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Smoko, potentially WA's best sprinter since Barakey & Haylist.
West Australian Racing
AndrewCarter
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A big call I know but this bloke might be even better potentially than Barakey and has been every bit as impressive as Haylist at the same stage of their respective careers.
Did it at both ends of the race yesterday at just his third race start and at his first test over 1200m, what he did yesterday and the ease with which he did it was pretty special.
Runs time, does it very easily and seemingly has gears .
He showed blistering speed to cross with relative ease from the outside barrier and in doing so crossed Lena's Fury (even though it was first up for a long time, it's a dead set flying machine) and everything that was vying for the lead with it early dropped right out including She's Quality, which isn't exactly a slouch either and ran 1.29 seconds faster 1.10.65 (throttled right down) than what Tax A Million ran in winning the last 1.11.94
Smoko was being chased by handy horses in Celebrity Miss and Virtual Trader neither of them are stars but they 're both at least Saturday class horses and he made them look like bush maidens, lets hope he remains sound and will be around for some time as he's the most exciting horse going around currently in Perth by a furlong.
I'm sure Carey could confirm whether those times are accurate or not but they wouldn't be that far out.
Did it at both ends of the race yesterday at just his third race start and at his first test over 1200m, what he did yesterday and the ease with which he did it was pretty special.
Runs time, does it very easily and seemingly has gears .
He showed blistering speed to cross with relative ease from the outside barrier and in doing so crossed Lena's Fury (even though it was first up for a long time, it's a dead set flying machine) and everything that was vying for the lead with it early dropped right out including She's Quality, which isn't exactly a slouch either and ran 1.29 seconds faster 1.10.65 (throttled right down) than what Tax A Million ran in winning the last 1.11.94
Smoko was being chased by handy horses in Celebrity Miss and Virtual Trader neither of them are stars but they 're both at least Saturday class horses and he made them look like bush maidens, lets hope he remains sound and will be around for some time as he's the most exciting horse going around currently in Perth by a furlong.
I'm sure Carey could confirm whether those times are accurate or not but they wouldn't be that far out.
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lame
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Smoko clocked a slick 56.94 seconds for the 1000-metre trip, which included a 33.63-second last 600 metres
the next miss andretti for me
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the other 2 were correct.
i may not be exactly accurate, but will be within .04 either way generally.
so if i have 7 races where the difference official-me is say about .35, and there is one where the diff is say .85 then i check further.
these days they are mostly accurate(except deep south!), in that the difference between me and official is a constant, but that smoko one was an exception.
as the way i time is usually .35 faster than official, then i simply add .35 to my time to get the 57.42 and align with the other times that day.
so it is you that is wrong beyond a doubt.
and don't forget to allow for the new barriers that were in use yesterday, that give times that don't align with those of the old barriers.
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can you explain please?
not foolproof, but every time i find a questionable time, then i get the deviations between actual and expected, once using the official times, and then using what i think they were.
99 times out of 100 my adjustment will mean the deviations become smaller.
i can remember once when you were actually correct(and i was wrong) about what happened when they changed camera angles at the start, but that does no longer apply??
L et me guess u cant go into that here lol gee were have I heard that before lol.
or maybe working at a mine somewhere? =))
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i'm polite so i will almost always respond, but no way am i being wound up.
i don't have an ego at all, i don't need one, i already know how good i was. =))
world's foremost times guy, so i have been told by a syndicate boss, and who am i to argue? =))
damien,
not yet he isn't, but he shows all the attributes to be a star in wa.
doubt he is a star by eastern states standards, but who knows?
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Quokka's no star but it goes alright, come to think of it poor Popey must be already sick of the sight of Smoko.