Get set for 3 mega days

TAB and TAB Gold customers have an array of compelling betting opportunities over the next three days, including four local race meetings, three of the biggest international racedays on the planet and a carryover Pick 6 pool set to total over R3 million.

The two-day Algoa Cup Festival at Fairview kicks off the action this Friday with an eight-race programme headlined by the Listed Racehorse Owners Association Stakes over 1600m. The Festival continues on Sunday with the Listed Algoa Cup over 2000m topping a nine-race menu that offers the chance to land a huge win on a R500,000 carryover-boosted Pick 6.

Saturday’s Turffontein-Hollywoodbets Durbanville doubleheader fits neatly between Fairview’s two big days with the Grade 3 Betway Victory Moon Stakes at the Joburg meeting likely to offer vital clues to the outcome of the Grade 1 Betway Summer Cup three weeks later.

The international action gets underway on Friday evening with the two-day Breeders’ Cup spectacular in Los Angeles.

This is the best thoroughbred action on earth with an all-star cast from around the world converging on picturesque Santa Anita Racecourse in Arcadia for 14 Grade 1 blockbusters carrying total prize money of $25 million.

The five Grade 1s for two-year-olds will be run on Friday and, as always, the $6-million Breeders’ Cup Classic and $4-million Breeders’ Cup Turf will be the highlights of Saturday’s action. The Santa Anita show gets going at 20:30 SA time on Friday and at 19:10 on Saturday. Catch it all live on Racing 240 on DStv and TAB and TAB Gold will offer Win, Place, Exacta and Rolling Pick 6 bets on both days.

The Friday meeting will wrap up at 01:40 on Saturday and little more than two hours later, and thousands of miles away, the Grade 1 Victoria Derby race meeting at Flemington in Melbourne will be underway.

This is the best raceday on the Australian calendar and it’s also a Hong Kong Jockey Club World Pool event. TAB and TAB Gold customers can take Win, Place and Trifecta bets into the huge Hong Kong pools, plus Exactas, Rolling Doubles and a Jackpot into Tabcorp pools. What a great chance to win big on an all-graded-races card.

Victoria Derby Day is also the first of the four mega meetings that comprise the Melbourne Cup Carnival and is followed by Melbourne Cup Day (Tuesday 7 November), Oaks Day (9 November) and Champion Stakes Day (11 November). Seven-star action and you can bet on the lot with TAB and TAB Gold.