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Thanks, Pete, for your best wishes for next Saturday. Only 20c short of making 2 Grand Finals on the one day ! A pretty good day all-in-all, my friend.

Hehe . . . you're getting very good at placing us firmly 'under the radar' , John. We Veandercross are certainly winning the race to underdog status ! Well done John on another big score from you today, as well as your incredible running of this comp. What you do is mind-boggling to most of us. Roll on the Grand Final !

1. Randwick R2 1-5 2. Randwick R3 2-8 3. Randwick R4 3-5 4. Randwick R5 1-12 5. Randwick R7 3-15 6. Randwick R8 8 Best Bet 7. Randwick R9 1-5 8. Morphettville R4 1-8 9. Morphettville R5 7-9 10. Morphettville R6 1 Best Bet 11. Morphettville R7 3-5 12. Morphettville R8 10-13 Best of luck to my Veandercross stable-mates John, Pondy & Kloppite. John, I'm gonna be out from early Saturday until around 5pm. Please can you replace in Races 6 & 10 if I have a scratching there of my sole selection. Thanks, John. Many thanks, John & Scooby, for this excellent competition.

1. Trentham R7 6 Best Bet 2. Randwick R2 8-11 3. Randwick R3 2 4. Randwick R4 3-12 5. Randwick R5 12-13 6. Randwick R6 3 7. Randwick R7 8 Best Bet 8. Randwick R8 4-12 9. Randwick R9 1 10. Caulfield R4 5 11. Caulfield R8 9 12. Caulfield R9 3 Wishing the best of luck to my Veandercross team-mates John, Pondy & Kloppite. Horlicks were very tough last week - we only got up very late. They've got some very good tipsters in their line-up, so we're gonna have to be right on our game. Many thanks for this excellent competition, John & Scooby. It's a whole lot of fun each Saturday afternoon. Great entertainment.

1. Ellerslie R6 3-7 2. Rosehill R2 2-7 3. Rosehill R3 6 4. Rosehill R4 3 5. Rosehill R5 1 6. Rosehill R6 1-11 7. Rosehill R7 2-5 8. Rosehill R9 17 BB 9. Flemington R4 4 BB 10. Flemington R7 3 11. Flemington R8 7 12. Flemington R9 4-13 Best of luck to my Veandercross team-mates John, Kloppite & Pondy. I hope you manage to find one or two, team Horlicks. Many thanks for this excellent comp, John & Scooby.

Well done today, Phil. A great result for you, and very well deserved.

If the rain had stayed away 'Diss Is Dramatic' could have won by 4 lgths.

Diss Is Dramatic had had 2 runs on a Heavy track prior to today, for zip. This is what the jockey thought of the most recent of those 2 runs :- Go figure, huh !

Wishing best of luck to my Veandercross' team-mates John, Pondy & Kloppite. My 'go' is :- 1. Tauranga R7 4-6 2. Riccarton R8 1-4 3. Rosehill R2 4 Best Bet 4. Rosehill R3 5 Best Bet 5. Rosehill R4 6 6. Rosehill R6 2-3 7. Rosehill R7 16 8. Rosehill R8 7-8 9. Rosehill R9 5-11 10. The Valley R4 12-15 11. The Valley R7 1-4 12. The Valley R9 4-9 Many thanks for a great comp, John & Scooby.

Yes indeed, John, go Wellington, the Hurricanes are playing very well ! More noticeable though are the Crusaders 0-4. Gotta feel for the new coach, he was on a hiding to nothing taking over from the new All Blacks coach.

Scratching Replacement, please John. 6. Caulfield R9 5 & 7 is out, replaced by 9 Thanks, and good luck, John.

1. Trentham R5 2/11 2. Trentham R6 7/11 3. Trentham R7 2/10 4. Trentham R8 3/5 5. Caulfield R8 2/12 6. Caulfield R9 5/7 7. Rosehill R3 2/5 8. Rosehill R4 1 Best Bet 9. Rosehill R6 1/7 10. Rosehill R7 5/14 11. Rosehill R8 1 Best Bet 12. Rosehill R9 8/11 Thanks, John & Scooby, for this excellent comp. Best of luck to my team Veandercross team-mates. A great chance here for us to get back-on-track.

Absolutely spot on, nomates ! Everything is needed right now, in society. Sadly.

Ouch ! Squashed by Pete's 'Butterfield' @ $18 . . .with a BB to boot. The only one to find 'Butterfield', a front-runner ridden back today after drawing 13. Well found, Pete ! You rest now.

1. Ellerslie R6 2x11 BB 2. Ellerslie R7 7x10 3. Ellerslie R9 3x6 4. Flemington R4 3x4 5. Flemington R5 3x6 BB 6. Flemington R6 4x5 7. Flemington R8 10 8. Randwick R3 4x10 9. Randwick R5 1x4 10. Randwick R6 1x3 11. Randwick R8 1x3 12. Randwick R9 2x18 Many thanks John & Scooby, for this highly entertaining comp. Wishing the very best of luck to my Veandercross team-mates. Bonecrusher will be formidable, for sure.

hehe . . . I'm reminded of what the legendary Captain Mainwaring of 'Dad's Army' would say to that . . . " I think you're delving into the realm of fantasy now, Idolmite."

Famous last words ! In my opinion, Waisake's time has been . . . and gone. Was top drawer at one time, but for the past many months has battled away ok without ever looking to have the fire of old. Usually finds a few better. 7 lengths from My Maebelline Girl last time out isn't a great recommendation, even though obviously over a shorter distance. 9 y-o and unlikely to be on the improve. Just my opinion, and boy have I been wrong before !

I remember sitting in my grandmother's lounge when aged about 10 in the late 60s listening to the Auckland Cup on the radio, when Terrific (Grenville Hughes) beaten a nose by Royal Sheen (David Peake). Always stuck in my memory.

Phew that was a close one ! Grand game by the Showgate today, completely belying their ranking to date. Inspired new tactics from Showgate . . . wouldn't have minded them having left that until next Saturday ! Absorbing game that went right to the wire after various lead-changes. Great comp. Thank you for that, John & Scooby. Much appreciated.

Grandstand finish coming up to the Veandercross v Showgate match, with one race to go !

Your Showgate have played a blinder today, Scooby . . . and you're not done yet ! I don't think the swings this way and that have finished yet ! You're right in this !

Grand battle in the Veandercross v Showgate match ! Swinging this way and that.

Scratching Replacement for me, please John. 1. Ellerslie R5 1x4 is now 3x4 Many thanks, John. I hope you find plenty today.

1. Ellerslie R5 1x4 2. Ellerslie R6 3 3. Ellerslie R7 7x9 4. Ellerslie R8 6x11 5. Ellerslie R9 17 6. Randwick R5 1 7. Randwick R6 1 Best Bet 8. Randwick R7 9 Best Bet 9. Randwick R8 3x4 10. Flemington R7 2x8 11. Flemington R8 11x12 12. Flemington R9 2x5 Best of luck, team Veandercross team-mates. Many thanks for this fine comp, John & Scooby.

Ya need all guns there and blazing if ya gonna topple Australia. In terms of the batting lineup, no Kane Williamson, no Daryl Mitchell, no Rachin Ravindra, no Devon Conway. Game over !