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

yo sportz ..walkermac tipping to-day ..maybe forgot seeing big day melb cup ..or still early ..12.20 ..will check later ..

Here I am!

I've been in terrible form, so am totally changing tactics. Thanks for the comp, Sportz (does that sound defeatist?) and good luck embee

Win $10w/$15p
NZ Wingatui R7 H6 Drumregal
Muswellbrook R8 H5 Azzalin
Doomben R7 H6 Kobi Creek
Flemington R10 H4 Wawail
Muswellbrook R6 H5 Collar

Will work out the scores in a while, but it looks like today's two winners are kellmark and embee. Well done.

Today's results...

semi finals

walkermac 24.0 v embee 47.5
Robalan 17.1 v kellmark 62.7

Thanks to Robalan and walkermac for taking part. Bad luck, guys.

Now we go to Oaks Day...

Prelim Finals
Sportz v kellmark
william v embee

Again, same tipping rules as for Saturday and today.

Thursday, 5 November
 

Sportz

All 20 Win 5 Place Thanks

Flemington

R1-2 Royal Ocean
R3-1 Slate On Edge
R5-1 Ragnaar
R7-2 Lumosty
R9-5 Electric Fusion

William

Due to work commitments I'm putting my tips on this evening. Not sure if there is a policy on scratchings? I'll put an extra tip if one is SCR, but if it's tough luck then fair enough.

All $10 Win
Flemington

Race 2

1 Awesome Rock
4 Lucky Paddy
9 Berisha

Sub
14 Leica Day

Race 6

15 Beau Rada
16 Tawteen
1 Nicoscene

Sub
17 Wild Rain

Race 7

18 Tuscan Sling
15 I Am Gypsy
2 Lumosty

Sub
3 Afleet Esprit

Race 8

4 Ambience
2 Jameka
3 Sacred Eye

Sub
5 Honesta

Race 9

1 Kourkam
2 Excites Zelady
7 Rock Forthe Ladies

Sub
Lord Athenaeum

Good Luck all!!

That's okay. If you can't come back on tomorrow, I'll use the subs you've listed.

Flemington thurs

r1-9=champ cocktail 10e/way
r2-9=berisha 10win 15 place
r3-9=harbour grey 10win 15 place
r4-4=lake Geneva 10e/way
r5-12=Bengal cat 10e/way
r6-6=the quarterback 10e/way
r7-2=lumosty 25 win
r8-3=sacred eye 25 win
r9-8=lord athenaeum 10e/way

had 3 same horses changed two ..thanks sportz and good luck william

Good luck to you as well embee

SCR
 

Hi Sportz

Lumosty SCR - Please replace with R6-1 Nicoscene - 20 Win 5 Place

hi sportz

lumosty scr

please replace with flem r7-18 Tuscan sling 10 win 15 place
thanks

No hope for me today I think. Took too long. So confused about what to do, I procrastinated too much and missed posting my first tip... Slate On Edge! :(

Worst thing is I only had two horses all day which I picked out using my normal method, Slate On Edge and Rock Forthe Ladies. And now I've missed one of them. So I'm not expecting much now.

I'll try these and just hope they're around the money somewhere...

FLEM 4-1 OTTOMAN $10ew
FLEM 4-8 TEMPT ME NOT $5ew
FLEM 4-10 ZARA BAY $10ew

FLEM 5-1 RAGNAAR $10ew
FLEM 5-5 KRYPTONIAN $10ew
FLEM 5-6 HURSLEY $5ew

FLEM 6-5 ATMOSPHERICAL $10ew
FLEM 6-6 THE QUARTERBACK $10ew
FLEM 6-17 WILD RAIN $5ew

FLEM 7-1 ELOPING $5ew
FLEM 7-9 BROOK ROAD $10ew
FLEM 7-14 HIDDEN PEARL $10ew

FLEM 9-3 BURNING FRONT $10ew
FLEM 9-7 ROCK FORTHE LADIES $10ew
FLEM 9-8 LORD ATHENEUM $5ew

Wow, we're picking some winners today. Well done, guys.

Yes I know what you mean ..had r3-1 and r5-1 same as William so had to change ..can't believe price slate on edge ..photo finish coming up I think ..

The prices that I use for my method had it marked favourite which was part of the reason I was going to pick it, but I took too long deciding what I was going to do so I missed out!

So much for that. Race 7 sorted us out.

What about drift 3.20 to 8.50 sacred eye ..stewards enq..don't think so mmm May have to back williams horse ..our Williams been backed for stack..

Here are the results from today...

Prelim Finals

Sportz 136.5 v kellmark 57.9
william 197.0 v embee 126.3

Thanks a lot to kellmark and embee for taking part in the comp. Bad luck for today.

So it's down to 2!

Grand Final:
Sportz v william

We both get $100-$200 to bet with and a final score out of $100. 5-15 tips each.

Good luck, william.

Photo Finish
 

embee..thanks to you and Robalan for the contest...It really did come down to a photo finish :)..All the best to both of you for your future punting.


Sportz: Grand Final: When and what venue.

Good luck Sportz.

GRAND FINAL - SATURDAY, NOV 7, 2015

SPORTZ v WILLIAM

Any Aust or NZ meetings covered by UBET

5-15 tips each

Each tipster gets $100-$200 to bet with and their score is counted out of 100

The tipster who posts their picks second can include no more than 1 of the horses picked by the tipster who posted first.

Honour roll:
Spring 2006 - Umrum 344 def Raw Instinct 176
Autumn 2007 - Maverick1993 98 def Woody 0
Spring 2008 - Sportz 112 def Goldcoaster 74
Spring 2009 - Reded 106 def Maverick1993 51
Spring 2010 - Luv2bet 125 def Maverick1993 0
Spring 2011 - Sportz 111 def axledog 72
Spring 2012 - Sportz 102 def Gratlog 42
Autumn 2013 - Om Sharntee 182 def Kiwi 0
Spring 2013 - Dillwar 132 v Try Try Again 0
Autumn 2014 - Kiwi 270 v Rogan Josh 32
Spring 2014 - Percentum 131 v Sportz 39
Autumn 2015 - Dillwar 64 def Kiwi 40

Congrats to you William and thank you sportz for running comp it gave me an interest in most races and good luck to you both next week ..embee

DOOM 6-4 LUCKY TOM $10ew
DOOM 8-6 TARZAN $10ew
CANT 5-6 ASHJATA $10ew
FLEM 2-10 DIVAN $10ew
MORP 2-1 IDATWO $5ew
ASCOT 2-8 CELEBRITY DREAM $15win
ASCOT 3-1 AKHADASSET $5ew
ASCOT 4-5 KEY TO FAME $5ew
ASCOT 4-6 UNIVERSAL LAW $25win
ASCOT 7-9 ILLUMINATED $25win
ASCOT 8-8 NEVERLAND $25win

Good luck, william.

Saturday, 7 November
 

Hi Sportz . Good Luck

All 20 Win 5 Place

Ascot

R5-1 Black Heart Bart
R7-2 Rebelson

Canterbury

R4-4 Freeze The Charges
R6-3 Wine Tales

Flemington

R4-2 Secret Prophet
R6-2 Chautauqua

Doomben

R4-3 Tisani Tomso

Morphettville

R6-2 Mr Liberty

Oh dear. Just noticed a horse that I should have actually had in my selections and I see you've got it. Secret Prophet.

Selections
 

[QUOTE=Sportz]Oh dear. Just noticed a horse that I should have actually had in my selections and I see you've got it. Secret Prophet.

Check out my InForm selections you will see i would have selected most of your tips...:) ..You should have a very good day.

Thanks for the comp, look forward to the next one. Good luck to the finalists.

william, there is no longer a place pool in Syd R4. Would you like to have $25win now or just take the place bet out and leave it at $20 win?

Sportz...thanks for the update .....25 win