LastOf40

R1: 4 R2: 1 R3: 4 R4: 6 R5: 6 R6: 1 R7: 6 BB R8: 3 thanks Brian

R1: 7 R2: 4 R3: 7 R4: 7 BB R5: 9 R6: 4 R7: 5 R8: 10 R9: 2 R10: 8 thanks Brian

Sorry Brian, will go for R7 #2

R1: 1 R2: 7 R3: 4 R4: 3 R5: 5 R6: 2 R7: 2 R8: 11 R9: 5 thanks Brian

Hi Brian Not sure if Howie has entered, if he has then he has copied my picks Geoff

R1: 7 R2: 8 R3: 6 R4: 2 R5: 6 R6: 2 BB R7: 3 R8: 7 You said all welcome. I will stay out of the racecafe v pix battle and just see how I do.

M2 R2 #1 Waldorf Thanks TC

A few of us did not last long But then again got the Tri and live in TRB, so all good TC.

Gee Gordy I would be happy to be able to get down the 2 flights of stairs to the TV! I commented on Racecafe a few months ago that NZ's worst tipster (yes Dillo is better ) would be Craig Baker (Executive General Manager) of the ARC. So when I saw this on Friday, it was too good to turn down and broke the tiebreaker between Dances in Heels and Break My Stride for my Lay of the Day. I didn't remember this until a few minutes ago. Damn, should have included Istimagic in my picks for today! Steelmasters Cornwall Handicap (R6, 2.54pm, $40,000, 2200m, OPN HCP) Doiknowyou (7) looks well placed to improve his already enviable record at Ellerslie in the Steelmasters Cornwall Handicap on Saturday. The son of Kashani has won three from eight starts at Ellerslie and importantly, has won three times on heavy tracks. The dangers include the Ralph Manning-trained warhorse Pump Up The Volume (1) and course specialist, Reka (3). Best Bet: R4 @ 1.44pm - Break My Stride (4) As a service to punters on Racecafe, here are his gems for today. Remember of course that a clock is right twice a day and he must break his duck some day month year. Whitecliffs Timber McGregor Grant Steeplechase (R7, 3.15pm, $50,000, 4150m, OPN STP) The dangers include last start winner Wise Men Say (3) and the John Wheeler-trained Fair Script (6). He looks well placed at 4150 metres. Crash Bandicoot (2) looks the hardest to beat. He ran third in the Pakuranga Hunt Cup and found the distance of the Meadow Fresh Great Northern Steeplechase beyond him. While there are only eight runners this year, the field is full of classy steeplechasers. Best Bet: R3 @ 12.50pm - Istimagic (7)

R1: 1 Max R2: 6 Malambo R3: 1 Mendoza (J) R4: 4 Raisafuasho R5: 6 Neala R6: 2 Kippo R7: 3 Wise Men Say R8: 5 Banbury Lad R9: 4 Salted Caramel Thanks TC Its been raining all night in Auckland, so if you thought Saturday was a slog !!

But it is a bit like Auckland City advertising around the world for more people and cars! The current TAB system can't cope with the dwindling number of customers now. So as a current customer ( at this time ) please no more advertisements, I want to be able to log in tomorrow!

Thanks TC I will be looking for a $1.10 fav and hope the top four pick winners. It was good to see everyone pick a loser yesterday, that must be a first? but then again with New Zealand's biggest city putting on a procession of 5-7 horse fields, with a track that had them heading out wide at race 1, it was a bit like shooting fish in a barrel.

This below was from 2009 and I don't think the new system went ahead (I stand to be corrected)... But if it is still Jetset then in computer terms "ancient" does not even come close. Prehistoric is closer to the fact. I would be interest to know if it is still Jetbet? If it has been replaced in the last few years... can we have Jetbet back, as it would have to be better, then again so would my 1970 led display calculator. A Typhoon is about sweep through and replace the TAB's ageing Jetbet system. The New Zealand Racing Board today announced it was installing a ''new, state of the art'' betting system called Typhoon to replace the current Jetbet system by December 2010. Chief executive Andrew Brown described the Jetbet system as ''very old'' and said it was holding the business back. He said the new Typhoon system would enable the TAB to drive revenue growth. ''Jetbet is nearly 28 years old, which is ancient in technology terms,'' he said in a statement.

M2 R4 #4 Break My Stride thx

M2 R2 #5 Nailed It (joker) thanks

You have been pretty accurate up to now and must as been as disappointed as I with a couple of the above horses yesterday. I don't know what to make of Sea King, he doesn't seem to be the same horse as last year. I thought if EVER Mendoza was going to win it had to be yesterday. But then again I can recall thinking that about Fair Script last year and what happens last week ??? Palemo was another I thought would be in quinella at least. I won't be following him when it gets wetter and the distances further.

M12, Flemington R4, #4 Spanner Head thanks

M4, R2, #1 Lasting Friendship thanks TC

yip! same TAB system, same problems, same result. Do they any idea what it is like to have a winning combination worked out and hit the submit button ... then nothing... Some message about Guru Meditation. Try and try. Change to another PC, same result. Watch your winner win, only your not on it. Well done, how is that "slippage" figure going?

M4, R5 #1 Masu

M2, R3, #4 Ferrando

I hope no one replies to this message. There has been too many postings lately that would have been best not sent. I made a huge mistake in attacking the garden 3 weeks ago and those pesky privet trees were maybe too big to have been pulled out by hand. The result has been a disc moving to where it shouldn't be and pressing on a nerve that runs down a leg. This necessitates potent pain killers every few hours and not a lot of sleep. I can't drive and do all the things that makes life fun. I wish I could go back 3 weeks and do one thing differently! When I pulled out of PJ's next comp it was because as the last 3 saturdays have shown, you have to be able to think straight or you let your team mates down. Even on Saturday I was telling Howie how I thought at least Bonniegirl would get me started. He looks at me puzzled and says "you haven't taken Bonniegirl?" Yip I had written the wrong number on my sheet. What I have read on this thread has left me just plain sad. No other word like angry, confused or disappointed conveys my thoughts as much as sad. It was like watching the USA presidential debates, both sides thinking they were right but in most of the rest of the country stood by and just shook their heads. PJ's comps are legendary. Enjoyed by all and even between the combatants there has always been wit and banter. But there is always that line in the sand between humour and well... hurting of feelings. Without the banter then it is just another comp. I often put an entry in the Stabletalk comp. But as good as the scoring is, the last post is just a list of totals and placings. PJ's comps are / were special. I admit to being sceptical of the draft system last year but it turned out one of the best comps. I admit I was wrong. There...said it! PJ stopping the next comp, given the circumstances, is what I would have done too. The precedent of one person spoiling a comp happened a couple of years ago. Person disappeared and things returned to normal. I am not yet classified as old but I remember when you could get on a plane without the checks, metal detectors and list a mile long of things you can't have with you. Then some loonies hijacked or blew up planes. Now the rest of us suffer. When all 5 yo kids walked to school until one nutter kidnaps a child, now everyone drives the children to school and the rest of us queue in traffic. My hope would be that in a few weeks, apart from getting some "nerve shunt" I am waiting for, PJ announces a winter draft comp reboot. All previous posts are ignored and everyone plays nicely. The silent majority (I don't make that category) gets their 4..6 hours of fun on a saturday. Life is meant to have some fun, even if that means watching your horse get beaten on the final step.. again! To all you others, who I see only on the comp threads for all these years as a pseudonym and avatar, but feel I know you, thanks for being there and making my weekends just that little bit better. sincerely Geoff LastOf40

Well done to the Canes today. I tip my hat to John, Tc and Hesi in bringing in the winter specialists for a summer comp. Inspired long view weather forecasting! But I don't think I have the necessary strength just now to toss the darts the couple of meters needed for success on another wet Sydney raceday or Riverton for that matter And heaven knows what these tracks will do when winter arrives?? So I will sit this one out until the sun and form horses start to appear again next spring. Thanks for the comp PJ, always well run.

R1: 6, 11 R2: 4, 8 R3: 2, 15 R4: 2, 3 BB R5: 1, 9 R6: 4, 5 R7: 1, 7 BB R8: 1, 4 R9: 3, 7 R10: 1, 4 Good luck John Thanks PJ

M6 R8 #3 Miss Three Stars thanks TC