Could someone more experienced than I explain why I was wrong to discount Sir Chuckle's chances in the 1200m. race at Flemington, Anzac day.
Was this the same horse that finished 16th. of 16 at it's most recent run on a dead track at Caulfield.?
Was there something in the steward's report from the Caulfield meeting April 19th. that would have encouraged me to include Sir Chuckle in my quadrella chances.
While I'm at it, is there anywhere on the internet from where I can access the stewards reports.

The R+S neurals had it top rated - well at least on my settings. But having said that I wasn't clever enough to back it. The trainer mouthed some excuse for the last start failure in a pre-race interview broadcast just minutes before the start on Sky.

Alf Matthews gave it zero chance. That may have been a clue.

Strangely, I had it rated on top as well but discounted it on the basis of a comment I heard from a 3UZ spruiker that it's chances went out the window last week as soon as the track was rated dead.(wasn't the track rated dead today?)
Had I went with my rating, I would have had the 1st three legs of the quaddie in but dipped out on the last anyway with Rose Archway.

Deja Vu strikes again. Last time Sir Chuckle raced down the straight was in the race won by Princesa (15/3). Got caught up in all that interference and still finished strongly to be beaten by 3/4 of a length. Met Princesa about 3 kg better on Saturday. If you liked Princesa at $5.50 in a Flemington straight race, Sir Chuckle had to be more appealing at twice those odds.

Also caught up in the rough housing in the previous meeting was Deprave (beaten fav). Won last week at Caulfield at $8.

Blessum probably copped the worst interference in that race and flew home for 2nd. Waiting for its next start....

Victorian Stewards reports are at rsb.net.au/publishing. Was mentioned post race that he likes to do his own thing; as soon as he's pressured by other runners he tends to 'spit it' so the plan was to go down the rails as close to on his own as possible thereby encouraging him to think he was doing it easier than he might have thought had he been in amongst them. Not much help afetrwards is it? Pretty unlikely to get the same set of circunstances again!