Interesting race indeed, horse ridden completely opposite to last time. Went far to hard early for a horse that runs on. Was also three and four wide early.
Horse is still very green, and got bumped a few times by the horse that ran 3rd.

I won't be sacking him on the 4th today, fought on well in the straight, I reckon if ridden correctly and a bit fitter, he'll be right in the finish.

Jockey must have had instructions to keep off the rail after getting trapped last time.

I reckon this run was to get the horse fit, and next time he'll be ridden differently, I also think you'll get much better odds next start.

He'll have to show something next start, or he'll be sacked.

Up'n'doing ran second after looking a beaten horse 400m out, when he got going, gee he was impressive. Not as impressive as the winner, but this horse is crying out for a much longer distance. Really didn't lengthen stride until 100m out, and flew home. Why they put this horse over 1100m again, leaves me puzzled, he's looking for 1300 to 1400m in my opinion, and could be a 1600m horse later.

Stays in the blacbook for sure, but won't be backing him if they don't put him up in distance to at least 1300m, 1200m won't cut it for mine.

Had a tip for Aquabelle from the trials, but I decided not to bet in the race because it was a 2yo race with only 5 runners, 4 of them unraced and 3 good winning chances.

Sportz,

Bad luck on that, Aquabelle is certainly something special. The jockey gave him a few cuts with the whip as they straightened and then put the whip away and he cruised to win untouched over the last 200m.

Aquabelle will be another blackbooker for sure.

Air Cooled was another good run to run 4th and all things being equal should really have won. He stays in the blackbook because he was stuck behind runners and chopped and changed two or three times trying to wind up. This was a very unlucky run today.

Storm Alert is sacked!
Had the run of the race behind the leader, who was one off the fence anyway, so had every chance.

Bye Bye Storm Alert.

Air Cooled unplaced 4th

Flaring Sun unplaced 4th

Storm Alert unplaced

Up'n'doing 2ND $1.30

RUNNING TALLY
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TOTAL
10 Bets
0 Wins
4 Placings

Win -$10.00
Place -$1.90
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Waiting for the illusive winner at good odds :(

We have a few stable horses nominated this week:

Becks NOM ROSEHILL 26/11/05 R5 Newport Plate

California Dane NOM MOONEE VALLEY 26/11/05 R3 Super Vobis Three-years-old Co

Smart Maxie NOM ROSEHILL 26/11/05 R5 Newport Plate

Tolo NOM ROSEHILL 26/11/05 R9 Collaroy Handicap

We have accepted runners tomorrow:

Becks ROSEHILL 26/11/05 R5

California Dane MOONEE VALLEY 26/11/05 R4

Smart Maxie ROSEHILL 26/11/05 R5

Malcolm ROSEHILL 26/11/05 R7

Good luck with those CP, i also have those 4 in my blackbook, interesting to see how they all handle the conditions except for Malcolm of course being a scratching.

Thanks Testarossa,

Yes, I wondered why Malcolm was missed by the blackbook site I use - coz he was scratched, I wonder if there is anything wrong with him.

The problem, as I see it, is that many of these slashing runs are well supported next start, so start very short. Just need a smokey at odds to make a profit really.