Gday All

I am back from the newcastle cup.... what a great day.. My top rater ( and as you blokes know, one of my fav horses) wins the big one... well had a share of it anyway... the other local horse storms home to win the country cup ( I wasnt on him, but look for him in the Port cup I would think) I backed him (Carael Boy) at 21 with oncourse bookies... but settled for 10.5..

As for Carael boy being a "hot dog"... I am guessing that means a horse that sets up a lead and gets run down by swoopers... now I am only guessing about that.. but you only have to go back to his great win at Wyong.. (again a gr3 cup race) and he led them a merry dash and a very good performer in Irongail could not run him down... As an aside, Irongail is now with Freedman and running around in Melbourne on Sunday, and has a real good chance in the race it is contesting... it was much the same sort of race...

The only thing I can say about Hi Cee is that geez i wish he had bumped the ol fella close to home... he came out probably 3 or 4 horses under pressure in the final 100 m.. and we would have got the whole race on protest... What I think we are missing here is that Carael Boy was 20/1 and the horse that could not catch him was 5/2.. I think that says enough about the quality and the guts of this great country galloper... Where to next with him? I dunno... but where ever he shows up, he is bound to give his absolute best, and show the guts and determination he showed yesterday... I yelled myself ho****, cheering him the entire length of the magnificent Newcastle straight... I can barely talk today...I thought Carael Boy was magnificent, but then again I have thought that for a long long time...

AS I have said more than once on this forum...keep an eye out for Mid North Coast Horses when they are away from home... they do win more than their fair share...

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