Tuesday, August 29, 2006

SELECTIONS - 29 August 2006

POOMA selections:

There are no POOMA selections today

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

Bairnsdale 5-7, 6-5, 8-2
Randwick 4-3, 6-2

Lay of the Day: I'm killing off the LOTD on the basis that the amount of time it takes to analyse all of the qualifiers is much too great given the potential return. Overall, I picked 19 losers from 24 runners that were less than $3 on the morning line after scratchings, which allowed for profitable lays. It is much better to spend that time analysing potential winners. I thought it would be a bit of fun but it quickly turned into a pain in the bum so out it goes.

Today: Another day with just two meetings, at Bairnsdale and the Randwick Inner Track. If you want to find Bairnsdale then get on the highway out of Melbourne and head West for 3 hours. If you want to find the Randwick Inner Track then look a few metres inside the Randwick Outer Track and there it is. I'm driving up to Canberra this arvo. Will leave about lunchtime, which will put me in Albury before the traffic builds up there. If you're ever driving to Canberra (or you can do it if you go to Mt Bulla, obviously) then take a note of your fuel consumption on the way there versus on the way back. You'll find it's less on the way back. Why? Because it's downhill. It's quite noticable on the Canberra-Sydney trip. The track is slow at Bairnsdale so there's not much point backing anything there. And looking at the Sydney meeting, I'll be having a day off the punt.

Yesterday: Nothing to report from the two meetings yesterday. Eddie Rapido got up in the last hop and paid $6, which I reckon is not bad picking by me. Two starts back I pick it as lay of the day and it runs 3rd and today I pick it to win and it wins. Apart from that I took little notice of what was going on.

POOMAs: There were no POOMA selections yesterday (mainly because I was too gutless to nominate Nina Cabello).

LOTD: I was stuffed again yesterday, as I picked out two horses as potential lays and they both won. At least I picked the shorter priced one.

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