Racing and Sports highlight our standout plays at Australian TAB meetings for August 17.

Skyhook is Golden Rose-bound after overcoming a big weight and wet track to win the Rosebud.

Otaki trainer Andrew Campbell saw potential in Cocobill as a yearling, and two and a half years later the ex-Victorian galloper will make his Kiwi debut for his stable at Woodville on Sunday.

Former jockey Sam O’Malley will chase his first winner as a trainer this weekend after recently joining employer Bill Thurlow in partnership.

Connections of Damysus will be hoping to see him firmly back on track when he heads to the Prix Nureyev on Saturday.

Four-year-old mare Exotique Miss was unlucky running fourth in the Group 1 Tatts Tiara at Eagle Farm and arguably should have run a clear second if she didn’t have interference at a vital stage into the straight.

The pre-spring racing in Brisbane continues this weekend and we’ve done the form across the card to give our readers the insider Doomben preview and best bets for Saturday! The action moves from Eagle Farm to sister track Doomben for Mekka Raceday where the horses and their hoops could be overshadowed by the tunes for the BRC’s ultimate day party.

Hawkesbury's leading trainer Brad Widdup has been searching for another quality mare following the retirement of his Group 1 winner Icebath.

Donna Logan will be back in the black-type frame with her young stable at Ruakaka on Saturday, presenting the promising Yokozuna in the Gr.3 Cambridge Stud Northland Breeders’ Stakes (1200m).

Mare to contest Group 2 Lawrence Stakes just days after being sold on Inglis Digital.

Rod Chambers dominated the early days of the Pearl Classic for two-year-olds when he drove the winner of the rich feature event six times in the space of nine years --- from 1990 to 1998 --- and now champion reinsman Gary Hall jnr has high hopes of equalling that record when he handles star colt Ideal Beach in the $100,000 Hoist Torque Australia Pearl over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night.

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The top-class three-year-old Camille Pissarro has had his career on the track cut short due to an injury he picked up when running in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown earlier in the season.

She could easily have gone to the breeding barn without racing – and now has won three of her six starts.