Spin Doctor aiming to defy odds

23 October 2015

Spin Doctor will be at long odds in the Windsor Park and has to overcome a wide draw, but he is capable of a bold run. He carried 62.5kg when beaten at his last start and also needed the run, which was his first for seven weeks.

He is the equal highest-rated runner – with favourite Addictive Habit – having won 13 races and been Group One-placed at weight-for-age level. – NZ Racing Desk.

The Corner with Garry Chittick

I keep on proposing my retirement from the burden of a weekly Corner. I make the excuse it is hard to be credible, hard to let the two of you know about anything in our sport that hasn’t been covered before.

27 October 2025

WS-bred On The Lash scores at Sha Tin

Twenty-four hours following the final WS Cox Plate meeting run on the Moonee Valley track of old before it shuts for two years to make way for a new precinct, the race’s 2004 winner, Savabeel, continued his roll of runners, and this time it was via five-year-old On The Lash (ex Candelabra) at Sha Tin.