POOMA selections:
Donald 5-3 The Ruckman
Mt Barker 7-12 Strawb Knows
Non-POOMA selections (and ruffies in red below):
Armidale 3-7, 4-3
Cranbourne 6-1
Devonport 1-4, 5-6
Donald 8-3
Today: Lots of dead tracks around the place, which always makes things tougher, especially on Sundays, a day on which picking winners is always a bit tougher. That said, I'm pretty confident that the 8 selections above will return a profit for the day and I'll be working some bets around that expectation. At Donald, 5-3 The Ruckman hasn't done anything wrong in winning his three starts and looked really good last time at St Arnaud. He came from back in the field to win his Maiden at his first start beating Sesaru Gamu and then turned up at the non-TABs to win from Miss Blevic and Lycadere. Those two go OK and how well he is going was demonstrated last time when carrying 58kg to a comfortable win. The other selection, which is at Mt Barker, comes from a system that has such a good strike rate that I always tip them regardless of my own view of their chances, as that system keeps proving my judgement wrong!
Yesterday: The carnival finished off with a very successful meeting at Flemington. Bond Street was pretty impressive in winning the first race, albeit the runner up was unlucky, and if David Hayes' view that the horse will do better over 1400m then he's in for a good future. Meurice proved my statement that he looked a bit like a speedy squib at his first start when he squibbed into 3rd place. He's not much chop but will win weaker 2YO races. Valkyrie Diva started ridiculously short at $2.40, which I thought was $1 less than her right price and she really didn't finish off to end up 4th. Divine Madonna scooted down the outside of the Flemington track for the second time this preparation to win the Emirates Stakes. She had everything made to order with the way the track played and duly saluted. The biggest win of the day wasn't on the east coast, however. If you didn't see the win of Marasco then you missed something special. He lobbed along out the back, came wide, had them covered 400m out, accelerated in the style of a Group 1 horse and coasted to the line 4L clear. He is something really special.
POOMAs: 3 from 8 yesterday but they were all a bit short so we only got back $7.70.
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