Racenet lays across Australia for Saturday Comments
We’ve all put our heads together in the Racenet office again this week and come up with a set of favoured runners we think are likely to find one better on Saturday.
NOTE: Races are listed in order of running based on Australian Eastern Standard Time.
HARPO MARX
(Randwick – 1.20pm (AEST) – Race 5 No. 3) – There’s no doubting he’s come back in good order and now getting to his preferred distance range but there’s a few negatives here that we are not willing to ignore. The three knocks here are his ability on rain-affected ground, the 2000m trip and the barrier. We believe he’s a horse better suited beyond 2000m and while he did chalk up two wins over this trip last prep – they were at Wyong in a Class 1/Maiden Plate and at Rosehill on a good track. The forecast in Sydney is for some decent rain on Friday – 10 to 20m and Harpo Marx has won one from 11 on soft and heavy tracks. Then you come to the ba