TARANTULA

For this comp I only consider horses paying under $4 win.
32 horses come into that category this week, between the 5 eligible venues.
Following initial consideration I've narrowed those 32 horses down to 4 only 'prospects'.
Last Saturday the 4 'prospects' I had that started, finished 2nd-2nd-3rd-5th.
On Saturday I'll narrow this week's 4 'prospects' down to 2 only, and at that stage submit my entry. 

Here are my 'prospects' that I'm considering :-

Te Rapa  - R7 -Little Bit Of Love                     $2.40        has come through the grades quickly with picket fence form line. First time over the longer distance. Prepared to risk here.
Te Rapa  - R9 -Takeshi                                    $3.60        bowled first-up in campaign when a hot favourite, and may find this testing too with big weight second-up from a very wide draw.
Rosehill  - R1 - Sovereign Hill                         $3.20       topweight running over a longer distance from a wide draw. Looks vulnerable.
Rosehill   -R8 - Sir Lucan                                 $3.70       beaten nearly 14 len just a week ago when very well supported. Hard to like on that.

I still miss the handwritten yellow tickets when you had to put your bet on an hour and a half before the race and couldn’t collect till the next day
And they call this progress

Was chatting to the guy who works at one of my (two) local TAB outlets and realised that I have now reached that stage where I'm one of those old people bemoaning the changes they're making at the TAB to go digital and save costs.   I've been comfortable with most of the previous changes (eg. no phonebet) but this one has tipped me over the edge.
They're replacing the printed sheets on the walls at the TAB outlets, with those touch screen monitors where you can look at the days races/form.
I know this will save a heap on paper/ink and they are cutting back on staff hours because they don't need to print and put up the sheets, but for me this is a another nail in the coffin of retail stores.
The printed sheets are so much easier to access and to use - easy to run your eye over the whole field and jump from race to race without having to scroll up and down or exit and find the next race.   You can also have 2 or 3 people looking at the same sheets at the same time.
and what about the majority of customers at my local(s) who can't even use an SST.  How on earth are they going to navigate their way around those screens?
Rant over!
Yours
Digital dinosaur

Week 7 results
Only 4 lives lost in total today and Sayer the only entrant eliminated.
20 entrants left with three weeks to play.   12 entrants on their last life.
 

 

Surely Tarantula is a certainty .....he hasn't even used a JOKER yet ....what a great effort hahaha! 😂 😂 😂 .....go the spider.

Go Tarantula , ra , ra , ra .

Week 7 selections

My understanding is that each driver is required to drive in a manner as to give their horse the best possible chance of winning or placing.  If you look at Williams & Dunns tactics and ask did they adopt tactics to obtain the best possible result for their drive the answer would have to be yes.    The fact Dunn took the trail behind a horse he knew would get him to the lane and at the same time put one of his main rivals 3 back fulfilled his obligation to obtain the best possible result.  The fact he got beaten only confirms the fact that if he kept the lead he probably would have lost by a wider margin.  

GOOD MORNING.THANK YOU “NOMATES”.YOU NOW HAVE AT LEAST 1 MATE ON THIS PLATFORM.WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME SOMEONE RUNNING A LONG AND LONELY LAST ,CREATED SO MUCH WRITTEN AND UNWRITTEN  COMMENT.
I STARTED THIS COMPETITION WITH A “GAME PLAN” AND HAVE STAYED LOYAL TO IT.
THE AIM IS TO PICK LOSERS AND WHO ELSE HAS PICKED “BIGGER”LOSERS.
WATCH FOR GAME PLAN PART 2 IN THE REMAINING WEEKS.
THANK YOU PAK STAR FOR COMMENTS WHICH I HAVE TAKEN ABOARD.YOU AND KILCOYNE COULD BE THE CHALLENGE.
THANKS TO SAY NO MORE FOR A VERY INTERESTING COMPETITION , AS THE ONES THAT ARE OUT ARE STILL INTERESTED IN THE RESULTS.
HAPPY PUNTING EVERYONE.
 
 

GOOD MORNING.THANK YOU “NOMATES”.YOU NOW HAVE AT LEAST 1 MATE ON THIS PLATFORM.WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME SOMEONE RUNNING A LONG AND LONELY LAST ,CREATED SO MUCH WRITTEN AND UNWRITTEN  COMMENT.
I STARTED THIS COMPETITION WITH A “GAME PLAN” AND HAVE STAYED LOYAL TO IT.
THE AIM IS TO PICK LOSERS AND WHO ELSE HAS PICKED “BIGGER”LOSERS.
WATCH FOR GAME PLAN PART 2 IN THE REMAINING WEEKS.
THANK YOU PAK STAR FOR COMMENTS WHICH I HAVE TAKEN ABOARD.YOU AND KILCOYNE COULD BE THE CHALLENGE.
THANKS TO SAY NO MORE FOR A VERY INTERESTING COMPETITION , AS THE ONES THAT ARE OUT ARE STILL INTERESTED IN THE RESULTS.
HAPPY PUNTING EVERYONE.
 
 

GOOD MORNING.THANK YOU “NOMATES”.YOU NOW HAVE AT LEAST 1 MATE ON THIS PLATFORM.WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME SOMEONE RUNNING A LONG AND LONELY LAST ,CREATED SO MUCH WRITTEN AND UNWRITTEN  COMMENT.
I STARTED THIS COMPETITION WITH A “GAME PLAN” AND HAVE STAYED LOYAL TO IT.
THE AIM IS TO PICK LOSERS AND WHO ELSE HAS PICKED “BIGGER”LOSERS.
WATCH FOR GAME PLAN PART 2 IN THE REMAINING WEEKS.
THANK YOU PAK STAR FOR COMMENTS WHICH I HAVE TAKEN ABOARD.YOU AND KILCOYNE COULD BE THE CHALLENGE.
THANKS TO SAY NO MORE FOR A VERY INTERESTING COMPETITION , AS THE ONES THAT ARE OUT ARE STILL INTERESTED IN THE RESULTS.
HAPPY PUNTING EVERYONE.
 
 

Week 6 results
This week we lost Basil Brush, Casper, Littletramp and the scorer.  21 left with four weeks to play.

I remember a few years back when the nasty little man was still involved with the site and sponsoring the LGL comp, he had a rule that saw entrants eliminated if they fell a certain number of points (200 maybe?) behind the leader at the end of any round.
Perhaps we could introduce something like that next time we run this comp - we could call it the "Tarantula" rule
 

Pukekohe     R 1  Murch
Eagle Farm  R 6  Steparty
 
Thanks John  and Scooby for another exciting days racing competition.

GOOD MORNING.THANK YOU ,SAY NO MORE AND SCOOBY FOR OUR RACING ENTERTAINMENT.
BOTH HORSES TODAY WINNERS 2 STARTS BACK,DRAWN 11 AND RUNNERS CHANCES.
ROSEHILL
RACE 2……..GRACEFUL ARTIST
RACE 3……..MASTER OF REWARDS
HAPPY PUNTING EVERYONE.
THANKS.
 
 
 

Hi OHOKAMAN.    I MAY BE OUTSTANDING IN THIS FIELD……..TOUGH FIELD.
CRAWLING ALONG.JUST STARTING TO WIND UP………GOING TO GO THOUGH THE GEARS IF I CAN FIND THE GEARBOX.
FROM THE START THE TAB HAD TARANTULA FIRST 4 ……
THEY ARE FALLING OUT OF TREES…….CANNOT TURN THE TAP OFF…..PUTTING BUCKETFULS ON,TO BACK THE 8 LEG WONDER.      WE WILL SEE????
 
HAPPY PUNTING OHOKAMAN.
TOP CONTEST SAY NO MORE.
 
 
 

Hi OHOKAMAN.    I MAY BE OUTSTANDING IN THIS FIELD……..TOUGH FIELD.
CRAWLING ALONG.JUST STARTING TO WIND UP………GOING TO GO THOUGH THE GEARS IF I CAN FIND THE GEARBOX.
FROM THE START THE TAB HAD TARANTULA FIRST 4 ……
THEY ARE FALLING OUT OF TREES…….CANNOT TURN THE TAP OFF…..PUTTING BUCKETFULS ON,TO BACK THE 8 LEG WONDER.      WE WILL SEE????
 
HAPPY PUNTING OHOKAMAN.
TOP CONTEST SAY NO MORE.
 
 
 

Hi OHOKAMAN.    I MAY BE OUTSTANDING IN THIS FIELD……..TOUGH FIELD.
CRAWLING ALONG.JUST STARTING TO WIND UP………GOING TO GO THOUGH THE GEARS IF I CAN FIND THE GEARBOX.
FROM THE START THE TAB HAD TARANTULA FIRST 4 ……
THEY ARE FALLING OUT OF TREES…….CANNOT TURN THE TAP OFF…..PUTTING BUCKETFULS ON,TO BACK THE 8 LEG WONDER.      WE WILL SEE????
 
HAPPY PUNTING OHOKAMAN.
TOP CONTEST SAY NO MORE.
 
 
 

I may be talking through my pocket…
Doing my speed map Follow Your Dream was drawn to lead like last week…
J Dunn found the front and looked like holding until his stablemate come and he handed up….
Inconsistent tactics and no wonder why turnover is declining…… 

Hi OHOKAMAN.    I MAY BE OUTSTANDING IN THIS FIELD……..TOUGH FIELD.
CRAWLING ALONG.JUST STARTING TO WIND UP………GOING TO GO THOUGH THE GEARS IF I CAN FIND THE GEARBOX.
FROM THE START THE TAB HAD TARANTULA FIRST 4 ……
THEY ARE FALLING OUT OF TREES…….CANNOT TURN THE TAP OFF…..PUTTING BUCKETFULS ON,TO BACK THE 8 LEG WONDER.      WE WILL SEE????
 
HAPPY PUNTING OHOKAMAN.
TOP CONTEST SAY NO MORE.
 
 
 

GOOD MORNING.THANKS TO JOHN AND SCOOBY FOR ENTERTAINMENT.
PUKEKOHE  R4.  TOP CARD
DOOMBEN.  R1.   ARTS OBJECT
RUNNERS CHANCES.
JUST STARTING TO WIND UP.
HAPPY PUNTING EVERYONE.

Week 5 results
This week we lost the following 10 entrants 

 
and we're left with 25, more than half of whom are down to their last life.

Seems it happens so much these days its not even mentioned...we really are a joke horses slipping on a slow 7...really...you really have to ask yourself WTF is going on....but nothing will change as NOBODY is ever held accountable...they will come out some bullshit platitudes report and then back to business as normal.

Rinse and repeat the last abandonment statement .
Seriously if you can't prepare a safe track at this time of the year then you shouldn't have a job .
The biggest issue for me is that they are all trying to produce a billiard table .
If you asked them to produce a cow paddock they would f@#k it up .

Well the complete lack of response on here shows that NZTR have won the battle , the apathy towards just another abandonment is exactly what was required from participants and supporters for them to continue to run this industry into the ground for the average participant .
They have become such a common and run of the mill occurrences that we now just shrug our shoulders and put our shoulders back to the grind stone , just another day at the office .
This is not a dig at us for not commenting , it gets to a point where you think why waste breath on it , more important things to be trying to fix .
Well done NZTR , poor practice has become acceptable .