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For Real Life - Time is running out

Trainer-driver Trent Dawson is pleading for the remaining TAB Eureka slot holders to tune-in to Albion Park on Saturday night. A dreadfully timed hoof abscess and the resultant impact on Dawson’s classy four-year-old For Real Life not only ruined his major Queensland winter targets, but also cruelled his chance to press for a TAB Eureka slot.

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Team Zav Steal Star Mare - Major Delight

STAR mare Major Delight will get the chance to try and match what her former stablemate Encipher did last year and win the world’s richest harness racing. The Emma Stewart-trained Major Delight, who boasts 21 wins from just 26 starts, became the second confirmed mare in this year’s $2.1mil TAB Eureka when high-profile owners Danny and Jo Zavitsanos through their “Team Zav” slot.

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TAB Eureka Shock

LONG-TIME TAB Eureka favourite Frankie Ferocious is out of the $2.1mil feature.

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Dougs Platter: Last chance for Eureka Glory

OUTSPOKEN trainer Kevin Pizzuto knows D-Day is nearing. Any hopes of snatching a late slot in the world’s richest race, the $2.1mil TAB Eureka, will rely on his young stable star Dougs Platter making a statement at Menangle on Saturday night.

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Fighter Command smashes decade old record to race into the TAB Eureka

THE world's richest race has a real X-factor.

Big, raw and almost goofy three-year-old Fighter Command blazed his way in the $2.1 million TAB Eureka with a stunning win in Saturday night's (Saturday) $80,000 The Beautide in Hobart.

With driver Greg Sugars "cuddling" him to the line, Fighter Command cruised home by 16.1m and smashed the track record.

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Rattray Seeks Another Win in The Beautide with Nyack

TOP Tassie trainer Todd Rattray would love history to repeat itself. Rattray had “the experience of a lifetime” when he won last year’s $80,000 The Beautide in Hobart with stable star Magician and went on to run slashing fourth in the world’s richest harness race, the $2.1mil TAB Eureka.

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Top Pacers Target Final TAB Eureka Slots

TRAINERS Shannon Price and David Moran have joined the $2.1mil TAB Eureka campaigning process for slots with their classy pacers Sure Thing Captain and Captain Hammerhead. It is something we will see a lot more of in coming weeks with the frantic drive to the line for the remaining slots in the race.

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Can Frankie Be Ferocious

ONE-TIME favourite Frankie Ferocious is primed shake-up TAB Eureka betting markets once again at Albion Park on Saturday night. The Chariots Of Fire winner has endured a torrid Queensland Constellations campaign so far, but trainer Jason Grimson expects him to turn it around in the $53,040 Group 3 4YO Championship (2138m).

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Eye Keep Smiling for Wayne Loader’s slot

THE stage is set for history to repeat itself in the $2.1mil TAB Eureka. Last year’s inaugural running of the world’s richest race was won by a four-year-old mare (Encipher) and driven by Luke McCarthy. Today’s confirmation Eye Keep Smiling will race in Wayne Loader’s TAB Eureka slot gives the race great synergy.

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Alex Lloyd to perform at The TAB Eureka

Four-time ARIA Award-winning Aussie singer-songwriter Alex Lloyd is set to take the stage at The TAB Eureka. Lloyd will treat fans to a performance of his renowned hit song "Amazing" just before the race.

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TAB Eureka Watch on Wisper A Secret - Rising Sun WINNER

FRESH from the biggest win of her career, young Queensland trainer Chantal Turpin would love to ride her luck even further into the world’s richest harness race, the $2.1mil TAB Eureka.

Turpin combined with husband Pete McMullen and their talented four-year-old Wisper a Secret for a powerhouse win in last Saturday night’s $350,000 Group 1 Rising Sun at Albion Park.

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Singo takes a chance on Don Hugo 

THE most flamboyant and high-profile of TAB Eureka slot holders, John Singleton, has changed tack this year.

Singleton and his team of advisors created a qualifying race, dubbed “The Singo”, to choose their slot runner in last year’s inaugural running of the $2.1mil TAB Eureka.

This year they have opted to hand pick a partner, landing on the luckless and very much in-form four-year-old Don Hugo.

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Fighter Command - Ready to battle for the Beautide

A TRACK record breaking display from exciting three-year-old Fighter Command has propelled him into TAB Eureka discussions.

The Jess Tubbs-trained gelding made it six wins from just nine starts when he sat parked and toyed with his rivals in a blazing 1min55.6sec mile rate for 2080m in the opening race at Cranbourne last night (Sunday).

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TAB Eureka Watch - All eyes on High Above

Outstanding young WA pacer Never Ending opens a campaign aimed at the $2.1mil TAB Eureka when he returns to racing at Gloucester Park on Friday night.

And his return carries added importance and focus after long-time TAB Eureka favourite Frankie Ferocious’ shock first-up flop at Albion Park last night.

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Never Ending story begins again

Outstanding young WA pacer Never Ending opens a campaign aimed at the $2.1mil TAB Eureka when he returns to racing at Gloucester Park on Friday night.

And his return carries added importance and focus after long-time TAB Eureka favourite Frankie Ferocious’ shock first-up flop at Albion Park last night.

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TAB Eureka Watch on High Above

A FEW years back, owner-breeder Peter Gleeson was left wondering what might have been with his then superstar pacer Ride High. Ride High won 16 of his 18 starts from 2018-2020 but was cut down with injury and retired to stud before he got a chance to chase the biggest races.

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Extreme setback ruins TAB Eureka dream

AUSTRALIA’S most exciting Extreme Sea has been hit by injury and will miss the world’s richest harness race, the $2.1mil TAB Eureka.

In a cruel blow for veteran Goulburn trainer David Hewitt, Extreme Sea didn’t feel right after track work on Thursday morning and a subsequent scan revealed a suspensory ligament injury.

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