POOMA selections:
Warrnambool 1-1 Waaria
Non-POOMA selections (and ruffies in red below):
Rockhampton 1-3, 3-8, 6-5
Today: Our POOMA selection today at Warrnambool, Warria, had nearly two years off and a change of stables before resuming with a last of 13 at Hamilton, last of 9 at Mortlake and 6th of 11 at Casterton with the closest beaten margin 8.7L. However, he is 2/2 over jumps, both at Warrnambool. When he won his Maiden Hurdle he beat the race favourite, Conzeal, who has gone on to win 5 or 6 jumps races and has competed in the best of company. He then won his next jumps start beating Hotter Than Hell who has also gone on to win over jumps. In both of those runs he settled back and looked little hope at the 600m mark before getting home strongly. In his second win he had to negotiate multiple equine chicances up the straight and still scored so he's got a bit of talent. In watching the replays of how he's come back I was looking to see simply whether he was getting to the line OK or not. In his first two runs he settled 9-10 lengths off them in last position and held that margin to the line meaning that he sprinted home as quickly as the rest of them. At Casterton he was beaten 11L into 6th place but that was the day that Stryja took off on Lefty Carruthers about 1000m out, opened up a gap of about 10L on the field and never looked like stopping in winning by a big space. Warria run home OK to beat half the field home. That's OK lead up form for a jumps race of this type. The danger might come from 6-Sherbourne whose form looks a tad ordinary but he's by Gold Ace and he's got a few wet track runs in there that hide his real ability. Chances for the multiples are 2-3-4-5-7-11-13. Up at Rockhampton, 1-3 Giggling Boy was a bit one paced when running 2nd as an odds on favourite in Class 4 company last time. Steps up a couple of grades but drops a handy 3kg, which will put him right in this race. 3-8 Pure Destiny comes out of a system called Extreme Ruffies. It looks to have no form at all but it's worth bearing in mind that this system has a 1/3 place strike rate at an average dividend of $5 so I'll be assessing multiples at race time. In that race the topweight, Revolva, is first up from down south for the powerful John Wigginton stable and looks a fair chance if he can handle the drop back in trip.
Yesterday: Nothing worth commenting on from yesterday's meetings. Except for Danny O'Brien's first starter, Splashing Out, I didn't see anything worth following.
POOMAs: There were no POOMA selections yesterday.
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