What a terrible day for me. Looks like I've "choked" at the preliminary final stage. :o

Silly idea to tip two horses in the same race. (In both races, my 3rd tip got up and won) That was the same tactic I used one other day when I had a shocker. Oh well, I'll know next time, won't I? :(

Well down to my last chance for the day and comp Cheering on the old bloke at Hawkesbury otherwise shes curtains for me. The neven if he gets up I still aint home fingers crossed I can atleast get something here.

All I can say is typical of my day

Well, there you go. He didn't win, but the place div puts you in front. It's all down to Panther's tip in the last Jaques Le Naif. If he doesn't win, then you're in the final!

Wow!

32-28 to Raw Instinct. It certainly wasn't a decisive win, but it was enough.

Bad luck, Panther.

Nearly have to say sorry Panther but lets face it we were both awful my 2 good wins for the day I didn't have in my Tips they were Chadonne and Prend thanks to those 2 I have had a great day would have been huge if Mustard could have poked that nose of his out.

So Sportz what happens in the event of a tie between you and Umrum looks like it has been a tough day for all of us.

Well I knew if I went back and had a look at it I would find out what happened in the event of a draw unfortunately for Sportz anyway I think if I have read the rules properly that Umrum is through regardless of what happens in this race because the only placings you guys had were both in the feature race and were both the same horse which basically means it goes back to total points and Umrum has us all beaten there off memory

No, the most points rule actually referred to today's selections (applying 3,2,1 points to each of the selections).

The tiebreaker rules were:
Best finish in feature race (we're level on that)
Best result during the day (we're still level)
Most points on a 3,2,1 basis during the day (if Vintack simply runs a placing, umrum will win)

I didn't think we'd need any further tiebreaker rules than that, but I'm going to add one here. If Vintrack doesn't run a place, then I am going to award the win to umrum anyway, because I had one extra tip. I think that's only fair.

Well no placing for Vintrak I was going to say you could go on to the subs and eliminate it that way until you get a difference

Take that back no subs posted for Umrum so you can't do that anyway

Well, Vintrack didn't manage a place. Fair dinkum, I can't believe that 4 tipsters who had all been going pretty well recently could all have such a shocker on the same day!!! I'm disappointed that I couldn't manage more than 28 points with 6 tips! It just shows how much of a certainty Gold Edition was. Even we couldn't stop her today!

Anyway, as I said, although umrum and myself ended up dead level, I'm going to award umrum the win, on the basis that he had one less tip than me.

So the Grand Final on Saturday will be:

Umrum v Raw Instinct

Well all I can say is bad luck to Sportz and Panther you guys have been great all the way through the comp I have pretty much just snuck up in this thing not really being a high seed.

It was an awful days betting so hard to get anything up unless you were either happy to take something real short or something completely out of left field that was what it felt like to me was happy to just post a win for the day personally but even that only came in my last 3 bets of the day in Chandonne, Flion Fenea & Prend (was ecstatic to get Prend home she owes me plenty thankfully nothing anymore)


I'll get in early and say good luck for saturday Umrum hopefully we can both put up some big points for a good final I personally can't believe I got this far got lucky when Timboon fell short on Cup day.

Yeah, it would certainly have been better if the preliminary finals had been won more decisively or if we had all tipped better today. But that's the way it goes. Bad luck to Panther who finished on top of the table. Personally, I have nobody but myself to blame for my poor performance today. I went away from the stategy that had been so successful for me over the past 14 weeks, and tipped differently today. Dumb move.

Anyway, here we are:

NPL GRAND FINAL
UMRUM VS RAW INSTINCT

Please note: SIX TIPS EACH IN THE GRAND FINAL

Feature Race Of The Day
FLEM R6-3.00 EMIRATES STAKES 1600 M
1 DESERT WAR - Gai Waterhouse C Munce 4 58.5
2 LAD OF THE MANOR (NZ) - Roger Hoysted N Ryan 15 57.5
3 SUPER KID (NZ) - David Hayes C Williams 8 57.5
4 APACHE CAT - Greg Eurell D Oliver 13 55
5 HONOR IN WAR (USA) - Danny O'Brien S W Arnold 6 55
6 PERFECTLY READY - Mick Price G Boss 12 54.5
7 NICONERO - David Hayes D Dunn 1 54
8 BENTLEY BISCUIT - Gai Waterhouse H Bowman 10 53
9 SASSBEE - David Jolly L Nolen 5 53
10 VALEDICTUM - Danny O'Brien K McEvoy 14 53
11 SEACHANGE (NZ) - Ralph Manning G McKeon 18 52.5
12 FLASH TRICK - Colin & Cindy Alderson B Shinn 9 52
13 ROCKFORD BAY - Michael Moroney G Childs 17 52
14 SPIRIT OF TARA - Gerald Ryan D Gauci 3 52
15 DIVINE MADONNA - Mark Kavanagh S Baster 11 51
16 CINQUE CENTO - Peter G Moody L Nolen 16 51
17E ATAPI - Richard Otto 7 51
18E REDADAN - Danny Penna 2 51

Good luck umrum and raw in the finals. Ill be keeping an eye on this tomorrow for sure.

BTW any new comps in the future Sportz??

all the best in the grand finals umrum and raw instinct !

Congrats. sportz on a very well run and unique comp.

Yeah, no doubt. But I'm going to take a bit of a rest from it all after this week. :D

What!?!?!? Take a break....and what may i ask do you think we are meant to do untill then :P

Sweet as mate....Good Comp. Looking forward to the next one.

Emirates Mile
Apache Cat E/W (Perfectly Ready E/W)

Flemington
Race 3: #13 Celtic Bloom E/W
Race 7: #12 Straddle E/W
Race 8: #16 Zavite E/W
Race 9: #2 Threedee E/W

Doomben
Race 7: #14 Serenote E/W

SUBS
Ascot Race 7: #8 Dr. John E/W
Flemington Race 4: #1 My Middi W
Flemington Race 5: #2 Black Ink E/W

Good Luck today Umrum hopefully you haven't got many tips the same I usually try to pick horses most don't want to pick anyway.

Sportz thank you for your effort once again yet another enormous effort in this comp as always well done mate.

Good luck guys. Of course after Thursday's disaster you realise that both Sportz and I will probably tip the card today

Yeah, today looks better than Oaks day, but that's just the way it goes.

Umrum,

Are you there???

Sportz sorry to be a pain again but can I please change my one of my tips
instead of MR 3 #13 Celtic Bloom to MR 3 #4 Brom Felenity E/W

Okay.

I'm worried about Umrum.

I really don't want to have a Grand Final and have only one tipster show up. What an anti-climax!!! :o

Well, that was a good decision, Raw.

I'm really worried that umrum isn't going to post anything for today and that would be a TERRIBLE anti-climax for this comp after we've been battling it out for 16 weeks!!!

Would anyone be dead against me putting in some tips today in case umrum doesn't? After all, we did finish dead level on Thursday.

doesn't worry me

Well, I'd really prefer that Umrum posted tips, but in case he doesn't, I guess I'll post some.

MR6-8 Bentley Biscuit (Win)
Res: 1 Desert War (Win)

MR7-1 Royal Ida (EW)
MR8-3 Vanquished (Win)
SR6-6 Flighty (EW)
SR7-5 Turban (EW)
BR7-7 Countess Bathory (EW)

Res:
SR8-6 Operetta Lass (EW)

pity west coast turned up for the gf, crows wouldve been premiers, lol.

wow umrum, looks like you decided to show up today hey :D you know how to really stress sportz out dont ya :P

I'm here guys...

hope it's not too late...

can i have

MR6 #14 spirit of tara e/w
MR7 #2 Falaise - win
MR9 #5 Dr Nipntuck - win

PR7 #2 kim invader - win
PR7 #11 Idylic prince - win

sorry i was late
massive night last night : )

cheers
umrum

Can you give us another tip, umrum.

You've got no idea how worried I was that you weren't going to show!!!!

sorry sportz!

would have been a disaster after all these weeks!!!

PR6 #1 Great Nation - win

Glad I don't have to worry about the tips I posted. You can't half tell they were a rushed job.

At this stage, Raw is still well in front 176-0 thanks to Brom Felinity. He's got two tips left, while umrum has 4 tips left.

Okay, Raw Instinct finishes on 176 points.

Umrum has the following bets left. Perth 6-1, 7-2 & 7-11. If one of those wins, Umrum will probably go close to winning the comp. If not, it's Raw Instinct's title.

Well it all comes down to one race I must say personally I would like to see either Dr John or Old Sage get up but either way here this has been a great comp alot of fun 35 minutes and we will know who the champ is.

Well, there you go. That's incredible!!!! WHAT A FINISH!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS UMRUM!!!! :eek:

Ouch well done Umrum shes all yours mate should have tipped better myself those ************ WA races always worry me.

I gotta say Sportz I liked your picks a hell of alot better :)