A Day at the Races

[Macca 17,113]

And well done with 'Sprightly Lass'  @binman

Needed a win after so many misses ... Osborne Bulls will give us 2 from 4 if it salutes.

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

18 hours ago, Macca said:

And well done with 'Sprightly Lass'  @binman

Needed a win after so many misses ... Osborne Bulls will give us 2 from 4 if it salutes.

I missed Ossies race, but it looks like it just went down. A lot of good horses beaten yesterday (again). Well done to BM for getting the only winner for our picks yesterday. Also well done on the Trifecta, good to see everyone getting a win. Saved my day.

I did note in Dan Zephyrs race today, its the only race all day at Ballarat that DK Weir doesnt have a horse in~!

Weir has 13 running in 8 races.

Edited April 22, 2018 by Wadda We Sing

[Macca 17,113]

7 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

I missed Ossies race, but it looks like it just went down. A lot of good horses beaten yesterday (again). Well done to BM for getting the only winner for our picks yesterday. Also well done on the Trifecta, good to see everyone getting a win. Saved my day.

I did note in Dan Zephyrs race today, its the only race all day at Ballarat that DK Weir doesnt have a horse in~!

Weir has 13 running in 8 races.

As you and others are no doubt aware Wadda,  I like my trifectas so was very happy with the return yesterday.  The more the merrier I say and I like the idea of having multiple chances to win.  The combined expertise works for me. 

There's a decent Group 2 sprint race at Doomben next Saturday that I've identified but I'm happy to go with another race if we want to continue the exercise. 

Sha Tin is my personal target next Sunday with 3 big Group 1 races (1200m,  1600m & 2000m)  A number of the World's best horses are running around so that gets my attention. 

If we go again do we keep the same tipping order after our success yesterday?  @Demon77 acting as 'The Skip' to finish off the bet worked.  There's a nickname in the making!

[Dee Zephyr 19,269]

7 minutes ago, Macca said:

As you and others are no doubt aware Wadda,  I like my trifectas so was very happy with the return yesterday.  The more the merrier I say and I like the idea of having multiple chances to win.  The combined expertise works for me. 

There's a decent Group 2 sprint race at Doomben next Saturday that I've identified but I'm happy to go with another race if we want to continue the exercise. 

Sha Tin is my personal target next Sunday with 3 big Group 1 races (1200m,  1600m & 2000m)  A number of the World's best horses are running around so that gets my attention. 

If we go again do we keep the same tipping order after our success yesterday?  @Demon77 acting as 'The Skip' to finish off the bet worked.  There's a nickname in the making!

Lol, ‘ The Skip’. I’m easy fellas, we can keep the same order until we fail ( we won’t though)or happy to go with majority.

Yes, I have been thinking for a while to change my name on DL. Suggestions are welcome. Teddy was the nickname growing up.

[Macca 17,113]

13 minutes ago, Demon77 said:

Lol, ‘ The Skip’. I’m easy fellas, we can keep the same order until we fail ( we won’t though)or happy to go with majority.

Yes, I have been thinking for a while to change my name on DL. Suggestions are welcome. Teddy was the nickname growing up.

The Skip works and if you keep coming through with the goods (Showtime) it will be an apt nickname.   I've got the easy bit going 2nd ... First & Third choices are tricky with regards to possibly taking a chance on a winner. 

I'll have an interest bet with the Zephyr race too ... time to study up.  Maybe a First4 so I can include the Dan?  2-4-6-6?

[Dee Zephyr 19,269]

12 minutes ago, Macca said:

The Skip works and if you keep coming through with the goods (Showtime) it will be an apt nickname.   I've got the easy bit going 2nd ... First & Third choices are tricky with regards to possibly taking a chance on a winner. 

I'll have an interest bet with the Zephyr race too ... time to study up.  Maybe a First4 so I can include the Dan?  2-4-6-6?

Ha ‘Showtime’ is good. 

Dan has won at 1000m before, I still haven’t heard from my mate with some mail.

Personally I’m unsure with the drop back in distance. For now, i have something little each way on him. I’ll study the race a little closer to the jump and will do a small first 4 or tri also.

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

1 hour ago, Macca said:

The Skip works and if you keep coming through with the goods (Showtime) it will be an apt nickname.   I've got the easy bit going 2nd ... First & Third choices are tricky with regards to possibly taking a chance on a winner. 

I'll have an interest bet with the Zephyr race too ... time to study up.  Maybe a First4 so I can include the Dan?  2-4-6-6?

D77 has chimed in with some good picks from time to time.......how about, "Efficient"

 

[Macca 17,113]

40 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

D77 has chimed in with some good picks from time to time.......how about, "Efficient"

Or 'Showtime' ha ha ... the horse ended up landing out first combined trifecta and we may look back in a few years (after cleaning out all the betting agencies!) as a reminder of where it all started.  'Ted' works of course. 

Nicknames are normally bestowed upon so we'll no doubt come up with something ... yours (Wadda) has just stuck hasn't it?

The Zephyr race is a tricky one by the way ... a small field but trying to figure it out is not easy. 

Edited April 22, 2018 by Macca

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

19 minutes ago, Macca said:

Or 'Showtime' ... the horse ended up landing out first combined trifecta and we may look back in a few years (after cleaning out all the betting agencies!) as a reminder of where it all started.  'Ted' works of course. 

Nicknames have to be bestowed generally so we'll come up with something ... yours (Wadda) has just stuck hasn't it?

The Zephyr race is a tricky one by the way ... a small field but trying to figure it out is not easy. 

"Its Showtime"~!!

Yes indeed after being banned by the corporates and interviewed at our safe house in Moscow by SEN......So where did you guys come up with the name Showtime?? Its been an awesome journey since your humble beginnings on Demonland...........

I think Melbourne had a good win one weekend and i was singing the song with gusto after the game, so i just changed my screenname when i got home.....

Edited April 22, 2018 by Wadda We Sing

[Dee Zephyr 19,269]

How about ‘WhyTheLongFace’ ?

Appropriate for both threads or too gloomy?

 

 

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

1 minute ago, Demon77 said:

How about ‘WhyTheLongFace’ ?

Appropriate for both threads or too gloomy?

 

 

Not bad Skip, not bad....

 

 

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

Whats our strike rate looking like now Macca? Do we include the trifectas somehow??

[Macca 17,113]

They ran a track record (01:20.33) in yesterday's All Aged Stakes and that might mean that Trapeze Artist's rating could go up a point or 2.  If that happened the horse would become the 3rd highest rated horse in the World (according to the Rankings)

I hope they don't retire the horse to stud but I'm not holding my breath on that one.

Here's a replay of the Group 1 All Aged Stakes ...

 

[Dee Zephyr 19,269]

Just now, Macca said:

They ran a track record (01:20.33) in yesterday's All Aged Stakes and that might mean that Trapeze Artist's rating could go up a point or 2.  If that happened the horse would become the 3rd highest rated horse in the World (according to the Rankings)

I hope they don't retire the horse to stud but I'm not holding my breath on that one.

Here's a replay of the Group 1 All Aged Stakes ...

 

Thanks for posting Macca.

I heard after the race Trapeze Artist might head to the ‘The Everest’. Anyone hear something similar?

[Macca 17,113]

7 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

Whats our strike rate looking like now Macca? Do we include the trifectas somehow??

Well,  the trifecta collect has got to be worth more than 1 win you'd reckon Wadda ... here they are in separate formations ...

Best Bet Strike Rate

44: 20 - 9 - 2

Trifecta Strike Rate

1: 1 - 0
 

Australian Group and Listed Races

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

31 minutes ago, Macca said:

Well,  the trifecta collect has got to be worth more than 1 win you'd reckon Wadda ... here they are in separate formations ...

Best Bet Strike Rate

44: 20 - 9 - 2

Trifecta Strike Rate

1: 1 - 0
 

Australian Group and Listed Races

The separate formations looks ok to me. They are basically separate bets i guess. I nearly went Trapeze Artist as my BB too. Bum.

Watts 31 placings from 44 starts expressed as a %?

Edited April 22, 2018 by Wadda We Sing

[Dee Zephyr 19,269]

10 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

The separate formations looks ok to me. They are basically separate bets i guess. I nearly went Trapeze Artist as my BB too. Bum.

Watts 31 placings from 44 starts expressed as a %?

70.45% Wadda. You’d be happy if your racehorse had a percentage like that. 

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

5 minutes ago, Demon77 said:

70.45% Wadda. You’d be happy if your racehorse had a percentage like that. 

Watch out corporates......were coming....

[Dee Zephyr 19,269]

The Zephyr was never in the race. They were too nippy for him today.

I’ve asked my mate why the drop back in distance but he hasn’t got back to me yet. I’m curious to see why trainers do that sometimes. 

Fellas, I’m really keen now on a name change.

Showtime? Showtime Ted?  The Showtime Skip?

Edited April 22, 2018 by Demon77

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

1 minute ago, Demon77 said:

The Zephyr was never in the race. They were too nippy for him today.

I’ve asked my mate why the drop back in distance but he hasn’t got back to me yet. I’m curious to see why trainers do that sometimes. 

Fellas, I’m really keen now on a name change.

Showtime? Showtime Ted?  The Showtime Skip?

Dee Zephyr?

[Macca 17,113]

4 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

Dee Zephyr?

I like it ...

And DZ for short?

[Dee Zephyr 19,269]

9 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

Dee Zephyr?

 

2 minutes ago, Macca said:

I like it ...

And DZ for short?

I like it too, will run with it. When I joined this thread back in the spring it was on the back of Dan somewhat. 

Edited April 22, 2018 by Demon77

[Macca 17,113]

6 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Thanks for posting Macca.

I heard after the race Trapeze Artist might head to the ‘The Everest’. Anyone hear something similar?

I've only heard that we may well find out some time this week (whether the horse races again)  The connections obviously can't do both (race on or retire to stud) but one of the owners was talking about another season (Spring & Autumn) and then Royal Ascot. 

But he said it as if it was an option only ... the other option is to earn up to $40Million in stud fees.  Money talks and we've seen what often happens previously.  

The Everest must be tempting though ... worth about $7.8Million to the winner next Spring.  And there's obviously a lot of high stakes Group 1's from 1200m up to a 1600m (it would get the mile you'd reckon) both here and at Sha Tin,  Japan & Europe.

Here's the other Group 1 from yesterday - The Champagne Stakes ...

 

 

Edited April 22, 2018 by Macca

[binman 44,533]

So that me done for Autumn fellas. Me and my betting partner had a pretty good day on Saturday, particularly in Sydney where i was fortunate to get the pattern right (on the speed, near the fence).

In addition to my best bet (tough win by a horse that is a winner - good odds) my best value bet, Higher Ground saluted - just, the caller called it the other way around, nice surprise.  Ironically also got the next in a close photo with the only horse that defied the pattern to win running on in Moss Trip. Very good win and a horse to follow.

But the punters lament is it could have been a huge day with a touch more luck. We had six seconds! That included a 20-1 pop in Adelaide (didn't have it each way). And i thought Guerrier in Sydney was going to win, but just ran out of gas (and unfortunately just out of the placings as i had it each way).

I was also a bit annoyed not to get something from the Le Romain trapeze Artist quinella, which paid a remarkable 10.80. Crazy.  Thye were the two horse i really liked. Should have boxed up a quinela in addition to the box trifecta i took (or even better instead of it). And even more stupidly did not take the Demonland trif! Also annoyed weir elected to run Brave smash. Clearly does not like firm tracks.

Good luck on the punt fellas. To keep an interest i'll do the form for the elected DL weekly trifecta race, post it on this thread and even put a little money on it! 

Roll on Spring!

[Macca 17,113]

6 hours ago, binman said:

So that me done for Autumn fellas. Me and my betting partner had a pretty good day on Saturday, particularly in Sydney where i was fortunate to get the pattern right (on the speed, near the fence).

In addition to my best bet (tough win by a horse that is a winner - good odds) my best value bet, Higher Ground saluted - just, the caller called it the other way around, nice surprise.  Ironically also got the next in a close photo with the only horse that defied the pattern to win running on in Moss Trip. Very good win and a horse to follow.

But the punters lament is it could have been a huge day with a touch more luck. We had six seconds! That included a 20-1 pop in Adelaide (didn't have it each way). And i thought Guerrier in Sydney was going to win, but just ran out of gas (and unfortunately just out of the placings as i had it each way).

I was also a bit annoyed not to get something from the Le Romain trapeze Artist quinella, which paid a remarkable 10.80. Crazy.  Thye were the two horse i really liked. Should have boxed up a quinela in addition to the box trifecta i took (or even better instead of it). And even more stupidly did not take the Demonland trif! Also annoyed weir elected to run Brave smash. Clearly does not like firm tracks.

Good luck on the punt fellas. To keep an interest i'll do the form for the elected DL weekly trifecta race, post it on this thread and even put a little money on it! 

Roll on Spring!

Enjoy your break bm ... one of us will alert you on the trifecta race once we decide which race it is.  Picking a decent trifecta race is half the battle - my preference is the Group 1 or Group 2 WFA or SW fields but that's just me. 

Thanks for your ongoing contribution too ... we need all the expertise possible!

The format will probably be the same (3 - 5 - 5) and the tipping order may well be the same considering we won first time up.  But that may change going forward.  

It was ...

• W/2/3 ... Wadda
• W/2/3 ... Macca
• W/2/3 ... binman
• 2/3 ........ Dee Zephyr
• 2/3 ........ Dee Zephyr