Sunday, August 13, 2006

SELECTIONS - 13 August 2006

POOMA selections:

Bairnsdale 8-3 Zephyr Speed

Non-POOMA selections (and ruffies in red below):

Casino 3-2, 7-11
Hobart 4-2, 8-1
Kalgoorlie 7-1
Seymour 1-10, 6-4
Sunshine Coast 7-3, 7-9
Wagga 4-5, 5-3

Lay of the Day: Wagga 2-2 Eddie Rapido $2.80 - [LOTD 6 from 8]

Today: At Casino, 3-2 Kirra Belle gets her chance to break through today. She's drawn a tad wide at this tricky track but her form is good enough to win. Danger is the topweight. 7-11 Weekend Wonder will be good each way odds and worth putting in multiples. At the Sunshine Coast, 7-9 Streets Of Fire is a Class 1 horse in a Class 4 race but he's well suited in this race and back to a dry track. Our POOMA, Bairnsdale 8-3 Zephyr Speed has only won 2 from 23, which is less than useful but he's in good form and if he runs up to his Class 3 effort here two starts back then he'll be right there at the business end.

Yesterday: What a disaster for me yesterday with the Sydney quaddie. My assessment was "The first leg of the quaddie looks like a field job to me" and, of course, I only took 5 horses in a quaddie that cost $35 for a half missing the $100 shot and costing myself a share that eventually paid $64,000. Would have only cost $105 with the field in the first leg. When Keltic Flash won the 3rd leg I knew I'd made a big boo boo.

At Flemington. Blutigeroo proved he wasn't just a wet tracker at nice odds. Bel Danoro was too nippy for them in the sprint but it was the performances of El Segundo and Zipping that had people talking. El Segundo ran his last 600/400/200 in 33.02/22.07/11.34 and Zipping ran 32.95/22.07/11.24, which were the fastest sectionals in the race. They are both in for big springs, you'd think.

I was very happy with my Warrnambool hurdle analysis for most of the race. Somehow, a horse that's had 27 starts for no wins and 15 placings managed to outsprint an Open class flat galloper over the concluding stages.


POOMAs: Growl did the job for us winning in the last hop at odds around $3. He has some upside and can win again with a step up in trip.

LOTD: Go Cart started at $2.60 and didn't have a lot of luck before running home for 3rd.

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