2023 Golden Easter Egg Final preview & betting tips | April 8

Golden Easter Egg feature pic

All eyes turn to this Saturday night for the running of the 2023 Golden Easter Egg Final, where the winner will collect $300,000 for connections. ARG has done the form on every runner and come up with some free betting selections for the 520m Group 1 feature.

Box 1: Baby Jaycee

She is the dog to beat. Her performance in the semi was a vast improvement on her heat run and she will improve even further. She is one of the fastest early dogs in the country at present and we know what speed can do at this circuit. She looks the likely early leader, and if there is any trouble behind her, she may dash away to take the Egg back down the Hume Highway to Victoria.

Golden Easter Egg Final 2023

Silk (1)

Form: 121831 | Career: 33: 18-3-5 | Trainer: Robert Douglas

$2.60 with Ladbrokes

Box 2: Custard Monelli

This very talented Western Australian has already been placed in three finals. He loomed up and looked the winner in the semi-final before being swamped late by . He doesn't have the pace to lead Baby Jaycee early with equal getaways, but has the speed to sit on that greyhound's tail and make things difficult for the rest of the field. This is another chaser that has improved with each extra run on the track, and further improvement would see him hard to beat.

Golden Easter Egg Final 2023

SilkCustard Monelli (2)

Form: 134112 | Career: 23: 10-4-4 | Trainer: David Hobby

$4.40 with Unibet

Box 3: Simply Limelight

This guy will be the sentimental favourite, if not the punters' elect. He has been so close in some good races and deserves a Group race title to his name. He won the NSW Sprint Championship and was beaten a lip in the final when he had no luck at all. He will need some luck in this race too, which is always a worry in these big races, but he just may get a dream trail behind the inside two dogs. If he doesn't find trouble or get too far back and he gets a clear crack at them late, there is nothing in this race that can withstand his finishing burst.

Golden Easter Egg Final 2023

SilkSimply Limelight (3)

Form: 113341 | Career: 43: 17-8-7 | Trainer: Peter Rodgers

$3.10 with Palmerbet

Box 4: Reflections

Reflections is one of the two true fairytale dogs in the race. This girl just doesn't know how to run a bad race. She will show pace and try to lead, but that is a big ask against this field with the two interstate visitors under her. She is a and finalist, and nobody could begrudge her nailing the start and leading them all the way.

Golden Easter Egg Final 2023

SilkReflections (4)

Form: 461342 | Career: 31: 8-8-5 | Trainer: Kerry Drynan

$13 with PlayUp

Box 5: Elle Yeah

Elle is another of the unwanted semi-finalists that saluted at $50 last week, and another that no-one could begrudge a shot at the title. She did everything right off box two last week, running good sectionals along the way to an all-the-way win in good time. Five is a good box for quick beginners, and it is the box She's A Pearl won off last year. She will need another boilover but is certainly capable of it. Can Elle Yeah make it two box-five wins in succession? Time will tell.

Golden Easter Egg Final 2023

SilkElle Yeah (5)

Form: 216141 | Career: 42: 13-8-3 | Trainer: Allan Manwaring

$26 with Betfair

Box 6: Ritza Donna

What can you say about this megastar? There is no more honest chaser than this girl. She gives every single ounce of effort she has every time she goes around. She has a Group 1 in the kennel back in December of 2021 in the Megastar and is still yet to run a bad race. She will try to get across to the fence behind the speed and use her tenacity to hopefully fill a hole and add to the $200,000-odd in prizemoney she has already amassed for connections.

Golden Easter Egg Final 2023

SilkRitza Donna (7)

Form: 456232 | Career: 71: 16-20-15 | Trainer: Mark Davidson

$51 with Bet365

Box 7: Belmont Bullet

Every person on track was in disbelief when pinged the lids and then just defied them all in the first semi-final last week at $50. He just kept finding to win well in the end, but will need to find something special in this final. He has only one win from 13 efforts from boxes outside of the No.4, so that is the worry. He is facing his stiffest test to date, but as was said last week, there is always one complete Cinderella story in the Egg and this boy is it this year.

Golden Easter Egg Final 2023

SilkBelmont Bullet (7)

Form: 444231 | Career: 32: 10-4-3 | Trainer: Joseph McFadyen

$61 with Neds

Box 8: Elite Alex

This is the other Victorian in the field, and another that has improved markedly with every race on the track. He would need to improve again, but that is not out of the question. He has only missed a place four times in 26 career starts, and that is against some top-quality Victorian greyhounds. His outside-box record is very good, never missing a place from the outer two boxes. He would need to do everything right, but Elite Alex might just be the value play at the each-way quote.

Golden Easter Egg Final 2023

SilkElite Alex (8)

Form: 112122 | Career: 25: 12-7-2 | Trainer:

$6 with Bet365


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