Idolmite

Who is going to blink first and post their selections??

I'd rather have it in my account than on the screen, if l was to only be allowed one of those two options

Cheats on Seats Crims on Rims There must be more without getting too individually personal with too Bulky in the Sulky

Can't just blame Entain. It was no different before.

With the missing words added and typos fixed, and some more added on the end; That appears to be the same mob from the Auckland Trotting Club that thought they knew more about commercially developing properties than commercial property developers did, hence the (reputed to be) $100,000,000 hole they now found themselves in after 101 different issues meant the project overran in every possible direction. How did the development collapse from the sure-fire profit using experienced developers? They got stars in their eyes and thought they were somehow better than the advice they'd sought and received, and could make even more money by doing a better job without said experts involvement. Kaboom. It just proves a bunch of suits patting each other on the back are a disaster waiting to happen, under almost every circumstance.

That appears to be the same mob from the Auckland Trotting Club that thought they more about commercially developing properties than commercial property developers, hence the (reputed to be) $100,000,000 hole they found themselves in after 101 different issue meant the project overran in every possible direction.

This entire comp I've been both expecting and dreading a week with a zero cash return. It hasn't happened so far, so hopefully - for my teammates if nobody else - it doesn't happen next Saturday

Let's hope Team Bonecrusher can run like Pride of Jenni in today's QEII next Saturday And that Shane Dye is legged aboard Veandercross and thinks they're in the 1992 Caufield Cup

n0. n0t fr0m this member 0f the b0necrusher team anyway

In the comp I've been taking Autumn Angel as a single-pick BB every start, and this week she bags a big one at reasonable odds and it wasn't a comp race

There certainly appeared to be a distinct lack of urgency (that could be seen from the wide shot - the veeerrryyy wide and ever widening shot, at least), especially when most of those same jockeys have already been chasing the same horse running in the same style - admittedly by slightly lesser margins - and rarely failing to catch her on numerous occasions recently. What were they thinking?

OTR runs his best races when saved for one run at them, so I expect had he of tried to take on DSD and Merlin at the start he'd have had a tough run and finished up much further back than he did. That's only my opinion of course. I also hope Better Eclipse wins a race here on this trip. It looks like we're going to see more Aussie horseflesh at Alexandra Park that we've seen in years. Both First Fours were pretty easy actually, as when the horses are that good and that equal, a good barrier draw means everything. In the two main races, Merlin, from barrier 5, was the widest draw to grab a Top 4 finish (3, 4, 1, 2 and 5, 2, 1, 3).

Best of luck to all teams left in the comp today. I think Bonecrusher will need all of his Cox Plate fighting qualities today, but we all know how that ended up. Although there's one more start planned after this, and we want to be in it. Go Team Bonecrusher

Just be thankful they haven't sold sponsorship on the inside, centre track and down the outside as well. At least now we can have a close finish where "they wide apart" without having to slip in a couple more sponsored pieces of track

1. Randwick R2 3, 9 2. Randwick R3 2, 14 3. Randwick R4 3, 5 4. Randwick R5 1 5. Randwick R7 9, 13 6. Randwick R8 8 7. Randwick R9 14 BEST BET 8. Morphettville R4 1, 12 9. Morphettville R5 7, 14 10. Morphettville R6 1 11. Morphettville R7 3 12. Morphettville R8 2 BEST BET

The generated comments don't seem to recognise the level of newer non-Group mega races like the Everest, as one example. But there are so many examples every week there should be a prize for finding the most stupid error!!

Mind you, Whale said that ("the outsider of the field") about some runner in the mile at Cambridge last Thursday night, when there were several others paying much more in the smallish field. Might have to go back and check the recording of the race and see who it was. Was probably about mid-field price-wise from memory, certainly not close to THE outsider. The website is annoying more and more with the harness stats for a race night as big as Friday is. Some of the entries contain details of their recent Australian starts, while others don't. And this doesn't just apply to the recently returned kiwi runners. Some of them do, others don't. And they're providing data on LH and RH form, starts/wins/placings, but they don't add up to the total starts and placings. Maybe aa few races in a straight line? No. It appears the numbers of races, wins and placings include races in both Australia and New Zealand, but data like LH vs RH doesn't. Goodness now's how accurate the info is on the ex French trotter or any horse who has raced outside of Australasia. Even with a million dollar race, harness is treated like an outback Australian bush meeting.

NEWSFLASH; Castlepoint Beach to host all Auckland Group and Listed races from April 11th until further notice.

You can't order a brand new Rolls Royce but expect them to let you supply and fit your own engine and seats. Did the suppliers of the surface really let Ellerslie use their own grass?

Nah, it was too amateurish for that

I don't really like picking holes in their coverage, but they provided their own holes last night. I'm embarrassed on their behalf. There wasn't one good thing about the coverage. Maybe it was a bloopers reel and the real show will be on tonight.

And i forgot to mention how they tried to list the fields, pre "reveal", in alphabetical order, but failed to realise Old Town Road begins with an "O", or at least where "O" fits into the alphabet. And Whale thinks the top Aussie trotter is called 'Just Phoenix'. And in Monday night's show Whale informed us the meeting is in two days time. That means tomorrow night, Wednesday. The actual draw wasn't done live, and it makes me think they should have pre-recorded the "reveal" as well. That way they could have re-recorded all of the faux pas. They had all afternoon to do so, and would have needed every minute of that.

The draw, or rather "the reveal", was an amateurish attempt and an embarrassment to the sport. Greg O'Conner, who is a legend whenever talking about anything harness racing, looked decidedly uncomfortable in his role. I suspect because he knew it looked farcical, especially when some of the graphics were so delayed he was announcing the horse's name off one of his 27 pieces of rustling paper before the name was officially "revealed". Mind you, the first 2 or 3 "reveals" were even worse, as he was glancing off to one side and we didn't even know what he was looking at it. And that's not even mentioning the spelling errors in the names of at least two horses, Arcee Phoenix and Muscle Mountain. There may have been more. Considering they changed both the zoom on how they were filming it to include the TV screen, and the sudden graphic change to show a pacer as the trotter's names were revealed, made it look like they were making it up as they went along. They've had 12 months to think about it for goodness sake. And what on earth was BP doing there? He added absolutely nothing, as expected. And Whale fluffed his lines and by the end was standing there like a grinning blow up doll. Once Greg got to the interviews there was some sign of improvement, however nobody was guiding those after the interviews and without fail they ALL exited by walking directly in front of the camera. Trackside, if you're reading this; you took a race meeting I have been looking forward to, for weeks, with bated breath, and turned it into a regular ho-hum Friday night run-of-the-mill, take-it-or-leave-it style event. The footage should be used for training producers, directors and presenters on how NOT engage with the public and build excitement. The word 'appalling' isn't strong enough, and I hope ALL involved take a good look at themselves, give themselves an uppercut, and work out a better plan before Friday night. As for the two races, the Pace lost some interest (for mine) with the early withdrawal of Leap To Fame and late withdrawal of Rock N Roll Doo. It's going to take a Herculean effort to beat Don't Stop Dreaming now, but underestimate Merlin at your peril. Would love to see Old Town Road do one of his last-to-first bursts he was capable of 18 months - 2 years ago. Difficult to do that at this level though. Or can Sooner The Bettor get a lucky break at the start and spring a surprise? Kango has to be a great Top 4 chance from the 1 draw unless early fireworks from the Aussies see him pushed further back than the trail position. The Trot now holds more interest for me. Not that long ago you'd have said that Just Believe only had to turn up to win. But he's been beaten twice recently and both of those victors are here too, AND both drawn well. Muscle Mountain and Oscar Bonavena will both have to go huge to play a part in the finish, but we know they are both capable of such aa run. Oscar's devastating sprint could be used to great effect if 100% right. Just a shame Natalie isn't driving him. For those that missed it;

So the draw is tomorrow (Monday) I believe. Anyone know if it's going to be screened or streamed Iive? And at what time the draw happens?