Midweek Horse Racing – Wednesday 17th October

Today, Wednesday October 17, is a bumper day of horse racing for punters with five TAB race meetings scheduled to take place at tracks around the country including in Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia.

Sale has Victoria’s major Wednesday race meet, with an eight-event card scheduled to take place starting with the $15,000 Yellow Tail Maiden Plate (1100m) at 1:00pm (AEDST). One highlight not to miss at Sale is Race 5 – the Class 1 Duncan’s Foundation Handicap (1700m).

Canterbury will host the sole TAB race day in New South Wales today with seven races on the programme. The action is due to kick off at 1:14pm (AEDST) with the $27,000 STC Members Handicap (1250m). Watch out for the Bart Cummings-trained Suyama in Race 7 at great odds for the Rosehill Gardens Event Centre Handicap (1900m).

Doomben racecourse in Brisbane lights up today with a seven-race card featuring some excellent class races. Things will get underway with Race 1 – the $13,000 Sky Racing Maiden Plate (2040m) at 1:58pm (AEDST).

Gawler will be home to a cracker South Australian midweek meet today with eight events on the schedule starting with the $10,000 Sloans Sands Sabois 3YO Fillies Maiden Plate (1100m) at 1:08pm (AEDST).

Pinjarra has a brilliant 10 race line-up in WA today leading up to Saturday’s Railway Stakes Day at Ascot. First race on the card is the $10,000 Statewide Oil Maiden (1200m) set to start at 2:40pm (AEDST) while Race 9 – the $12,000 Belhus Racing Stables Handicap (2000m) looks a great showdown not to miss.

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