Close but no cigar this occassion :(

Makes up for Zanteca, Stokes does well over here.

Good day, yes. Grab 'em when you can :)

Today's results...

Qualifying finals:

Sportz 230.0 v walkermac 48.7
Robalan 0.0 v william 50.0

Elimination finals:

embee 103.5 v aferw 99.8
kellmark 238.5 v Percentum 0.0

Wow, bad luck to aferw. A good performance, but falling just short of embee's score. Thanks for taking part in the comp and the same to Percentum.

Myself and William as winners of the 2 qualifying finals go straight through to Oaks Day. Meanwhile, the two semi finals on Cup Day are...

semi finals
walkermac v embee
Robalan v kellmark

Again, same rules as today.

Tuesday, Nov 3 - Cup Day

semi finals
walkermac v embee
Robalan v kellmark

Same rules as on Saturday. 5-15 tips, tipster listed first can bet between $125 and $250 and tipster listed second can bet between $100 and $200. Tipster who posts tips second, can only include 1 of the horses picked by the tipster who posted first.

flem tues

r2-2 = 25 win
3-12 = 10 e/way
4-1 = 10 e/way
r5-3 = 10 e/way
r6-7 = 10 win 15 place
r7-3 = 25 win
r8-11 =10 e/way
r9-4 = 10 e/way
r10-4 = 25 win

thanks sportz and good luck walkermac

Thanks Sportz and good luck to all of you over the rest of the carnival.

Track bias seems to have emerged recently as a new issue for us to contend with. Was it always there but flying under the radar and not spotted.?

It's a bit like many things of the new era such as sinkholes, bull sharks and cockroaches.

When I started teaching at Junee in 1971 I don't remember seeing a cockroach in my hometown of Newcastle. When I came back they were, all of a sudden, there.

Similarly, there was no such thing as a bull shark. There were white pointers, tigers and makos but no bulls (no Bull).

Suburban grass castles disappearing down sinkholes was rare. Now they are all part of the modern lexicon.

Getting back to my comparison of track bias, one of my favourites, Foxseal, always came from a mile back and ran close to the placings. No questions of bias stopping him.

I'm starting to ramble so will bid you adieu and wish you well until autumn.

To quote the great Edward R Murrow, 'Good night and good luck.

I reckon they overthink things. I think they actually try too hard to get things perfect and end up just mucking things up.

robalan
 

flem tues
r 4 n 14 orient line $10x15
r 5 n 1 prompt return $10x15
r 7 n 17 almoonquith $10x15
r 9 n 12 mandla $10x15
r 10 n 4 wawail $10x15
randwick
r 7 n 3 another al$25 w
r 4 n 6 minn khai $10x15

Good Luck all


Doomben

Race 7

4 We're Ready
12 Monster Of Energy
5 Diddy Win Diddy

Race 8

1 Murder Of Crows
13 Neptune Palace
3 Can'tBuyBetter

Randwick

Race 5

7 Shalmaneser
3 He's Dreamin
6 Jiayuguan

Race 6

4 Electrifyin
9 Fitou
2 Brazen Moss

Race 7

10 Mendelssohn
5 Felix Bay
7 Brazen

Usual $10 Win all