Randwick on Saturday, with the scheduled highlight, the Randwick Guineas, due to take place as race six at 4:10pm (NSW time).

Four other terrific group status races will also fill the card. The opening race of the day is the $125, 000 Group 3 Randwick City Stakes where the Chris Waller-trained Voice Coach, currently the $3.40 favourite with IASbet.com.au will face off against eight elite competitors including Peter Snowden’s last start winner Spinney.

Another black type event follows as race two, the $125, 000 Group 3 Skyline Stakes features a seven horse field dominated by the warm pre-race favourite at $1.65 Beneteau.

The next highlight will be race four when eight brilliant weight-for-age runners face off in the $150, 000 Group 2 Challenge Stakes including equal favourites at $3.20 Swift Alliance and Stryker.

Also worth watching is race five, the $125, 000 Group 3 Sweet Embrace Stakes where improving filly Crystal Lily will be the one to beat.

Odds for all of the great races due to be held at Randwick this Saturday can be found at [iasbet], the leading online bookmaker for racing in Australia.

2010 Royal Randwick Guineas Final Field & Barrier Draw:

Held at Warwick Farm for the first time in three years, the 2010 Chipping Norton Stakes was a thrilling affair as Theseo, in only his second start back from a long spell due to injury, claimed a powerful yet narrow victory ahead of odds-on favourite Rangirangdoo.

Theseo ($7) led from the start but was challenged by the Chris Waller-trained Rangirangdoo ($2.70) who moved up to the rails and into the lead inside the 100m mark.

Theseo pulled out a brilliant last burst of acceleration to push to the front, crossing the line a half head in front of Rangriangdoo. Rangriangdoo’s stablemate Danleigh ($7), fresh off a win in the Group 2 Apollo Stakes, did well to make up ground and finish two lengths back in third place.

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The meeting also featured a number of other great Group race features including the $150, 000 Group 2 Surround Stakes (1400m) won by Gai Waterhouse’s impressive filly More Joyous; the $125, 000 Group 3 Kindergarten Stakes (1100m) where Solar Charged burst into Golden Slipper favouritism; and the $125, 000 Group 3 Liverpool City Cup (1300m) also taken out by Waterhouse when her four-year-old son of Choisir Dreamscape beat home Triple Honour.

Patinack Farm Chipping Norton Stakes Results:

In a powerful all-the way win, three-year-old Wanted ($13) got to the lead early after jumping well from gate seven and held on to beat home the fast-finishing Eagle Falls ($10) by a length with Starspangledbanner ($8.50) just a neck back in third.

It was a disappointing finish for the $6.50 favourite All Silent who crossed the line a distant 11^th after finding the wet track too difficult.

The victory was a further triumph for Moody and Wanted following the Fastnet Rock colt’s recent string of runs that saw him place fourth to Starspangledbanner in the Oakleigh Plate last start and finishing as runner-up in three consecutive Group 1 features before that.

Wanted has now won three of his 14 career starts for $1, 191, 000 in prizemoney. Moody will next run his champion colt, destined for a lucrative career at stud, in the Group 1 T J Smith Stakes at Randwick on April 10.

Only six of the scheduled races were run at the meeting, the Newmarket Guineas the last of the day, with intense rainfall and damaging storms hitting the course mere minutes after Wanted ran the race of his life.

The other two major Group 1 races scheduled on the Super Saturday of Racing were cancelled due to the torrential rain and dangerous track conditions. The $1million Group 1 Australian Cup and the $750, 000 Group 1 Australian Guineas have been rescheduled for next Saturday, March 13, where they will be added to the exciting Blamey Stakes card.

2010 Newmarket Handicap Results:

In a disastrous day for rain soaked and stranded spectators, disappointed trainers and spooked horses only five of the programmed eight races on the Super Saturday of Racing were safely able to go ahead, leaving the Australian Cup and Australian Guineas to be rescheduled and added to the Blamey Stakes race meeting next Saturday.

The fields for the two deferred feature races will not be re-drawn, however Mark Kavanagh’s Melbourne Cup winner Shocking will have his chance in the Australian Cup after being scratched from the weight-for-age feature on Saturday.

Shocking was withdrawn from the race on Saturday morning due to a hoof abscess, but Kavanagh is hopefull the abscess will soon burst and Shocking can get back on the track and make the most of his second chance.

In the races that did take place on the dark and stormy day, there was plenty of action and excitement including Wanted’s narrow win in the Newmarket Handicap, the only Group 1 race held on the day.

The Group 2 VRC Sires Produce Stakes, Group 2 Kewney Stakes and Group 3 Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes also still took place at the Flemington meeting on Saturday.

Improving Redoute’s Choice filly Shaaheq claimed her maiden victory in the Group 3 Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes (1200m). Coming off four second placings in her four career starts to date, the David Hayes-trained two-year-old now looks a good chance in the $3.5million Golden Slipper on April 3, Saturday’s win having shortened her odds to $16 with IASbet.com for the richest two-year-olds’ race in the world.

The Group 2 Kewney Stakes (1400m) was an exciting affair with the brilliant VRC Oaks winner Faint Perfume kicking off her autumn campaign with style. The Bart Cummings-trained Shamardal filly secured her fourth career victory by taking out the Kewney Stakes on Saturday.

In the Group 2 Sires Produce Stakes (1400m) two-year-old O’Reilly filly Shamrocker secured her second career victory from just three starts. It was another impressive win in a group race feature for Flemington trainer Danny O’Brien following his success in the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes a Caulfield two weeks ago with unbeaten Starcraft colt Star Witness.

The freakish weather was the cause of a number of casualties at the meeting, however, including the career and life threatening shoulder injury sustained by the Newmarket Handicap fourth-placegetter King Pulse.

The Michael Moroney-trained gelding ran into a wall after breaking free from his strapper, spooked from the stormy chaos. King Pulse was taken to Werribee Veterinary Clinic after the accident and will be out of action indefinitely.

It was a close call for Newmarket Handicap winner Wanted, the consistent three-year-old Fastnet Rock colt panicked with all the mayhem and got away from his handler when being led back through the tunnel. Thanks to the fast thinking and experience of clerk-of-the-course John Patterson, Wanted, now worth multi-millions as a sire thanks to his Group 1 victory, was recovered and back under control without incident.

Others that broke free, including eight-year-old El Segundo and the Gai Waterhouse-trained Gigas, suffered cuts and bruising.

It will be a big clean up job but all going to plan Flemington will be back in complete working order by next week’s meeting.

It is the first time in three year’s Warwick Farm has had the honour of hosting the Chipping Norton Stakes Day after Rosehill was home to the event in 2008 and 2009.

The impressive line-up of gallopers keen for the Group 1 win is dominated by the two Chris Waller-trained horses fresh off the quinella in the Apollo Stakes, Rangirangdoo and Danleigh.

Apollo Stakes winner Danleigh is current second favourite behind stablemate Rangirangdoo for the 2010 Chipping Norton Stakes.

Other top chances on Saturday lie in the Gai Waterhouse-trained Theseo in barrier two, third placegetter in the Apollo Stakes Palacio De Cristal in the coveted barrier one and the Lee Freedman-trained Speed Gifted.

Eight terrific races are scheduled for the meeting including the $150, 000 Group 2 Surround Stakes (Race 3 – 2:12pm), $125, 000 Group 3 Kindergarten Stakes (Race 4 – 2:57pm) and the $125, 000 Group 3 Liverpool City Cup (Race 7 – 5:03pm).

The headline act, the Patinack Farm Chipping Norton Stakes will run as the sixth race at the meeting and is due to jump at 4:25pm.

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2010 Patinack Farm Chipping Norton Stakes Final Field & Barriers

The Peter Snowden-trained Denman is leading the betting markets by miles, currently at $1.60 for a win with Sportsbet.com.au.

Denman was originally prepared to face off against the Gai Waterhouse-trained Manhattan Rain in the Australian Guineas, but a poor performance by the Encosta De Lago colt in the Hobartville Stakes last Saturday prompted the connections of Manhattan Rain to retire him to stud.

Denman, who has won all three of his starts this season, now faces a field where only two runners look a chance of causing an upset, Angus Armanasco Stakes winner Set For Fame and Alister Clark Stakes victor Linton.

Peter Moody’s filly Set For Fame has loads of potential and has drawn ideally in barrier one for Saturday.

The Robert Hickmott-trained Linton is a promising stayer who has won two of his three race starts and will no doubt prove to be one of Australia’s great turf champions over the years. Linton will start wide from barrier eight in the Australian Guineas on the inside of race favourite Denman on the far outside in nine.

The Australian Crown Guineas will run as race three on Saturday. Other highlight events at the Flemington meeting include the $1 million Group 1 Darley Australian Cup (2000m) and the $1 million Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (2000m).

2010 Australian Crown Guineas Final Field & Barriers