Load up on Zipping for the place. Does it very consistently!

yeah 4th place like the last 2 years

He's on the improve after the Cox. Should get a 3rd. in the Cup this year!

yeah thanks MD but i reckon he's stuffed from the front running in the mackinnon
so am prepared to risk
Of course i'll be waiting for the big punters on the forum to throw in their 2c
You know sportz,mav and ol vomits
Cheers

Well my misses says 2,4,7 and like all once a year punters who just picks numbers they are your tri because she is as assy as they come.

thanks mate

Just had a look and i reckon there's 3 winning chances - Septimus, Nom Du Jeu, and Mad Rush. i'm not keen on septimus but you just have to throw him in there with his credentials. I just can't split NDJ and MR, both put in great cup trials in the caulfield cup, i've backed MR at $13.50 so got some value there.

Of the others i've left out, i don't think MOR can stay the distance, and may struggle with this year's weight. I can't have Zipping, as Raw said about the cox, no doubt it will flash home for an eye catching fifth AGAIN. Don't think Littorio will stay, and is a non-winner anyway. I've heard Bauer's ordinary compared it its stablemate, so i'm ruling the geelong cup out as a guide.

I'll take the following tri

Septimus / Nom Du Jeu / Mad Rush

Septimus / Nom Du Jeu / Mad Rush / C'est La Guerre / Profound Beauty / Prize Lady / Barbaricus / Moatize

Septimus / Nom Du Jeu / Mad Rush / C'est La Guerre / Profound Beauty / Prize Lady / Barbaricus / Moatize


i've never like moatize, but it knows how to run a place. c'est la guerre has been set for this, and its close to a winning chance but i'm not sure its quite classy enough. barbaricus' last couple of runs have been great, not sure if it will stay but if it gets it own way (unliekly) it could last a while. i've thrown in prize lady purely because it can run a strong two miles, something not many of these can do

i reckon you have more chance of getting the tri with a mystery pick lol.

Its such an open race, like every year i guess. Wouldnt be surprised if anyone of half the field won.

I'll go for the top 2 for the win and include the rest for a Tri.
1. Nom Du Jeu
2. Septimus
3. Mad Rush
4. Honolulu
5. C'est La Guerre

Just been watching the Caulfield cup replays,,,i just cant believe Barbaricus hung on for 3rd..
I'm still suss on the form in this race ..he was in the carpark the 1st few turns and ran it solidly and still held them off down the straight,,

I know Barbaricus ran well Saturday,,but he did get beaten by Theseo ,,now if you were to go back a couple of months a say theseo and Barabaricus would fight out the McKinnon you'd would have been laughed off the forum..

So in the Caulfield Cup the backmarkers were entitled to run home,,,,Nom De Juer was good but she had a good run at them,,Mad Rush took the wrong option and he was going past some really slow horses at the end that made his run look even better but he know doubt should have gone close to beating them all in this race and if he had Noms run i think would have won comfortably......Littorio was average and Master O's run was ok ..

The form out of the Geelong Cup hasnt impressed me,,,Bauer atleast did it easily but dont forget he needed the win to qualify so is there much improvement ?? (in the same race Magic Instinct was alittle unlucky)

So i'm looking alittle outside these cups ,,Cest La Guerre was excellent his last start and just looks well improved a stack since being with Williams and Zipping is going better than last year...
The only probs with these two is i think the MC is an after thought,,Cest La Guerre was a next year horse but has just come along nicely and Zipping was a Cox plate horse or if he was going ordinary a MV Cup horse. Cest La Guerre was awsome in his Derby win leaving poor Nomy standing still ..Zipping has had excuses his last 2 Melbourne cup trys,,

Profound Beauty is something to watch,,hard to gauge her form but her track work is wow and the way she looks its hard not to like her,,Weld has bought a horse here that doesnt mind the firmer surface,,notice he isnt in the media whinging about watering the track blah blah and shes got no weight and a jockey that has good timing in this race ..

Ice Chariot's run in mckinnon was the good from the back,,,hes a place chance though at best as hes limited class wise.

Septimus looks dour to me but the stablemates will take off just as the tempo evens around the half way mark,,and Septimus will follow them and be carted into the race...not sure if the plan will work in such a big field but they'll ride the race together no matter what you hear the trainer say..
If it rains and the race becomes a slog fest then even with this weight he'll just grind them into the ground...Murtagh is a strong jock and he throws everything at the horse,,looks ungainly at times but theres no doubting he knows what it takes and if it becomes a fight then i want to be on the pom..

So it looks like i'm leaning towards the Williams pair , Profound Beauty and Mad Rush and Septimus,,
thats 5 on top lol
then the freak horse Barbaricus who doesnt know who his dad is to jag a place..with Honolulu (nice looking horse) and Yellowstone (why not) and Ice chariot and Bauer in for the 1st 4's,,

Chuck in your favourite colour and your favourite number and your 1st borns birthday and you might just jag an exotic

From you know who about Barbaricus [good for a laugh]:


'A Class 3 chaff bandit from the O’Brien yard, so positive comments are forbidden. His only win in the last 15 months was when he beat Davcon in a photo at Moonee Valley on 28/9/07. Unfortunately he ran a place in the 2008 Caulfield Cup at 100-1 and that put most battlers’ trifectas and First 4s out of play. He ran another good race last Saturday, but in my mind he’ll always be a “chaff bandit”. I obviously missed the two important gear changes of “heart and double lung transplant on” and “oxygen mask on” - before his latest two runs. Fair dinkum – Barbaricus. I thought I’d been “called home” when he ran a place in a Caulfield Cup and God was cracking a joke, as he knew I enjoyed a giggle. “Follow the light” he said – so I did - and it led me straight to the lunatic asylum' Barbaricus.