{"id":80735,"date":"2021-11-19T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T00:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/betting-info\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2021-11-19T10:29:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T00:29:10","slug":"the-hunter","status":"publish","type":"betting-info","link":"https:\/\/www.neds.com.au\/blog\/betting-info\/the-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you looking for this year’s The Hunter race betting, field and form guide<\/strong>? The race betting experts at Neds have everything you need to know, all in the one place.<\/p>\n

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First conducted in 2019 The Hunter is one of the newer feature races that make-up the wider The Everest Carnival in Sydney during the spring. <\/span><\/p>\n

Offering $1 million in prize money, the event is run and won at Newcastle Racecourse on a Saturday in mid-November and along with The Gong<\/a> at Kembla Grange is one of the richest provincial races held in the state of New South Wales.<\/p>\n

Run and won over 1300m, The Hunter is a quality handicap event open to horses aged three-years-old and above.<\/p>\n

It officially gained Group 2 status in 2024 the same year The Everest became a Group 1 Australian horse race.<\/p>\n

The Hunter makes a nice end-of-season target for horses out of the Group races over the 1200m – 1400m distance range over the Sydney Spring Racing Carnival.<\/p>\n

Mares in The Hunter field may come via a Victoria Derby Day run a fortnight prior in the Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes<\/a> (1600m) at Flemington.<\/p>\n

Other runners may have previously contested the $20 million The Everest<\/a> (1200m) and or the $3 million Winners Stakes<\/a> (1300m).<\/p>\n

In 2021 The Hunter winner Lost And Running ran fourth in The Everest and second in the Winners Stakes (run that year as the Classique Legend Stakes).<\/p>\n

The 2023 The Hunter winner Coal Crusher came via a fourth in that year’s Winners Stakes (known as the Giga Kick Stakes that spring).<\/p>\n

The Hunter 2024 – Fast Facts<\/span><\/h2>\n