12th February 2005, 04:45 PM
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Well done to the winners today and the overall leaders in the comp.
Perhaps some people might like to do a post mortem of why they did so well or poorly.
I'll take the lead here and I did poorly....
In the first leg Race 4 Niconero's best run was last start over 1200m at Caulfield in an Open class race. The horse was jumping 200m in distance and heaps of class, I didn't think it could go on to improve that much. Econsul had never done much first up so I left it unrated pretty much. I liked Tirade a lot going on the run in the Grp 3 Guineas Prelude over the same distance and track, but that was last preparation, and should he have lived up to that form should have brained 'em. Truly Wicked had won a Group 2 at MV and Classiconi had won a Listed Race at Flemington last prep. I think I need to look harder at recent form.
In the second leg, although it was spruiked that they had Elvstroem set for this race, trainers often spruik their own horses often to prove fruitless at the end of the day. I did miss looking at the beaten margins first up and looked at the placings. First up Elvis had run 0.4 lengths 3rd in the Bletchingly and 1.4 lengths 5th in the Zeditave. So the fifth was really equivalent to a second or third.
Some lessons to be learned.
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