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For a bit of fun, I will tip my no 1 selection followed by a ruffie
R1 Derulo - Real Fine Wine
R2 Miss In Charge - Illiciate Affairs
R3 Rambeau - Jackson On Time/Mishani Scandal
R4 Ramtastic - Dreamtime Magic
R5 Kiss My Swiss - Invicible Al - note Al will be steaming home off of what may be a ridiculous early pace - big query if there is more rain
R6 Redoute's Image (best bet) - Set Me Up
R7 Rich Devil - Thunder Mania
R8 Wapiti - Kukeracha
R9 Awesome Pluck - Akage/Spectroscope
good punting
TRY THIS.......My best bet was Icebath...ok thats life....my next best was Prophets Thumb and I backed Damian Lane to win the jockeys challenge at $13. Coming into the last i only needed PT to place to win the jockey challenge and I backed Prophets Thumb to win lots....you guessed it....Prophets Tumb late scratching....another way to lose .....yes i am dsullionshed with this stupid caper. ..not sure why i wil bother with this bullshit anymore....
Suspending Bowman for that ride has opened up a can of worms. Only a fraction of runners can get the hindsight perfect ride.
Its the jockey's role to find the right pace and position for his runner and find the right time to launch a finish. In trying to negate the oppositon, or when the oppositon are trying to negate you, its not always possible to get what you want..
There's been many rides where I thought a jockey was committing suicide, yet still won. The idea may have been to bring undone a legitimate threat, run the oppositon off their legs, leaders bias and so on.
Bowman will surely win an appeal..
Just watched Night Raid bolt in at Tatura.The old fella still winning at his age.102 i think.Big effort.They all have a story to tell.
William Pike brought up his double century of Australian black type victories when he rode filly Tuscan Queen to the most emphatic of his 9 WA Derby wins. |
Saw on Twitter today that the champion stayer in Europe from the mid to late 1990s has passed away. |
Here's a finish that should make your eyes pop!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfSDRWmm8GM
Living the Dream was $3.70 favourite in Melbourne Race 3 yesterday and going backwards with 250 metres to go.
There are some punters that like to bet “in running” which means to bet while the race is in progress. During the brief duration that Living the Dream seemed spent, there was still $130 bets “alive” believing that Living the Dream could win. The “smart punters” were living the dream as they began to rake up all this sucker money.
Unfortunately for those smart punters, Living the Dream, became a living nightmare as the horse rebalanced, pushed its way through a gap and won. The trading charts on Betfair reveal that $100 changed hands at odds of 150/1 to 250/1. If that wasn’t bad enough, an amount of $8 changed hands at 1000/1. In other words, about $30,000 was won and lost during this moment.
If you backed it at $3.70 you should be happy with the win. If you backed it at 1000/1, you will no doubt be enjoying a Merry Xmas!
View the finish here: https://youtu.be/seS14-NQKTQ
Can one of you wise posters explain to me the reason we had this ridiculous amount of money thrown at an early two year old race in Sydney yesterday. How did that benefit racing or the punter. It was just another hand out to the breeding industry and an inducement to be offered by the syndicators to sell more horses from the breeders.
The racing industry has enough issues trying to look after surplus stock that don't measure up without encouraging further breeding of sub standard stock.
I heard wise words from an overseas racing scribe during the week who said "the breeding industry is about providing good racehorses, racing is not about providing successful breeding operations."
Shame we didn't consider that here.

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