Champagne Stakes

With the Group 3 Champagne Stakes ready to run at 7.45pm tonight September 30, 2011, we have put together a last minute betting and tips update for you to use. We are tipping Peter Snowden’s Glissade to win tonight’s 2011 Champagne Stakes. Glissade, who is paying odds of $5.50 to…

Helmet lived up to his favouritism in the 2011 Champagne Stakes to hold on down the straight despite another erratic move in the closing stages. The course was rated a Heavy 10 after constant rain in Sydney but it was Helmet not the track which was of most concern to…

The Peter Snowden-trained Skilled defeated a classy field of fellow two-year-olds at Randwick on Saturday in the $300,000 Group 1 Champagne Stakes (1600m), giving jockey Josh Parr his first Group 1 success. In a blanket finish, Skilled ($10) beat home the Tim Martin-trained Sasa ($8) by a mere head with…

As part of the elite racing action taking place at Randwick racecourse’s Sydney Cup Day on Saturday, a capacity field of 15 two-year-olds will battle it out in the $300,000 Group 1 Champagne Stakes (1600m), the largest field in recent years. Two classy juveniles are currently battling for favouritism in…