With four starts, Perfect Thought has the least experience of the 15 runners in a handicap at 7 1/2 furlongs at Newcastle Racecourse in Australia on Monday evening across American time zones.

A 3-year-old, Perfect Thought has won once, and should have race conditions could be in his favor at Newcastle. Perfect Thought will start at 7 1/2 furlongs for the first time, having finished fourth by 4 1/2 lengths in a seven-furlong handicap at Newcastle on Sept. 24.

The speedy filly Pull the Tail may prove tough to catch in a six-furlong handicap at Tamworth Racecourse in Australia on Sunday.

Trained at Tamworth by Sue Grills, Pull the Tail had three starts at the countryside venue in September, all at six furlongs. Pull the Tail led throughout a handicap on Sept. 4, finished second by less than a half-length on Sept. 12 and third by a length on Sept. 26.

Pull the Tail set the pace in each of those starts.

Chaldean might have been saved by the wire, but nonetheless he won the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes on Saturday at Newmarket by a head over fast-closing Royal Scotsman. 

It was the fourth win in a row for Chaldean, who was coming off a victory in the Group 2 Champagne Stakes at Doncaster over the same seven-furlong trip as the Dewhurst.  

A Juddmonte Farms homebred by the Juddmonte stallion Frankel, Chaldean was ridden to a front-running victory by Frankie Dettori for trainer Andrew Balding, who only began training for Juddmonte this year.

Paul Lally:

R1 7-9-5-6

R2 5-1-11-3

R3 2-1-6-4

R4 7-12-10-11

R5 2-5-13-1

R6 9-1-5-6

R7 10-3-6-1

R8 7-6-8-12

R9 9-13-5-7

R10 2-4-14-9

Best Bet R6 N9 Handsome Twelve

Longshot R10 N2 The Golden Scenery

Play R3 QQP 1-2-6

Tom Wood:

R1: 7-5-6-5

R2: 8-5-4-6

R3: 2-1-4-6

R4: 11-2-13-14
R5: 4-13-5-8

R6: 9-2-5-1

R7: 10-3-4-6

R8: 9-4-12-11

R9: 5-13-14-9

R10: 7-14-4-9

Commissioning capped a perfect three-start 2022 campaign with a Group 1 win in the Fillies' Mile on Friday at Newmarket.  

The 2-year-old filly had won the Group 2 Rockfel over seven furlongs at Newmarket well enough that she was the odds-on favorite stretching to one mile Friday, and after a slightly anxious moment a furlong out, with pacesetting Novakai holding her at bay, Commissioning surged through the final uphill portion of the race to win by one length. 

The Coonamble Cup at Coonamble Racecourse in Australia this weekend is one of the last chances to qualify for The Big Dance.

The Big Dance Stakes is a newly created one-mile race worth $1.27 million at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on Nov. 1. The Big Dance is restricted to horses who qualify by finishing first or second in a yearlong series of races at country tracks in the state of New South Wales.

Nostrum inherited the role of favorite for Saturday’s Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse in England after Sakheer was removed from Dewhurst consideration. Sharp winner of the Mill Reef Stakes last month at Newbury, Sakheer on Thursday was found through an endoscopic examination to be harboring an upper respiratory infection, and trainer Roger Varian said the colt won’t race again as a 2-year-old. 

The last three weeks have been an eventful time for the Australian star older horse Anamoe.

Anamoe won his fifth Group 1 in the George Main Stakes at a mile at Royal Randwick in Sydney on Sept. 17, but was judged to be lame by track stewards after the race.

The 4-year-old has improved sufficiently to be entered in the Group 1 Might and Power Stakes at 1 1/4 miles at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne on Friday evening across American time zones.

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(Sunday, October 09, 2022) 

Commissioning was good winning her career debut this past summer, better landing the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes on Sept. 23, and is widely expected to prove best Friday at Newmarket in the Group 1 Fillies' Mile.

Commissioning as of Wednesday was a general odds-on favorite with British bookmakers to beat seven fellow 2-year-old fillies in the Fillies' Mile, the most important juvenile filly race of English flat season.