[1] Jo-Anne Dalton Apprentice Toni Direen will claim 3kg for Aussieaussieaussie in his bid to win the Geraldine Cup for the second successive year tomorrow.
Aussieaussieaussie is the topweight with 59kg for the 1600m race at Washdyke. He carried 53kg in the race last year when ridden by Kylie Williams.
The 7yr-old, trained by Kevin Hughes, won over 1600m on the first day of the New Zealand Cup meeting in the hands of Matthew Cameron.
Williams is on Court Dancer in the Geraldine Cup tomorrow and Cameron is aboard Made My Point.
Trainer Michael Daly has opted for a 4kg claim on Turf Fire in the rating 85 1200m tomorrow.
Turf Fire, who will be ridden by Ingrid Miller, is the topweight with 59kg. Turf Fire won the corresponding race last year with 57.5kg when ridden by apprentice KC Walters.
She will wear blinkers tomorrow.
Daly has Princess Halo resuming in the same race. A winner fresh up, she has not raced since April.
The connections of On The Take are viewing a rating 75 1360m race at Invercargill on December 10 as her next assignment. On The Take, trained at Ascot Park by Jo-Anne Dalton, recorded her third win on the end with an impressive performance over 1200m at Winton on Friday.
Peter Porter, fresh-up winner of the Winton Cup (1600m) on Friday, has been entered for the rating 85 1400m at Cromwell on Sunday.
A stable at the Foxton racecourse was engulfed in flames on Saturday night, the second fire there in two days, APNZ reports.
A grandstand was badly damaged there on Friday in a blaze which is believed to have been deliberately lit, a Fire Service spokesman said.
The fire on Saturday night was already burning fiercely when firefighters arrived at about 11pm.
It took about 90 minutes to put it out The stable was badly damaged.
Fortnightly feature races worth at least $100,000 each starting from the Warrnambool carnival in May until the end of July will be among a range of initiatives aimed at rebuilding confidence in Victorian jumps racing next year, AAP reports.
Racing Victoria chief executive Rob Hines said the future was bright for the sport with a 26.5% increase in prizemoney to $3.2 million across 70 races - the same number as in 2011.
Hines described the investment in jumps racing as a leap of faith which would provide renewed confidence for the industry.
He said the state government's injection of $2 million over four years to increase prizemoney, improve jockey and horse safety and boost the international profile of jumps racing was crucial.
"A supportive government is absolutely essential to the longevity of jumps racing and we have a supportive government," Hines said.
He said that there had been significant and positive changes since the sport faced extinction three years ago and RVL would ditch the key performance indicators on the back the improved safety record in jumps racing.
"Three years ago we were concerned about the performance of this sport and the damage to the image of racing in general," Hines said.
There were four jumps racing deaths this year but only one in a steeplechase race.
The Grand National Hurdles and Steeplechase races at Sandown will bring the 2012 season to a climax in July instead of August with the Steeplechase worth $250,000.
The Grand Annual Steeplechase at Warrnambool on May 3 will also be worth $250,000, an increase of $100,000.
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