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Pretty funny, all these posters for years I suspected deep down were campaigners, just flushing themselves out one by one
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All these runners doing so well since, wonder if Brad still maintains he was going fast enough in the lead
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You look at old vids of the Perth Cup (and even the Railway) where it was deadset go for broke 1000 out, last man standing and the handicap actually mattered as a key factor. And then you see on the weekend where a senior rider cracks the sads when …
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No disrespect to Market Ruler or connections, but when an animal of its ability can pocket over half a mill before it turns 4, thats why our stayers are what they are. Maybe they could clip the Westpeed and add it as bonuses to staying races. *ducks…
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Willie too used the the cerise and white push-button models. TT will be better for it, short term pain for long term gain. Nature Strip interesting example, he walked em through the first 400 of the Darley. The camp copped big flak at the time for t…
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FWIW I wouldnt send it round even with the concession. He'll likely win it anyway, and this horse is that good that its not worth risking.
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RWWA will tell you how integrity is at their core, yet here some poor cobber just doing his job has been instructed to roll out the red carpet for the cerise and white. And they'll probably trot him out on the radio to try and justify it, which will…
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For all the chatter about it being a 3yo benefit, ended up being run-of-the-race stuff. Slow pace, gate 1 and doesnt go round a horse = win. The entire first 4 didnt run a metre additional to the 1800? All you can really take from the whole thing is…
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Brothers. I think Paul Whyte had Stormy Nova
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Lol at the 'does it only happen in Vic'. Here you just get the foreman to take the fall, and no deeper digging is done.
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Really intriuging tactically this. If they repeat the Derby tempo for him, Action wins. But why would they? Probably only two runners (Khartoum and BK) who wouldnt want it as slow as possible. Good draw makes it trickier for the Wiz, he'd want to ge…
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Hilarious bow to draw about the 2400 being cause for the field. Can you imagine how utterly crud it would be if 3200. Back to the days of slugs like Cats Fun beating 70 raters. There's a zillion reasons to stick the slippers into RWWA and PR, this i…
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Koko calls in his favour surely
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Have i stumbled into a Tories cry-wank forum
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Heavy Nova was the win you are thinking of.
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Kal racing on it's deathbed cos one horse with shocking feet goes sore? Give me a fucking spell. Says more about him that he felt the need to have a facesook.
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Several on this thread are subhuman.
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Rodent's appraisal couldn't be written any better. She raced like a 1400m horse
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When multiple people who are actually IN the successful horses so far, tell you they 110% wouldn't get in another one ... Hmmmm
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How bout the $11k War Chant that was syndicated for six times that. Or the $140k earning 3yo which has only just broken even ....
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How you handling losing is the greatest reveal of character. Are they entitled to be shitty? For sure. Would you publicly whinge about it? No, comes across as an elitist wanker. You put Pike on to have the balls to angle for runs, yet in this he …
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The Bunbury Stakes (or Cup, or Hannans, or Kal Cup, or ...) is worth a good chunk less than double a standard Saturday race. I'd imagine that multiplier would've been 3+ at some stage in the past ...
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Reads as though the issue was with Noske (a repeat offender). Rightly or wrongly, perhaps he was on a warning that 'we'll take one off you if you keep flouting the rules'. Which is not the way to go. Make the fines dinkum and increasing for every…
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Windy, sporadic and inaccurate timing and sectionals, trainers who can't get horses to run two races alike. And now they go with a cutaway ...
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You've got it all wrong. Woodsville went much slower than some of its recent good performances. The ride could've been improved by letting it run, not the exact opposite.
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Boy oh boy, Rodent goes whack. So who is this year's Master Magician?
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I was on Stable Secret, wasn't surprised. Cos I was also on Blue Tracer earlier in the day, which was probably the dumbest ride I've ever seen.
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Which reminds me of the Stirling Estate/Copper Fury debacle. You'd think they swapped silks after leaving the mounting yard, just own up to the blue FFS.
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Think a key point is being missed - extremely chummy with Walshy/connections of Atacama Sky, and there is no doubt that impacted the call, trying to add theatre at the point he did. Not a good look.
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For mine Steve's ride on Hoboken pales in comparison (for incompetence) to the ride on Friar's Classic, Colonel Jessep and Top Rated. Not that I was on any of those, but I'd much rather cop it dry on a split second decision, than on runners with …