As with Raw, I do not, have never and will never take notice of the tipsters in the paper. I very occasionally buy the Sportsman, but usually not, very very occasionally Best bets, I never have the Herald-Sun or the Age or Australian etc, so 19 weeks out of 20 I wouldn't have the first clue what they've tipped anyway.

I think we can safely compete against the tipsters even if we're putting them in on Friday, it'd be really good to see how we went, we just all have to agree not to alter our tips as a result of whatever the tripe served up in said paper's is.

Could part of the records we keep of us as a consensus be the s/r of winners in top selection and also in top four?

Yep.

How about we all have a go tomorrow just as a bit of a practice run. I'm not going to start this officially yet as it's a bit of a last minute thing.

Just post your top 3 picks in every race at whichever tracks you wish to tip in. Try to post names as well as numbers please so there's no mistake.

So far, we've got:
Duritz, Raw Instinct, Chuck, xptdriver, maverick1993, kiwi and myself. I'd like to find at least 3 more, so perhaps someone like Testarossa, Goldcoaster, QuickFunBet, Seeker11, Sirpent or Real Deal. Probably a couple of others I've forgotten too. Has anyone seen Umrum lately? He'd be good for Perth tips.

What happened to Paddy out of interest haven't seen him around between he and Umrum we have lost a couple of guys who were very good to have around shame really.

I agree.

What about William...sportz ? or dont you think he'll be interested

He hasn't been around for a while either, has he?

Yea theres another one of the guys who were here when I started out that aren't here anymore he used to post here all the time it's a shame there was some wierd stuff going on here a few months back and a few left over that not particularly sure what it was all over but maybe this had something to do with the disappearance of Paddy, William and Umrum.

I'll have a go if you want.

I can give you tips for any state you want except WA. I have all my prelim. form done by lunchtime Friday.

Okay. Thanks Top Rank. I've started up a thread titled "Forum Tipsters Poll (June 4)". You can post them there. This week is purely a practice run to see how it all works. We'll get serious next week.

Tips Practice Run Upcoming Competition
 

sydney
R 1 4 mosso
9 smart and fast
6 coriolis
1 hadaaf

R2 3 zarook
1 bunkum
2 skittles
7 son of oegasus

R3 4 pin.up
3 sweet ranson
2 miss mooney mooney
6 retail therapy

R 4 5 desert culture
9 sun chariot
12 cezanne
10 quest for fortune

R 5 1 mushroom
3 intermoo
6 clews place
9 top off the pop

R 6 2 zinzin
3 pekalan
8 long stemred
5 canadian heights

R 7 2 xlerate
5 dancing daggers
8 november dreaming
13 northfeild drive

R 8 5 grandazz
10 langborghini
3 salgado
2 turaga

brisbane

R 1 3 thats better
1 a little nughty
10 raadsi
12 equal

R 2 1 enthusiast
3 classic karla
4 face value
8 blood and bone

R 3 7 pentelikon
2 magsaya
3 tui song
5 royal mask

R 4 5 willy leica
2 spirit of tara
1 saxon
8 spuruson

R 5 5 testifiable
2 diamonds on inside
3 upilio
17 just the star

R 6 4 cinque cento
3 vitesse dane
7 hueger
1 irish darling

R 7 7 sir breakfast
10 all bar one
5 beautiful gem
9 lamond

R 8 9 zingan
4 raw instinct
2 natural blitz
7 regal punch

Melbourne

R 1 4 loan shark
7 willett
8 spectacular storm
1 merlos

R 2 2 nehemial
1 davout
5 black cat
10 one knight

R 3 9 valkyrie dive
3 amazing trace
5 show us your legs
7 lauras charm

R 4 4 moggs
6 avenue google
7 caprizzi strip
10 clavillo

R 5 3 irish belle
10 elmatilla
4 northern rose
8 haute danse

R 6 6 dismissal
9 bella corona
3 sain khapital
2 broadband

R 7 4 le bucheron
5 universal heights
3 gold attire
1 pantani

R 8 10 landloper
7 sky love
8 flying chance
2 reef beach

Adelaide

R 1 11 tuschany boy
14 elviva
3 delta devil
5 terocco

R 2 1 bramada
9 it aint easy
7 smyla
11 ubetibita

R 3 2 grace & power
5 polygram
1 zip zip aray
7 cash kalani

R 4 7 lessie
1 silk wind
4 oasis draming
2 desert mission

R 5 2 thundahar
7 hong kong cheri
9 thorns
13 bella bianco

R 6 1 lountone
4 sebrle
7 miss presley
10 blevoki

R 7 10 geppettos star
4 ottobello
1 jillimarg
12 cielo road

R 8 2 froth & bubble
11 breton rose
4 cyber dream
7 ali gee

Belmont

R 1 1 female warrior
3 last dash
8 dr moro
10 modification

R 2 3 miss andretti
4 hold your hennessy
1 raven protector
7 lust for dust

R 3 7 holy bounty
3 salisbury street
1 volition
13 real halo

R 4 6 swift jeune
4 dakas gem
5 star laser
1 brigalow

R 5 1 swift jeune
8 metarama
3 knight school
2 head west

R 6 10 ambers halo
4 impressive stats
11 refemme
7 prince of vasac

R 7 3 polish reign
4 the western dynamo
1 kensington lane
11 secciho

R 8 1 the little tacker
6 zed power
7 flying johnson
9 leading man

from jim curran
e-mail dcurran@bigpond.net.au