Good luck to you too Kellmark! A very tough day!

Flemington
R2#1 Girl In Flight $10 win
R4#2 The Quarterback $10 win
R5#1 Law $10 win
R6#2 Wine Tales $20 win

R7#1 Admire Ratki $15 win
R7#3 Fawkner $15 win
R7#5 Protectionist $10 win
R7#11 Mutual Regard $10 win
R7#22 Lucia Valentina $10 win
R7#24 Signoff $10 win

Couldn't really see anything that took my fancy Sportz, but I'll put the other $10 on Number 12 in the Cup Who Shot Thebarman for value

Cheers.

Robalan still has to tip.

Unless Robalan comes back on and puts something on the last few races in Perth, then I'm afraid he misses out. In any case, Dillwar has had a good winner there anyway which would be hard to beat.

Well done to both guys who had Protectionist. And I see kellmark had Hijack Hussy too which was a good winner.

Sorry. I didn't get around to asking you whether you wanted win or each way. And seeing as you didn't specify each way, I'm afraid I had to take it as $10 for the win. If you had said $5 each way, that would have been enough for you to get over the line. But instead, you fall agonisingly short. Sorry about that. :(

robalan
 

ascot r8n7 dueton$30 place
rock magic $30 place
smoko $30 win
r9 n2 $cadenza $10 win
sorry its late celbrating cup.

robalan
 

update to last post
ascot r9n11 gracie may $20 place

Sorry. You can't bet just for the place. You have to have at least $5 on for the win.

No worries, for the win was the intention anyway.
Congrats Try Try Again
Thanks for the comp Sportz.

Thanks Kellmark.

It must have been as close as the Bauer and Viewed result in 2008.

I thought we may have even tied!

Today's results

Robalan 0 v Dillwar 179.6
Try Try Again 89.8 v kellmark 88.5

That means we're left with the following 2 matchups for Oaks Day...

Preliminary Finals
Percentum v Try Try Again
Sportz v Dillwar

Again, same drill. The tipster listed first gets $120 to bet with, the 2nd tipster gets $100.

Bad luck, kellmark. Boy was that close. Well done to kellmark and Robalan for getting this far. Thanks for playing.

I will not be able to put my selections in tomorrow so Ill put them in now.

Good luck Percentum!

Flemington

R1#12 Arianne
R3#15 Fantasy Eight
R5#9 Kodinhi
R5#10 Upham
R6#11 The Messina Mynph
R7#15 Atmospherical
R8#3 Crafty
R8#4 Lumosty
R8#5 Thunder Lady
R8#8 Set Square

All $10 win

Subs if needed (in order)

R6#15 Vain Queen
R2#11 By The Grace

FLEM 2-10 CADILLAC MOUNTAIN $5ew
FLEM 2-11 BY THE GRACE $5win
FLEM 3-2 TAWTEEN $10ew
FLEM 3-1 ELOPING $10ew
FLEM 5-6 PROACTIVE $10ew
FLEM 5-10 UPHAM $10ew
FLEM 6-15 VAIN QUEEN $5ew
FLEM 9-5 ARCTIC SONG $5ew
FLEM 9-8 BEL SEAL $5win

Flem
R4 #2 Beauty's Beast
R7 #16 Angels Beach
R8 #2 Go Indy Go
R8 #3 Crafty
R8 #4 Lumosty

$20 win on all thanks Sportz and good luck.

Like your picks.

Originally posted early because I didn't think I'd be able to get online tomorrow morning. Now it turns out I can and I'm not sure I agree with what I've picked.

Good luck Try Try Again.

All mine are at Flemington and all are $10 each way thanks, Sportz.

Race 1 no 7 Allelu
Race 2 no 9 What's In A Name
Race 4 no 6 Specter
Race 6 no 20 Counted
Race 7 no 11 Esprit De Bullet
Race 9 no 10 Aurum Spirit

I have a scratching, so after a change...

FLEM 2-11 BY THE GRACE $5ew
FLEM 2-4 SAIGON TEA $5win
FLEM 3-2 TAWTEEN $10ew
FLEM 3-1 ELOPING $10ew
FLEM 5-6 PROACTIVE $10ew
FLEM 5-10 UPHAM $10ew
FLEM 6-15 VAIN QUEEN $5ew
FLEM 9-5 ARCTIC SONG $5ew
FLEM 9-8 BEL SEAL $5win

Not that confident.

Well, that's a mighty fine start.

Yeah - hope it's a backmarkers day today. All mine are run on types.

Well, I sure got race 5 wrong. Meanwhile, in the two earlier races, I had 2nd and 3rd! So close!

Well, after the Oaks, the two results are now known.

Unfortunately, Dillwar couldn't get one of his picks home in the Oaks, so that leaves me as the winner of that matchup.

And poor old Try Try Again DID get the winner of the Oaks (well done) and also had another 2 winners as well, but incredibly, that still wasn't enough to beat Percentum who got a big winner home in the first. Bad luck, TTA.

So on Saturday, the final will be...

Percentum v Sportz

Today's results

Percentum 276.4 v Try Try Again 184.4
Sportz 88.95 v Dillwar 0

Well done to Try Try Again and Dillwar for your efforts during the comp. Bad luck, TTA. Great effort for no result, but well done to Percentum on that big score. Too good.

Meanwhile, I had a shocker today with real money!

Congratulations Percentum, I came home hard but you had already bolted and then kicked back with a couple of placings!!! Just too good!

Thanks Sportz for another great competition!

It's always great fun and should I say - a test of skill.

Wow! Big finish Try Try Again. It was a tricky sort of day. Looking forward to the next round. Another tough meeting on Saturday with more big fields. Big fields usually mean genuine pace. I wish racing was always like this.

Well done Sportz and thanks for running the comp.

Good luck to you and Percentum on Saturday.

SATURDAY'S FINAL: Percentum v Sportz

5-10 tips
Same bet sizes as with earlier rounds
Both tipsters get $100 to bet with

Good luck, Percentum

Good luck to you as well, Sportz and thanks for all your work.
I've decided to go wide and keep my fingers crossed today. All my bets are $5 each way.

MELBOURNE
R2 no14 Cadillac Mountain
R3 no12 Chile Express
R4 no 19 Durendal
R6 no 11 Cluster
R7 no4 Smokin Joey
no 16 Escado
R8 no5 My Amira
no19 Terai
R9 no1 Henwood

SYDNEY
R8 no9 Enormous Honour

FLEM 3-1 EXCESS KNOWLEDGE $10/$5
FLEM 3-6 OUR HAND OF FAITH $5win
FLEM 5-8 NOBLE PROTECTOR $10/$5
FLEM 5-3 LE ROI $5win
DOOM 7-7 BEAU JET $10/$5
DOOM 7-8 FREEZETHEMILLIONS $5win
RAND 6-1 BROOK ROAD $10/$5
RAND 6-10 SHIGERU SENDAN $5win
RAND 7-7 SO NOSTALGIC $10/$5
RAND 7-2 VITELLO $5win

I've gone conservative and just following my system.

Good luck, Percentum. If one of yours get up, it'll probably be enough.

Either way, you'll end up with a nice profit overall, so if anything, you deserve to win on that alone.

You wouldn't want to know it, Sportz, but Henwood is scratched in the last at Melbourne. I'll replace it with Perth Race 8
number8 , Grimsley Rocks, if that's ok ($5 each way).
Having an ok day so far but my better chances are upcoming.

Geez, tough day!

Wow. There you go. That'll do it. Great stuff. No chance I'll be catching you now. Congratulations. :)

Will work out the final score later, but Percentum has beaten me comfortably today. Well done, mate. A well deserved win.

:)

Thanks again, Sportz. It has been a lot of fun as always and it is an honour to be listed on the winners board. I wasn't travelling very well at all for a good while. Brilliant comp - it's interesting to see the various ways and means used by contestants. Am looking forward to the autumn comp now, especially now that I have a title to defend.
Good luck to all - Double thanks to Sportz. Merry Christmas, happy new year'. Will catch up again in Autumn. Good punting.
Percentum

Final score:

Percentum 131.3 v Sportz 38.7

Previous winners
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

Will be starting up the Autumn Tipping Comp next week, guys.

Thanks Sportz.

I'm in!

Me too sportz

robalan
 

im a goer