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In that White Robe, I remember I was doing pretty well watching it, watery eyes but okay, until Rory saluted the judge and then raised his whip to upstairs and that did it for me

For those that don't know how to view it, click the link on The Torch's post and then Video

Ellerslie R1: 1-7 Ellerslie R2: 1-3 Ellerslie R3: 4-8 Ellerslie R4: 1-2 Ellerslie R5: 3-10 Ellerslie R6: 4-14 Cheers John.

That's the weird thing.. I follow the KM racing having a horse running, but being on track is a nightmare, the facilities for the average race goer is awful... the members is dysfunctional and dated and the public stand is vacuous and bland but is often preferable to the members. I think its a terrible race day unless you are a non believer and just going for the hype, cameras and social opps.

Trentham R1: 3-8 Trentham R2: 2-4 Trentham R3: 1-4 Trentham R4: 1-3 Trentham R5: 2-11 Trentham R6: 9-10 Trentham R7: 10-12 Trentham R8: 3-8 Trentham R9: 10-11 Thanks Liz and Joan, and cheers John

Hiyas 1. Riccarton R7 - 10 2. Riccarton R11 - 6 3. Newcastle R7 - 14 4. Newcastle R8 - 14 5. Caulfield R4 - 1 6. Caulfield R6 - 2 7. Caulfield R7 - 1 8. Caulfield R8 - 14 9. Caulfield R10 - 2 10. Ascot R4 - 1 11. Ascot R5 - 8 12. Ascot R7 - 3 Cheers John

Hi 1. Riccarton R9: 4 2. Rosehill R6: 6 3. Rosehill R7: 8 4. Rosehill R8: 7 5. Flemington R4: 4 6. Flemington R5: 8 7. Flemington R6: 7 8. Flemington R7: 6 9. Flemington R8: 11 10. Ascot R8: 13 Ta muchly John

Flemington is a big track with a long straight. I've always been a horses for courses sort of person and to me Flemington is a lot like Trentham and Eagle Farm.. long straight and for horses that love the distance and can run on.. it really does single out the stayers. There are horses that can run distances but shorter straights favour them because they have good speed but not sustained speed, or they don't have big final sprints. If a horse has the talent though you can train them for it... maybe they just got it wrong for this year

Well done Pottsie and Ian, not an easy MC. Cheers Ponderosa I'm still so stoked with D'sweet Junior's run he loves those distance races

haha I just looked at Ponderosa's post and I thought that was your selection in that order Ohoka!! until I moved up the thread... you were legendary for all of 30 seconds but a very excellent 30 seconds

Hey there 1,3,5,6,8,12,15,23 Thank you

Hi there 1. Flemington R1: 1 2. Flemington R2: 5 3. Flemington R3: 10 4. Flemington R4: 5 5. Flemington R5: 10 6. Flemington R6: 1 7. Flemington R7: 5 8. Flemington R8: 14 9. Flemington R9: 17 10. Rosehill R7: 1 11. Rosehill R8: 16 12. Ascot R7: 9 13. Ascot R8: 7 Thanks very much John

Good afternoon all 1. Riccarton R7: 10 2. Pukekohe R8: 5 3. The Valley R3: 1 4. The Valley R5: 6 5. The Valley R6: 8 6. The Valley R7: 1 7. The Valley R8: 3 8. The Valley R9: 7 9. The Valley R10: 9 10. Randwick R6: 1 11. Randwick R7: 12 12. Randwick R8: 11 13. Randwick R9: 8 Thanks very much John Another fun day to add to a beaut sporting weekend! Go well all

Hiya 1. Te Rapa R7: 4 2. Te Rapa R8: 6 3. Trentham R8: 6 4. Caulfield R2: 5 5. Caulfield R3: 5 6. Caulfield R5: 4 7. Caulfield R6: 1 8. Caulfield R7: 2 9. Caulfield R8: 10 10. Caulfield R9: 8 11. Randwick R8: 14 12. Ascot (Perth) R8: 6 Thanking you

Scratching Replacement: Comp Race 3: Caulfield Race 5: 6 out and replaced with 12 Thanks

Hi there 1. Te Rapa R8: 3-6 2. Caulfield R3: 1-5 3. Caulfield R5: 4-6 4. Caulfield R6: 1-4 5. Caulfield R7: 2-7 6. Caulfield R8: 3-10 7. Caulfield R9: 8-14 .. BB 8. Randwick R6: 7-10 9. Randwick R7: 9-11 10. Randwick R8: 2-14 .. BB 11. Randwick R9: 8-9 12. Randwick R10: 7-15 Thanks muchly John .. All the best to you PS and Memph! ... Let's go Foxy One!

I don't think I can claim to be quite as saint like

up against my former two buds in the trio comp .. should be a fun day cobbers

Well done Al and Arjay! Too good for us... love the showing the faith in Fangirl I thnk that might have got ya a 1200 bonus

Sorry me again.. and someone may have posted this already.. but just in case someone hasn't... This is such a lovely photo of our fellow forum buddy L John Shannon Link below. Rest in Peace and what a better place than Woodville A CD home to so many champs. https://www.tararuafunerals.co.nz/blog/980154

I'm not sure if this is kosher or not as they are our oppo but go Al Feilding and Arjay... you just need to push out those bellies Your dollar total is exceptional!

Hi there 1. Hastings R6: 7-15 2. Hastings R8: 4-6 3. Caulfield R3: 1-9 4. Caulfield R4: 8-12 5. Caulfield R8: 4-13 .. BB 6. Caulfield R9: 1-3 7. Randwick R4: 2-3 8. Randwick R5: 2-7 9. Randwick R6: 13-14 .. BB 10. Randwick R7: 3-11 11. Randwick R8: 5-14 12. Randwick R9: 1-2 Thanks very much as always John and also to you Scooby ... All the best Al and Arjay, .. and let's go Foxy One! Condolences to, and thoughts with Commonsensical, family and friends. So very very sad.

Thanks so much for the match Alan and LJ .. apart from the foxy one's rabid collect it was a close day It seemed to be either feast or famine with the divvies, and there were a lot of horses performing outside their odds today. Next week will be interesting with how everyone reads the form

Hi there 1. Flemington R2: 3-4 2. Flemington R3: 8-12 .. BB 3. Flemington R4: 1-2 4. Flemington R5: 10-11 5. Flemington R6: 5-10 6. Flemington R7: 15-18 7. Flemington R8: 1-11 8. Flemington R9: 1-11 9. Rosehill R6: 1-5 10. Rosehill R7: 11-14 .. BB 11. Rosehill R8: 12-19 12. Rosehill R9: 3-7 Thanks John .. All the best to you Alan and LJ and let's go Foxy One!

The Everest is a completely different race.. with a much longer straight. I think Moody is a great PR man and is well voiced on keeping things beaut in a number of camps. I know I've said this before but horses race differently... diff direction, diff lean, diff action on the turns.. and completely different race strategy. MV suits horses with a quick turn of speed, and Randwick means you have to sustain it or do a blistering run from the back ie. Giga like. I think the Imp has that but horses get used to racing conditions and having to fight out finishes. If she runs in the Everest they would have to work out a strategy to play it against a field that will be sprinting on over the top if she runs and possibly a horse that will be nutting it out in front with her like IWIW who let's face it, is really feisty and she'd have to pin her ears back. When you have a horse like the Imp a real treasure, that has a fantastic winning game plan that suits her personality and confidence, and you don't need to rattle it, and you have the chance to gain just as many spoils for her on another pathway, why would you change that?