This week proved tough for most. I was the only one to make a profit!


Leaderboard:
42.88 . Sportz . ( Out: $330.00 / In: $471.50 )
11.45 . william . ( Out: $465.00 / In: $518.25 )
-3.94 . Shaun . ( Out: $700.00 / In: $672.40 )
-5.00 . walkermac . ( Out: $390.00 / In: $370.50 )
-6.76 . Percentum . ( Out: $510.00 / In: $475.50 )
-14.00 . piratebird . ( Out: $440.00 / In: $378.40 )
-68.22 . kiwi . ( Out: $365.00 / In: $116.00 ) *
-74.15 . Dillwar . ( Out: $325.00 / In: $84.00 )

Not quite, Sportz. I think my huge $6 profit counts as well. But who cares.

Disregard my previous post. Talking through my nether regions again.

Quick reminder that there are only 2 weeks left to go before the 4 finalists are decided.

Also, this week, there's a good meeting at Moonee Valley on Fri night and you can tip on that if you want to. Nowhere else on Friday, just Melbourne. So, if you want to tip on Moonee Valley, you can do it 2 ways. You can post all your tips for Fri night/Saturday in one post, OR you can post some tips for Fri night, then post some more on Saturday, as long as you don't go over the maximum 15 tips & $300.

Eagle Farm
R5 #14 Usmanov

Rosehill
R2 #14 Classique Legend
R4 #1 The Autumn Sun
R7 #2 Microphone

All $30 win thanks Sportz.
Good luck all.

Sportz .. All 30 WIN Thanks
 

Friday 22 March

Moonee Valley (VIC)

R7-10. Sunlight
R8-4. Spanish Reef

Saturday 23 March

Rosehill (NSW)

R2-14. Classique Legend
R4-1. The Autumn Sun

Eagle Farm (QLD)

R6-3. Mr Marbellouz

Morphettville Parks (SA)

R5-7. Equal Love

Ascot (WA)

R4-1. Jericho Missile

William

All Tonight

MR1 1-4 $10 E/W
MR4 5 $10 E/W
MR5 3-1 $10 E/W
MR6 2 $10 E/W
MR7 2-4-9 $10 E/W
MR8 1-2-8 $10 E/W

My selections are all for M.V tonight and are $10 win bets

Race 1 #3 & #1

Race 5 #4 & #2

Race 6 #6 & #2

Race 7 #9 & #1

Race 8 #1 &#10

Thanks Sportz.

SR6 1-2 $15 E/W

These are all $15 e/w thanks, Sportz:

Mornington
R1 no3 Kaching
R7 no5 Star Of Carrum
R8 no10 Manolo Blaniq
R9 no1 Mr Quickie

Brisbane
R3 no1 Mishani Hustler
R6 no8 Wild 'n Famous
R8 no4 Lord Mayor
R9 no16 Langrho

Sydney
R4 no2 Madison County
R7 no8 Lankan Star

Good luck.

A couple for today @ $30 win.

Rosehill Race 7 #5
Ascot Race 6 #3
Eagle Farm Race 5 #1

Thanks Sportz. Good luck to all.

Oops! Mishani Hustler is in race 4 , not race 3.

Sydney

r.2 11, 15
r.3 6, 12
r.4 5 $30 win
r.5 4 $30 win
r.6 3, 13
r.7 12 $30 win
r.8 4,8
r.9 2, 9

All $15 win unless stated differently.

Hope you guys have a winning day:)

E FRM 7-3 GET STUCK IN $10ew
G CST 8-5 MR MARBELLOUZ $10ew
ROSE 3-10 SHRAAOH $10ew
MORN 6-5 STEEL PRINCE $10ew
MORN 9-1 MR QUICKIE $10ew

WIN ($20)
Eagle Farm R4 H12 Spirit's Choice
Gold Coast R2 H6 Kiss My Swiss

E/W ($5/$15)
Rosehill R6 H13 Egg Tart
Eagle Farm R7 H5 Reiby The Red
Ascot R2 H15 Requisition
Ascot R6 H5 My Greek Boy
Canberra R7 H14 Bella Deluxe

Woohoo, went to Punters.com, used their race 7 sectional times, 1200m and heavy and the winner stood out, from the best stable.

Wow!!!

Incredible performance from kiwi today...

OUT $240
IN $1087.50

That just shows that it is possible to make the finals from a long way back, even as far behind as Dillwar is, you can still make it.

Leaderboard:
98.93 . kiwi . ( Out: $605.00 / In: $1,203.50 ) *
33.60 . Sportz . ( Out: $430.00 / In: $574.50 )
2.67 . william . ( Out: $645.00 / In: $662.25 )
-11.46 . Shaun . ( Out: $1,000.00 / In: $885.40 )
-21.15 . Percentum . ( Out: $780.00 / In: $615.00 )
-27.35 . walkermac . ( Out: $510.00 / In: $370.50 )
-39.94 . piratebird . ( Out: $630.00 / In: $378.40 )
-71.69 . Dillwar . ( Out: $445.00 / In: $126.00 )

Last week before the finals next week...

Don't forget kiwi, you're the only one who's missed a week, so you HAVE to tip next week. Otherwise, this week will have been for nothing.

As for everyone else, you don't have to tip next week, but really, I'm the only one who's in a position where I could take the week off and I don't think I will.

Rosehill
R1 #1 Bellevue Hill
R4 #1 Alizee
R6 #1 Nakeeta Jane & #8 Pohutukawa

Doomben
R5 #9 Tonsor
R10 #10 Totally Charmed

Awapuni
R6 #1 Yourdeel

All $30 win thanks Sportz.
Good luck all.

Sportz .. All 30 WIN Thanks
 

SATURDAY MARCH 30

PORT MACQUARIE

R4-4 RED LILY

ELLERSLIE

R1-3 VEE CECE
R7-3 JIP JIP ROCK

WYONG

R1-1 WORD FOR WORD
R2-1 ELGIN

William

Pelting down in Sydney and Brisbane. Could they both be off???

Brisbane is damp, but i don't think has been bad enough to call off

Bendigo

r.4 h2 Belsonic $20 win
r.7 h16 Mahemideis $10 ew

Ascot

r.3 Cup Night $20 win
r.9 No Say In It $10 ew

Rosehill

r.7 Doukhan $10 win
r.8 Master Sea Wolf $10 ew
r.9 Who's Knockng $10 ew

Sydney bets to test system if not called off:D

Good luck all!:)

Going All in here, these are my Black Bookers that i have been following, i have 30 today so putting in my first 15, hoping for a good result, backed a 40-1 and 70-1 winner during the week.

$20 a win

My selections for today. All $30 win

RH Race 3 #4

RH Race 5 #6

RH Race 6 #1

RH Race 7 #1

RH Race 9#10

Ascot Race 5 #3
Ascot Race 7 #2
Doomben Race 7 #10
Morph. Race 6 #9
Good luck to all. I think we'll need it today.

All $15 each way thanks, Sportz.

BENDIGO
R1 no19 Eagle Ridge
R2 no1 Miner's Miss
R4 no5 Highland Beat
R5 no6 Miss Siska
R6 no 12 Rocarral
R7 no4 Odeon
R8 no 9 Wild Vitality
R9 no 4Waging War

SYDNEY
R4 no7 Princess Posh
R6 no10 Autumn

Good luck.

Sportz, , I want to get in early and thank you for running this competition. It's been a lot of fun and I'm sure we all enjoyed it even though some of us came up a bit short. Thanks again.

Thanks.

I started up this comp a bit late, so we've only had 5 weeks before the finals. A bit short. So I'm thinking I might actually start up a winter comp as soon as this one finishes. See how we go.

DOOM 7-6 SOXAGON $5ew
ROSE 3-1 MADISON COUNTY $10ew
ROSE 7-1 AVILIUS $15ew
BEND 8-2 OUTRAGEOUS $5ew
BEND 9-13 ANTAH $5ew

Throwing darts.



WIN ($20)
Doomben R5 H9 Tonsor

E/W ($5/$15)
Bendigo R9 H17 Barry The Baptist
Doomben R10 H12 New Horizons
Gold Coast R5 H8 Rain On Me
Ellerslie R5 H5 Yearn

These are always great fun Sportz. Look forward to a winter comp, if you decide to run one.:)

Here we go. Final leaderboard...

Leaderboard:
84.56 . kiwi . ( Out: $735.00 / In: $1,356.50 )
30.88 . Sportz . ( Out: $510.00 / In: $667.50 )
-7.16 . william . ( Out: $765.00 / In: $710.25 )
-9.43 . walkermac . ( Out: $610.00 / In: $552.50 )
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-28.97 . Shaun . ( Out: $1,300.00 / In: $923.40 )
-30.83 . Percentum . ( Out: $1,080.00 / In: $747.00 )
-39.29 . piratebird . ( Out: $900.00 / In: $546.40 )
-46.24 . Dillwar . ( Out: $625.00 / In: $336.00 )

walkermac has come from 6th place and ended up taking 4th spot quite easily in the end.

Next week's semis will be...

Major semi
kiwi v Sportz

Minor semi
william v walkermac

Good luck to the finalists.

Thanks for running the comp Sportz, sorry I could not be at all competitive this time, horrible run lately although I did ok today, too little too late!!

Looking forward to the next comp, good luck on the punt all.

Thanks to Shaun, Percentum, Piratebird & Dillwar. As I said, I might be starting up a winter comp pretty much straight after this one finishes, so keep an eye out for that.

Thanks again, Sportz. Another rendez vous with the cap catchers (as Bertie Bryant called tail enders like me). Maybe I need to take on a Melbourne winter although I believe they've changed a bit since my heyday. Aaah that I wish it was the 1970s again - good old winter champs like Yootha, Brandy Balloon, Tetrabine... I could go on. We 'knew ' these horses. Nowadays we have to evaluate the form of horses who haven't raced for 2 years and then only started over 4 miles in a field of 3 at Kempton Park.

Good luck everyone

Don't forget my name-sake, Piratebird. Used to lead by 50 lengths and lose by 20 at Rosehill but that was in the late 60's. I got him one day though when it was "his turn" at $33. I really think they let him win one that day.

I remember your namesake, Pirate Bird. Yes, he was a runway leader. Around at the same time was a similar horse called Scotch & Dry...about half a century ago - scary.

Here is the draw for the first day of the finals which is Saturday.

Major Semi Final
(winner goes to grand final on April 20 - loser goes to next week)
kiwi v Sportz

Minor Semi Final
(winner goes to prelim final next week - loser is eliminated)
william v walkermac

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Just a minor change to the betting rules used during the preliminary rounds. You can now post between 5 and 10 tips instead of 3-15 tips. The bet sizes remain the same as we've been using all the way through.

The person listed first in each matchup finished higher on the ladder, so they are given the "home ground advantage" of having 25% more to spend. The person listed first is allowed to bet between $125 and $250 while the person listed second gets to bet between $100 and $200. In each case, betting the maximum amount won't actually give you a better chance. Because I will simply be converting your total winnings back to a score out of 125 or 100 as the case may be.

The tipster in each matchup who posts second is only allowed to include one of the horses tipped by the person who posted first. Just to clarify this... The person who's listed 2nd doesn't have to post their tips 2nd. They can get in and post their tips first if they want to. But whoever it is that ends up posting 2nd in each matchup, they can only tip one of the horses that the 1st tipster has picked.

In the unlikely event of a tie, the match will be awarded to the tipster listed 2nd.