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NOTE: FULL RATINGS HISTORY IS SITUATED AFTER HIGHLIGHTS OF PREVIOUS MONTHS.
HIGHLIGHTS OF PREVIOUS MONTHS:
(winners paying less than $4.00 not included in highlights).
(Click underlined horse to go to ratings and comments. Scroll down to end of meeting to view results and post race comments. Horses not highlighted were from initial service not offered on internet.).
OCTOBER 1998
OUR BELLITION $24.00; $6.20
PRINCE STANDAAN $19.50; $4.50
VAIN TYCOON $15.80
ALWAYS A CHANCE $10.60
MEGASTAR $10.40
RICH PICKINGS $8.70
CARNELIAN $7.70
MISS JUGAH $7.00
RUSTIC DREAM $6.20
MARSTIC $5.00
SHOW NO EMOTION $4.00
SEPTEMBER 1998
LORD LUSKIN $62.80; $15.30
VAIN TYCOON $12.00
FLAVOUR $8.90
LAMBADA BOY $8.80
QUIET STYLE $8.10
LONDOLOZI $7.50
M'SELLE DE ENZ $6.50
MISOMAI $5.90
ST. CLEMENS BELLE $5.50
IL DON $4.40
UMRUM $4.30
AUGUST 1998
LUCKY RULE $40.20; $8.10
GODINA $21.00
KING CARL $10.30
HIT AND RUN $8.70
DANAJIVA $11.40; $3.40
QUIET STYLE $10.90; $3.60
SIR BOOM placed $11.90 ($53.90 win)
JULY 1998
BEN"S ROCKET $10.50
ROSETTIE GOLD $7.10
PRIME ADDRESS $7.10
JUNE 1998
LORD LUSKIN $25.80; $6.80
SERGRIS $21.00; $5.60
FINAL TEMPO $13.20; $4.20
STEPPINS $8.00
MAY 1998
JIMMATTY $12.30
HON KWOK STAR $8.50
GOLD TIME 2nd (nose) $8.40 ($29.90 win)
APRIL 1998
FIGHTER BAY $7.20
ROYAL CALIPH $5.70
CARINYA PIRATE place $7.20
MARCH 1998
RISKY $18.30
WESLEY BOY $14.20; $6.60
MUSHTAK $12.30
NOBLE BENBARA $8.20
ROSE OF DANEHILL $8.00
MANHATTAN VON $7.00
MIGHTY IMPULSE $7.00
SIR KNIGHT $6.90
SCRUPULOUS FIGHTER placed (2nd btn nose) $5.30
FEBRUARY 1998
BULTA $18.50; $3.70
GOLD GURU $14.10; $4.60
EL CONDOR PASA $12.30
SAILORS COURAGE $10.10
MR. MACHIAVELLI $8.20
SIR KNIGHT $5.90
QUIET STYLE 2nd ($58.30) $11.50
CITY HALL (2nd btn nose $24.30) $4.50
JANUARY 1998
LORENZA $21.10; $5.50
BERSERK $16.60
BLAZE THE TURF $14.50
STONNINGTON $11.40
LET'S CUT LOOSE $11.30
KALIMNA $11.10
ROYAL BLUE $10.90
ICE DOCTOR $9.60
REEPERBAHN $8.10
MY FABULOUS STAR $7.60
DANZIG'S PLEASURE $7.10
BLAZE THE TURF $5.70
QUINZE LOVE $5.20
DRY HUMOUR 2nd nose ($25.10) $7.30
DECEMBER 1997
MINT CONDITION $11.60
CENTEVIE $6.50
ACCOLADES $6.30
LADY RIALTON $6.10
LORD TYSON $5.50
NOVEMBER 1997
ANICHKA $54.10; $9.60
NAPIER STREET $33.20
SECOND COMING $31.00; $7.50
PERRY COMO $20.50
ROYAL DISCARD $14.20
COMEDY CAFE $11.10
ELEGANT LASS $10.50
DANAJAYA $5.80
MIGHT AND POWER $5.80
BATTOCHI $5.80
CATALAN OPENING $5.60
OCTOBER 18th on:
GRAND BAIE $5.60
SUNNY LANE $5.50
MELINTE $3.50
DELSOLE $7.50 placed
DORIEMUS $4.50 placed
JUST STERLING $3.00 placed
FULL RESULTS:
NOTE: RATINGS WILL BE SHOWN AT RANDOM TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY OF THE DATABASE.
RATINGS FOR MOONEE VALLEY SATURDAY OCTOBER THE 24TH 1998.
RATED FOR TRACK GOOD:
RACE 2:
ISCA
CHOOSE
COMPULSION 57
COMMENTS: ISCA IS VERY FAST AND VERY SMART. HAS COMPETED AGAINST AND BEATEN THE C&G'S BEFORE. SHE HAS A CLEAR SPEED MARGIN OVER RIVALS. CHOOSE COMES THROUGH SPEED RACE THAT HAS PRODUCED WINNERS IN DELIRIOUS & LE ZAGALETTA. APPEALS AS THE DANGER. COMPULSION NOT RACING UP TO HER RATING. IF FREEDMAN CAN WORK HER OUT (NOTE: BLINKERS AGAIN) THEN SHE WOULD BE A GOOD CHANCE.
RACE 3:
SPECTACULAR GOLD
RUNAWAY
COMMENTS: REGULAR USERS OF SPEEDRATINGS KNOW THE HIGH OPINION THAT WE HAVE OF SPECTACULAR GOLD. WE CAN ONLY HOPE THAT THERE IS A REASONABLE PACE IN THIS EVENT TO ALLOW HIM TO PRODUCE HIS BEST. SO TOO WITH RUNAWAY. HE WILL REQUIRE AN EVEN PACE TO ALLOW HIM TO SETTLE AND RUN ON. THE DANGER IN THIS EVENT IS THE FACT THAT 3-Y-O 2040M RACES AT MV ARE NOT ALWAYS RUN AT A GENUINE CLIP. IF IT IS THEN THESE TWO SHOULD QUINELLA THE EVENT.
RACE 4:
GENERAL NEDIYM
M'SELLE DE ENZ
COMMENTS: SHOW NO EMOTION HAS OPPORTUNITY TO WIN ANOTHER GROUP EVENT. SUSPECT HE WILL CAMP JUST BEHIND M'SELLE DE ENZ (WHO MUST GO EXTREMELY QUICK TO CLEAR FIELD) AND OUTSIDE OF GENERAL NEDIYM. THIS WOULD ALLOW HIS SLIGHT SPEEDRATING EDGE TO GAIN HIM A VICTORY. TACTICS ARE IMPORTANT, EVEN OVER THIS SHORT TRIP, WITH VERY LITTLE SEPARATING THE TOP TWO AT MV.
RACE 5:
SPECTRUM
SHIOSAKI
COMMENTS: SPECTRUM HAS HUGE WEIGHT, BUT CLEAR ADVANTAGE OVER FIELD. GOOD BARRIER SHOULD OFFSET WEIGHT AND ALLOW HER TO RUN UP TO HER RATING. SHIOSAKI WILL BE THE VALUE RUNNER. HAS GOOD RATINGS AT TRACK AND TRIP AND IS A DANGER GIVEN FAVOURABLE WEIGHT. OUR BELLITION WILL RUN ON VERY STRONGLY. APPEARS AS THOUGH THERE WILL BE A SOLID PACE WITH SEVERAL RUNNERS HAVING PATTERN OF RACING FORWARDS. THIS FACT ALLOWS HER THE PROSPECT OF A BARNSTORMING FINISH. FLEISCHER IS A QUERY HORSE. IF TRACK WAS AFFECTED THROW HER IN. HAS RATINGS AT 1400M AND MIGHT BE ABLE TO FIND SUITABLE EVENT SOON.
RACE 6:
MIGHT AND POWER
GOLD GURU
DORIEMUS
COMMENTS: MIGHT AND POWER HAS SUPREME RATINGS FROM A MIDDLE DISTANCE TO STAYING TRIP. IT IS ONLY WHEN HE RACES AT 2000M AND BEYOND THAT HIS TRUE ABILITY IS EVIDENT. GOLD GURU IS NOT TO BE UNDERESTIMATED. IF MIGHT AND POWER IS TO BE BEATEN HE WOULD BE THE ONE TO LAY THE CLAIM. NOTHING WRONG WITH HIS LAST TWO RUNS AND HAS GREAT RATINGS AT TRIP AND TRACK. WHILE EVERYONE WILL BE PLOTTING TO PRODUCE THE DOWNFALL OF THE FAVOURITE, DORIEMUS WILL BE SITTING BACK AND AWAITING THE LAST CRACK AT THE PRIZE. IT IS NOT UNREASONABLE TO EXPECT A BIG PERFORMANCE.
RACE 7:
NO ALIMONY
COMMENTS: NO ALIMONY HAS NOT PRODUCED A MAJOR RATING AS YET, BUT SHE HAS RATED AT THIS TRIP. IF SHE HANDLES THE SMALL TRACK I WOULD EXPECT HER TO WIN.
RACE 8:
UMRUM
TRICOVE
COMMENTS: RUSTIC DREAM RACED UP TO HIS RATINGS IN TOORAK AND WAS AN EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE. RATINGS AT TRACK AND TRIP HOLD HIM IN GOOD STEAD FOR THIS RACE. UMRUM IS A BRILLIANT PERFORMER, RACING AT RATINGS OPTIMUM, AND AN UNDENIABLE CHANCE. HE WILL LEAD OR SIT JUST OFF PACE AND MIGHT BE ABLE TO DOMINATE RACE FROM THIS POSITION. TRICOVE IS A HORSE WITH PLENTY OF ABILITY. WOULD PREFER HIM ON A BIGGER TRACK HOWEVER, BUT HIS RATINGS SUGGEST THAT REGARDLESS HE IS STILL A GOOD CHANCE.
RACE 9:
SPORTS
WRY HERO
COMMENTS: GOOD RACE. SPORTS IS RATED MARGINALLY ABOVE FIELD (MV FACTOR) AND WILL BE HARD TO BEAT. WRY HERO NEEDS LUCK IN HIS RACES BUT WOULD THINK THAT THIS RACE MIGHT BE RUN TO SUIT. MIGHT PROVE TO BE BEST VALUE. PAINT & VAIN TYCOON LEVEL ON RATINGS. VAIN TYCOON WON FOR US LAST TIME AND HAS BEEN UNDERESTIMATED BY ALL EXCEPT FOR SPEEDRATINGS. PAINT MUST BE RESPECTED. BOMBER BILL GOES INTO RACE UNRATED. HE WOULD NEED TO BE VERY GOOD TO WIN.
RESULTS:
THE QUADRELLA PAID $1,282 WITH 3 WINNERS BEING EITHER FAVOURITE OR HEAVILY BACKED. THE VALUE WAS GIVEN BY THE SPEEDRATINGS SELECTION OF OUR BELLITION IN THE 1ST LEG. SOME OF YOU CLEVER USERS MUST SURELY HAVE COLLECTED THIS GIFT.
RACE 2: ISCA 1ST $2.10; $1.60 HER CLEAR SPEED MARGIN OVER THIS FIELD EVIDENT IN HER 3 1/2 LENGTH WIN. FAR SUPERIOR THAN OPPOSTION.
RACE 3: RUNAWAY 2ND ($4.70) $2.60 A GAME EFFORT. KEPT RUNNING ON GAMELY AND NOT SUITED BY TIGHT TRACK. GREAT DERBY TRIAL. SPECTACULAR GOLD NEVER TRAVELLED. SOMETHING OBVIOUSLY AMISS (FIRM TRACK? END OF THIS PREPARATION?).
RACE 4: SHOW NO EMOTION 1ST $4.00; $1.90 CONTROLLED RACE FROM FRONT AND UNTROUBLED. JOCKEY HAD INTENDED TO RIDE HIM AS WE PREDICTED BUT HE BEGAN SO WELL THAT FULL USE WAS MADE OF ADVANTAGE. A GOOD RIDE.
RACE 5: OUR BELLITION 1ST $24.00; $6.20 A MERITORIOUS PERFORMANCE, RACING DEEP FOR ENTIRE TRIP BUT KEPT COMING RIGHT TO POST. SHE RACED WELL (BUT WITHOUT LUCK) AGAINST LA VOLTA, VITRINITE, ETC. IN AUTUMN AND MAY BE UNDERRATED. SPECTRUM A SOLID PERFORMANCE TO FINISH 6TH WITH HUGE WEIGHT. DON'T DISMISS. SHIOSAKI WILL BENEFIT FROM A SLIGHT DROP IN CLASS.
RACE 6: MIGHT AND POWER 1ST $1.90. THIS HORSE HAS AMASSED SPEEDRATINGS WELL BEYOND THAT OF THE NORMAL IN EVERY MELBOURNE APPEARANCE. HAREEBA DOMINATED SPRINT SPEEDRATINGS (THOUGH WAS A DUFFER ON AFFECTED SURFACES) AND THERE IS A DISTINCT SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE WAY THESE TWO GATHER MOMENTUM AND THEN GRIND AWAY AT RIDICULOUS SPEEDS FOR THE DURATION OF THEIR RACES. MIGHT AND POWER HAS THE LARGEST SPEEDRATINGS OF ANY STAYING HORSE THAT I HAVE RATED IN TEN YEARS. LET HIM TAKE ON THE BEST IN THE WORLD. TGHAG (THANK GOD HE'S A GELDING).
RACE 7: NO ALIMONY 3RD $1.70 A GREAT RUN ON AN UNSUITABLE TRACK. HAS GREAT STAYING POTENTIAL BUT AS YET TO AMASS A SPEEDRATING TO VERIFY HER PROMISE.
RACE 8: RUSTIC DREAM $6.20; $2.20 (FINALLY). AND WELL DESERVED AT THAT. THIS RACE WAS RUN TO SUIT AS IT WAS OBVIOUS AFTER JUMPING THAT UMRUM WOULD RECEIVE NO PEACE IN FRONT. THOSE THAT TOOK THE RACE OUT SACRIFICED THEIR OWN CHANCES. RUSTIC DREAM RIDDEN TO PERFECTION AND A VERY EASY WINNER. TRICOVE A GOOD 4TH. FORGIVE UMRUM THE TRESPASSES OF THOSE WHO KNEW NOT WHAT THEY DID.
RACE 9: SPEEDRATINGS COULDN'T SEPARATE VAIN TYCOON 1ST $15.80; $3.60 AND PAINT ($7.80) $2.40 AND SO VERY NEARLY THE JUDGE AND THEN THE STEWARDS PANEL. VAIN TYCOON HAS BEEN (AS WE SUGGESTED) UNDERRATED BY MANY. PAINT RAN A BRAVE RACE AND IS VERY CLOSE TO ANOTHER WIN. WRY HERO WAS RIDDEN VERY POORLY, THE JOCKEY CHARGING UP BEFORE THE TURN AND SHOWING NO PATIENCE AT ALL ON A HORSE THAT REQUIRES A PATIENT TOUCH. SPORTS NOT READY YET.
RATINGS FOR MOONEE VALLEY (NIGHT) THURSDAY THE 22ND OCTOBER 1998.
RATED FOR TRACK: GOOD
RACE 2:
MARSTIC
COMMENTS: MARSTIC IS AN EXTREMELY PROMISING HORSE. HAS BEEN HARD TO PLACE THIS PREPARATION AND UNLUCKY IN BOTH MAJOR AND MINOR EVENTS. LOVES THIS TRACK AND DISTANCE IS IDEAL.
RACE 3:
LAMBADA BOY
RETRENCH
HE MAN
COMMENTS: LAMBADA BOY IS DRAWN TO GET THE BENEFIT OF GOOD SPEED IN THIS EVENT WITH SEVERAL HORSES COMING OFF 1000M RACES. HE STILL WILL NEED LUCK BUT CAN WIN IF THE BREAKS GO HIS WAY AGAIN. RETRENCH IS YOUNG HORSE ON THE WAY UP. PERFORMS FRESH AND EXTREMELY HARD TO HOLD OUT. HE MAN IS USUALLY UNLUCKY IN HIS RACES. LAST TIME COMING DOWN TROUGH IN MIDDLE OF TRACK IN TOP SPEED RACE. PREFER THE CHANCES OF RETRENCH AND HE MAN.
RACE 4:
OUR UNICORN
SECOND COMING
COMMENTS: OUR UNICORN OBVIOUSLY THE ONE TO BEAT AND LOOKS THE WINNER. HOWEVER HE WON'T OFFER ANY VALUE AND HORSES SUCH AS SECOND COMING, WHO IS NOW MUCH FITTER AND RACING OVER HIS BEST DISTANCE OFFERS GOOD VALUE; AS DOES PRINCE STANDAAN WHO RAN AN EXCELLENT RACE LAST SATURDAY AND HANDLES THIS TRACK AND TRIP WELL. WORRY IS THAT VALUE RUNNERS BOTH GO FORWARD AND MIGHT CAUSE THE UNDOING OF EACH OTHER. HALL AND GAUCI OBVIOUSLY AWARE OF THIS AND SHOULD RIDE TO SUIT IF ABLE.
RACE 5:
SWIFT ENCOUNTER
TRAVELOT
LE KAPITAN
COMMENTS: TOUGH AFFAIR. SWIFT ENCOUNTER HAS SEVERAL RATINGS OVER 1600M AND IF LEFT TO RUN HIS OWN RACE HE WOULD BE A GOOD CHANCE. THEY WENT MAD LAST RUN AND HE LED THEM UP BEFORE COMPOUNDING. TRAVELOT APPEALS AS BEST CHANCE. A YOUNG HORSE WITH ABILITY, UNLUCKY IN SEVERAL STARTS, AND SUITED BY TRACK AND PROSPECT OF FIRMER SURFACE. LE KAPITAN IS A WILDCARD. SCORED SPEEDRATINGS AS A FRONTRUNNER AND LATER WITH A BARNSTORMING FINISH. PREFER IF HE DOESN'T GO FORWARD AS THERE COULD BE A GOOD PACE IN THIS EVENT WITH SWIFT ENCOUNTER,LESVOS RULER, KNAPHILL AND KING COSSACK (MANY RATINGS BUT BETWEEN 1000-1200M.).
RACE 6:
NO MYSTERY
MY LIFE
FERDINAND 83
COMMENTS: NO MYSTERY COMES OUT OF VALLEY SPEED RACE THAT WAS ENHANCED BY NICK'S VERDICT WINNING PROVINCIAL CUP (SORRY, NO SPEEDRATING SERVICE THAT DAY. WAIT UNTIL COMMERCIAL.). TERRIBLE BARRIER BUT RACING AT SPEEDRATING PEAK. MY LIFE COULD BE VALUE RUNNER. STAYS WELL AND RUNS ON LATE. FERDINAND SHOULD NOT BE OVERLOOKED IF HE GAINS A START. ONLY A MINOR SPEEDRATING BUT IS IN A RACE WITH LITTLE DEPTH.
RACE 7:
IMPERIAL AIR
KACHINA
AUBREY
COMMENTS: SPEEDRATINGS VALUE AGAIN. IMPERIAL AIR HAS SOLID RATING, BUT COULD NEVER RECAPTURE THIS DURING LAST PREPARATION. HAS HAD A LONG SPELL AND HAS PERFORMED WELL FRESH BEFORE. KACHINA HAS DRAWN BADLY BUT IS VERY COMPETENT MARE. THEY OBVIOUSLY THINK SHE PERFORM BEST FRESH AND ARE TRAINING WITH THIS IN MIND. AUBREY IS VERY FAST AND COMPETED AGAINST REASONABLE FIELDS AS 3-Y-O. WILL GO VERY FAST EARLY. FITNESS A QUERY. RAMBLING ROSE GOOD EFFORT ON AFFECTED TRACK LAST START. UNSURE ON FIRMER SURFACE.
RESULTS:
RACE 2: MARSTIC 1ST $5.00; $1.80 TOYED WITH OPPOSITION. STARTED 11-2 ON TRACK BUT EVEN THE 4-1 WAS A GENEROUS PRICE ABOUT A HORSE WITH HIS ABILITY.
RACE 3: RETRENCH 3RD $2.40 A GOOD FIRST-UP PERFORMANCE. RAN ON BOLDLY. HE MAN ($30.00 PLUS) RAN GREAT RACE AGAIN, SERVING IT UP TO FAVOURITE SPORTING HERO AND BEATING HIM OFF BEFORE TURN. BATTLED HOME WELL. LAMBADA BOY MISSED JUMP AND STRUGGLED.
RACE 4: PRINCE STANDAAN 1ST $19.50; $4.50 OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE TO SCORE. AS FEARED OUR VALUE RUNNERS (PRINCE STANDAAN & SECOND COMING) RAN ALONG (SEEMINGLY) TO FAST IN THE EARLY STAGES. IT TOOK A GOOD HORSE TO KEEP GOING UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES. SKYBEAU (4TH RATED) RAN PROMISING 2ND. OUR UNICORN DISAPPOINTING-SECOND COMING HAS EXCUSES (AGAIN).
RACE 5: HECTIC PACE SET BY SWIFT ENCOUNTER ($22.00) AGAIN. LOOKED SET TO RUN AT LEAST PLACE TURNING FOR HOME BUT EFFORT TOLD CONCLUDING STAGES. LE KAPITAN SERVED IT UP TO LEADER EARLY. WEAKENED BADLY BUT WILL BENEFIT GREATLY FROM RUN. TRAVELOT DISAPPOINTED.
RACE 6: NO MYSTERY NOT SUITED BY SLOW PACE AND ULTIMATELY ANCHORED BY WEIGHT. NOT AS BAD A RUN AS IT APPEARS. MY LIFE NO CHANCE TO RUN ON BECAUSE OF PACE. FERDINAND SCRATCHED.
RACE 7: KACHINA 3RD $2.40 RAN HOME GAMELY. GOOD PERFORMANCE. IMPERIAL AIR HAS ABUNDANT PACE BUT IS PROVING VERY DIFFICULT TO PLACE. AUBREY SCRATCHED.
RATINGS FOR CAULFIELD SATURDAY OCTOBER THE 17TH 1998.
RATED FOR TRACK: GOOD
RACE 1:
QUARANTE LOVE
YALLAH STAR
COMMENTS: QUARANTE LOVE HAS SUBSTANTIAL SPEEDRATING AND GREAT POTENTIAL. SHOULD GET NICE RUN BEHIND SPEED HORSES KALIMNA, MAGIC MUSIC/TURN & SHAMROCK JAZZ. YALLAH'S STAR ONCE FLEW EARLY BUT NOW SETTLES BACK AND RUNS ON. HER SPEED RATING WAS GAINED AS A LEADER SO WE ARE IN NEW TERRITORY IF SHE SETTLES BACK. NOT TO BE UNDERESTIMATED. MISS JUGAH LOVES THIS TRACK AND DISTANCE AND MAY PROVE TO BE THE MAIN DANGER. SPEEDRATINGS WATCHERS WILL BE INTERESTED TO NOTE THAT TINIKADUA WON THIS RACE LAST YEAR.
RACE 2:
PALACE GLOW
DANINKLING
SCARLET ROCKET 66
COMMENTS: PALACE GLOW APPEALS AS BEST IN AN OPEN RACE. HAS RATINGS FROM TRACK AND IS COMPETING AGAINST OWN SEX IN THIS. HER LAST EFFORT AGAINST COLTS WAS GOOD. DANINKLING A DANGER IF NOT ONLY A WET TRACK HORSE. RATINGS INCONCLUSIVE YET SO THIS RUN WILL TELL STORY. SCARLET ROCKET WOULD BE GOOD CHANCE IF ABLE TO TAKE SIT AND NOT DUEL FOR LEAD WITH IRON SHOE. TRICKY AFFAIR BUT THE USUAL SPEEDRATING GENUINE VALUE.
RACE 3:
ELECTRIFYING
LE ZAGALETTA
CYBERVAIN
COMMENTS: ELECTRIFYING APPEARS WELL SUITED THIS EVENT. TRIP AND BARRIER IDEAL. LE ZAGALETTA IS ANOTHER OF THE FREEDMAN TEAM NOW IN TURNAROUND MODE. HE APPEARS TO BE NEARING HIS SPEEDRATING ESTIMATION FINALLY AND IS TO BE RESPECTED. CYBERVAIN IS AN ULTRA CONSISTENT SPEEDRATED GALLOPER. IF THERE IS ANY MISTAKES MADE BY FANCIED RUNNERS HE COULD MAKE THEM PAY.
RACE 4:
TOWKAY
DANAJAYA
SPECIAL DANE
COMMENTS: TOWKAY MUST PRODUCE IN THIS EVENT TO WARRANT HIGH SPEEDRATING. IT SEEMS A VERY SUITABLE RACE. DANAJAYA WILL GO FAST, THOUGH PERHAPS THERE MIGHT BE TOO MUCH PRESSURE WITH RANCHO SPARK, DANTELAH, CATNIPPED, ETC. SPECIAL DANE APPEALS AS MAIN DANGER, SUITED BY PROSPECT OF FAST PACE AND DRAWN TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.
RACE 5:
LAWYER
ARENA
COMMENTS: LAWYER AND ARENA NEAR TO IDENTICAL RATINGS AND CANNOT SEPARATE. MANY OF THE OTHERS HAVE QUESTION MARKS ABOUT THEIR RATINGS (HAMLET, SPECIAL EDITION, ETC.) AND WOULD PREFER TO LET THEIR RATINGS DEVELOP BEFORE RECOMMENDATION IS GIVEN. SKY HEIGHTS WILL OFFER NO VALUE. PERHAPS A RACE TO WATCH OR TO ONLY INVEST MODERATELY.
RACE 6:
CUT UP ROUGH
PENGHULU
CARNELIAN
COMMENTS: CUT UP ROUGH WELL SUITED IN THIS. SHOULD GET NICE TRAIL BEHIND FAST PACE. PENGHULU (WHERE IS THE MILE RACE?) IS ALWAYS A THREAT ON FIRM SURFACE. THIS RACE IS LIKELY TO TOP HIM OFF FOR 1600M EVENTS TO COME, BUT HE IS A VERY GOOD GALLOPER NONETHELESS. CARNELIAN WILL CHASE BEZEAL BAY. HE LOVES TRACK AND DISTANCE AND WILL BE THREAT IF JOCKEY CAN GET HIM TO TAKE SIT, THEN SMOTHER AND SPRINT.THE PROSPECT OF FAST EARLY PACE OPENS THIS RACE UP TO A MULTITUDE OF CHANCES LIKE PLEASURE GIVER, BUSTER JONES, CLASSIC DAY AND BLAZING STEEL. TOUGH EVENT.
RACE 7:
TIE THE KNOT
AEROSMITH
JEZABEEL
COMMENTS: TIE THE KNOT IS EXCEPTIONAL STAYER AND MOST SUITED THIS DISTANCE RANGE. VERY HARD TO BEAT. AEROSMITH HAS BEEN THE SURPRISE OF THE SPRING AND HAS QUICKLY GATHERED A CROP OF SPEEDRATINGS. JEZABEEL IS RATED NOT VERY FAR BEHIND AEROSMITH AND WILL BE FANTASTIC VALUE. SHE WILL POST HERSELF NEAR THE LEAD AND MAKE HER OWN LUCK. BARRIER AND WEIGHT ARE BONUSES. SHE IS GOING VERY WELL AND APPEALS AS A GREAT EACH WAY CHANCE.
RACE 8:
CIAO BABY
WILL FLY
SPECTRUM
COMMENTS: CIAO BABY EXCELLENT SPEEDRATINGS AT TRACK AND DISTANCE. NOT TO BE UNDERESTIMATED. WILL FLY IS SUITED THIS TRACK AND TRIP, BUT WHAT A WOEFUL BARRIER DRAW. SHE WILL HAVE TO BE RIDDEN FOR LUCK. SPECTRUM WILL ALSO CHARGE HOME IF RACE RUN TO SUIT. PERHAPS CIAO BABY WITH EARLY SPEED AND GOOD BARRIER CAN BE POSITIONED TO CAUSE BOILOVER. ZALINDA NEARLY EQUAL THIRD AND A DEFINITE CHANCE.
RACE 9:
HURRICANE STORM
PRINCE STANDAAN
PRIME ADDRESS
COMMENTS: HURRICANE STORM IS BACK TO BEST. ENORMOUS RUN IN CRANBOURNE CUP (SEE COMMENT ON HOME PAGE) AND VERY HARD TO STOP IN THIS. PRINCE STANDAAN ONCE AGAIN LUCKLESS AT CRANBOURNE. WOULD BE HUGE THREAT IF LUCK FINALLY GOES HIS WAY. PRIME ADDRESS IS ALSO IN FINE SPEED FORM. HE LOVES THIS TRACK. THIS IS A RACE THAT OFFERS EXCELLENT POTENTIAL, HOWEVER, MY ONLY CONCERN IS THAT EACH OF THE ABOVE HORSES NORMALLY RACES FORWARD. I WOULD NOT WISH TO SEE A RIDICULOUS BATTLE UP FRONT.
RESULTS:
RACE 1: MISS JUGAH 1ST $7.00; $2.10 EXTREMELY IMPRESSIVE. CHASED FAST PACE AND SCORED ANOTHER SPEEDRATING. SHE WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO HEAD INTO OPEN COMPANY IN THE FUTURE. QUARANTE LOVE 5TH BUT NEVER SHOWED ANY ZIP. WILL DERIVE BENEFIT FROM RUN. YALLAH'S STAR FLEW HOME IN FAST TIME TO RUN 6TH. NICE EFFORT.
RACE 2: UNSURE ABOUT RACE. FAST EARLY SECTIONALS BUT DID NOT TROUBLE SPEEDRATING CRITERIA. SELECTED HORSES DISAPPOINTING.
RACE 3: LE ZAGALETTA 1ST $2.50; $1.30 IMPRESSIVE WINNER. ELECTRIFYING DISAPPOINTING. CYBERVAIN KNOCKED FROM PILLAR TO POST. FORGET THAT HE RAN.
RACE 4: TOWKAY 2ND ($8.90) $2.70 NARROWLY BEATEN BY GOOD HORSE. SEEMED CERTAIN TO WIN HALF WAY UP STRAIGHT BUT COULDN'T GO PAST WINNER. DANAJAYA SHOWED SPEED BUT NEEDED RUN. SPECIAL DANE NEEDS MORE GROUND.
RACE 5: LAWYER 1ST $4.50; $1.60 A SOLID STAYING EFFORT. ARENA 3RD $1.50 FOUGHT ON VERY WELL.
RACE 6: CUT UP ROUGH BURST THROUGH ON TURNING AND SEEMED DEFINITE CHANCE ($44.10; $11.10) BUT WAS ON WORST OF GOING NEAR RAILS AND IN NEED OF RUN. CARNELIAN SHOWED PACE AGAIN AND PENGHULU NOT SUITED BY TEMPO OF RACE.
RACE 7: TIE THE KNOT 3RD $1.80 RAN HOME WELL. NO PACE EARLY AND THIS WOULD NOT HAVE SUITED HIM. BUT-JEZABEEL WOULD HAVE WON ($32.20; $7.80) IF NOT FOR SHOCKING INTERFERENCE THAT SHE SUFFERED IN STRAIGHT. HOW SHE EVEN MANAGED TO PICK HERSELF UP AND FINISH 6TH IS A TESTAMENT TO HER ABILITY. I FEEL SORRY FOR THE CONNECTIONS, TRAINER AND JOCKEY CHRIS MUNCE. THE CUP SHOULD BE YOURS. AEROSMITH WAS CAUGHT WIDE AND HIS EFFORT TO FINISH 7TH WAS SOUND.
RACE 8: CIAO BABY ($29.10; $6.70) BURST THROUGH ON TURN AND SEEMED LIKELY CONTENDER BUT JOCKEY ELECTED TO STAY AGAINST FENCE IN WORST GOING. A CREDITABLE 6TH. WILL FLY RAN HOME LATE. SPECTRUM A SCRATCHING.
RACE 9: AS FEARED OUR THREE RATED HORSE RACED CLOSE TO LEAD AND SOLID PACE WAS SET. PRINCE STANDAAN 2ND ($12.30) $3.80 HAD LED AND HAD RACE WON EVERYWHER BUT ON LINE. GREAT EFFORT. PRIME ADDRESS 3RD ($12.40) $3.70 CLOSE TO WINNER AND A RUN OF MERIT. HURRICAN STORM WAS NOT DISGRACED.
RATINGS FOR CAULFIELD WEDNESDAY THE 14TH OCTOBER 1998. (posted 6.10 pm tuesday due to wednesday being working day)
RATED FOR TRACK: DEAD
RACE 2
SMART BANKER
COMMENTS: SMART BANKER ONLY HORSE WITH RATING, THOUGH IT IS A MINOR FIGURE. POTENTIALLY A GOOD HORSE, BUT STABLE IS HAVING TROUBLE WORKING OUT A RACING STYLE FOR HIM. IF THEY CAN SORT HIM OUT HE WILL GO CLOSE.
RACE 3:
STRAIGHT CLIP
I LOVE KIEV
COMMENTS: INTERESTING EVENT. STRAIGHT CLIP WILL PROVIDE GOOD VALUE AND IS A GREAT CHANCE IF FITNESS REQUIREMENTS ARE MET. ALWAYS A CHANCE RAN WELL AT PREVIOUS START IN A RATINGS RACE AND HAS FITNESS EDGE. I LOVE KIEV WOULD BE TOP SELECTION IF TRACK WAS WORSE THAN DEAD AND IF HOT TOUCH WAS NOT TO RUN. FEAR A BATTLE FOR THE LEAD BY THESE TWO WHICH WOULD MAKE RACE UNPREDICTABLE. BET FOR VALUE.
RACE 4:
MISTER ZIG 44
COMMENTS: RICH PICKINGS AND MISTER ZIG ARE ONLY TWO TO HAVE TROUBLED THE SPEEDRATINGS DATA BASE. THIS IS A DIFFICULT RACE AS NEITHER RATED HORSE HAS SIGNIFICANT RATING AND ALSO DOUBTS ON ANYTHING OTHER THAN GOOD SURFACE.
RACE 5:
ST. CLEMENS BELLE
RAINBOW BUBBLES
GRAND ARCHWAY
COMMENTS: ST. CLEMENS BELLE HAS HAD WONDERFUL PREPARATION TO DATE (EXCUSE LAST RUN WHEN SHE WAS LUCKLESS) AND APPEALS AS BEST CHANCE. RAINBOW BUBBLES IS STILL LEARNING AND IS RAPIDLY IMPROVING. A WIN IS NOT BEYOND HER. GRAND ARCHWAY HAS HAD LITTLE LUCK OF LATE AND WILL BE A VALUE RUNNER.
RACE 6:
THEATRE
SCANDANAVIA
M'SELLE D'ENZ
COMMENTS: SMALL FIELD AND RATINGS BETWEEN 1-6 VERY COMPACT. THEATRE IS A HORSE WITH AN EXCITING FUTURE AND AN ALREADY IMPRESSIVE HISTORY. SCANDANAVIA COULD BE SURPRISE IF TRACK NOT TOO BAD. M'SELLE D'ENZ WOULD BE THE VALUE WAY TO GO IF TRACK IS BADLY AFFECTED. IF NOT A WIN BY THEATRE, THEN THIS RACE IS SO TRICKY THAT EACH RUNNER HAS STRONG CASE. SHOVHOG, FLAVOUR AND SHOW NO EMOTION ARE NOT A BAD TRIO TO BE OMITTED FROM TOP THREE RATINGS. IF NO VALUE, WATCH INSTEAD OF WINCE.
RACE 7:
TINIKADUA
LAMOURMONEE
MISS PERON
COMMENTS: SPEEDRATING WILL ALWAYS OFFER VALUE. TINIKADUA WAS GIVEN NO OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW HER WARES AT LAST APPEARANCE. SHE IS FITTER AND NO DOUBT HER ODDS WILL BE LONG. SHE HAS EARNT HER RATINGS SO DO NOT DISCOUNT HER CHANCES. LAMOURMONEE MAINTAINS HER RATING WITHOUT SHOWING WHY IT IS WARRANTED. LOGIC SAYS LITTLE HOPE, BUT I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE THAT THE RATINGS WIN OUT OVER TIME. MISS PERON WOULD APPEAR TO OFFER THE CAUTIOUS SPEEDRATINGS USER THE MOST APPROPRIATE SELECTION. WET TRACKS ARE A BONUS, AS IS CAULFIELD, AND SHE IS CURRENTLY RACING UP TO THE LEVEL OF HER SPEEDRATING.
RECOMMENDED RACES: ST. CLEMENS BELLE AND THEATRE ARE STRONG STAND ALONE SELECTIONS IN THE FEATURE RACES. THE MINOR RACES APPEAR TRICKY, BUT SPEEDRATINGS DOES OFFER SOME VALUE SELECTIONS IN THESE EVENTS.
RESULTS:
RACE 2: SMART BANKER 3RD $2.40 TRAPPED WIDE ALL THE WAY BUT KEPT COMING. THE WINNER, RUNAWAY HAS A FUTURE, AS DOES SMART BANKER.
RACE 3: ALWAYS A CHANCE 1ST $10.60; $2.90 FOLLOWED GOOD EFFORT IN SPEED RACE PREVIOUS START TO LAND THE PRIZE AT GOOD ODDS. STRAIGHT CLIP AND I LOVE KIEV FAILED, BUT EXCUSES CAN BE MADE FOR BOTH HORSES.
RACE 4: RICH PICKINGS 1ST $8.70; $2.80 MUCH TOO GOOD. THIS HORSE IS EARNING A RATING AT EACH PERFORMANCE AND IS REALLY FIRING AT PRESENT. MISTER ZIG LED AND BATTLED ON. BETTER SUITED ON TOP OF GROUND.
RACE 5: ST. CLEMENS BELLE 3RD $2.70 A VERY GOOD RUN. SHE IS HOLDING HER RATINGS FORM VERY WELL. GRAND ARCHWAY RAN A GREAT 4TH AFTER SHARING CRAZY SPEED UP FRONT (OVER $30.00 FOR WIN). RAINBOW BUBBLES CAUGHT WIDE AND IN DUEL FOR LEAD. VERY SOLID PERFORMANCE TO FINISH 6TH.
RACE 6: THEATRE 2ND $1.50. I THOUGHT THAT HE HAD WON. DECEPTIVE FINISH. PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE SALUTED AS HE WAS SLIGHTLY INCONVENIENCED BY SHOVHOG DOWN STRAIGHT. SCANDANAVIA A CLOSE AND PROMISING 3RD.
RACE 7: TINIKADUA IS RUNNING POORLY, BUT HAS BEEN GIVEN NO CHANCE BY RIDER ON EACH OCASSION. IF SHE DOES NOT RATE IN TOP 3 NEXT START INCLUDE HER IN MULTIPLES JUST IN CASE SHE FINALLY GETS AN EVEN BREAK. MISS PERON AND LAMOURMONEE DISAPPOINTING.
RATINGS FOR SANDOWN SUNDAY OCTOBER THE 11TH 1998.
RATED FOR TRACK: SLOW
RACE 2:
ROCKEFELLER
TYCOON PRINCESS
ANY RHYTHM
COMMENTS: ROCKEFELLER GAINED IMPRESSIVE SPEEDRATING AT LAST OUTING AND NOW MAY BE LIVING UP TO EARLIER POTENTIAL. TYCOON PRINCESS IS A SPECIALIST THIS TRACK AND DISTANCE AND IS ALWAYS THEREABOUTS. ANY RHYTHM ALSO HAS RATINGS ON AFFECTED GROUND AT TRACK. TOUGH RACE. DALLA VISTA AND TORQUE NOT FAR BEHIND TOP THREE RATED HORSES.
RACE 3:
JIVAGO
LOOK AND PONDER
JOLIPAL
COMMENTS: JIVAGO IMPRESSIVE WINNER AGAINST QUALITY OPPOSITION AT LAST APPEARANCE. TOP CHANCE. LOOK AND PONDER GAINED SPEEDRATING WHEN SURPRISE WINNER IN JUNE. SHOULD NOT BE UNDERESTIMATED. JOLIPAL WILL BE MUCH BETTER SUITED THIS EVENT AND CAPABLE OF UPSET.
RACE 5:
ROYAL CALIPH
COUNT CHIVAS
VITRINITE
COMMENTS: ROYAL CALIPH HAS EXCELLENT EACH WAY CHANCE IN THE COONGY. ADEPT IN DEAD TO SLOW GOING AND HAS GAINED ADDITIONAL SPEEDRATING THIS PREPARATION. COUNT CHIVAS MUST SOON PRODUCE EFFORT TO WARRANT PREVIOUS HIGH SPEEDRATING. VITRINITE WOULD BE STANDOUT BET ON DRY SURFACE. RATED ONLY TO A DEAD SURFACE BUT APPEALS AS THE HORSE ON THE WAY UP AND NOT PREPARED TO TOTALLY DISCOUNT HIS CHANCES. PACE IN RACE MAY NOT BE GENUINE SO EVENT SHOULD BE TREATED WARILY. MANY OTHER CHANCES, PLUS WET TRACK AND WORRY ABOUT PACE CLOUD THIS RACE.
RACE 7:
LIKE A ROO
DANZIG'S PLEASURE
RIO DEL MAR
COMMENTS: PREFER THIS RACE AS BETTING PROPOSITION. LIKE A ROO HAS NOT PERFORMED WELL SINCE SPELL BUT HAS RATINGS AT TRACK AND DISTANCE TO SUGGEST THAT HE IS AN EXCELLENT CHANCE AT LONG ODDS. DANZIG'S PLEASURE IS TALENTED MARE AND WILL SOON PERFORM TO HER RATINGS ABILITY. RIO DEL MAR ALSO A CHANCE. LIKE THE CHANCES OF LIKE A ROO IN THIS RACE.
RACE 8:
MISS CONVICTION
GENTLE WIND
COMMENTS: MISS CONVICTION PERFORMED WELL AT LAST START AND APPEALS AS GENUINE CHANCE IN THIS. GENTLE WIND HAS HAD LITTLE OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER SPEEDRATINGS BUT HAS RACED AGAINST MIGHT AND POWER, MARBLE HALLS, DODGE, ETC. APPEARS TO BE VERY WELL PLACED. MEGASTAR WILL APPRECIATE RISE IN DISTANCE AND IS A POSSIBILITY.
THIS IS AN EXTREMELY TRICKY RACE MEETING. THE TRACK IS WET BUT THERE IS DRYING WEATHER PREDICTED ON DAY. RACES 2/3/7/8 APPEAR TO BE PREFERRED RACES FOR INVESTMENT.
RESULTS:
RACE 2: ANY RHYTHM 1ST $3.90; $1.50 TRAVELLED COMFORTABLY IN LEAD AND WON COMFORTABLY. ROCKEFELLER 2ND $2.00 CHASED THE ENTIRE TRIP AND BEAT REMAINDER OF FIELD EASILY. A RATINGS RACE AND IMPROVEMENT TO COME OUT OF FIRST TWO.
RACE 3: JIVAGO A DISAPPOINTING 4TH. DID NOT ACCELERATE WHEN LET DOWN AND PLODDED TO LINE. SUSPECT HE IS MUCH BETTER THAN THIS RUN INDICATES. JOLIPAL SHOWED PLENTY OF PACE BUT LITTLE FIGHT. LOOK AND PONDER VERY FRESH, VERY FRACTIOUS, AND NOT ENTIRELY DISGRACED. WILL IMPROVE WITH RACING.
RACE 5: COUNT CHIVAS 4TH NOT SUITED BY (AS PREDICTED) CRAWLING TEMPO. STILL LOOKED LIKELY WINNER WHEN HE SPRINTED CLEAR ON TURNING BUT NARROWLY MISSED THIRD IN PHOTO. ROYAL CALIPH AND VITRINITE SCRATCHED. RACE WAS A COMPLETE FARCE.
RACE 7: LIKE A ROO WAS UNABLE TO LEAD IN RACE WITH MAD PACE. UNDER PRESSURE A LONG WAY OUT AND ONLY BATTLED ON. WILL IMPROVE. DANZIG'S PLEASURE 3RD ($11.40) $3.40 SAT BEHIND MAD SPEED-POSSIBLY TOO CLOSE AS IT EVENTUATED-SPRINTED THROUGH ON INSIDE TO TAKE LEAD AND LOOKED SET FOR VICTORY UNTIL THE LAST TEN METRES OF RACE WHEN SWOOPERS, NATURALLY, CAME WITH A RUSH
RACE 8: MEGASTAR 1ST $10.40; $2.80 A TOUGH STAYING PERFORMANCE. IS ONE-PACED, BUT CAN STAY. MISS CONVICTION 2ND $1.70 SHOULD HAVE WON. NEVER SETTLED EARLY AND THEN WAS SITTING SHOT FOR RUNNERS ON. THINK SHE CAN STAY-PERHAPS TOO NEW FOR TRIP THIS DAY.
RATINGS FOR CAULFIELD SATURDAY OCTOBER THE 10TH 1998.
RATED FOR TRACK: SLOW
RACE 2:
RANCHO SPARK
OLIVER TWIST 99
PRINCE BELLAIR
COMMENTS: RANCHO SPARK HAS CLEAR SPEED MARGIN OVER FIELD. THE ONLY DOUBT IS THAT HE MAY GET INVOLVED IN A DUEL FOR THE LEAD WITH PRINCE BELLAIR & RIVER AFFAIR. IF RIDDEN SENSIBLY EXPECT HIM TO WIN. OLIVER TWIST GREAT EFFORT FIRST START IN MELBOURNE TO SCORE NEARLY 100. MOST UNLUCKY LAST TIME AND DOES HANDLE WET CONDITIONS. PRINCE BELLAIR RATES ONLY 5TH ON GOOD TRACK, BUT THIRD ON PROBABLE SLOW GROUND. IF TRACK IS BETTER THAN ANTICIPATED RIVER AFFAIR A GOOD CHANCE. DRY HUMOUR ONLY ON A FIRM SURFACE.
RACE 3:
EL CAMINO
MARSTIC
ELECTRIFYING
COMMENTS: EL CAMINO HAS BEEN MOST PROMISING ON RAIN AFFECTED TRACKS DURING WINTER. MARSTIC HAS GAINED SPEEDRATINGS WHEN COMPETING AGAINST GUINEAS HOPES SEDATION & SPECTACULAR GOLD. MUST BE EXTREMELY HARD TO BEAT. ELECTRIFYING HAS IMPROVED HIS SPEEDRATING AT EACH APPEARANCE AND IS WELL SUITED BY TRACK CONDITIONS AND DISTANCE. BET FOR VALUE IS THIS EVENT. BECAUSE THEY ARE YOUNG HORSES ON THE WAY UP A SOLID SPEED CASE CAN BE MADE FOR EACH. KILGOLGAN HAS GOOD RATING FIRM SURFACE. WILL LA ZAGALETTA BECOME ANOTHER OF THE FREEDMAN ENIGMA HORSES? HIS SPEEDRATINGS TO DATE ARE TOO ERRATIC TO FORM AN OPINION OF HIS ABILITY.
RACE 4:
SECOND COMING
COUNT CHIVAS
IL DON
COMMENTS: SUSPECT THAT SPEEDRATINGS WAS ONLY SERVICE THAT TIPPED SECOND COMING TO WIN VRC DERBY IN '97. HE IS A HORSE THAT ONLY PERFORMS WHEN ALLOWED TO RUN ALONG. HE CAN STAY AND HE LOVES WET CONDITIONS. COUNT CHIVAS IS NOW AT STAGE WHEN WE WILL KNOW IF HE IS BACK OR NOT. HE LOVES TRACK AND DISTANCE AND CAN HANDLE AFFECTED TRACKS. IL DON IS A RISING STAR, BUT WET TRACK RATINGS ARE INCONCLUSIVE. WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND HIM ON SURFACE DEAD OR BETTER. VITRINITE MISSES OUT BECAUSE OF AN ABSENCE OF RATINGS ON AFFECTED GROUND.
RACE 5:
BRIGHT SIDE
DANARI
COMPULSION
COMMENTS: BRIGHT SIDE HAS PERFORMED WELL UNTIL LAST APPEARANCE, EVEN THOUGH WHEN ROD GRIFFITHS LOOKED LEFT AND RIGHT AS SHE TURNED IN FRONT I THOUGHT HE MIGHT HAVE HAD SOME HORSE LEFT. SHE DID NOT RUN TRIP- WHEN HE LET HER DOWN SHE MERELY PLODDED. BUT THIS RACE APPEARS TO SUIT. SHE HAS WET TRACK SPEEDRATINGS AND WILL LIKELY BE GREAT VALUE. DANARI AND COMPULSION HAVE MINOR RATINGS AND NO AFFECTED GROUND RATINGS. CLOSE YOUR EYES JUST BEHIND THESE AND A CHANCE AT LONG ODDS.
RACE 6:
SPECTACULAR GOLD
HELM
SEDATION
COMMENTS: SPECTACULAR GOLD HAS BEEN A SPEEDRATINGS FIND THIS SPRING. HE APPEARS TO BE SOMETHING SPECIAL WITH SPEEDRATINGS AT THREE OF HIS FOUR APPEARANCES. ALTHOUGH HE WILL BE A BETTER HORSE WITH MORE EXPERIENCE HE HAS AN UNDENIABLE CHANCE IN A GREAT EVENT. HELM WAS EQUALLY AS UNLUCKY AS SPECTACULAR GOLD AT LAST OUTING. HE TOO WILL IMPROVE WITH RACING, BUT IS MOST PROMISING. SEDATION IS THE HORSE MOST LIKELY TO MAKE HIS OWN LUCK. FOR THIS VERY REASON HE MUST BE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED. DRACULA & LAURIE'S LOTTERY ARE HORSES OF PROVEN HIGH QUALITY AND THEIR CHANCES ARE NOT TO BE DENIED. BENAZZI WILL CONTINUE TO IMPROVE AND MAY SOON NEED MORE GROUND TO SHOW HIS WARES.
RACE 7:
MIGHT AND POWER
GOLD GURU
JEZABEEL
COMMENTS: MIGHT AND POWER IS HIGHEST RATED SPEEDRATING STAYER IN COUNTRY. THIS SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE. HE IS A HORSE THAT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE COMPETE ON THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA. GOLD GURU IS A MAGNIFICENT RACEHORSE. SPEEDRATINGS NOMINATED HIM AS A HIGH CALIBRE RACEHORSE WHEN HE WAS BEING SENT OUT AT ODDS LONGER THAN 10/1. JEZABEEL IS NOT AS WELL SUITED THIS EVENT AS SHE WILL BE IN THE COMING WEEKS.
RACE 8:
RUSTIC DREAM
LORD LUSKIN
HALTEMANN
COMMENTS: RUSTIC DREAM IS IDEALLY SUITED BY LIKELY SLOW TRACK AND CAULFIELD. IF HE HAS TAKEN NO HARM FROM RETURN TRIP TO SYDNEY HE HAS AN EXCELLENT CHANCE. LORD LUSKIN HAS BEEN SURPRISINGLY COMPETITIVE ON AFFECTED TRACKS THROUGH WINTER AND SPRING THIS YEAR. HE CAN HANDLE BREAKNECK EARLY SPEED LIKELY TO BE SET AND IS A GOOD CHANCE YET AGAIN. HALTEMANN IS INCLUDED FOR HIS OUTSTANDING WET TRACK PERFORMANCE OF JULY. HAS DRAWN OUTSIDE BARRIER AND FELLOW FRONTRUNNERS UMRUM & WILLOUGHBY ALSO COMPETING, BUT HE USUALLY MANAGES TO LEAD AND BREAK A FEW HEARTS OF THE CHASING BRIGADE. WITH NO UMRUM OR WILLOUGHBY IN FIELD HE MAY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO STEAL THE RACE. WHICH LEADS US TO PENGHULU. ON DRY TO DEAD TRACK HE IS TOP RATED, AND A VIGIL SHOULD BE KEPT ON RACING SURFACE-BUT SPEEDRATINGS CANNOT NOMINATE HIM ON A SLOW TRACK WITH HIS LACK OF SPEEDRATINGS ON SUCH A SURFACE. UMRUM AND WILLOUGHBY LIKEWISE. CHAMPAGNE AND TRICOVE OTHER POSSIBILITIES.
RACE 9:
MY FABULOUS STAR
FLEISCHER
MISS JUGAH
COMMENTS: MY FABULOUS STAR APPEALS AS BEST OF DAY. LOVES TRACK AND AFFECTED CONDITIONS AND IS CLEARLY TOP RATED. FLEISCHER HAS TWO EXCELLENT SPEEDRATINGS, EARNED ON AFFECTED TRACKS. IF SHE HAS RETURNED TO HER FORM OF LAST SPRING SHE HAS AN EXCELLENT CHANCE. MISS JUGAH BETTER ON DRY SURFACE, BUT SPEEDRATINGS SUGGEST NOT TO DISCOUNT IF TRACK CLOSE TO DEAD. SMIDGIN, LUCKY RULE, ROSETTIE GOLD & HIT AND RUN HAVE RATINGS OF NOTE ON AFFECTED SURFACES.
RESULTS:
RACE 2: OLIVER TWIST $3.00; $1.40 IMPRESSIVE VICTORY TO RUN DOWN TALENTED SPRINTER. RANCHO SPARK 2ND $1.50 APPEARED TO HAVE SET UP WIN WHEN HE SKIPPED CLEAR ON TURNING BUT WAS GRABBED IN SHADOWS OF POST. GOOD PERFORMANCE. REST WERE OUTCLASSED ON SLOW TRACK.
RACE 3: MARSTIC, EL CAMINO AND ELECTRIFYING FINISHED IN A BUNCH, 4TH TO 6TH. FAIR EFFORTS BUT TRACK BIAS WAS SIGNIFICANT IN SOME EVENTS.
RACE 4: SECOND COMING THOUGH UNPLACED IS NEARING A FITNESS LEVEL NOW THAT WILL SEE HIM PERFORM UP TO HIS SPEEDRATING. IL DON FAILED TO HANDLE TRACK CONDITIONS.
RACE 5: BRIGHT SIDE WAS RIDDEN BACK IN FIELD WHEN TRACK BIAS WOULD HAVE SUITED HER NORMAL ON PACE POSITIONING. SHE WAS ALSO INVOLVED IN INTERFERENCE SO NO CONCLUSIONS CAN BE DEDUCED FROM FAILURE. COMPULSION AND DANARI DISAPPOINTED AGAIN.
RACE 6: SPECTACULAR GOLD 3RD ($9.50) $2.70 WAS ANOTHER OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE FROM THIS LUCKLESS GALLOPER. WAS POSTED 6 WIDE AT STAGES AND NOT SUITED BY STOP/START PACE-AND YET MADE TREMENDOUS GROUND ON 1ST & 2ND HORSES WHO HAD BENEFITS OF TRACK BIAS AND SOFT RUNS. SEDATION ANOTHER FABULOUS RUN, POSTED WIDE ALL THE WAY AND YET REFUSED TO YIELD GROUND IN STRAIGHT. HELM NOT RIDDEN WELL AND CAN BE EXCUSED FOR FAILING.
RACE 7: MIGHT AND POWER 1ST $2.40; $1.50 A MAGNIFICENT WIN BY THE BEST STAYER IN THE LAND (AND AFAR). IF ONLY SOMETHING WOULD GIVE HIM A SMOTHER ON EVERY OCASSION. GOLD GURU 3RD LOOKED LIKELY TO CHALLENGE ON POINT OF TURN BUT COULD NOT RESPOND IN CONDITIONS. JEZABEEL NOT REALLY SUITED IN THIS RACE. BE PATIENT.
RACE 8: RUSTIC DREAM A GALLANT 2ND $1.90 AGAIN. VERY HONEST. THE PATTERN OF RACING (THOUGH IT CHANGED IN THIS EVENT) APPEARED NOT TO FAVOUR. HALTEMANN COULD NOT GAIN SUFFICIENT BREAK OVER TALENTED GALLOPERS AS WILLOUGHBY AND UMRUM TO BREAK FIELD UP. STILL IN FRONT STRAIGHTENING FOR HOME. LORD LUSKIN RIDDEN TOO CLOSE TO PACE AND NOT LEFT WITH ANY SPRINT AT FINISH. WINNER MARBLE HALLS HAS BEEN TOP OF SPEEDRATINGS IN PREVIOUS OUTINGS AND ONLY NARROWLY MISSED TOP 3 BERTH WITH PROMOTION OF GALLOPERS EXPECTED TO EXCELL ON SLOW TO HEAVY GROUND.
RACE 9: MY FABULOUS STAR THREATENED TO BURST INTO RACE ON TURN BUT WAS OBVIOUSLY SHORT OF A RUN. FLEISCHER RACED IN SAME BUNCH AND WAS NOT DISGRACED. MISS JUGAH A CLOSE 5TH AND WILL BE BETTER SUITED ON FIRMER SURFACE.
NOT OUR MOST PRODUCTIVE MEETING, BUT MANY FACTORS MADE THIS A MOST DIFFICULT DAY TO RATE. IT DOES AT LEAST PROVIDE A BALANCE TO THE UNREASONABLE EXPECTATIONS OF ANYONE EXPECTING WINNERS OF $60.00 AND $40.00 EVERY FORTNIGHT. OUR BREAD AND BUTTER ARE THE $10.00 TO $20.00 DIVIDENDS. EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS CANNOT BE PRODUCED AT EVERY MEETING.
RATINGS FOR FLEMINGTON SATURDAY OCTOBER THE 3RD 1998.
RATED FOR TRACK GOOD:
RACE 1:
CYBERVAIN
SMART BANKER
HAMLET
COMMENTS: CYBERVAIN APPEARS TO BE WELL PLACED IN THIS EVENT. RIDER WENT TOO SOON WHEN BEATEN BY BENAZZI AT LAST APPEARANCE. SMART BANKER IS A HORSE IN SEARCH OF A RIDING PATTERN. TWO SPEEDRATINGS, ONE WHEN RIDDEN UP, AND ONE WHEN RIDDEN BACK. WHEN STABLE FINDS THE RIGHT TACTIC HE MAY FURNISH INTO A PROMISING COLT. HAMLET IS TALENTED BUT STILL VERY GREEN AND PERHAPS THE AUTUMN MAY SEE HIM AT HIS BEST. SPECIAL EDITION IS RATED BUT IS BECOMING ANOTHER OF THE FREEDMAN STABLE OF ENIGMA HORSES (SEE COMMENTS PREVIOUS MEETINGS).
RACE 2:
COURT OF HONOUR
NOBLE BENBARA
SPORTS CIRCUIT 86
COMMENTS: THIS APPEALS AS GOOD RACE FOR COURT OF HONOUR. HAS DISTINCT SPEED ADVATAGE OVER FIELD AT DISTANCE. NOBLE BENBARA IS A THREAT. GREAT EFFORT TO BEAT JEZABEEL HOME TWO STARTS AGO AND LOVES TRACK AND DISTANCE. SPORTS CIRCUIT IS A BETTER CHANCE THAN MOST WOULD EXPECT. SHE HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO DICTATE HER OWN TEMPO IN A RACE THIS PREPARATION AND THIS RACE MAY ALLOW HER THAT OPPORTUNITY. STARLETTO WAS IMPRESSIVE IN GAINING RATING AT LAST APPEARANCE.
RACE 3:
SEDATION
SLAVONIC
SPELLMAKER 59
COMMENTS: THIS LOOKS IDEAL FOR SEDATION. WILL BE VERY HARD TO KEEP OUT. SLAVONIC IS A DANGER BUT GAINS HIS RATINGS BY RUNNING THE PLACE. MIGHT REPEAT PATTERN HERE. SPELLMAKER IS THE WILDCARD IN THIS EVENT. HIS NATURAL PACE WILL HOLD HIM IN GOOD STEAD AROUND THE FLEMINGTON 1400.
RACE 4:
PENGHULU
HALTEMANN
COMMENTS: AT FIRST BLUSH I STILL WISH IT WAS 1600M FOR PENGHULU, BUT NONETHELESS HE HAS GOOD RATINGS AT TRACK AND TRIP. IF PADDY PAYNE CAN KEEP HIM ON THE BIT AND TRAVELLING HE WILL BE HARD TO HOLD OUT. BOTH CARNELIAN AND HALTEMANN WILL DO THEIR BEST TO HAVE EVERYTHING OFF THE BIT AND CHASING. NOT MUCH BETWEEN THEM IN RATINGS. MONET'S COVE MUST NOT BE UNDERESTIMATED, AS TOO GULLIBLE AND SIR LINFORD.
RACE 5:
GOLD GURU
JEZABEEL
UMRUM
COMMENTS: TERRIBLE BARRIER FOR GOLD GURU BUT HE IS A FANTASTIC RACEHORSE. LOVES TRACK AND DISTANCE AND IS NOW MUCH FITTER. EXPECT MORE PING FROM HIM THIS TIME. JEZABEEL IS A MARE THAT IS A GENUINE CUPS CONTENDER. SHE RACES HANDY AND SHE IS VERY STRONG AT THE FINISH OF HER RACES. CANNOT DISCOUNT HER CHANCES EVEN IN THIS WFA EVENT. UMRUM IS THE WILDCARD, A BRILLIANT GALLOPER SUITED TO WFA EVENTS. IF HE CAN DICTATE PACE HE MAY BEAT HIS STABLEMATE ONCE AGAIN.
RACE 6:
ST. CLEMENS BELLE
BRIGHT SIDE
COMMENTS: ST. CLEMENS BELLE PERFORMING VERY WELL THIS CAMPAIGN, AS PREDICTED BY SPEEDRATINGS SEVERAL WEEKS AGO. VERY HARD TO HOLD OUT ONCE AGAIN. BRIGHT SIDE IS THE VALUE RUNNER IN THIS EVENT. SHE HAS A PROMISING SPEEDRATING AND IS NOT TO BE UNDERESTIMATED.
RACE 7:
ROCK YOU
CLASSIC DAY
SIR BOOM
COMMENTS: ROCK YOU IS WELL SUITED HERE AND HARD TO BEAT. I HAVE PREFERENCE FOR CLASSIC DAY THOUGH AS LUCK HAS DESERTED HIM TO DATE AND PROSPECT OF GOOD SPEED WITH PAINT AND BLAZE THE TURF WILL SUIT HIS STYLE OF RACING. FAST PACE WILL ALSO SUIT SIR BOOM WHO MUST BE CONSIDERED A CHANCE. TOWKAY RATED A CLOSE FOURTH.
RACE 8:
TINIKADUA
CIAO BABY
STAGING
COMMENTS: TINIKADUA CAPABLE OF PROVIDING BOILOVER OF DAY. NO LUCK IN RECENT EVENTS AND IS VERY CAPABLE SPRINTER ON HER DAY. CIAO BABY CAN BE RELIED UPON TO PERFORM WELL AT THIS TRACK AND DISTANCE. BIG CHANCE. STAGING COMPETES AGAINST THE BEST IN EVERY MAJOR RACING STATE IN COUNTRY. A WIN WOULD NOT SURPRISE. GREETING AND NOIRCIR WELL CREDENTIALLED RUNNERS AS WELL.
RESULTS:
RACE 1: CYBERVAIN RAN A GAME THIRD ($11.20) $3.70 AND PROVED TO BE COMPETETIVE ONCE AGAIN. HAMLET WILL BE A MUCH BETTER HORSE IN THE AUTUMN AND DON'T BE SURPRISED TO FIND SMART BANKER RIDDEN BACK IN THE FIELD AT NEXT APPEARANCE.
RACE 2: COURT OF HONOUR A CLOSE THIRD ($7.60) $2.70 AND WAS ONE RUN SHORT OF ADEQUATE FITNESS. LOOKED WINNER SEVERAL TIMES IN STRAIGHT BUT HAS SINCE PULLED UP LAME. NOBLE BENBARA NEVER CAME INTO RACE. SPORTS CIRCUIT A VERY GOOD EFFORT, RIDDEN OFF PACE AND SURGED TO WINNING POSITION AT 200M ONLY TO MISS PLACE NARROWLY ($16.80; $4.60).
RACE 3: SEDATION, AS EXPECTED, FAR TOO GOOD $2.70; $1.30. DOUBTS ABOUT SLAVONIC WERE WELL FOUNDED. COOKTOWN IS IMPROVING. SPELLMAKER WAS SCRATCHED.
RACE 4: CARNELIAN $7.70; $2.70 RATED BEAUTIFULLY BY BRERETON IN FRONT AND HELD OUT THE UNLUCKY PENGHULU ($4.00) $2.00. HALTEMANN WAS SCRATCHED. NOTE THAT SPEEDRATINGS RATED QUINELLA - TRIFECTA WITH THESE TWO AS BANKERS PAID $2076.60.
RACE 5: GOLD GURU 2ND ($7.50) $2.70 A GREAT PERFORMANCE. RACE RUINED BY FARCICAL PACE SET BY UMRUM WHO DISAPPOINTED AND DOESN'T GET EXTRA TRIP. JEZABEEL 6TH ANOTHER FINE EFFORT. RACE PROVED TO BE A POOR SPEEDRATING INDICATOR FOR COMING EVENTS. TREAD WARILY WITH 'SUPPOSED' FORM FROM THIS EVENT.
RACE 6: ST. CLEMENS BELLE 5TH NEVER GAINED A CLEAR PASSAGE AT ANY STAGE. SUCH ARE THE VAGARIES OF HORSERACING. JOCKEY ON BRIGHT SIDE ($30.60; $7.80) APPEARED TO HAVE PLENTY OF HORSE AT TOP OF STRAIGHT BUT WHEN HE LET HER DOWN SHE PRODUCED NOTHING.
RACE 7: CLASSIC DAY 3RD ($17.90) $3.40 A TERRIFIC RUN. THIS HORSE IS MUCH MORE CONSISTENT NOW AND THREATENS TO WIN A GOOD RACE. ROCK YOU AND SIR BOOM DISAPPOINTING.
RACE 8: TINIKADUA ($72.50; $16.60) IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE VALUE RUNNERS SPEEDRATINGS SELECTS. ALAS, RIDDEN VERY POORLY OUT THE BACK AND VERY, VERY WIDE, SHE NEVER CAME INTO EVENT TO EMULATE THE RECENT SUCCESSES OF LORD LUSKIN AND LUCKY RULE AT HUGE ODDS. STAGING AND CIAO BABY SET STUPID PACE OUT FRONT DUELLING WITH EACH OTHER AND ENSURING THAT NEITHER COULD PARTICIPATE IN FINISH
PLEASE NOTE THAT RATINGS WILL NOT BE SUPPLIED FOR SANDOWN RACES ON THE 26TH OF SEPTEMBER. IF WE WERE OPERATING AS A COMMERCIAL SERVICE RATINGS WOULD HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO THE EXTENT OF A MID-WEEK OR MAJOR PROVINCIAL MEETING, THAT IS, LIMITED TO SELECTED RACES WITH A PROVISION OF SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ONE TO FOUR SELECTED RACES.
RATINGS FOR MOONEE VALLEY ON SUNDAY THE 27TH WILL BE PROVIDED BEFORE 10 A.M. ON SUNDAY MORNING.
RATINGS FOR MOONEE VALLEY SUNDAY SEPTEMBER THE 27TH 1998.
RACE 3:
MOZAIRE
SCANDANAVIA
COMMENTS: MOZAIRE RACING EXTREMELY WELL AND IS SPECIALIST AT TRACK AND DISTANCE, AMASSING MANY SPEEDRATINGS, BUT MOSTLY FOR RUNNING PLACE RATHER THAN WINNING. DRAWN WIDE AGAIN, BUT THIS TIME IT MAY KEEP HER OUT OF TROUBLE AND BE BENEFICIAL. SCANDANAVIA IS THE OBVIOUS DANGER AND SPEEDRATINGS SUGGEST WOULD HAVE WON EASILY AT 1200M. M'SELLE DE ENZ WILL FLY AGAIN, BUT THERE IS ABUNDANT PACE IN EVENT WITH LUCKY RULE AND RACE MAY BE WON BY HORSE WITH SIT.
RACE 4:
DANZIG'S PLEASURE
LAMOURMONEE
SPOT OF MAGIC 80
COMMENTS: DANZIG'S PLEASURE IS PROMISING MARE, VERY COMPETETIVE AGAINST THE LIKES OF LA VOLTA IN AUTUMN AND HANDLES MV WELL. LACK OF FITNESS ONLY IMPEDIMENT. LAMOURMONEE IS RACING INTO FORM, BUT WOULD STILL PREFER HER BEYOND MILE. LONGSHOT CHANCE IF RACE RUN TO SUIT. SPOT OF MAGIC LIKELY TO BE THE ONE TO BEAT IN THIS EVENT WITH FITNESS AND BARRIER DRAW IN HER FAVOUR.
RACE 5:
TAROT STAR
SPECTACULAR GOLD
ST. CLEMENS BELLE
COMMENTS: TAROT STAR A GREAT CHANCE IN A QUALITY EVENT IF HE CAN HOLD A MORE FORWARD POSITION BEHIND SPEED OF SPLENDID HORSE AND MISTER BOW HE WILL BE HARD TO KEEP OUT. SPECTACULAR GOLD WILL FINISH HARD AGAIN- A VERY PROMISING GALLOPER. ST. CLEMENS BELLE WILL SETTLE IN A PROMINENT POSITION AND THIS COULD GIVE HER THE EDGE AGAINST THE COLTS. BENAZZI JUST MISSES RATING IN TOP THREE BUT FOLLOWERS OF SPEEDRATINGS WOULD KNOW THAT I HOLD THIS HORSE IN HIGH REGARD.
RACE 6:
PLUSHKA
PRINCIPE WALK
HE'S REGAL 106
COMMENTS: PLUSHKA RACING IN GREAT FORM AND GAINED ANOTHER SPEEDRATING AT LAST PERFORMANCE. THAT IS ALWAYS A GOOD INDICATOR. PRINCIPE WALK AN EACH WAY CHANCE. HE'S REGAL WOULD BE A GREAT CHANCE IF HE HANDLES MOONEE VALLEY. HIS BEST PERFORMANCES HAVE BEEN ON LARGER TRACKS.
RACE 7:
SPORTS
RANCHO SPARK
COMMENTS: SPORTS VERY TALENTED AND HARD TO BEAT. VAIN TYCOON RATED CLOSE AND MIGHT BE THE BEST VALUE IN THIS EVENT. COULD SIT JUST OFF PACE AND PROVE TOO GOOD. RANCHO SPARK WILL GO FORWARD AND ALTHOUGH BETTER SUITED AT 1200M HE MUST STILL BE REGARDED AS A DANGER. MANHATTAN VON RATED CLOSE FOURTH AND IS PROMISING SPRINTER.
RACE 8:
TUMBLE HOME
SPORTS CIRCUIT
JOEGAH 77
COMMENTS: TUMBLE HOME IS PROMISING STAYER AND HAS CLASS EDGE ON THIS FIELD. RACES WELL TRACK AND TRIP ALTHOUGH WILL BE EVEN BETTER SUITED OVER MORE GROUND. DON'T LEAVE HIM OUT. SPORTS CIRCUIT IS NOW READY AND IF SHE CAN POSSIE UP CLOSER TO THE LEAD SHE WILL BE A GOOD CHANCE. JOEGAH IS RACE FIT AND WILL BE A CHANCE.
RECOMMENDED RACES: 5/7/8 MAY PRODUCE BEST VALUE.
RESULTS:
RACE 3: M'SELLE D'ENZ $6.50; $2.00, OUT FAST AND HOME QUICK-TOO SPEEDY FOR RIVALS. MOZAIRE APPEARED THREAT ON TURN BUT WILTED AND SCANDANAVIA HAD NO LUCK.
RACE 4: SPOT OF MAGIC RAN 4TH AND WAS A GOOD EFFORT. RISKY (SPEEDRATINGS WINNER AT $18.00 EARLIER IN YEAR) RAN RIVALS RAGGED. DANZIG'S PLEASURE NEEDED RUN, LAMOURMONEE NEEDS MORE GROUND.
RACE 5: GREAT SPRING TRIALS BY ST. CLEMENS BELLE (D-H) 1ST $2.70; $2.30 AND SPECTACULAR GOLD 3RD, MOST UNLUCKY, $2.60. TAROT STAR RAN 4TH AND WAS ANOTHER GOOD TRIAL. BENAZZI AND MISTER BOW BOTH RAN EXCELLENT RACES AS WELL.
RACE 6: PLUSHKA 2ND $2.20, LOOKED HOME WHEN SHOT WELL CLEAR ON HOME TURN. RAN DOWN BY GOOD HORSE.
RACE 7: VAIN TYCOON 1ST $12.00; 2.90 WAS BEST BET OF DAY. ANTICIPATED THAT HE WOULD SIT OFF SOLID PACE AND SPRINT HOME TOO WELL. RANCHO SPARK 2ND $2.90 ALMOST LASTED FOR ANOTHER GOOD VICTORY. HE IS A PROMISING SPRINTER. SPORTS WILL IMPROVE.
RACE 8: DON'T DISCARD TUMBLE HOME 5TH JUST YET. THIS WAS A SPEEDRATING EVENT AND HIS BEST DISTANCES ARE YET TO COME. JOEGAH BATTLED HOME AND CAN BE PLACE TO WIN IN COMING WEEKS.
RATINGS FOR MOONEE VALLEY (NIGHT) 25TH SEPTEMBER 1998
RATED FOR TRACK: GOOD
RACE 2:
MARSTIC
KILGOLGAN
COOKTOWN
COMMENTS: MARSTIC HAS CONTESTED RACES WITH A SIGNIFICANT SPEED VALUE AT LAST TWO APPEARANCES. UNLUCKY LAST TIME (REFER COMMENTS IN RESULTS SECTION) AND BEATEN BY ANOTHER EXCITING GALLOPER, SPECTACULAR GOLD, ON PREVIOUS OCCASION. KILGOLAN HAS GOOD SPEEDRATING EMANATING FROM SAME RACE WITH SPECTACULAR GOLD. COOKTOWN HAS MINOR SPEED PERFORMANCE. OTHER RUNNERS COME FROM PROVINCIAL CIRCUITS AND AS YET TO PROVE THEIR ABILITY.
RACE 3:
PEARL PRINCE
KALASTAIRE
GO WITH THE FLOW
COMMENTS: PEARL PRINCE AN EXCELLENT BATTLING EFFORT AT LAST APPEARANCE. APPEARED LIKELY WINNER ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. IF HE CAN GET NICE TRAIL HE WILL BE VERY HARD TO BEAT. LOVES TRACK AND DISTANCE. KALASTAIRE IS GETTING CLOSE TO A VICTORY. WITH THE PACE BEING TRUE WITH FRONTRUNNERS PERFECT HARMONY AND TIGER BY THE TAIL LIKELY TO SET SOLID SPEED IT MIGHT ALLOW KALASTAIRE TO SALUTE, THOUGH STILL NOT PLACED AT HIS BEST DISTANCE. GO WITH THE FLOW RATED THIRD BUT WARY AS ALL RATINGS HAVE BEEN EARNED AT FLEMINGTON ON LARGE TRACK.
RACE 4:
WILL FLY
MISS PERON 78
COMMENTS: RATINGS ARE CROWDED TOGETHER BETWEEN SEVEN HORSES IN THIS EVENT. LONDOLOZI LOVES TRACK AND TRIP AND MIGHT CAMP OUTSIDE QUIET STYLE AND GET RACE RUN TO SUIT. WILL FLY HAS CLASS BUT RATING DOWNGRADED THIS TRACK AND DISTANCE. MISS PERON CHANCE AT LONG ODDS. LONDOLOZI IF AT EACHWAY VALUE APPEALS AS BEST OPTION.
RACE 5:
CZAR HERO
JUST NELSON
COMMENTS: LAMBADA BOY A GREAT CHANCE IF HAS ANY LUCK. HE ALWAYS NEEDS THE BREAKS TO GO HIS WAY BECAUSE HE MUST BE RIDDEN BACK AND SPRINT HOME. HE REGULARLY GAINS A SPEEDRATING AT THE VALLEY AND IS SUITED BY TRIP. CZAR HERO IS A CONSISTENT PERFORMER AND WILL BE HARD TO BEAT DESPITE WEIGHT AND BARRIER DRAW. JUST NELSON IS ONE OF THOSE SURPRISE SELECTIONS TOSSED UP BY SPEEDRATINGS. HE HAS SPEED FORM THOUGH NOT REGULATION FORM. HE CERTAINLY COULD SURPRISE.
RACE 6:
MARBLE HALLS
NOBLE BENBARA 145
COMMENTS: NOW OR NEVER FOR MARBLE HALLS. HE WILL BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO PLACE IF HE CAN'T WIN WITH DROP IN CLASS. HOWEVER, IL DON MIGHT CONSIGN HIM TO THE LIST OF PLACEGETTERS IN THIS EVENT. IL DON IS EXTREMELY PROMISING AND IS NOW PLACED IN A RACE THAT HE CAN WIN. IF RACE WAS AT FLEMINGTON I WOULD EXPECT HIM TO WIN. HE IS AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY AT MOONEE VALLEY. NOBLE BENBARA RATES THIRD THROUGH SPEED RACE THAT PRODUCED JEZABEEL (GROUP 1 SECOND LAST WEEK). WILL BE BIG ODDS, THOUGH MIGHT BE BETTER ON BIGGER TRACK.
RACE 7:
IRON SHOE
COMPULSION 44
CLOSE YOUR EYES
COMMENTS: IRON SHOE HAS SEVERAL RATINGS, MOSTLY ON AFFECTED SURFACES, BUT THE VALLEY CIRCUIT SUITS. COMPULSION MUST SHOW SOMETHING IN THIS EVENT, THE WEAKEST THAT HAS YET CONTESTED. CLOSE YOUR EYES IS LEARNING HOW TO RACE BUT ON THE IMPROVE.
RECOMMENDED RACES: 2/5/6/7. LOOK FOR VALUE IN OTHER EVENTS.
RESULTS:
RACE 2: KILGOLGAN 1ST $3.00; $1.40 PROVED SLIGHTLY TOO GOOD FOR MARSTIC 2ND WHO HAD NO LUCK AGAIN, BEING BAULKED FOR RUN AT TOP OF STRAIGHT WHEN LOOKED LIKELY WINNER. COOKTOWN SHOWED PACE BUT TOP TWO WERE FAR SUPERIOR.
RACE 3: PEARL PRINCE TOUGH AND GAME ONCE AGAIN WINNING AND PAYING $4.80; $1.70. KALASTAIRE A CLOSE SECOND AND LOOKING FOR A LONGER TRIP. GO WITH THE FLOW FINISHED A CLOSE FOURTH JUST DENYING SPEEDRATINGS THE TRIFECTA IN ORDER.
RACE 4: LONDOLOZI LED INSTEAD OF SITTING OFF QUIET STYLE AND WAS BEAUTIFULLY RATED. SHE IS A VERY PROMISING MARE AS SHE HAS GENUINE SPEED AND IS EASY FOR A JOCKEY TO PLACE IN A FIELD. PAID $7.50; $2.30. WILL FLY $1.40 STORMED HOME TO JUST MISS. MISS PERON CLOSE FIFTH AND A PROMISING EFFORT.
*NOTE THAT RACE 3 WAS FIRST LEG OF QUADRELLA WHICH SPEEDRATING SELECTED AS FIRST PREFERENCE IN EACH EVENT. PAID $1580.10
RACE 5: LAMBADA BOY WON $8.80; $2.40, SITTING OFF PACE AND FINISHING TOO WELL AS WE HAD NOMINATED IN COMMENTS. CZAR HERO 3RD $2.50 FLEW HOME WITH BIG WEIGHT. WILL WIN SOON. JUST NELSON UNPLACED AND FINISHED NEAR REAR AFTER SHOWING SURPRISING SPEED OVER SHORT COURSE. EXPECT HIM TO DO SAME OVER LONGER TRIP AND BE MUCH HARDER TO BEAT AT LATER DATE.
RACE 6: IL DON WON $4.40; $1.80 AS EASILY AS PREDICTED, QUICKLY ROUNDING UP FIELD IN STRAIGHT AND WINNING UNTOUCHED. NOBLE BENBARA NOT SUITED TRACK, TRIP OR TEMPO. WHAT HAS BECOME OF MARBLE HALLS?
RACE 7: CLOSE YOUR EYES AND IRON SHOES SHOWED PACE BUT NO FIGHT. COMPULSION MUST BE BOXED BETWEEN MARBLE HALLS AND CIGARILLO. WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THIS FREEDMAN TRIO?
RUNS OF DAY/NIGHT: MARSTIC, KALASTAIRE, CZAR HERO, IL DON.
RATINGS FOR CAULFIELD 20TH SEPTEMBER 1998
RATED FOR TRACK: GOOD
RACE 1:
SILVER GLADE
BUSTER JONES
HE'S REGAL
COMMENTS: SILVER GLADE IS A CLASS PERFORMER WHO IS READY TO RETURN TO FORM AT HIS FAVOURITE TRACK. BUSTER JONES EXTRA IMPRESSIVE IN GAINING SPEEDRATING AT MID WEEK MEETING. HE'S REGAL A CHANCE IF RACE RUN TO SUIT. QAHIRA LEGEND AND PRINCIPE WALK RATED CLOSE TO HE'S REGAL AND ARE BOTH CHANCES.
RACE 2:
SHANGAINAISE
SUNNY LANE
COMMENTS: SHANGAINAISE HAS HUGE SPEED MARGIN OVER FIELD. NO LUCK LAST OUTING WHEN SPEEDRATINGS SECURED LARGE WIN WITH QUIET STYLE. IF THE BREAKS GO THE WAY OF SHANGAINAISE I EXPECT HER TO WIN. ONCE AGAIN QUIET STYLE WILL POSSIE UP CLOSE TO LEAD AND MAKE HER OWN LUCK AND WILL BE HARD TO BEAT. SUNNY LANE A CHANCE BUT PREFER AT 2000M. MISS PERON A CHANCE IF SHE RUNS TRIP.
RACE 3:
BRIGHT SIDE
GRAND ARCHWAY
COMMENTS: BRIGHT SIDE HAS A GOOD SPEEDRATING AND WAS UNLUCKY LAST WEEK. GRAND ARCHWAY SUITED BY TRIP AND A CHANCE AT ODDS. DANELAGH, DANSINO AND NATURAL IS MY NAME ARE ALL DANGERS.
RACE 4:
SPECTACULAR GOLD
SPECIAL EDITION 77
COUP DE GRACE
COMMENTS: SPECTACULAR GOLD SCORED GREAT SPEEDRATING AT MOONEE VALLEY, BEATING MARSTIC WHO WE SELECTED LAST WEEK AND WHO WAS IMPRESSIVE AND UNLUCKY. SPECTACULAR GOLD IS VERY PROMISING. SPECIAL EDITION AND COUP DE GRACE WILL BE COMPETETIVE. SPLENDID HORSE A CHANCE IF GETS THE FAVOURS IN LEAD.
RACE 5:
LORD LUSKIN
PENGHULU
RUSTIC DREAM
COMMENTS: LORD LUSKIN IS A SPECIALIST AT DISTANCE AND A GREAT CHANCE AT BIG ODDS. PENGHULU AT 1600M AND ONE MORE RUN UNDER HIS BELT WOULD WIN. RUSTIC DREAM LOVES TRACK AND DISTANCE AND ONLY NEEDS LUCK IN THE RUN. CARNELIAN RATES FOURTH BUT WILL BE IN A SPEED DUEL AGAIN WITH HALTEMANN AND OTHERS. TOP RATED HORSES REPRESENT GREAT VALUE. OBVIOUSLY A RACE OF GREAT DEPTH WITH HORSES LIKE THEATRE, EL MIRADA, PAINT, ROCK YOU AND NUMEROUS OTHER POSSIBILIT IES.
RACE 6
PRINCE STANDAAN
VITRINITE 120
COMMENTS: THIS RACE SUITS VITRINITE. DRY TRACK AND GOOD BARRIER AND A GREAT EACH WAY CHANCE. PRINCE STANDAAN HAD NO LUCK WITH SADDLE SLIPPING PREVIOUS RUN. IF HE CAN GET IN FROM WIDE ALLEY HE IS A DEFINITE DANGER. SECOND COMING LOOKING FOR 2500M AND BEN'S ROCKET AND BRAVE PRINCE GOOD CHANCES.
RACE 7:
GOLD GURU
UMRUM
DANE RIPPER
COMMENTS: IT'S SPRINGTIME. GREAT DEPTH IN LARGE FIELDS. GOLD GURU IS VERY CLOSE AND THIS TIME HE HAS DRAWN A GOOD BARRIER. NOTHING BETWEEN UMRUM AND DANE RIPPER IN RATINGS AND PROBABLY AT THE FINISH AS WELL. A GREAT RACE.
RECOMMENDED RACES: RACES 1/2/4/6/7. RATED HORSES IN RACE 5 REPRESENT EXCEPTIONAL VALUE. A GREAT RACE MEETING.
RESULTS:
RACE 1: BUSTER JONES WON ($1.90; $1.20) WITH THE BRAKES ON YET AGAIN. SUPER IMPRESSIVE YET GAINED LITTLE IN THE SPEEDRATING DEPARTMENT. I WONDER WHAT IS TRULY THERE WHEN HE IS LET DOWN IN A RACE. SILVER GLADE NOT RIDDEN WELL, NEITHER BACK NOR FORWARD IN A RACE OF CHANGING TEMPO. HE'S GETTING FITTER.
RACE 2: SHANGAINAISE CAUGHT BETWEEN RUNNERS AND NEVER APPEARED TO TRAVEL IN RUN. SHE HAS THE SPEED BUT IS NOT AS YET PRODUCING RESULTS. QUIET STYLE WON ($8.10; $2.70) MAKING HER OWN LUCK AS PREDICTED. SUNNY LANE THIRD ($6.70) WAS AN EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE IN RACE WHICH WAS SLIGHTLY TOO SHORT. NOTE THAT THE TRIFECTA WITH QUIET STYLE, SUNNY LANE AND FAVOURITE CANNYANNA PAID $952.20 FOR SPEEDRATING USERS WHO FAVOUR EXOTIC BETTING.
RACE 3: GRAND ARCHWAY SHOWED PACE AND LOOKED DEFINITE THREAT ON TURNING FOR HOME. NICE EFFORT.
RACE 4: SUPER PERFORMANCE BY SPECTACULAR GOLD THIRD ($2.50). HE KEEPS ON IMPROVING AND LOOKS TO BE A GENUINE PROSPECT FOR SPRING.
RACE 5: LORD LUSKIN WON ($62.80; $15.30) AND ONCE AGAIN PROVED THAT SPEED IS THE FACTOR, NOT FORM. LORD LUSKIN IS A HIGHLY REGARDED SPEEDRATING HORSE AND HAS PROVED SUCCESSFUL AT GOOD ODDS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. PENGHULU RAN BETTER THAN MOST WOULD CREDIT. HE WAS NEVER COMFORTABLE OFF THE BIT TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH BREAKNECK PACE SET BY HALTEMANN. PENGHULU WILL STILL DO WELL OVER THE MILE WITH A DIFFERENT TEMPO. RUSTIC DREAM DOES NOT SEEM TO EVER HAVE ANY LUCK. NOTE THAT TRIFECTA WITH TOP RATED SPEEDRATING HORSE WINNING PAID $12,391.70.
RACE 6: VITRINITE FINISHED THIRD ($2.60) AND ALTHOUGH NEVER TRAVELLING SWEETLY HE STILL APPEARED LIKELY TO WIN SEVERAL TIMES IN STRAIGHT. NICE PERFORMANCE. PRINCE STANDAAN RAN AN EXCELLENT RACE FROM WIDE ALLEY, TAKING THE FIELD OUT TOO FAST AND BATTLING ON VERY WELL. WIDE ALLEY ONE WEEK, SADDLE SLIPPING THE NEXT-WHEN WILL HE GET AN EVEN BREAK?
RACE 7: UMRUM THIRD ($2.70) ANOTHER GREAT PERFORMANCE IN HIGH QUALITY EVENT. THIS RACE WILL FIGURE AS A PROMINENT GUIDE DURING SPRING. JEZABEEL, SECOND AT 125/1 WAS RATED NOT FAR BEHIND TOP THREE FOR THIS EVENT AND WAS AN EYECATCHING PERFORMANCE.
RUNS OF DAY: VITRINITE, PRINCE STANDAAN, TIE THE KNOT, JEZABEEL AND SPECTACULAR GOLD.
RATINGS FOR SANDOWN 19TH SEPTEMBER 1998
RATED FOR TRACK: GOOD
RACE 1:
GRAND BAIE
ACCEPT
COMMENTS: GRAND BAIE VERY GOOD EFFORT AT LAST RUN. EXTREMELY HARD TO BEAT. ACCEPT LOOKS WELL SUITED AND APPEARS TO BE ONLY DANGER.
RACE 2:
TYCOON PRINCESS 71
MISS LARDYDAR
COMMENTS: TYCOON PRINCESS WELL PLACED IN THIS RACE. HER RATINGS ARE AT TRACK AND DISTANCE. PLENTY OF PACE APPARENT WITH FAYROUZ, QUICK RATE AND BONNY MCGINTY. THAT'S LIBERTY RATED THIRD AND A CHANCE. MISS LARDYDAR COULD BE THE ONE TO BLOW THEM AWAY AT BIG ODDS. HER RATINGS ARE AT SLIGHTLY LONGER TRIP, BUT EARLY SPEED SHOULD SUIT. EACH WAY.
RACE 5:
ITALIAN AFFAIR
RONWAN 84
COMMENTS: UNSURE ABOUT RIDING TACTICS NOW EMPLOYED ON ITALIAN AFFAIR. HE WAS GOING VERY WELL WHEN FREEWHEELING AND WAS UNLUCKY TO BE ATTACKED IN FRONT ON SEVERAL OCCASSIONS. REGARDLESS OF TACTICS HE MUST REMAIN A GOOD CHANCE. I LIKE RONWAN IN THIS RACE PROVIDED TRACK NO WORSE THAN DEAD. RED CARSON ONE TO WATCH IF ANY HEAVY RAIN, AS WOULD BE DAMASCUS ROAD. BEBETTO AND PRATTLER ARE CHANCES.
RACE 6:
SIR LINFORD 91
TRAVELOT
COMMENTS: ON DRY TRACK THESE TWO SHOULD GO VERY CLOSE. SIR LINFORD HAS A TOUCH OF CLASS AND TRAVELOT IS ON THE WAY UP. ON A WET TRACK FRENCH CLOCK AND STAR GRAZEY DOMINATE RATINGS
RACE 8:
COURT DANCER
CHIPPY'S DAUGHTER
COMMENTS: COURT DANCER IS A VERY PROMISING MARE. SHE COULD VERY WELL WIN FAR BETTER RACES THAN THIS IN FUTURE. CHIPPY'S DAUGHTER AN ENIGMA, HER SPEEDRATINGS ACROSS A SPECTRUM OF DISTANCES. SUSPECT THAT 1400M MIGHT NOT BE AS BENEFICIAL TO HER CAUSE AS IS 1600M. MISOMAI IS DEFINITELY ON THE WAY UP. A WIN WOULD NOT SURPRISE. AND TO FURTHER DABBLE WITH THE WORD ENIGMA, LET US NOT FORGET CIGARILLO. HAS HER ONLY SPEEDRATING FROM A STAKES-RACE. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.
RECOMMENDED RACES: TREAD WARILY. WATCH THE WEATHER. IF REMAINS DRY ANY OF THE RATED RACES COULD PRODUCE A GOOD RESULT.
RESULTS:
RACE 1: GRAND BAIE THIRD $1.70, LOOKED WINNER AS TRAVELLED WELL IN RUN BUT ONLY HELD GROUND TO LINE. ACCEPT LED BUT DISAPPOINTING AGAIN. SHE IS NOT RUNNING UP TO HER RATING YET.
RACE 2: TYCOON PRINCESS SCRATCHED. MISS LARDYDAR (5TH) RIDDEN FOR SPEED AND DID NOT RUN ON AS EXPECTED. WILL DO BETTER WHEN RIDDEN MORE QUIETLY.
RACE 5: ITALIAN AFFAIR SCRATCHED. RONWAN (6TH) RAN HOME ONLY FAIRLY. WINNER COLLECTED SPEEDRATING SO A REASONABLE EFFORT.
RACE 6: SIR LINFORD MISSED THIRD IN A PHOTO ($12.60; $4.20) AND WAS THE RUN OF THE DAY. NOT SUITED BY SLIPPERY SURFACE AND IN NEED OF RUN. TRAVELOT (6TH) NO LUCK IN OBTAINING CLEAR PASSAGE IN STRAIGHT.
RACE 8: HEAVY RAIN FELL BEFORE START OF RACE AND PRODUCED A VERY SLIPPERY SURFACE. BELIEVE THAT COURT DANCER (5TH) WOULD HAVE NEARLY WON IF NO RAIN AS SHE RAN DOWN STRAIGHT WITH HER EARS PINNED BACK AND OBVIOUSLY UNCOMFORTABLE IN CONDITIONS. MISOMAI WON ($5.90; $2.20) AND IS GOING VERY WELL. CHIPPY'S DAUGHTER RAN A VERY GAME 4TH ($10.80; $2.70).
RUNS OF DAY: SIR LINFORD, COURT DANCER.
RATINGS FOR MOONEE VALLEY SEPTEMBER 12TH 1998.
RATED FOR TRACK CONDITION: GOOD
RACE 2:
BENAZZI
CYBERVAIN 70
COMMENTS: BENAZZI SHOULD HAVE WON LAST WEEK AND WILL BE EXTREMELY HARD TO BEAT HERE. CYBERVAIN IS RATED VERY CLOSE AND MIGHT BE THE VALUE BET. THEY BOTH APPEAR TO BE TOO GOOD FOR THIS FIELD.
RACE 3:
SPORTS CIRCUIT
COMMENTS: VERY TRICKY RACE. IF RACE IS RUN TO SUIT SPORTS CIRCUIT COULD BE VERY HARD TO BEAT. HER ONLY SPEED RATING IS AT 1800M SO THIS IS IDEAL. THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER RUNNERS WITH RATINGS, ROVER, ITALIAN AFFAIR, JAMESTOWN, NASSAREEF, ETC. BUT RECOMMEND EITHER SPORTS CIRCUIT OR A NO BET RACE.
RACE 4:
MARSTIC
TAROT STAR 113
SPECIAL EDITION
COMMENTS:MARSTIC COMES THROUGH SPECTACULAR GOLD'S EXCELLENT SPEED RACE. RACING VERY WELL AND A GREAT CHANCE AT GOOD ODDS. TAROT STAR IS VERY PROMISING AND SPECIAL EDITION JUST NEEDS A TOUCH OF LUCK TO BE VERY COMPETETIVE. THIS COULD BE A FIELD OF VERY PROMISING HORSES. WATCH JUMALLIQUE AND ELECTRIFYING.
RACE 5
SIR BOOM
WILLOUGHBY
DANE RIPPER
COMMENTS: WE HAD SIR BOOM WHEN A GREAT 2ND TO DANE RIPPER AT HUGE ODDS. HE WILL COMPETE VERY WELL AGAIN. I SUSPECT THAT WILLOUGHBY MIGHT BE THE BEST CHANCE THOUGH, IF HE HANDLES MV. AND DANE RIPPER-SHE JUST KEEPS ON WINNING.
RACE 6:
TOWKAY 187
WRY HERO 181
COMMENTS: TOWKAY LOOKS EXTREMELY HARD TO BEAT IN THIS. THE PACE WILL BE ON WITH PAINT AND THE M'SELLE FLYING SO THE RATED THREE WILL ALL HAVE THE LAST CRACK AT THE LEADERS. 1000M RACES ARE ALWAYS HARD RACES TO SELECT AS ANY INCONVENIENCE TO A RUNNER CAN BE DECISIVE. OTHERS RATED NOT SO FAR BEHIND TOP THREE ARE: PAINT, MOZAIRE, VAIN TYCOON. A GOOD RACE.
RACE 7:
BRIGHT SIDE
GRAND ARCHWAY
COMMENTS: THE SPEED FACTOR ALL COMES FROM THE QUEZETTE S AT SANDOWN. BRIGHT SIDE AND GRAND ARCHWAY FAST AND IMPRESSIVE. ST. CLEMENS BELLE SPEED FACTOR COMES FROM AUTUMN AND IF SHE HAS IMPROVED (AND I THINK SHE MIGHT) SHE WILL GIVE STIFF OPPOSITION. OTHER RATED CHANCES TO: JOLIPAL,COMPULSION,PICCADILLY CIRCUS, DANARI.
RACE 8:
PEARL PRINCE 145
PRINCIPE WALK
FINAL TEMPO
COMMENTS: LOT OF PACE IN THIS RACE. PEARL PRINCE TO TAKE SIT BEHIND FINAL TEMPO AND COULD WIN ON FAVOURITE TRACK. WITH THE LIKELYHOOD OF THREE OR FOUR HORSES VYING FOR LEAD IN THIS EVENT THERE IS THE PROSPECT OF ONE OF THE STAYING HORSES (COUNT CHIVAS, STAR BINDER, KALASTAIRE) PLAYING A PART IN FINISH.
RACES RECOMMENDED TO BET IN INCLUDE: RACE 2/ RACE 4/ RACE 5/ RACE 7.
RESULTS:
RACE 2: BENAZZI very impressive, $1.90. CYBERVAIN poorly ridden. A more patient ride would have made for a much closer finish. Backed from $24.00 into ($8.80) $2.30 place. Easy quinella.
RACE 3: SPORTS CIRCUIT ran a battling sixth. Prefer her away from MV and if allowed to settle closer to lead.
RACE 4: TAROT STAR ($3.30), $1.60 place, looked winner only to narrowly miss. MARSTIC an enormous run as flushed out by jockey of JUMALLIQUE and forced to go far too soon and wide when making run. Finished creditable third ($25.90) $4.50 place.
RACE 5: WILLOUGHBY couldn't let down on (by this stage of day) slippery surface. He would have won if heavy rain had not fallen. Finished second $1.40.
RACE 6: Race run as predicted. Top rated FLAVOUR $8.70; $2.80, sat back and too strong in run to line. Another quinella with TOWKAY ($5.30) $2.10, a good effort. WRY HERO not suited on slippery surface. Fourth rated MOZAIRE narrowly missed place ($44.00; $8.70).
RACE 7: ST. CLEMENS BELLE ($5.50; $2.00) too strong as predicted. Great run from BRIGHTSIDE to run second ($7.60) $2.60 place.
RACE 8: PEARL PRINCE looked winner many times in run. Beaten in tight photo for third ($14.30; $4.00). Good runs, though no speed ratings, from Count Chivas and Happy Star.
RUNS OF DAY: BENAZZI, MARSTIC, CYBERVAIN, BRIGHTSIDE.
FOR FLEMINGTON SEPTEMBER 5TH
RATED FOR GOOD TRACK
RACE 1:
BENAZZI
COMMENTS: ONLY HORSE RATED. POTENTIALLY VERY GOOD. MUST WIN IF HE IS GOING TO HAVE ANY PART IN SPRING CARNIVAL.
RACE 3:
RUSTIC DREAM
CARNELIAN
HE'S REGAL 144
COMMENTS: RUSTIC DREAM SHOULD WIN IF RACE RUN TO SUIT. CARNELIAN SHOULD SIT OUTSIDE RANCHO SPARK (4TH RATED) AND HAS GOOD CHANCE. IF THEY TAKE EACH OTHER ON IN FRONT IT WILL BE SET UP FOR A HORSE LIKE HE'S REGAL TO RUN ON AT GOOD ODDS.
RACE 4:
THEATRE
CITY KID
SPLENDID HORSE 88
COMMENTS: THEATRE AND CITY KID BOTH EXTREMELY PROMISING. BOTH HAVE RATINGS FROM AFFECTED TRACKS. WHOEVER IS BETTER ON TOP OF GROUND SHOULD WIN.
RACE 5:
MARBLE HALLS
GOLD GURU
COMMENTS: MARBLE HALLS ALWAYS COMPETETIVE IN BEST COMPANY. GOLD GURU IS OUTSTANDING RACEHORSE BUT BEST RATINGS BEYOND MILE. SUSPECT UMRUM MIGHT BE BRILLIANT ENOUGH TO BE VERY COMPETETIVE AT WFA.
RACE 6:
HURRICANE STORM
PRINCE STANDAAN 143
COMMENTS: HURRICANE STORM HAS EXCELLENT RATINGS FROM SEVERAL SEASONS AGO. IF RETURNS TO BEST WOULD BE HARD TO BEAT. EXPECT PRINCE STANDAAN TO BE VERY WELL SUITED THIS RACE.
RACE 7:
GRAND BAIE
ROCK YOU
LORD LUSKIN
COMMENTS: GRAND BAIE IS FIT AND GETS CHANCE TO WIN A GOOD RACE. ROCK YOU LOVES TRACK AND DISTANCE. LORD LUSKIN GREAT CHANCE IF GETS FAVOURS IN THE RUN. MANY OTHER CHANCES INCLUDING CLASSIC DAY, PENGHULU, SPECIAL DANE.
RACE 8:
SWEET DELIGHT
SMIDGIN 132
COMMENTS: PREFER SMIDGIN. LOVES DISTANCE AND RACING WELL. SWEET DELIGHT WILL HAVE TO GO FORWARD FROM WIDE GATE AND WILL NEED RACE RUN TO SUIT.
RESULTS:
RACE 1:
BENAZZI ($8.20; $2.60) RAN 5TH. TRIED TO GET CLEAR AT TOP OF STRAIGHT AND SPENT THE REST OF THE RACE CLIMBING OVER HORSES AND BEING CHECKED. BEATEN 1 1/2 LENGTHS. PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE WON.
RACE 3:
CARNELIAN TRAVELLED OUTSIDE OF LEADER AND MIGHT HAVE WON HAD NOT THE WINNER HAD SUCH A SOFT RUN AND ALL THE FAVOURS. SECOND, BEATEN 3/4 LENGTH ($11.90) $3.40 PLACE. HE'S REGAL DISAPPOINTING. RUSTIC DREAM NO LUCK AT ALL.
RACE 4:
THEATRE TOO GOOD AGAIN ($3.60; $1.70). CITY KID LOOKED WINNER AT ONE STAGE.SECOND ($6.40; $2.40) NOT DISGRACED.
RACE 5:
UMRUM, AS SUGGESTED, WAS TOO BRILLIANT ($4.30; $1.90). GOLD GURU ANOTHER EXCELLENT RUN FROM WIDE BARRIER. MARBLE HALLS VERY DISAPPOINTING.
RACE 6:
SADDLE SLIPPED ON PRINCE STANDAAN. STILL CONSIDER THAT HE MIGHT HAVE WON THIS EVENT. HURRICANE STORM LOOMED UP ON HOME TURN TO ALMOST GRAB LEAD. COULD BE ON THE WAY BACK.
RACE 7:
ROCK YOU AN EXCELLENT 2ND ($6.10) $2.20 PLACE. GRAND BAIE A CLOSE 4TH AND CAME DOWN WRONG SIDE OF TRACK ($38.10; $9.00). LORD LUSKIN DISAPPOINTING. PENGHULU LOOKED MAGNIFICENT.
RACE 8:
SWEET DELIGHT 3 & 4 WIDE ALL WAY FROM BAD BARRIER. ONLY BEATEN 4.5 LENGTHS. SMIDGIN RANGED UP BUT WEAKENED.
FOR MEETING: CAULFIELD 29TH AUGUST 1988
RATED FOR TRACK CONDITION: GOOD
RACE 2
RATINGS IN ORDER:
TINIKADUA
ACCEPT
COMMENTS: BOTH TINIKADUA AND ACCEPT HAVE SEVERAL SPEEDRATINGS AT TRACK AND DISTANCE. TINIKADUA RATED VERY HIGHLY, BUT ACCEPT IS FITTER AND SUITED TO FIRST FIRM SURFACE SHE HAS STRUCK THIS SEASON. LUCKY RULE IS A CHANCE IF SHE HAS NOT HAD TOO MUCH RACING.
RACE 4
SHANGAINAISE
LAMOURMONEE
COMMENTS: EXPECT SHANGAINAISE TO BOUNCE BACK IN THIS RACE. SUITABLE TRACK AND DISTANCE. LAMOURMONEE COULD SURPRISE, THOUGH HER PRIME RATING IS FOR SLIGHTLY LONGER DISTANCE. QUIET STYLE IS AN EXCELLENT CHANCE AT GOOD ODDS.
ROBLEY LASS, RED NELDA, HIT AND RUN ALSO RATED. THE BARTERED BRIDE NO RATING YET ON DRY SURFACE THOUGH VERY GOOD ON RAIN AFFECTED.
RACE 5
WILLOUGHBY 283
UMRUM
SIR BOOM
HATE WFA RACES EARLY IN SEASON. HAD SIR BOOM IN MANIKATO AND UNLUCKY TO BE BLOWN AWAY BY DANE RIPPER (SHE RATES FIFTH IN THIS THOUGH LOGIC SAYS SHE MIGHT WIN). WILLOUGHBY WAS EXCELLENT IN AUTUMN. UMRUM WILL IMPROVE HEAPS THIS TIME ON THIS TRACK. SIR BOOM WILL BE COMPETETIVE AGAIN.
SILVER GLADE IS HIGHLY RATED AND ONE TO WATCH LATER.
RACE 6
THEATRE
SPECIAL EDITION
COUP DE GRACE
THEATRE HAS GOOD RATING, THOUGH WON IT ON RAIN AFFECTED MV. IF HE IS AS GOOD ON DRY GROUND HE SHOULD WIN. NOTHING BETWEEN COUP DE GRACE AND SPECIAL EDITION. EXPECT GOOD PERFORMANCES FROM BOTH. TAROT STAR HIGHLY RATED (2ND) BUT ON AFFECTED GROUND. HE MIGHT BE EVEN BETTER ON DRY BUT AS HAS ONLY WET SPEEDRATINGS IT MIGHT BE BEST TO ASCERTAIN DRY TRACK ABILITY
RACE 7
SOVEREIGN SQUALL
BEN'S ROCKET 141
SPORTS CIRCUIT
ON DRY TRACK SOVEREIGN SQUALL LOOKS GREAT CHANCE. BEN'S ROCKET CLOSE 2ND AND HARD TO BEAT. SPORTS CIRCUIT IS UNDERRATED (BUT NOT BY SPEEDRATINGS) AND A CHANCE IF SHE IS FIT ENOUGH AFTER ONLY ONE RUN FROM SPELL
RESULTS:
RACE 2: LUCKY RULE LED ALL THE WAY AND WON NARROWLY. PAID $40.20 WIN & $8.10 PLACE. TRIFECTA PAID $10,299. ACCEPT GOT A LONG WAY BACK BUT RAN HOME WELL.
RACE 4: QUIET STYLE SAT OUTSIDE LEADER AND PROVED MUCH TOO GOOD. BACKED FROM $18.00 INTO $10.90 WIN & $3.60 PLACE. SHANGAINAISE HAD NO LUCK.
RACE 5: WILLOUGHBY A CLOSE SECOND $1.60. DANE RIPPER GAINED RAILS RUN TO WIN AND UMRUM RAN AN EXCELLENT FOURTH.
RACE 6: THEATRE AS GOOD ON TOP OFF GROUND AS IS ON WET SURFACE. GREAT WIN. $2.60 & $1.50. SPECIAL EDITION FOURTH AND NO LUCK AGAIN ($4.80 PLACE).
RACE 7: SOVEREIGN SQUALL A BATTLING RUN. REMBETICA ($17.80) RATED FIFTH BUT WOULD HAVE BEEN TOP THREE ON DEAD OR WORSE TRACK.
