THE FRUIT AND VEG [G1]
 

4:10pm
ASCOT
Fruit 'n' Veg Stks (Gr 1)
3yo+ Group I
Apprentices Cannot Claim Weight For Age 09/12/06
1800m
$505,000
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Circumference: 2022m
Length of Straight: 294m

No. Form Horse Name (Barrier) Jockey Wgt. Chg. A/S Days Pos API Win Pl. Stakes

1 x602 Confectioner (2)" N Rawiller 58.0 up 1.5 6/g 7 B 41403 28% 57% $1,159,270
2 3623 Niconero (9)" B Rawiller 58.0 up 1.0 5/g 7 M 29282 27% 48% $849,180
3 1x90 Mr Sandgroper (3)" Dion Luciani 58.0 up 5.5 6/g 7 B 19746 25% 45% $473,910 -
4 4517 Polar Bear (GB) (14)" S W Arnold 58.0 up 3.5 7/g 7 M 18801 24% 48% $470,019
5 3186 Daka's Gem (8)" P Carbery 58.0 up 5.5 7/g 7 P 6911 22% 47% $366,260
6 6441 Zoometric (11)" T Turner 58.0 up 5.0 7/g 14 B 6898 13% 51% $358,700 -
7 1x28 Hartleys Dream (4)" W Pike 58.0 up 5.5 6/g 7 M 10445 38% 61% $323,810 -
8 6746 Who Did It (12)" L Moloney 58.0 up 4.5 7/g 14 P 8154 28% 42% $309,850 -
9 9114 Scenic Shot (7)" D Oliver 57.5 up 4.5 4/g 7 M 16374 38% 61% $343,855
10 5x40 Cape North (NZ) (13)" S Mc Gruddy 57.5 up 4.5 4/h 14 P 18175 38% 53% $236,275 -
11 2003 Mr Diagnosis (10)" L Camilleri 57.5 dn 0.5 4/g 7 L 8664 31% 62% $138,625 6
12 2011 Belle Bizarre (6)" P King 55.5 up 1.5 5/m 7 L 31262 40% 62% $1,000,390
13 5625 Hi On Love (1)" D Miller 55.0 up 2.0 4/m 14 L 14178 33% 66% $212,675
14 0303 Purde (NZ) (5)" S Parnham 55.0 up 0.5 4/m 28 B 11647 23% 47% $198,004 -
15 5110 Vain Crusader (15)" P Harvey 51.0 dn 1.0 3/g 7 M 29500 42% 57% $206,500

Vain Crusader / Niconero / Confectioner for me.

Vain Crusader all the way

The big problem for Confectioner is the inside barrier. As a backmarker and over this distance it would take a miracle to get out for a run.
It will be like dodgem cars, buffeted from pillar to post from barrier 2 for a backmarker. I don't know how the horse would go if the jockey is told to go forward [?]

Vain Crusader is going to get a perfect run ...so is Niconero.

Yes, you would think so regarding Confectioner wouldn't you Crash, but she did pull it off (or very nearly) from the #2 Barrier at last start here.
Polar Bear loves the 1800 and has seen the track now, Scenic Shot seemed distressed last time but should show up, love Vain Crusader but surrounded by 'grown ups' and we all know an improving roughie that may prove a diamond in the rough!
Although I am posting with an almost perfect strike rate of zero I am not yet reduced to making a case for all entries in the event.I do figure tho that I have to get lucky sometime, judging from the past that will be when I'm not on.
I like Polar Bear, particularly because Hayes is talking up Confectioner and I simply CAN'T win on Niconero, Scenic Shot and the Gem for third.
Good Luck all
diogenes

stick with polar bear crash, top run last week...

also like daka's gem and confectioner.

cheers
umrum

Very Even Race . I like

9 Scenic Shot
1 Confectioner
2 Niconero

I sacked Polar Bear after tipping it last week. I will have another look as perhaps it needed the run on the track and has settled down from the traveling.

Extremely unhappy with the mild weather on these big race days as that has a leveller effect for the visitors....usual blistering hot days knocks them around but not today.

Damn hard race this one I am finding it real tough to settle on anything I'll have something on both Hartleys Dream and Purde after that not sure where I will go

And Niconero trounces them!
I had a feeling Vain Crusader was going to prove a bit of a pretender at this level [yet].