EXPERT RACING TIPS: BENDIGO
BENDIGO PREVIEW AND TIPS | EXPERT TIPS | WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29TH 2025
RAIL: True TRACK: Good 4
Expecting horses on-speed to be advantaged, with this drying track and the rail in the true position.
10. Thanks Gorgeous
1. Canvern
4. Street Legal
6. Winter Hail
Betting Strategy
BACK: 10. Thanks Gorgeous (WIN) for 3 units (Rated at $1.72)
Thanks Gorgeous has a dominant ratings profile over her rivals, with second-placings behind Signature Scent and Thousand Guineas winner Ole Dancer. I loved her jumpout between runs off a 74-day freshen. She maps for a perfect run on-speed and looks the winner.
3. Mongolian Gobi
7. Bajaria
9. Dancingonmyown
5. Obucci
Betting Strategy
LAY: 8. Castellito (WIN) for 3 units (Rated at $4.75)
I loathe laying Grahame Begg-trained horses but Castellito looks way too short for me. She is a jumpout star but hasn’t done anything noteworthy on the track yet, getting over the top of a very basic field at Kyneton first-up, she was all out late too, so I don’t like the step up in trip.
6. Shiny New Deel
3. Opening Address
1. Hiyaam Proud
10. Entrusting
Betting Strategy
Shiny New Deel is the fit, on-speed horse which likely counts for plenty here, although I do think he was flattered winning last start, controlling the race on a very slow speed.
1. Tikemyson
2. Autumnheat
7. Callawadda
11. Leonchroi
Betting Strategy
An extremely even race, no confidence.
11. Fluent
10. Steel Move
12. Marilyn’s Edge
5. Lake Forest
Betting Strategy
An even race now with the racemorning scratching of Tennesse Bound. Fluent has jumped out well and gets the A1 map, she is the logical starting point in the race, although I can’t see any value there at the early quote.
1. Proved
11. Scillato
7. Let’sfacethemusic
6. Trapeze Warrior
Betting Strategy
Not much between Scillato, Proved and Let’sfacethemusic for mine, likely a good form race going forward but no bets for me.
6. Quietness
11. God’s Window
4. Sayedaty Sadaty
7. Don Diego De Vega
Betting Strategy
Quietness was given a below average steer in the Coongy, the map would be my only concern here. God’s Window is improving nicely this preparation and appears a genuine danger.
2. Fear No Evil
10. Ahha Ahha
16. Swift Circle
1. British Columbia
Betting Strategy
This race has changed complexion with seven scratchings, leaving a field of ten. I would’ve been keener on the chances of Fear No Evil with a bigger field, his latest jumpout was much improved with the blinkers on and should control the race but now Ahha Ahha is able to sit much closer to him.
11. Big Sexy
13. Guerite
7. Impending Link
10. Boltsaver
Betting Strategy
Big Sexy left on top with the scratching of Helix but I’m not convinced that he should be as short as he is.
BENDIGO RACING TIPS
Bendigo Racecourse was first established in 1858 and is situated approximately 150 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD. It has established a reputation as “the nursery of champions”, with several revered racehorses – including seven-time Group 1 winner Better Loosen Up and the 2009 Melbourne Cup hero Shocking – having broken their maiden at the picturesque track. From maidens to feature races, our punting experts bring you their Bendigo tips across all meetings. Mr. J A Canton, who would later become a notable Melbourne magistrate, was the club’s first President. The inaugural Sandhurst Cup, which would become the Bendigo Cup, was staged in 1868 and was won by Old England.
In 1873, the Bendigo Jockey Club converted the Bendigo Racecourse to anti-clockwise running and the old grandstand, which had stood on the opposite side of the course, was replaced by a new one. This grandstand was then replaced in November 1902 by the stand that still graces the racecourse to this very day.
The $400,000 Bendigo Cup, held each October over a distance of 2400m, has traditionally been considered a lead-up race to the Melbourne Cup. The Group 3 contest has been won in the past by several international raiders including Francis of Assisi (2016) and Qewy (2017), both owned by Godolphin and trained in the UK by Charlie Appleby. Horses have also used it for other races during the Melbourne Cup Carnival, such as the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Golden Mile Raceday is also a key fixture on the club calendar, head to the Betfair Hub for Bendigo best bets throughout the year.
In 1998, the entire track was reconstructed and the racecourse now has a circumference of 1,995 metres, and a home straight of 400 metres. The big oval course is 24m wide and caters for races from 1000m to 2400m, plus jumps races over 3000m. The course features two starting chutes, one providing for races over 1000m and 1100m, and the other for races over 1500m and 1600m. The 1600m start provides a long straight run of 800m to the well-cambered horseshoe turn that leads into the long home straight. Sticking to the rail is always the shortest route home, but most runners tend to get their chance in the home straight as the wide track at Bendigo generally races very fairly. For all the best Bendigo bets, Betfair’s team of tipsters has you covered.
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