SELECTIONS - 25 September 2006

POOMA selections:

There are no POOMA selections today

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

Kilmore 4-1
Port Macquarie 7-1, 7-2

Today: A bit of a ho-hum day today with average meetings at Albury, Kilmore and Port Macquarie. I do think we'll get a fair price about 7-2 Terror at Port Macquarie because it's drawn wide and steps out of Maiden company into a Class 1 today, which is always tough in spite of how far they win their Maiden by. It comes from a very well performing system and should be around $3.50. It clashes with another from a good system, 7-1 Nadobe, and they really do look like the quinella. I don't know what to make of Moody's 4-1 Very Hot at Kilmore after her two inglorious runs from a spell. She was a bit outclassed first up in Class 5 company and drew wide last time when not having much luck behind Bon Hoffa with Yappa 2nd. Given she has the Stavka/Suspects/Yappa form around her she's worth looking at but with Luke Nolan back from suspension she won't be any fancy price. Mick Kent has an interesting runner in race 7 with the topweight, Trick Of Light, that has had one start in the UK for a win over 2000m last year. I expect Jezeera to run a better race in that one.

Yesterday: I managed to squeek a profit but it was one of those "oh so close" days. I missed the last leg of the Sunshine Coast quaddie by a wart, which was paying $5K and then the one I'd pointed out at Echuca that I thought would improve, Teravue, which was paying $20+, got nabbed 10m out with me only having a win bet and a First4 with it stood out. The latter paid $10K so I was a tad miffed that we couldn't get the chocolates. Anyhoo, that's the way it goes sometimes. The ones I picked out at Northam (both came from good systems) went like two-legged crabs so that came to nothing but the win of Emergence in the first at Echuca meant we got a result there.

POOMAs: Sunburnt Land was a tragedy beaten in race 2 at Sandown yesterday. All his jockey, Brent Stanley, needed to do was take him to the outside at the top of the straight rather than go back to the inside and then try to get a run between the three that were fighting the finish out. Stanley eased the horse in the last 50m, as he had nowhere to go. Hate to see that with a $5 shot. The race was won by Furio who was terrific value at $7. The rest of the meeting was subsequently abandoned due to the high wind and the fact that the rail wasn't secure. Someone at the MRC should get their arse kicked big time for that.