James Tzaferis
@jtzaf
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Freelance Journalist/TV Host/MC. Spring 2025 for @betsy_com_au @NedsAus @RandSRacing. @TzaferisRacing fan boy.
Murray Bridge, South Australia
Joined March 2011
🚨▶️🚨 The Saturday Multi is back and aiming to end Cup Week on a winning note. @jtzaf, @TrentC_Racing and @JAltieriMedia combine late in the day to bounce back onto the winner's list 👇👇 https://t.co/V0wix5XQF6
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A maiden winner 13 days ago, a G1 star today... 🙌 Simply brilliant from STRICTLY BUSINESS and her team... 😤 #OaksDay | #MelbourneCup | @FlemingtonVRC
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I haven’t enjoyed watching a race like that for a long time. What a training performance and result for Tom Carberry and his small team. Unbelievably rapt for one of the good guys. Inspiring stuff.
Remember the name 🌟 STRICTLY BUSINESS does the business to take out the Crown Oaks on #OaksDay for John Allen and Thomas Carberry. 🎥 @wwos | #OaksDay | #MelbCupCarnival
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Buckaroo and all of our Cup runners are receiving all the post race treatment possible, prior to heading for a break.
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A 10-Horse Stable, a handy filly and an Oaks Dream From Ballarat backblocks to Flemington’s biggest stage: Tom Carberry takes on the VRC Oaks https://t.co/xSQ4NjlqCj
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Tom Carberry will pack the float on Thursday morning the same way he does most other weeks. Almost always, it’s
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"It's not the race that stops the nation anymore" Traded on BF below: Al Riffa $1.8m ❌ Presage Nocturne $1.4m ❌ Half Yours $989k 🏆 Total traded: Melb Cup $10.8m Derby $2.8m Coolmore $2m Empire Rose $1.9m HKJC Stakes $1.8m R10 Flem $1.5m R9 Flem $1.4m The Everest = $1.4m
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Still a few more fabricated posts to correct before the “animal welfare” activists disappear for another 363 days… (while we carry on actually caring for horses!). The CPR Deathwatch list of “175 racing deaths” contains: • Several horses that are still alive • Dozens that
DISGRACE THAT STOPS A NATION 🛑 175 dead horses. According to the annual DeathWatch report from @hrseracingkills, released last Tuesday, one horse died on average every two days during the 2024/2025 racing season. 85 horses died following gruesome and painful injuries to their
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Happy Melbourne Cup Day! A day to back a winner and celebrate these amazing animals and this brilliant sport. We’re spending the day at Morphettville with first starter Friend In Me and stable favourite Royal Fox.
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Saying #Yuptothecup - As anti-racing posts flood social media, @KickUpForRacing fights back with facts, science, and the silent support of thousands. @vickyleo.
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Like many racing fans, Vicky Leonard has spent the build up to Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup trawling social media. She wishes
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The forgotten man and his Valiant King: the jockey built for the big occasion https://t.co/KbLqbWSYzR
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Make no mistake, Jye McNeil is a man built for the big occasion. The understated country boy doesn’t boast the
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An absolute must read for punters - @TravTurf's runner by runner preview of the 2025 Melbourne Cup. He gives his verdict on each of the runners, 100% market, top 4 and betting strategy.
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Speed Map Feel that the race will be run at an average tempo with Changingoftheguard coming across to lead from
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Guiding race fans through the next 32hrs of misinformation… Tag @KickUpForRacing if you need us to jump in online with facts and info. Invite any curious family, friends or online acquaintances to National Thoroughbred Week: 20-24th November! @NationalTBWeek
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From the bush to the big time: it’s unfinished business as Torranzino eyes Cup glory Paul Preusker is hoping for the rain to come Cup Day - and a little more luck in the race than he once had with Surprise Baby. https://t.co/RGYeHa3uD5
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It takes a tough horse to make their mark in Paul Preusker’s Horsham stable. As laconic and seemingly carefree as
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Every year Melbourne Cup, the comments roll in from virtue-signallers… We respond with facts, so the everyday Aussie can see the correct information - and with an open invitation. National Thoroughbred Week is for the curious, the sceptical, and those who’ve only seen racing
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I adore the Derby, so always enjoy writing these pieces - a look at the bloodlines of the field. Nothing that would put Observer fans off, but also enough in the veins of others to suggest 2500m gives them a hope. Bring on Saturday. https://t.co/U3fXXQfaZy
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Not long before @JaseRicho can add international bloodstock agent to the stars to his already bursting CV… Go well @LizzieJelfs @RaceWithLizzie 💪
‘Richo called it’ She once rode trackwork with Ollie before his famous Cup win. Now Lizzie Jelfs is chasing her own Cup glory which started with an uncanny message from her @7horseracing co-host. https://t.co/7kjFTI45aJ
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📹🗣️ Mark Zahra made the trip out to Werribee this morning for his first sit on #MelbourneCup equal favourite Al Riffa. Here's what he had to say plus Adam's Blencowe's Timeform comment. @MelbourneCup @NoverreMan @FlemingtonVRC @Austbloodstock @JosephOBrien2
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🗣️ 'It drives me crazy' Gai Waterhouse lets rip over suggestions the Derby should be changed https://t.co/9Vx2XcGq8O
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When Gai speaks, racing listens. And the legendary trainer was in fine form on Tuesday morning as the stars of
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