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@mariner4life said in Rough tips and other bets...:
@Hooroo said in Rough tips and other bets...:
How good was the racing on Saturday?
The Derby was won by a true stayer, Alligator Blood was incredible, Te Akau Shark can not win from back there, does Opie think he's on Winx? Probabeel stunning too.
Huge day on the punt for a change as I have been a bit hopeless.
Mickey tipped us London Banker too so that put a big bow around the New Zealand racing for the day.
great racing, but not profitable racing...
i just read Alligator Blood cost $55,000....
Jennifer Eccles cost $4,000! They are my favourtie stories!. We got the half sister to Escudo for chicken sh*t in Jan and she is filling out beautifully. (Was tempted to pay up for Karaka Millions) We will pay up for Pearl Series though.
Now we wait to see if she is as good as the rest of the family! Hope to be telling a great story.
We will break her in as a yearling as she looks as though she may make a two year old.
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@Hooroo said in Rough tips and other bets...:
Jennifer Eccles cost $4,000! They are my favourtie stories!.
They are the best stories. As above, Maximum Security just won the richest race ever, and two years ago was available for $16K.
His sire had a piss-poor breeding record, and he had “unspecified physical problems” as a foal, so his owners and trainers didn’t rate him. They certainly never entertained the fanciful idea of entering him in Stakes races. So they entered him into a $16,000 claimer, like they would any plonker hoping to sell him, meaning anybody with 16K could have put in a claim and owned him.
Nobody did.
Horse only went out on his debut in that claimer and won by 9-3/4 lengths. He was so dominant breaking his maiden his trainer figured wtf, let’s put him in the Florida Derby. He won, and got automatic entry into the Kentucky Derby. Rest. Is. History.
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@mariner4life said in Rough tips and other bets...:
It's like I'm watching Chataqua!
I am bedazzled by this New York Central finish in the Saudi Sprint, and have now watched it at least a dozen times. The proverbial ”finding a different gear” and “coming from the clouds to win.”
One detail is transfixing me, and I’m hoping somebody who knows more about the sport can explain to me. What is going on here...?
Focus on the winner, the grey with red silks. Ortiz comes off the rail and edges out sharply to about four wide at the top of the straight. He gives the grey three hard whacks to straighten him out and get going. Somewhere in his momentum the grey seems to get spooked — is it another horse? Crowd noise? Ortiz giving him the stirrups or whispering in his ear?? He’s about 10 to 15 lengths back.
At the 51st/52-sec mark and for the next two seconds the horse throws his head up side-to-side back-and-forth then seems to stumble lose stride and misstep, then recovers and comes out of it exploding with an entirely different galloping stride. Check the hooves before and after he throws his head. Is the jockey trying to get him to change stride? Is the horse fighting the jockey? I thought for a second Ortiz might lose control, but looked mostly unfazed. Whatever happened there, at that point he wasn’t in the race but caught lightning.
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Went back and watched Chataqua winning. the 2016 TJ Smith is great, around the whole field
but the 2017 version is something else. At the 300 he's gone. At the 200 he has no chance. Then..
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@Hooroo said in Rough tips and other bets...:
Solomon in Race 2 Riccarton today. 6 horse field and I think he is the only one in that field to have run a sub 1:10 on that course. Track is a good 3 which is perfect for him and he's paying $5. I think that is reasonable value.
and we were able to keep Jasmine on
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@JK they have started the try-scoring one like they did in the RWC again too (may have been doing it, but today is first time I saw it)
Bet of $30 or more for anyone to score a try, and get $5 BB for every try scored in match...although this week unsure any will be try-fests.
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@taniwharugby said in Rough tips and other bets...:
@JK they have started the try-scoring one like they did in the RWC again too (may have been doing it, but today is first time I saw it)
Bet of $30 or more for anyone to score a try, and get $5 BB for every try scored in match...although this week unsure any will be try-fests.
Yeah saw that. I always play the NBA first buckets bonus bet one. Yesterday got a $28 bonus bet which I turned in to just under $600. The fav lost tho so didnt get my $20 stake back. Was smashing the womens cricket supersixes one too. Free bonus bets even if they were only hitting 2 to 4 sixes a game.
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my six bonus bets from saturday have dwindled to 2, as my country roughies just haven't come good for me...
For saturday i have early bets on Loving Gabby and Harlem, as i expect both to be in with a good chance, and both to come in
I also have a futures bet i had forgotten about with Melody Bell on the All Star Mile for $9
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Some Do back at Alex Park tomorrow night in R2. Listed Sires Stakes race for mares. She's capable enough and has drawn inside the hot favourite, so hopefully we actually see some gate speed tomorrow night or at least lands reasonably handy. My good mate is in town so we'll watch together, but we've never watched a winning effort from one of our horses together (in a tote race at least) so that is overdue to change.
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@Smudge haha i love "I'm due!"
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@mariner4life said in Rough tips and other bets...:
@Smudge haha i love "I'm due!"
We've only watched a race together maybe 10 times out of all of our horses' combined starts of about 80 starts over the last 15 years, so we haven't given ourselves a huge chance...
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@Chris-B said in Rough tips and other bets...:
@Smudge Is it just me or has Some Do had a bit of a rough deal with wide draws in recent times?
Yes and no. The last couple of races have been under Preferential Barrier Draw conditions, which means the higher-rated runners are given the worst draws. It's another form of handicapping.
But yeah, she hasn't had a lot of love on the draw front outside of that.
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Did a bit of work early but had her chance in the straight. Battling 4th. No excuses really. Maybe she's a bit tired - who knows.
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Debacle.
Bostonian at $10s is the only reason it's not the worst day ever
