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5th November 2004, 05:59 PM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
Location: Wyong , NSW
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I had Fox Helios at $101 in a maiden race at Murray Bridge about 18 months ago.
In 1998 i think it was, i had Shattered Circle which was paying $140 for the win in Adelaide, i backed it cause i genuinely thought it would win because in its recent races it was racing against another horse called Power Plan which would bolt away and lead by huge amounts and Shattered Circle would always be second a few lengths away from the rest of the field and them 2 would always fight out the race. However this was a listed or G3 race, much above the races they had been contesting hence the odds, but since Power Plan was in the race as well i thought the same thing might happen and took both of them in a Exacta and backed Shattered Circle E/W.
Anyway everything was going according to plan Power Plan lead by about 20 lengths with Shattered Circle a few lengths ahead of the rest, but the problem was Power Plan started to stop earlier then usual allowing Shattered Circle to get to the front a bit to early, but as they ran down the straight nothing was making ground until 100m out when ************ Star Binder flew out of the pack and nabbed him on the line.
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