Warwick Farm Preview & Best Bets – Wednesday January 4
Warwick Farm Tips 04/01/2023
Our form expert provides Warwick Farm tips for today’s horse racing at Warwick Farm Racecourse and gives his best bets.
BEST BET 🏆
Race 3: No.2 BANANA QUEEN ($3.80 with Palmerbet)
The Rosehill-based galloper, BANANA QUEEN, is a lightly-raced mare but has done enough to earn a start in city company today and looks a genuine winning chance here. Last start, the So You Think mare came off a nine-week let-up where she made light work of a BM64 Hcp over 1250m on Newcastle’s Beaumont track. Carrying 59kgs, she found the front inside the last 200m, and kept going, crossing the line more than a length in front of 10-strong field. She faces a class rise today and has Dylan Gibbons on board for the first time but his 2kg claim brings her down to 57kgs for this contest and her first look at the Warwick Farm track could be a winning one.
NEXT BEST 🥈
Race 7: No.2 HUON ($3.20 with Palmerbet)
The James Cummings-trained HUON has finished on the podium in all eight career starts to date and looks ideally placed here to kept that trend going. Last start, the Kermadec gelding came off a win in BM72 company at Canterbury when he beat all but one home in similar conditions at the same track over 1250m. He ran a new personal best that day, covering the trip, 2.4 lengths quicker than benchmark, which was also the best last start effort in this line-up. Leading rider, Nash Rawiller, gets his first ride on the four-year-old who is ideally drawn for this contest in gate two and maps to settle right behind the pace again. In sensational form this time in (finishing top-two in all four starts), He will take a ton of beating here.
BEST VALUE 💰
Race 5: No.8 KARLSTAD ($7 with TAB)
Chris Waller saddles-up KARLSTAD here who is second-up and looks a big chance over the mile today. Last start, the Sacred Falls gelding resumed off an 18-week spell and never saw daylight when he finished unplaced in a BM72, here over an unsuitable 1350m contest. He still managed to run the trip out, 1.3 lengths quicker than benchmark, the best in this field and ran the fastest final 600m as well, covering that, 6.7 lengths quicker than standard, the best by more than 3 lengths in this line-up. He does all his talking when second-up where he is already a two-time winner and has James McDonald back in the saddle for today’s assignment. He loves the mile trip (finishing on the podium three times from four attempts at the 1600m) and will strip fitter here. He looks a real threat at odds today.