Idolmite

Not everybody that tunes in is looking for the same thing as you. You must realise this, right?

Zed; the movie. It's sure a great story, with a sad ending. RIP Zed.

The comment that's really getting up my nose this week [whilst admitting there are plenty of top tier complaints, for sure] is the "wet or dry" which they generally apply to about 50% of the field. We all know there are very few horses that go just as well on a heavy surface to what they do on a heavy track, and vice versa. And in real life, there are very few "swimmers", with few real mudlarks such as Greek Meer and Gatcombe's Pride seen in this day and age, although Entain thinks a third of every field are swimmers. Clayton's Comments - the comments you get when you're not really getting comments.

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Big night at Melton last night with 12 Group 1 races. I prefer Menangle usually but Melton had the better show with some great tactical battles all night long. Plenty of drama, late scratchings, worked up young horses [as a result] and beaten hot pots.

In New Zealand at least, currently anyway, the only lead up races are shorter races, so there is really no alternative. 3200 metre races are as scarce as hen's teeth. Even 2400 metre races aren't that common. I think the Waikato Cup is 2400 metres leading into the Auckland Cup (the Counties Cup/Avondale Cup are even shorter in the build up), but others will know much more accurately than I if there are others, and anything in between 2400 and the 3200 metres of the three main ""Cups" (Auckland, Wellington and the NZ Cup in Christchurch). I think all three are still 3200 metres? I can't keep up with all the changes sometimes. I mean, didn't the NZ St Leger used to be over 2800 metres? And now it's what? 2200 metres? And opened up age-wise? I'm not even sure Australia has much between 2400 metres and 3200 metres?

I almost "did a Blaird" when selecting 3 of the last 4 winners, but was not quite up to picking three in a row if it was raced in the reverse order, I'd have been out after R4. Look at it this way. For you the only way is up https://youtu.be/UtKADQnjQmc?si=u7qipCLUJGWA4gyJ

Exhausting. So much so that l dropped from 2nd overall after R11 to 17th place after R12. Just collapsed We need to head SNM off at the pass, otherwise he'll likely pick this format again for the Grand Final Great fun though, it has to be said

Aaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhhh 8 races with 0 winners, then 3 of the last 4

That's not your shadow immediately behind you UPDATE; Bugger. Scored a winner DOUBLE OUCH; Two winners in a row, the second a BB. That's triple ouch

Yes. Just holding an already scheduled race meeting, and completing it, would be a good start.

Ellerslie could host a special "South Island" day, with all ten races "stolen" from the southern island. Free entry to any Mainlanders that make the trip up.

I was up VERY late, so your R9 tip helped me land a quinella and trifecta I wouldn't have landed otherwise. I also landed the monster trifecta in R10!!! I missed most of your earlier selections however. It's a weird little saucer that track. What is it around? 800 metres?

This is going to be like "The Massacre at the Race Cafe". Survival of the unfittest. If #1 and/or #4 have a good day, I'm toast. 1. Flemington R1. 1, 6 2. Flemington R3. 1, 4 3. Riccarton R7. 1, 4 4. Rosehill R5. 13, 17 5. Rosehill R6. 1, 8 6. Flemington R6. 2, 5 7. Rosehill R7. 1, 2 8. Flemington R7. 8, 10 9. Rosehill R8. 1, 4 10. Flemington R8. 1, 6 BEST BET 11. Rosehill R9. 8, 9 BEST BET 12. Flemington R9. 4, 10 Thanks for the platform and sponsorship Scooby, and thanks to SNM for the comp. I'm still deciding on whether to say thanks for the format

Going to be tricky when most races have favourites around the $5 - $7 mark. Unless you're going to punt them all down to smaller odds before you select them in the comp?