Eagle Farm Preview & Best Bets – 27/04/2024

Eagle Farm Tips for Saturday, April 27

Our form expert provides Eagle Farm tips for Saturday’s horse racing at Eagle Farm Racecourse and gives his best bets.

BEST BET 🏆

Race 7:  No.5  VODKA MARTINI 

Kelly Schweida saddles-up VODKA MARTINI here who ended his last campaign with a hat-trick of wins and looks set to continue that trend, first-up in this contest. Last start, the Agitate gelding finished off the hat-trick with a win in a BM78 over 1200m at Doomben. Sent out a white-hot, $1.80 favourite, he didn’t disappoint and with Cejay Graham in the saddle, covered the trip in 1:09.2 finishing too strong for them that day. Graham was a part of that hat-trick and sticks with the four-year-old here. All the boxes are ticked here as he resumes off a lengthy 35-week break. Already a winner when first-up and a winner over the track and distance, A trouble-free run here could see another picket in that fence.

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Race 4:  No.2  EVOCATOR

Trained on the track by Barry Lockwood, EVOCATOR is third-up here and back on home soil, looks set to mix it with them in this contest. Last start, the Divine Prophet gelding came off a first-up win (on this track) when things didn’t go his way at Doomben. He settled back in the field and was never a winning chance as he plodded home, passing several to finish mid-field in the BM78 Hcp over the 1350m trip. He is joined here by Cejay Graham for her first ride on the five-year-old. From gate seven, if he jumps with them, he maps to settle mid-field or better with cover. He saves his best for this track, boasting two wins and a runner-up finish from his five previous starts here and down slightly in grade, he can give this a real shake at odds.

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Race 6:  No.10  MALABOOM

The Matt Dale-trained MALABOOM has found the podium at her past five starts and looks all set to repeat that in this contest. Last start, the Spirit Of Boom filly was second-up off a minor placing at Warwick Farm when she headed north and was an unlucky second amongst her own age group, here over the 1000m sprint. She looked home inside the final 100m but her fitness gave out and she was grabbed right on the post, beaten a whisker. She also lost a shoe in the run home. James Orman will be out in search of revenge here as he sticks with the filly for this assignment. Although a little harder here, she is drawn well again in gate four, where she maps to settle on the speed and fitter for those two runs back, she looks a solid each-way chance in this event.