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Some stunning fields. Looking forward to Friday night for sure.

I only copy & pasted what Maximus wrote but Miss J would probably beat us both with her walking stick.

I suspect Maxy had a bad experience with a bouncy castle during his formative years (which may have not yet concluded). It appears he has yet to recover, and that his sense of youthful enjoyment has never returned. I'd better stop now, or else I'm gonna get accused of writing "short novel abput Phar Lap raceday on Sunfay"

My comp result would have been MUCH better had the first two both been DQ's, with a single selection BB on the third placed horse

Maybe not. But l still find that interesting, even though not earth shatteringly so.

Interesting that they're not currently confirming a jockey.

On THE BOX SEAT on Tuesday?

Which ride did she get 10 meetings for?

Agree 100%. He certainly looks better again now when compared to around Miracle Mile time earlier this season. Maybe October / November is his time.

Well Blue Door does have a confirmed slot, more than most of the nominations have. Only 4 confirmed so far l think. Maybe she thinks there are only going to be four starters in a race where even 4th pays quite well Yeah, it does seem a poor decision, but then she's made a few of them before and I'm not necessarily the horses she chooses to ride. Time will tell. I'm sure it's been said before that jockey's are the worst judges, but l guess we won't know for sure for a few weeks yet. especially if Mark Zahra wins the Melbourne Cup

She's not riding well anyway, and that may be partially based around choices and decisions. Will bounce back one day, no doubt?

Good run from Kingman for second tonight at Menangle, going off at 20-1 behind The Mistress from barrier 1. Got badly held up, but wasn't knocked around at all. He still can't run in a straight line, but at least didn't break.

So Rubira has won 12 races, 5 x left handed and 4 x right handed. 3 in a straight line? Great math TAB. I'm assuming he's probably won three races in Australia that they aren't including in their left/right stats, as they also state 27 starts but their L/R starts only add up to 23, but it's pretty pathetic. Has he won 3 races from 4 starts in Australia? It appears they include both NZ and Oz in some of their stats - like total number of starts and total number of wins - but not more specific information.

With LTF, Kingman and Swayzee all racing tonight, as well as The Mistress, it'll give us a guideline on how they're all travelling. Kingman has an issue with manners, and he got very tired towards the end of his last campaign, so if they've got him back to anywhere near 100% he has to be a chance. He had the toughest run of the race last year, hung really badly, and still beat LTF over 3200 metres. AND he skipped a couple of times from memory. He must be a nightmare to drive. His first run back this time in had him dancing a jig too.

I feel KYR was eased down last year because he didn't appear to be 100% whilst in Australia. The margin thus flattered Tempted. And KYR has also improved since last Spring. I don't see him beaten unless by terrible track conditions or bad luck, and he usually takes bad luck out of the equation. KYR by 5 lengths (or 15 lengths if they wanted to make a statement )