LastOf40

R1: #3 $300 W R2: #2 $100 P R5: #3 $100 W thanks

R1: 2 R2: 3 R3: 6 R4: 1 BB R5: 7 R6: 9 R7: 9 R8: 6 R9: 3 thanks

Matamata - Race 7 2, 4 Otaki - Race7 4, 9 BB Randwick - Race 3 3, 4 Randwick - Race 4 5, 7 Randwick - Race 6 2, 8 Randwick - Race 7 1, 9 Randwick - Race 8 3, 7 Caulfield - Race 3 2, 3 Caulfield - Race 4 4, 5 Caulfield - Race 5 1, 4 Caulfield - Race 6 1, 4 Caulfield - Race 7 3, 4 Caulfield - Race 8 4, 5 BB thanks

I had given up as I like to use an iPad while watching the racing on TV. But sure as anything at some point I would get the "white screen of death", a top taskbar and nothing else on the mobile app. Usually just before I went to place a winning bet, as is Murphy's 4th law on betting. I did convey this to their Support people but they suggested I use Chrome browser. I could have got more help from my young niece!. But got the same result. Re-installs, clearing caches, I went the whole mile. Probably out of technical curiosity than anything, couple d with a stubborn streak.. I opened up a Bet365 account and it worked faultlessly. The only thing it doesn't have that I liked on the TAB site was the Trifecta Running bet. So I have tinkered occasionally with my TAB account. Anyway I thing I have finally tracked down the villain in this app... the location services. You know that stupid check that I am in New Zealand and not some damn overseas person trying desperately to use their service (must be desperate or an ex-pat). Each time I installed it it would ask if I wanted to allow it use the location service: Never/Only this once/Always, and I always chose "Always" as you would. But now I installed and chose "Only this once" and although it has "white screened" twice, it always recovers by restarting the app, where it wouldn't before. I can not understand why anyone would agree this this restraint of trade by limiting the site to NZ only but with NZ Racing management I guess that just adds to the long list of idiotic decisions. With no free to Air TV, No radio, shutting down of the local TABs, you would have thought making a user friendly, available to everyone, website would have been the prime objective?? But no.

Ellerslie had a loyalty card a few years ago but wiped it. They recommended we become members (then shut the course for nearly a year). Now the choice is easy, pay an entrance fee, get through security, be roped off from most areas, pay exorbitant food and drink prices, be blasted by static/music, OR stay at home with Wi-Fi, fridge and couch. Tough call!

Neruda is right about some of the rides. Race 1 set the tone and it did not improve. After being closed for so long I thought the welcome mat would be out but we arrived at the door of the public lounge to find a “ Prvate Function - no entry” sign on the door. And half the front lawn fenced off too. I left by race 4 and next weeks private function will be staged in my lounge, with all facilities in operation.

R2: Light Up the Room 6 R3: Bush Caviar 17 R4: The Amateur 2 R5: The Bostonian 1 R6: Coldstone 5 R7: Hopfgarten 1 R8: Champagne Cuddles 15 BB R9: Calanda 1 thnaks

R3: 2. Assimilate R4: 5. Sedanzer R5: 6. Spieth ( BEST BET) R6: 12. Plumaro R7: 11. Lucky For All R8: 9. Moss Trip thanks

R1: 9R2: 4R3: 5R4: 2, 12R5: 1R6: 5R7: 10R8: 1R9: 12, 5, 13 thanks

Race 5 BRC Sires Produce #3 Zousain Race 6 Glenlogan Park #3 Ghisoni Race 7 Kingsford Smith #2 Le Romain Race 8 Queensland Oaks #3 Youngstar thanks

Thanks PJ Commiserations Dark Horses, it was a tough day to be looking for winners. Even up until the end it could have swung either way. We all know what a roughie can do to a match. Captain Cubes is probably still sucking in the oxygen after holding his breathe for the last hour. Geoff

yes Brian $21, $16, $106 winners.... I bet there are a few watching thinking "there but for the grace of a God go I"

Happy to be in the final ? You betcha! Remember these ? ....... The Table after ROUND 6 1st 11 Five No Trumps* $7045.20 2nd 11 The Dark Horses* $6690.20 3rd 9 Mainly Dollarz* $6834.40 4th 9 Ad Augusta $6559.00 5th 9 The Royle Family $6152.00 6th 8 Betza Grand* $6656.20 7th 8 The Rubiks* $6285.60 8th 6 Lay Down Misere* $6280.60 The Table after ROUND 9 1st 18 The Dark Horses* $9680.60 2nd 17 The Royle Family $9295.00 3rd 16 Ad Augusta $9491.60 4th 15 Betza Grand $9187.60 5th 14 Mainly Dollarz $9705.20 6th 12 The Rubiks $9489.20 7th 11 Five No Trumps $8960.20 8th 9 Lay Down Misere $8823.00

Hesi's selections: R1 1, 8 R2 6, 9 R3 1, 3 R4 7, 8 R5 1, 2 R6 2, 5 BB R7 1, 8 R8 5, 14 R9 1, 12 R10 1, 3 BB Good luck Rosina, a formidable opponent One last big effort Rubiks Thanks as always PJ ====================================================== LastOf40s hopefuls: R1: 1, 5 BB R2: 6, 7 R3: 9, 11 R4: 2, 8 R5: 2, 11 R6: 2, 5 R7: 1, 4 R8: 5, 14 R9: 1, 2 BB R10: 1, 10 Good luck Korio None of those roughies please. Thanks PJ for another few months of great entertainment. Geoff

Sent now.

Only one match counts, and as we are in the final it can't have been the two previous matches in the Round Robin against the Dark Horses. All the pressure is on the Dark Horses, timed run, clean slate and all that....

No worries Hesi. Is the "Lost" a pointer to the lay competition ?

Tom, you have undergone a name change? It has taken a while to correlate the site names versus first names that PJ uses, and now you have thrown another curly in for the next comp. I had got used to Tom Turkey (Turny) to help remember. Things were looking a little dire at about R5 yesterday. We were -200 on 3 matches and looking at the head of a fairly large python. Then Roland produced one of those $91 winners that made Catalano's day and things swung from there. Sorry Cat, many of us have been there - often! Howie's "rooster to feather duster" quote sprung to mind. So we are happy to be in the final. Two weeks ago we were 5th and would have been happy to have got in the finals. So we are claiming major underdog status and hope Roland has another biggie hand grenade to toss in the Dark Horses direction next week. Rotorua & Morphetteville seem the ideal place for those I suspect Skelly is looking at Cubemeister's last race winner yesterday (again) and thinking.. (sensored). A big thanks to Howie for keeping us entertained yesterday. He was ever the optimist right up until the end. I am surprised a quick R11 was not added to the program yesterday. Geoff

Is that what they call a freudian slip?

Howie, which of Toms R6 - (2, 3) is scratched?

R1: 11, 12 R2: 7, 8 BB R3: 2, 10 R4: 2, 9 R5: 2, 6 R6: 1, 3 R7: 7, 10 R8: 5, 7 BB R9: 3, 6 R10: 1, 9 Good luck Tom Thanks PJ

And he has the same horse that will sink me and the Rubiks. You join the dots....

R1: 4, 5 R2: 1, 2 R3: 2, 4 R4: 6, 7 R5: 6, 8 BB R6: 9, 10 BB R7: 3, 4 R8: 1, 5 R9: 2, 13 R10: 5, 6 Good luck Pete One of us is going to make it to the finish. Thanks PJ

at least you made it to the straight. I am leaning over the rail at the end of the back straight.

Ok PJ.... we really need to take a look at that dice!