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Just embarrassed himself in race 8
Suvaljko , Pike, Bowman etc etc there all not perfect...but there not too bad just the same.
And as far as value goes, I would have thought Ooshta at 22.90 was "good value", All Jokes Aside on its last win was outstanding value at $2.60, Dreadlock at a $3.20 favourite...so that is $3.20 the field....reasonable value I would have thought, McKinley, a pre ordained cat according to some at $6.50, sounds value and Another Mouse at 3.20.....but regardless of facts, the grim reapers will still keep throwing pies. Didn't find too many winners but very encouraging to see at least (not good on crowds) ....umm...3 thousand plus on course?
I mean it was new years eve - they got 10000 to Albury !!
The best /exciting racing last night was Albury and Albany - and Shannon Suavalko showed his champion qualities
Good luck to " finding " Ooshta in the 1st - lol
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Chris Alford champion driver like S Suavalko - he does that 2 or 3 times a week in Vic - that type of drive - Greg Sugars is another one - who regularly applies those tactics - Sunday at Melton on some $10 pop back in the field - the 2s on pop up near the lead is walking - Sugars said enough of this nonsense - cut the thing loose mid race - stuff the favourite - i want the lead and he got it - and won the race . Daryl Douglass - they use to call him Dasher
Thats what i cannot stand about GP - when was the last time a driver - 2 laps out - turning into the back straight - running about 8th or 9th - with a horse with good point to point speed- say i am going to have a serious crack for the lead with plenty of momentum - unfortunately those daring tactics are totally utterly devoid extinct at GP - thats one of the reasons i call it monotous as compared to some of the interstate pacing
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Dasher Douglas in Victoria was amazing - blimey he caught them napping on the country tracks many times. Very clever driver that guy - sometimes a little forgotten now but he was superb.
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Will be interesting this Friday with the A grade drivers committed to GP, adds another dimension to what is a very tricky track to drive on, gives opportunities to others....once you make a decision down there, you are committed and you have to wear the outcome, and that's life as it should be. I'm biased...I love the joint, it's just the overly friendly road rats on the way back to Manji that I can do without.
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He reckoned can still smell the hotdogs and hamburgers cooking from back then!
It was added atmosphere for that i can concur. Don't eat them anymore but use to enjoy both immensely!
One of my fondest memories of attending Harold Park - walking out towards the exit - towards Glebe Point Rd - but still in the compound of the Trotting Track - there would be 2 Hot Dog Vendors - yelling out - Hot Doggie Hot Doggie Hot Doggie
They had a wooden box strapped over their shoulder - also nice and neat - had all the sauces the mustards - the paper wrapping
Its half past 10 on a Friday Night - youd think yeah im a bit peckish - why not - they were very brisk traders i will give you the tip - sometimes it was the only collect you got for the night
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Som great divs on horses who ran well the first night.
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Gilga if doing quads Busselton you had to put My Names Bob in for two reasons...1. Callan 2. Suvaljko.
First three legs of the quaddie : Matt Scott ; Callan Suvaljko ; Shannon Suvaljko then coming home with the field would have been nice!
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However looking up the results - what i noticed was the extremely slow last halves - 62 sec 63 sec - and Jay Jays 2nd runner they came home in 64 seconds
What - did they put a bit of clay instead of shellgrit onto the track !!
Any of those races - if anything had come in 59 sec - it would have won by half a lap
Times annoy the living crap out of me. We have a headquarters track where they are obsessed with getting them to try break world records on a half mile track making it physically impossible for horses to be 3 deep and be in the finish.
Yeah the times were slow but for a track with a straight as long as you can kick a football it was great to see two horses actually swoop from the back. Who cares how slow they go if the racing is actually competitive.
Surely Ashleigh Markham must have had some thought the he was going to smash into the outside wall turning for home on Bud Sidewinder??? Take some guts to go full bore out wide on that track.
Both those 2 trainers should be so grateful they are in WA and not NSW - because the Dean Chapple case in 2014 would put the fear of god into them
And he had some exceptional circumstances - being - he picked the horse up the 30th of August from a Queensland trainer who had the horse ( who the Vet expert at the hearing - described his feedin/vitamin method as ridiculous ) - then it raced on the 1st of Sept at Tamworth - where it recorded a positive to cobalt
Bear in mind - Chapple had an unblemished 30 year record - a director and volunteer at the Tamworth Club etc
He got 2.5 years - he appealed against the length - but the appeal got dismissed and the 2.5 year disqualification remained
The stewards words were chilling ( backed up by the Appeal mob ) - " There should be a starting point of 5 years - a discount of 18 months for the guilty plea ( which is more than normal ) - and a further discount of 12 months - for his 30 year unblemished record - thus giving a period of disqualification of 2.5 years .
Im not saying what is right or wrong - however WA Trotting Stewards are very very lenient when handing out periods of Disqualification when compared to the NSW Trotting Stewards - the case facts back that up .
So, for a horse to record a reading of 200 on race day, the obvious conclusion is that they they have been repeatedly injected and that this would include raceday treatment, in breach of the rules anyway.
That's my layman's reading of the Cobalt deal...which could be completely wrong???? But the 200 figure, subsequently lowered to 100 for urine samples, still errs on the side of generosity, as does the 25 microgram level for blood plasma. And all trainers have been advised to avoid administration of certain injectable supplements ....hemo-15, hemoplex and V.A.M....close to racing.
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