Hey Mav,

Congrats on a good day (and carnival by the sound of it). Art Success took an eternity to get to them today, but it was a well deserved win for this bloke, hes promised to do it for a while now, and i'm glad he got there today.

Great to see Tony Pattillo get a group 1 too, hes been riding in great form lately and he seems like a really nice bloke. Every time they interview him on SKY, hes always got something positive to say about his horses. I hope he has lots more success in the future.

Reigning to Win was a good win, was a bit good for these. Danleigh was a top run for second...these are the 2 most promising ones to come out of it...though i think some of the ones finishing back in the field will develop into nice 3yos - Lasoron and Upper Echelon in particular.

In the Guineas, well....Nova Star just had the last shot at em. They went pretty hard early and Fashions afield looked to have them beaten at the 200m, but Nova Star chewed up the ground late to score. Thought the run of Funlove was a good effort. While she had a nice run on the inside and didn't cover any extra ground, to get so close to these quality 3yos was a great effort. Had a wrap on her for a while, and i think there are better races in store in the future.

Overall, it was a good carnival at EF (and Doomben), but in my view the form to come out of some of the races will be dubious because of the track. With horses scouting so wide, the inside brigade didn't have their chance to 'show their stuff'. Thats taking nothing away from the winners though - its great to see Queenslanders winning 3 of the 4 group 1s at EF too .

Sven

Was certainly a far better end of the carnival for me than the last couple of weeks have been, Got a couple of nice winners in Defecting Playboy, Smart and Mighty and Art Success who I had promoted to my top bet by the time the race had rolled around just thought he had to win to be honest. The Brisbane Cup has been a real good race to me I have only really been punting for about 5 years now (I bet before then just not all year long usually if I wasn't working or playing football) in 2002 I backed both Prized Gem and Nauders in the cup both were great results, 2003 I backed Piachay and County Tyrone got the quinella and the trifecta, 2004 I backed one horse and really had a good go at him that was Danestorm thought he was nearly a sure thing, 2005 I backed Portland Singa only and also had a double go over from St. Basil to her had a great one there and this year I backed 2 horses Art Success and Pentathon well one won the other run 4th.

Maybe I should leave my betting to one day a year it would be far more profitable sure looks like it should be my fav day of the year anyway.

Well done to Mav and Sven you guys are always going well with your tips mine usually go better if I just keep them to myself I hate giving tips to anyone as I feel guilty if the damn nag does nothing. Best time of the year IMO Stradbroke day only has one peer as far as a punting standpoint and that is VRC Derby Day that is the top day for the year IMO.

The more tipsters the better Raw...its good to look at all different views of a race,,,sometimes we might have overlooked something,,,especially regarding tempo ect..
Arts Success was a good result...would have preffered the $13,000 i would have got if Classic Karla could have jagged it...but a wins a win....
only backed the horse once...i really didnt rate him initially but hes been the form stayer all prep...and bred to run allday..
i was prepared to lay Desert Master allday..i like taking on these southerners that think they can come up here for an easy kill...
fashions afield aswell