Doomben 1000 Brisbane Racing

Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival 2020

The Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival 2020 kicks off in earnest this week and takes place in May and June. Our Brisbane Racing tips for the Carnival will come from our Expert Brisbane Racing tips analyst Blaazing Ben Perkins. And with 25 years experience in studying and doing form for Brisbane Racing tips there is no better man in Australia to provide Expert Brisbane Racing tips for the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival and beyond.

The Carnival is held across the two Major metropolitan racecourses of Doomben and Eagle Farm. The first two weeks of the Carnival will take place at Doomben where we are this week.

Brisbane Racing Tips Doomben 10000

The Doomben 10,000 was first run in 1933. It was run over 1350m for 84 years until the BTC revamped the Brisbane Winter Carnival. They reduced the race to 1200m in order to enable it to become the first feature sprint of the carnival.

This Group 1 sprint race will be the feature of our Brisbane Racing Tips form sheet with Blaazing Ben Perkins. The 1200m event is worth $700,000 in prize money with $448,000 to the winner.

The Brisbane Racing Tips Doomben 10000 sprint was formerly a handicap race until the mid 90s. Yet again the BTC were progressive and made the call to change its conditions of entry into a WFA event lifting the quality of racehorse.

Doomben 10000 – look to the seasoned older horses for form guide

Logic is saying that perhaps the 3 year olds are suited at the WFA scale very late in their 3 year old season. History says they are not (2 of last 13). So despite the key weight pull its fair to say this is a “hard seasoned Sprinters” race, This can be further enforced when there has only been one four year old winner in last 10 years. The older hardened sprinters are suited in this race.

You can also make a case that the boys are suited here as well with only four female winners in the last 25 years. There has only been three “Queensland” horses winning in the last 20 years and it pays to heavily favour the interstate visitors. Redzel won the in 2017 then went on to go back to back in the richest sprint race in the world The Everest further underlying the quality of the race.

Brisbane Racing Doomben 10000 – past winners

The Bostonian was a big winner of the 2019 Doomben 10000 at 41-1 beating Osborne Bulls with the brilliant Nature Strip fourth. Previous to that it was English 2018 at 11-1, Redzel in 2017 at 9-1, Music Magnate 2016 at 9-1 and Boban in 2015 at 17-1. There has not been a favourite win this race in 6 years and the average winning odds since then has been a whopping 18-1.

Champagne Stakes – Group 2 for 2 year olds

The champagne Stakes is the other feature race on the Doomben race meeting for Doomben 10000 day. It is for the 2 year olds over 1200m and has prize money of $250,000. The winner and horses that run well in this race will to extend in distance. This could be the Group 2 Sires Produce over 1400m or the Group 1 TJ Smith over 1600m later during the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival.

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