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Sunday's Greyhound Ratings: Eight Meetings Live
Our top-rated runners across today's eight-meeting greyhound slate, updating live as the card unfolds.
Ten selections for Sunday at Sha Tin
Ten selections across Sunday's Sha Tin card in running order, including Peridot each way in the opener and two runners in Race 8.
Sunday's Live Ratings: Six Meetings, 44 Races
Our top-rated runners across Dalby, Sale, Coffs Harbour, Kilmore, Bathurst and Northam, updated as the card unfolds.
SHEZA FREAK
Sheza Alibi demolishes a Makybe Diva full of Group 1 winners, Oliveanotherday's streak ends at five, and Bjorn Baker lands features in Sydney and Melbourne.
Saturday's Greyhound Ratings, Live Across Seven Tracks
Our top-rated runners across Taree, Bendigo, Lakeside, the Meadows, Dubbo, Wentworth Park and Cannington, updated as the card unfolds.
Saturday Ratings: Our Top Picks Across 14 Meetings
Our top-rated runners across every Saturday meeting, updated live as the card unfolds.
Sheza Alibi leads the Pack on Makybe Diva Day
The Wolfden Pack's full set for Makybe Diva Stakes Day in running order, plus a Pack Poll that Sheza Alibi won with 46% of 124 votes.
Bella Nipotina welcomes a Zoustar colt
The champion mare's first foal arrives, Ka Ying Rising's rating passes Black Caviar's peak, and scratchings strengthen Sheza Alibi's hand in the Makybe Diva.
Friday Greyhounds: Live Ratings Across the Nation
Our top-rated runners across ten meetings today, updating live as the card unfolds on good tracks nationwide.
Live Ratings: Friday's Five-Track Card
Our top-rated runners across Geelong, Bordertown, Tuncurry, Goulburn and Sunshine Coast, updated live as the day unfolds.
Live Greyhound Ratings: Thursday's Full Card
Our top-rated runners across ten meetings today, updated live as the card unfolds on good tracks.
King doubles his max bet on Sir Delius
King's biggest bet of the day is the Makybe Diva import, Fizzer's strongest anywhere in the country is Skyhook, and neither wants the Run To The Rose favourite.
Under Focus backed from $11 into $6
A Run To The Rose roughie nearly halves in price, Lazzura and Just Party get smashed, and Treasurethe Moment firms into the Makybe Diva.
Live Ratings: Thursday's Five-Track Card
Our top-rated runners across Hawkesbury, Warwick, Lismore, Seymour and Bunbury, updated live as the results come in.
Racing mourns Paddy Payne Snr
The Payne family patriarch passes, Warnie books a Sir Rupert Clarke ticket out of the rescheduled Sandown card, and a 1-33 favourite is beaten in Britain.
Greyhound Ratings: Nine Meetings Live on Good Tracks
Our top-rated runners across nine meetings today, updating live as each race jumps on good tracks nationwide.
The Value Sits Wide of the Two Home Sides
Two short-priced hosts headline semi-final weekend, so the desk goes hunting where the real money is — the lines, the totals and a couple of player prices worth taking.
Four Sudden-Death Reads And Where The Value Hides
The top eight is set and week one delivers two do-or-die eliminators plus two qualifying finals. The Desk works down every market to find the prices worth taking — not just another short favourite.
Live Ratings: Wednesday's Six-Meeting Card
Our top-rated runners across six meetings today, updated live as the card unfolds.
Tuesday's Greyhound Ratings, Live All Day
Our top-rated runners across a ten-meeting Tuesday card, updated live as the races jump.
Waller could have five in the Makybe Diva
Five Waller runners lining up to upset Sheza Alibi at Flemington, Fangirl is officially retired after 27 Group 1 starts, and James Cummings saddles his first Hong Kong runner.
Live Ratings: Tuesday's Top-Rated Runners
Our live-updating ratings track the best runners across four meetings, refreshing as the day unfolds.
Mr Brightside goes for four in a row
A Makybe Diva so deep the second-lowest-rated runner is an Oaks winner, Oliveanotherday steps up in the Bobbie Lewis, and the Run To The Rose sorts the three-year-olds.
Ka Ying Rising smashes his own record
Eight lengths and a second off his own Sha Tin mark before he boards the plane, Fangirl's career looks over, and Constitution Hill is out of the Melbourne Cup.
Monday Greyhound Ratings: Ten Meetings, Good Tracks
Our top-rated runners across today's ten-meeting greyhound card, updated live as the races jump.
Monday Ratings: Grafton, Tatura, Dubbo Live
Our top-rated runners across 22 races at Grafton, Tatura and Dubbo, updating live as the card unfolds.
Sunday Greyhound Ratings: Live Picks All Day
Our top-rated runners across a big Sunday card, updated live as seven meetings work through good tracks.
Sunday's Live Ratings Across Five Tracks
Our top-rated runners across Bendigo, Moree, Sunshine Coast, Gundagai and Kalgoorlie, updated live as the 41 rated races unfold.
They let Lindermann lead again
Nash Rawiller gets the easy lead in the Chelmsford for the second year running, My Gladiola finally sheds the bridesmaid tag in the Moir, and Tempted makes her Everest case.
Saturday Greyhounds: Live Ratings Across Seven Tracks
Our top-rated runners across Dubbo, Warragul, Lakeside and more, updated live as the seven-track card unfolds on good tracks.
Saturday's Live Ratings Across a Loaded National Card
Our top-rated runners across a 13-meeting Saturday, updating live as the card unfolds.
Evaporate leads the Pack on Moir Day
The Wolfden Pack's full set for Moir Stakes Day in running order, plus a Pack Poll that Evaporate won with 41% of 115 votes.
Six weeks out, the Everest is wide open
Nobody has locked in a $20 million slot yet, Waller brings up a tenth Wyong Cup, and Bruce McAvaney heads for the South Australian Hall of Fame.
Friday's Greyhound Ratings: Nine Meetings, Good Tracks
Our top-rated runners across 81 rated races from nine tracks, updated live as the card unfolds.
Friday Ratings: Canberra, Wyong, Mornington, Birdsville
Our top-rated runners across four Friday meetings, updated live as all 31 races jump.
King Of The Sea is out of the spring
A Caulfield Cup contender is lost to injury, Ka Ying Rising is passed fit for Sunday, and J-Mac's family will give Romantic Warrior his retirement home.
Thursday's Greyhound Ratings: 97 Races Still to Run
Our top-rated runners across ten meetings today, updated live as the card unfolds and prices move.
King goes bang on Lindermann
One of King's strongest bets of the spring, a split on the Moir, and he's prepared to lay the short-priced favourite in the Concorde.
Live Ratings: Thursday's Soft-Track Card
Our top-rated runners across Coffs Harbour, Warrnambool, Mackay and Northam, updated live as the 30 rated races unfold.
Lindermann backed from $3.40 into $2.60
Both Chelmsford chances are being backed hard, Soothsayer and Blind Raise firm elsewhere, and the Moir market hasn't moved an inch.
Romantic Warrior retires on £28 million
One of the greats of world racing is retired after more than £28 million in prizemoney, the VRC bids to host a Ka Ying Rising showdown, and a pro punter says his turnover is down 80 per cent.
Greyhound Ratings: Wednesday's Card Live
Our top-rated runners across nine tracks tonight, updating live as the card unfolds on good conditions.
Where the Value Sits Across Four Blockbusters
Four finals, one clear pass, and the real money living in the scorer and player markets rather than another short favourite. The Desk lays out the bets worth having.
The Value Sits Wide as Finals Positions Firm
The last home-and-away round is loaded with rested stars, debutants and farewell emotion — so our team has gone hunting past the head-to-heads for where the real prices are.
Live Ratings: Six Meetings Across the Country Wednesday
Our top-rated runners across six meetings today, updating live as Devonport, Sandown and the rest of the card unfolds.
Tuesday Greyhounds: Live Ratings And Prices
Our top-rated runners across ten meetings on good tracks, updated live as the card unfolds.
She owes us nothing
Chris Waller says Saturday's Chelmsford could decide whether Fangirl races on or goes to stud, while 101 nominations land for the Melbourne Cup.
Scone and Wodonga Ratings: Soft 6 Tuesday
Our top-rated runners across Scone and Wodonga, updated live as the Soft 6 card unfolds.
Rothfire's fourth crack at the Moir
A nine-year-old lines up against a three-year-old favourite in the Moir, and Randwick puts on a card with no Group 1 that hardly needs one.
Joseph O'Brien could fill a quarter of the Cup
Twelve internationals earmarked for Melbourne as the Cup field tightens, Guest House posts a rating no Slipper winner has matched, and Ka Ying Rising cruises at Sha Tin.
Monday Greyhound Ratings: Nine Meetings Live
Our top-rated runners across nine tracks on Monday, updated live as the 80 remaining races jump.
From reserve to Group 1 champion
Wrongly Accused wasn't in the National Sprint field until Friday and won it on Saturday, while Miss Envy became just the second dog to complete the double.
Monday's Top-Rated Runners: Live Ratings
Our top-rated runners across Taree, Ballarat and Corowa, updated live as the card unfolds.
Sunday Greyhound Ratings: Live Picks Across Five Tracks
Our top-rated runners across Q2 Parklands, Richmond, Rockhampton, Nowra and Sale, updated live as the 55 rated races unfold.
Sunday Ratings: Best Bets Across Seven Meetings
Our top-rated runners from Wyong to Carnarvon, updated live as all 50 rated races unfold on Sunday.
Saturday Greyhound Ratings: Live Picks All Day
Our top-rated runners across today's seven meetings, updated live with prices as each race jumps.
Guest House breaks the Rosehill record
A 1100m track record that stood since 2007 goes, Beiwacht demolishes the Memsie, and Plagiarism wins at $8 after the money went the other way all week.
Saturday's Live Ratings: A National Card Wide Open
Twelve meetings and 97 rated races still to jump across the country, with conditions ranging from good to heavy.
A $67 shot in the National Sprint
The National Sprint and Distance Championships headline Nationals night at Sandown Park — both finals previewed, plus Wolfden's Best Bet Set.
Nearly half the Pack on Oliveanotherday
The Wolfden Pack's full set for Memsie Stakes Day in running order, plus a Pack Poll that Oliveanotherday won with 48% of 134 votes.
No Everest for Autumn Glow
Autumn Glow's program is locked in at the mile rather than The Everest, The Metropolitan is stripped of Group 1 status, and Waller takes a 15th Bart Cummings Medal.
Friday Greyhound Ratings: Ten Meetings Live
Our top-rated runners across ten greyhound meetings today, updated live as the card unfolds.
Friday Ratings: Seven Meetings, All Conditions Covered
Our top-rated runners across today's seven meetings, updated live as the card unfolds.
Moody won't be dodging Autumn Glow
The Cox Plate is back on the table for Sheza Alibi, New Zealand cuts $3.1 million from its feature races, and Wild Atlantic debuts in a Group 3.
Thursday Greyhound Ratings: Ten Meetings Live
Our top-rated runners across ten greyhound meetings today, updated live as the card unfolds.
Five from five, and a split on The Heath
King and Fizzer went a perfect five from five last Saturday, and head into Memsie Day on opposite sides of the short-priced favourite in The Heath.
Thursday Live Ratings: Ipswich, Wagga, Seymour, Northam
Our top-rated runners across four wet-track meetings, updated live as the 32 remaining races jump.
Hostwin King crunched from $31 into $13
Nine market moves across a Group 1 Saturday, two of them near enough to halving — plus the key runners in the Memsie and six other features.
Soulcombe returns after three years away
A 2023 Melbourne Cup runner-up comes back in the race he won first-up, J-Mac's Memsie booking says plenty, and Guest House chases a 35-year first.
Wednesday's Greyhound Ratings: Nine Meetings Live
Our top-rated runners across nine greyhound meetings today, updating live as the card unfolds.
AFL Wildcard Weekend: Two MCG Finals, and Where the Value Actually Sits
Both wildcard finals are sudden-death at the 'G. The desk digs past the head-to-head to find the prices worth taking across Friday and Saturday night.
Value Beyond the Short Favourites
A round stacked with lopsided fixtures means the money's in the scorer and player markets — here's where The Desk sees a real edge as the finals race tightens.
Wednesday Ratings: 48 Races Across Six Tracks
Our top-rated runners across Devonport, Doomben, Bendigo, Strathalbyn, Canterbury and Belmont, updated live as the card unfolds.
Messara: “I think she’s world-class”
Arrowfield's John Messara calls Autumn Glow the best he has raced in 40 or 50 years, Waller confirms five for the Memsie, and Pride Of Jenni maps a Feehan defence.
Tuesday's Greyhound Ratings: Live Picks All Day
Our top-rated runners across ten meetings today, updated live as the card unfolds from Geelong to Darwin.
Spring Contenders: The Horses to Follow
The form analyst works through every major spring market — where he thinks the value is, who he wants to take on, and the Cup runner he says would be half the price if it were run tomorrow.
Live Ratings: Tuesday's Top-Rated Runners
Our top-rated runners from Tamworth, Newcastle, Rockhampton and Ballarat, updated live as the 28 rated races unfold.
Two stables, almost half the Memsie
Waller and Maher between them could supply almost half the Memsie field, Oliveanotherday is plunging in The Heath, and Guest House returns at Rosehill.
$103 million worth of yearlings
A record Blue Diamond nomination list, two more Melbourne Cup tickets booked in Europe, and Autumn Glow's connections weigh The Everest against the mile.
Monday Greyhounds: Live Ratings Across 10 Meetings
Our top-rated runners across 82 races on a good-tracks Monday, updating live as the card unfolds.
Live Ratings: Pakenham & Tuncurry Monday
Our top-rated runners across the remaining Pakenham and Tuncurry races, updating live as the card unfolds.
Sunday Greyhound Ratings: Live Picks From Seven Tracks
Our top-rated runners across 65 races still to jump today, updated live as the card unfolds on good tracks nationwide.
Live Ratings: Six-Track Sunday Grind
Our top-rated runners across Kilcoy, Narromine, Goulburn, Wangaratta, Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie, updated live as the card unfolds.
Autumn Glow settles it in a stride
Autumn Glow puts Sheza Alibi away in the Winx, Pembrey has J-Mac calling for an Everest slot, and Cavalry Girl earns her shot at the top level.
Greyhound Ratings: Seven Meetings, Good Tracks
Our top-rated runners across 77 races from Lakeside to Cannington, updated live as the card unfolds.
Live Ratings: 13 Meetings, 98 Races Still to Run
Our top-rated runners across a 13-track national card, updated live as the races unfold.
A landslide for Autumn Glow
The Wolfden Pack's full set for Saturday in running order, plus a Pack Poll that Autumn Glow won on her own with 53%.
Ka Ying Rising bolts up by 9¾ lengths
The world's best sprinter returns with a demolition job at Sha Tin, Asfoora lines up for her last ride at York, and Racing Victoria posts a surplus.
Live Greyhound Ratings: Nine Meetings, 83 Races Left
Our top-rated runners across today's greyhound card, updated live as Q1 Lakeside, The Gardens and the rest of the slate unfold.
Live Ratings: Six-Meeting Card Under the Microscope
Our top-rated runners across Sale, Beaudesert, Murtoa, Swan Hill, Murwillumbah and Canberra, updated live as the 48 rated races unfold.
The world No.1 runs fourth at York
Item upsets Ombudsman in the Juddmonte, gambling reforms clear parliament at a $10 million cost to Racing Victoria, and two more drop out of Saturday's Randwick features.
Live Greyhound Ratings: Ten Meetings, 101 Races
Our top-rated runners across a ten-track card, updated live as Casino, Sandown Park and the rest get underway.
Fizzer calls it a complete moral
King and Fizzer return for spring with six selections between them, a split verdict on the Winx Stakes, and one they both landed on.
Live Ratings: Wednesday's Top Runners Across Four Tracks
Our top-rated runners across Hawkesbury, Warrnambool, Mackay and Pinjarra, updated live as the day unfolds.
Global Goal smashed from $20 into $12
Six market movers across a Group 1 Saturday, from a Silver Shadow plunge to Sheza Alibi firming for the Winx — plus the key runners in every feature.
It's on: Autumn Glow v Sheza Alibi
The Winx Stakes clash is confirmed with both mares drawn inside, Black Caviar turns 20, and Yellow Jersey swerves the Memsie.
Greyhound Ratings: Nine Meetings, Live All Day
Our live-updating top picks across nine greyhound meetings on good tracks, refreshed race by race through the afternoon and night.
Live Ratings: Seven Meetings Across Soft Tracks
Our top-rated runners across Hobart, Sandown, Ipswich and more, updating live as all 54 rated races unfold.
The Dead Rubbers Cut Both Ways
The finals ladder is nearly set, which means a swag of round 24 games have one side desperate and one side coasting — and that's exactly where the value lives.
Where the Value Hides in a Finals-Charged Weekend
The run home is on, big names are back and a few one-sided lines mean the smart money is in the scorer markets. Here's where our team sees the value.
Sheza Alibi is 70-30 to travel
Peter Moody puts a number on the Winx Stakes trip, a Wootton Bassett colt makes AU$7.5 million at Arqana, and Caulfield Cup international entries nearly treble.
Greyhound Ratings: Ten Meetings Still to Run Today
Our top-rated runners across the remaining greyhound card, updating live as the results roll in.
Live Ratings: Grafton, Townsville, Ballarat, Albury
Our top-rated runners across four meetings today, updated live as the 28 rated races jump.
Jungle Johnny wins by 9.5 lengths
The National Championship fields are set for Sandown Park, the Million Dollar Chase begins at Nowra, and Barefoot Zulu is retired.
RacingAutumn Glow v Sheza Alibi, if she travels
Group 1 racing returns with the Winx Stakes, 17 nominations and a possible clash between the two best mares since Winx herself — pending a Tuesday gallop.
Natural Fling rates higher than Sunlight
A 102 rating makes Natural Fling's Quezette the best since at least 2016, Yellow Jersey eyes the Memsie, and Trawlerman is retired.
Greyhound Ratings: Ten Meetings, Good Tracks Nationwide
Our top-rated runners across ten meetings today, updated live as the card unfolds on good tracks.
Live Ratings: Emerald, Wodonga, Bathurst, Scone
Our top-rated runners across four wet-track cards, updated live as all 29 rated races jump.
Live Greyhound Ratings: Seven Meetings, 77 Races to Run
Our rated runners across Sale, Murray Bridge, Nowra, Temora, Q2 Parklands, Richmond and Rockhampton, updated live all day.
Waller: “Whatever’s ready to run will run”
The champion trainer runs through Autumn Glow, Beiwacht, Buckaroo and the rest of his spring team — including how to keep one of them away from his own unbeaten mare first-up.
Live Ratings: Six Meetings, Every Track Condition
Our top-rated runners across today's card, updating live from Moruya through to Carnarvon.
Five winners to follow out of Saturday
Cosmic Crusader books a Memsie shot, Natural Fling and Chilly Girl announce themselves, and Yellow Jersey shades Mr Brightside at Caulfield Heath.
Live Greyhound Ratings: Friday's Top Picks
Our rated selections across seven meetings today, updating live as each race jumps.
Live Ratings: Saturday's Best Rated Runners
Our top-rated runners across a huge 13-meeting Saturday, updated live as the card unfolds.
The Pack backs Cosmic Crusader in the Lawrence
Cosmic Crusader took 63% of 147 votes as the best bet at the price in the Group 2 P.B. Lawrence Stakes at Caulfield.
Thirteen Pack selections across four states
The Wolfden Pack's full set for Saturday, in running order from Rosehill to Belmont — plus the Pack's vote on the best bet at the price.
No fairytale for the $8.8 million filly
Partying is beaten on debut at Windsor, Half Yours maps out a Cup defence from Flemington, and the Kensington trials throw up a star-studded morning.
Live Greyhound Ratings: Nine Meetings Up for Grabs
Our top-rated runners across a nine-track slate, updating live as the card unfolds from Traralgon onward.
Live Ratings: Taree, Gunnedah, Ipswich, Geelong
Our top-rated runners across four soft and heavy tracks today, updated race by race as the card unfolds.
$23 into $12: Saturday's biggest plunge
Ghana's Akan has been smashed in the Quezette and Recommendation is the other big firmer
The $8.8 million filly steps out at Windsor
A 4.4 million guinea filly finally makes it to the track, Asfoora gets one last run at York, and Brooke Warne joins the ownership ranks.
Live Greyhound Ratings: 90 Races Across 10 Meetings
Our top-rated runners across today's ten-meeting greyhound card, updating live as the races jump.
Round 23 AFL: Value on the Crows, and a Multi That Pays
The penultimate round is stacked with lopsided fixtures, so the desk hunts the lines, the totals and the scorer markets where the real value hides — headlined by a live-stakes visitor at Optus.
Live Ratings: Wednesday's Top Rated Runners
Our top-rated runners across Newcastle, Wellington, Moe, Rockhampton and Bunbury, updated live as the card unfolds.
Round 24: Where The Overs Sit This Weekend
A short-priced favourites round on paper, so our value is in the scorer markets and the two games that are genuinely close. Here's where The Desk is putting its money.
Savagram makes a winning start
A Derby winner's brother salutes on debut at Canterbury, Al Riffa is out of the Melbourne Cup, and Britain's new PM puts betting shops on notice.
Live Greyhound Ratings: Nine Meetings in Play
Our top-rated runners across 86 rated races at nine tracks, updating live as the card unfolds.
Live Ratings: Seven Meetings, Every Top Pick Tracked
Our live-updating ratings track the best-rated runners across today's seven meetings as the card unfolds.
The Everest is heading for a record crowd
Everest general admission is running 55 per cent ahead of last year, Pride Of Jenni is back in work, and Sheza Alibi has Peter Moody smiling.
Live Greyhound Ratings: Ten Meetings, 90 Races
Our top-rated runners across today's ten-meeting card, updating live as the prices move and the races jump.
Live Ratings: Ballarat, Dalby, Ballina, Hawkesbury, Broome
Our top-rated runners across today's five meetings, updated live as all 39 rated races jump.
Tabcorp's $267m swoop on BetMakers
Tabcorp moves on BetMakers, Sovereignty becomes the first to complete a Derby–Travers–Whitney treble, and Craig Williams collects a sixth Scobie Breasley.
Live Greyhound Ratings: Ten Meetings, 91 Races
Our top-rated runners across today's ten-meeting card, updating live as Dubbo, Sandown Park and the rest jump.
The spring guns roll out at Caulfield
Cosmic Crusader heads an 18-strong P.B. Lawrence, the three-year-olds return in the Vain and Quezette, and The Rosebud opens the Golden Rose road.
Retaliation sets the standard as the nationals heat up
Retaliation's 29.20 headed a big week of National Sprint and Distance qualifying, with the state finals decided on Thursday night.
Live Ratings: Pakenham, Kilcoy, Nowra and Dubbo Today
Our top-rated runners across four meetings, updated live as the card unfolds.
Live Ratings: Six Meetings, 45 Races to Watch
Our top-rated runners across Sunshine Coast, Ballarat, Casterton, Muswellbrook, Wagga and Kalgoorlie, updated live as the card unfolds.
Spring stars emerge
Ninja upsets Angel Capital in the Missile, Cavalry Girl smokes them at Caulfield Heath, and a $5,000 buy lands a Group 3.
Angel Capital tops Saturday's best bet poll
The Pack's Saturday vote went the way of Angel Capital on 39%, and every selection is listed in running order.
Live Ratings: Saturday's Best-Rated Runners
Our top-rated runners across eleven meetings today, updated live as the card unfolds.
The Pack backs Angel Capital in the Missile
Angel Capital edges Ninja in the Wolfden Pack's vote on the Missile Stakes, with 166 votes split four ways.
Angel Capital's spring starts in the Missile
Waller's sprinter chases the Group 1 that makes him a stallion, Sir Delius maps a Cox Plate path, and Damian Lane is back.
Lady Of Camelot up for sale as the Memsie stacks up
Lady Of Camelot heads to the sales ring, Appleby unveils a smart debutant, and the Memsie is shaping as the strongest in years.
Angel Capital returns, and the money's already moved
Angel Capital returns in the Missile Stakes, and the money has already spoken at Caulfield Heath, Randwick and Morphettville.
Dockers Roll Into the 'G and a Wildcard Shootout Closes the Round
Three rounds left and the ladder is doing the talking — the Desk lands on the games where the read beats the price, from Freo at the MCG to the Saints-Blues elimination final.
Cowboys Owe One, Cleary Steers Penrith Home
Indigenous Round throws up a few genuine finals shootouts. The desk lands on the Cowboys to answer their critics, Penrith to grind out Auckland, and a Sharks side too good for a broken Dragons.
The bookies we bet with ourselves — rated on markets, features and payout speed.
