Punt Drunk: Will Bowman raise the bat on Golden Slipper Day?

Hugh Bowman

This week has seemed to drag on longer than most, but we are here, just 24 hours out from Golden Slipper Day. With five Group 1 races to get involved in tomorrow, it is all about not blowing our bank accounts open at the after-work drinks this afternoon. We have six race meetings to get through today, with three of them set to run on a Heavy 9. Ahhh, how good is punting on three wet tracks?


Hugh Beauty!

Hugh Bowman, 100 Group 1 victories. It has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Well, if Bowman can turn two of his rides on Saturday in the Group 1 races into wins, he will join a truly elite club of jockeys. Only Damien Oliver, Jim Cassidy and George Moore have raised their whips for the 100 wins, so anyone who adds their name to that list will go down in Australian racing history as one of the greats. We all know Bowman for the dream partnership he formed with the great mare Winx, and it is hard to pinpoint the best win the duo had together. Pick any of her Cox Plate wins and you cannot be wrong, what about the win in the Turnbull Stakes? The list goes on. We are backing Hugh to lift two of Profiteer, Kolding, Wheelhouse and Colette over the line tomorrow afternoon and cement his place in racing folklore.


Something you may have missed

On Wednesday morning when scratchings were announced for the Sandown Lakeside meeting, the withdrawal of Sirene Stryker may not have irked many people. Well, the horse’s trainer back in Tassie has had more disqualifications than we have had race meetings this week, and Racing Victoria stewards were not having a bar of Mark Ganderton entering runners north of the Bass Strait. Part-owner and lawyer Wayne Pasterfield cracked the shits and said RV had not made it clear until Monday afternoon that they were not going to allow his runner to compete at Sandown. Connections tried to transfer the horse to Cindy Alderson, but as betting had opened for the event on Wednesday, stewards blocked the move and made Sirene Stryker’s trip to Melbourne a proper waste of time for all involved.


Friday racing tips – March 26, 2021


Punt Drunk’s best bet of the day

We have not seen Two Big Fari since his strong win at Rosehill on November 28, and we expect him to build on an already impressive record. The Walking Or Dancing gelding has two first-up wins from four attempts and has run in the quinella on four occasions from five starts on rain-affected ground. With young Dylan Gibbons’ 2kg claim in hand, expect Two big Fari to lob to the front of the field and be hard to run down.

Muswellbrook – Race 4 – Wayne Harris Handicap (1280m)#1 Two Big Fari (8) $3.40 with Sportsbet

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