Wow, the weather has really mucked us all around today. Good luck, guys.

Well done.

4 winners and a 2nd from 5 picks. Not a bad day!

A good day today Dillwar. Good luck in the grand final. Currently watching Swans. Not the same without Nick Malceski. Thanks for all your work too Sportz. Glad to participate again this spring should you feel up to it.
Best wishes from Percentum

Suspenseful finish in the other semi...need my final pick to win to stay alive :) And it's in the very last race of the day!

Well done Dillwar, winning Semi-Final 1

Wow State Form has a Dosage total of 36.Best of luck walkermac, is going to be close as.:)

Hey, Percentum, cut that out!!! You're still very much alive in this comp. You finished on top and just like in the AFL or NRL, you get a second chance next week.

May have been close on paper, sounded like it was nowhere near close in the actual race :) Well done, kiwi. Now win the whole thing so I can say I was knocked out by the eventual champion ;)

Thanks for running the comp again Sportz.

Very much enjoyed it this year: went from last to first (to third) to first knocked out of the finals. I think I may have just eked a profit this week, so at least I went down swinging. See you all for the Spring Tipping Comp, hopefully :)

RESULTS:

Major semi
Percentum 39 v Dillwar 208.2

Minor semi
walkermac 125.3 v kiwi 150



So... that means that Dillwar is through to the grand final on April 18. Well done.

Percentum gets to come back next week by virtue of the double chance. He will go to the prelim final against kiwi.

Bad luck to walkermac. Well played this year.



Next Saturday...

Preliminary Final
Percentum v kiwi

Thanks guys. Best of luck to both Percentum and kiwi next week. Well done on making the finals walkermac

Saturday, April 11

Preliminary Final
Percentum v kiwi

Same rules again. Percentum gets $120 to bet, kiwi gets $100 and whoever posts their tips 2nd can't have any more than 1 of the horses tipped by the one posting first.

Good luck!

Come on guys. Don't miss out!

OK, here goes. These are all $10 each way thanks, Sportz.

MELBOURNE
R6 no 6 Aurum Spirit

SYDNEY
R3 no 11 Jimmy Says Yes
R5 no5 Nostradamus
R6 no4 Savaria
R7 no 3 Diademe
R9 no 7 Spillway

Good luck ,Kiwi. A few good kiwis racing today.

Flemington all $10

R.1 MY POPPETTE
R.2 THE FRENCH HOUSE
R.4 MALAGUERRA
R.6 MARTIAN
R.7 MANAPINE
R.8 GIRL IN FLIGHT
R.9 Martinvast

Riccarton

R.5 ZHANIM $10
R.7 CONSENSUS $10
R.8 TOO MUCH TORQUE $5
R.9 SOUTHERN POWER $5

Confidence lacking in all these, best of luck Percentum!:)

Prelim Final

Percentum 0 v kiwi 134

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Brilliant stuff, kiwi. A good win with Consensus. Well done. Now it's on to the grand final next week.

Bad luck, Percentum. Two 4ths at good odds. But even if they had both placed, you wouldn't have quite caught kiwi. Well played over the whole comp!

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SATURDAY, MAY 18

GRAND FINAL - DILLWAR v KIWI

Thanks Sportz and well done Kiwi. The 4ths were frustrating. Good luck to our grand finalists.

Cheers Percentum, I was lucky to hit one I follow, even then thought the wet track might have beaten it.
Good comp by you, see what the spring brings.
Great comp as always Sportz, best wishes to Dillwar next week

Well done on the prelim win kiwi, best of luck for the grand final.

Awesome % profit during the comp Percentum.

Interesting to note that the past 3 winners of the comp were the top 3 in this comp. After next week you'll have some company as a multiple comp winner Sportz, although we still have some way to go to match your achievements!!

GRAND FINAL

DILLWAR v KIWI

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Tipping rules:

You can post anywhere between 5 and 10 tips.

The bet sizes are the same as we've been using all the way through.

Both tipsters will have $100 to bet with.

The tipster in each matchup who posts second is only allowed to include one of the horses tipped by the person who posted first.

In the unlikely event of a tie, the title will go to the tipster listed 1st (Dillwar) as they had the best prof % during the rounds.

Good luck!

Caulfield
R6 #1 Trust In A Gust $20 win
R9 #2 Gregers $10 win

Randwick
R1 #6 Private Secretary $30 win
R6 #1 Chautauqua $20 win
R7 #10 Our Boy Malachi $20 win

Good luck kiwi

Ellerslie all $5 win

3/ 9,4,13
4/3,4,8
5/1,4,8
6/3,4,12
7/11,2,12
8/11,8,12
9/11,18

good luck Dillwar

Ummm, hey kiwi, you can't have that many picks. It's a maximum of 10 picks today.

problemo!

Guess I'm done then at race 6, ************!Watch the next 3 win.In race 4 i backed as part of my tris 3/4/8 guess what the tri was for r.5.Just one of those days...

Geez, I hope you end up getting a winner or two Dillwar or I'm not going to know what to do!

Oops, sorry kiwi. Didn't realise you'd had a winner in race 3. In that case, it probably would have been easier if Dillwar HADN'T got a winner.

Anyway... big apologies kiwi, I feel really bad, but rules are rules and even in the earlier rounds of the competition, the maximum number of picks is 15, so you even exceeded that number. The limit in the final is 10 picks.

This has made things really tough for me!

No worries Sportz, I should have been more aware.I was playing a big buy-in poker tournament and trying to enter these at the same time.
Problem solved for you Sportz.Randwick, 10 OUR BOY MALACHI, congratulations, Dillwar you win.:D
Thanks for the comp Sportz, great fun as always.:)

GRAND FINAL:

DILWAR 64.2 v KIWI 40

Congratulations, Dillwar. Well done.

Once again, bad luck, kiwi. The tips as you posted them would have had you winning by about $12 or so I think, but that's the way it goes.

Thanks to everyone who took part.

Bad luck kiwi, hope you did well in the poker game.

Thanks again for running the comp Sportz, looking forward to the spring comp

Just a heads up. The Spring Tipping Comp would normally be starting about now. But we usually struggle to get people for the first few weeks. So I've decided to hold off until August 22. That will be the first week of the comp, so be ready to go then.

Woohoo! 3 weeks to do the work that I was supposed to be doing the past 3 months! ;)

robalan
 

im in for some fun.

I'll look forward to testing my "skills" again!

Thanks Sportz

Up for the Spring Sportz.Have a new system based on pedigrees which may be a break through.:D

Me too sportz

embee
 

can you put me in sportz and are rules same as last comp

Count me in Sportz.

We'll see. They'll certainly be similar.

Sportz
 

Hi Sportz

Please include me in the comp

William

I'll give it a go to..