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Purdon Domination and Cop The Run Of Ultimate Sniper
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JayJay
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Very few get a look in on Cup Day in NZ......the only races the Purdon juggernaut don't win are the ones they haven't got a starter in.....trifectas, quinellas, all the big races, the rest are just left a few crumbs. Cop the run of Ultimate Sniper in the 3yo feature, crikey, 3 wide early, into the breeze, working his butt off with some super quick quarters and no problem, he just beats them up. Heissenberg did everything possible to beat him bar letting his tyres down and just got blown away. Such domination in many states and many codes at the moment, we are witnessing the corporatisation (Is that a word?...I dunno but you get my drift) of racing at the moment on a scale we have never seen. Time will tell whether that is a good or bad thing but backyard Bill and his homebred broodmare are being consigned to the history books......and I just booked one in for stallion servicing yesterday???? Yikes, what was I thinking?
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Perfect day for the "bigger is better" track debate. Is everyone going to come on and argue we should build smaller tracks because racing on the larger tracks is just dominated from the front????
Yep the better horses are working their way to the front (same as on the small tracks) but other than the run of Ultimate Snipper it is making for pretty boring viewing.
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I don't think ive ever seen that at GP.
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My first thought also, oh the irony having a horse named that win the main cup, after all the NZ scandals this year.
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Friday night at Melton - soley for the Trotters - 11 race card - 12 horse fields - finals of 2/3/ and 4 year olds - 5 races at 100k and all up 700k for night . I mean most other states would be lucky to have 20 trotters on their books full stop
Ben Yole is worth a shout - Frid night in the stand - he had 10 of the 14 runners - and looking at the results page - its like looking at a set of cards - they ran 2nd through to 9th - and add in 12th and 14th and last .