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"Interestingly" - for me at least anyway - I have also done a double which combines the posts by Bushy and Pirates above... Olympic Owen (no chance of 4s for me! lol) and Whiteline Fever (tu)

another horse im wary of is orators daughter having firstly never being past a 1400m race and now going 1800m but what is very much against her is she has never been around the turn in a race and racing up the straight is a lot more straight forward than racing around the turn...wont be easy for her

played a pa and rather just enjoy the racing from Dubai....

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1,2,5
2,13,14
2,4,5,7
1,8
1,7
2,3,5,7,16
1,8,13

pirates Wrote:

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> another horse im wary of is orators daughter
> having firstly never being past a 1400m race and
> now going 1800m but what is very much against her
> is she has never been around the turn in a race
> and racing up the straight is a lot more straight
> forward than racing around the turn...wont be easy
> for her

Pirates, this horse is a lot better than rated. This could be slightly long winded, but here goes.

When it beat Negev, Negev (MR 90), OD (MR 79) distance 1.25 lgths at level weights. Had that been a handicap OD would have received lumps of weight from Negev.

Last run, OD (MR 81 - 55.5kgs), the third finisher Sea Shadow (MR 91 - 58.5kgs), lengths behind 2.50.

On both occassions OD ran way better than rated. Don't worry that she has not beaten anything of note, it's the manner in which she won, which clearly shows she is still improving. Maybe someone who is familiar with handicapping can explain whether OD received the maximum penalty after each of the above victories.

We've seen what COTT is capable of and ceratinly does have the rivals she has beaten stone cold, however OD is the the unknown. OD is certainly bred for today's distance and further, it would be naive to say she has no chance. OD appears to have good gate speed, so i think Anton would try and bounce her out and track COTT - hopefully it turns into a match race down to the wire.

I have decided to play the exacta boxed, i think you'd make more money rather than trying to back one of them on the head. I see a two horse race here.

od got a max 6 points for beating negev but got 6 for beating jolly wood in a hcap and the max is 8 so hcapers werent overly impressed...remember as well her rating is taken over distances up to 1400 and today she runs 1800m ...great race to watch

Molly spoke to Laird assistant on Thursday.Stable were expecting a big run from OD

PA: 1,2 x 1,7,14 x 5,7,8,2,9 x 1,6 x 1,5 x 2,5,6,9,13,16 x 1,8

Break a leg Good Luck to all -D

Flight of Eagles....went down early...no Blinkers today...looks good.

ATC Today

TR1 Master Sabina win
TR3 Arcetri Park win
TR4 Olympic Owen ew
TR6 Slumdogmillionaire win
TR7 Jet Belle ew
MR2 Soft Falling Rain win
MR4 Lines of Battle ew
MR5 Shea Shea win

Good luck to all, hope you make heaps -D

Strydom to win the first on Viking Hero, 4,9,11,12 to fight out 2nd and 3rd.

Trifecta 1x2x3