Really deserves it's own thread. Only got 2 bets on so far. Boxed Trifecta - 2, 6, 10, 3, 13, 15 - Got 100% Flexi so cost me $120 Each Way - $20 - #6 Hartnell Will probably look at putting $100 on the nose of something.
Got 2 6 10 15 22 in a box trifecta. 20 place on 6. Also placed some mystery first 4s just for some fun.
Fame Game and Hokko Brave look the goods. I can see them doing the double for Japan like 06 They both run better times than anything from Europe or local, both at their last start over 3200 metres ran what would be record times in the Melbourne Cup. Fame Game is a better horse, but only a length or two better than Hokko Brave so the weight advantage should suit him, theres no way its a 35-1 shot as it currently is on fixed odds, Craig Williams has stuck on him and sees something in him.
Drew and bought Bondi Beach in a calcutta tonight. $35 for it, total prize pool is around $1800. I'll probably have a punt really late tomorrow, generally I'll sit on a TAB till all day and see where the money is going and make my mind up from there. Picked first last year and second the year before IIRC, so seems to work out for me.
Trip To Paris, Preferment and Bondi Beach for mine. Will have a fair crack at the quaddie as well because if you can manage to jag it it usually pays well on Cup Day.
I have a lot of stupid and contradictory bets on. Looking forward to continuing my "not winning a cent" streak since 2011.
Shit start to the day, Zarzali gets home which is good but wasn't looking certain just before the straight. Rode well once it found the gap though.
+ a couple trifectas and small bets on Quest for More and Snow Sky. The main reason being they are fucking way over the odds. QFM shit the bed at Geelong but as a few tipsters have said it's a horse that should be 20-1 and one bad start has it at > 80-1. And while it was very poor, at least it has had a fucking run in Australia, pretty much every European that has come out without a run as lost since the early 90s. Snow Sky most probably won't do it but was worth $5 @ 50-1
put a $100 bonus bet on preferment @ $10, don't know shit about horseracing and it'll be a shitfest trying to turn over that if i actually win