SELECTIONS - 6 May 2007

POOMA selections (Location Race#-TAB# Horse [system/s])

Launceston 5-3 Diamond Beach [10]
Sunshine Coast 9-5 Stirring [9]
Taree 6-2 Pimpala Domino [13]

1.30 update - missed one at Taree somehow, included now

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

Echuca 6-7, 8-1
Morphettville 2-7
Launceston 3-4
Northam 6-2
Sandown 1-4, 1-5
Sunshine Coast 7-2
Taree 4-9, 5-7

Comments: 1/4 yesterday returning $6.90 with our last pick of the day so that was nice. At Rosehill, Sacred Moon never looked likely to do anything other than run 2nd. He looks quite non-genuine to me. 10 minutes later at the Gold Coast Decerto was a tragedy beaten when never, ever getting a run at them in the straight. We'll follow him. Nicaragua did a Sacred Moon to run 2nd and, finally, we lobbed a winner with Easy Rocker who won nicely at Ipswich. Launceston 5-3 Diamond Beach must be some sort of chance first up today but I want to see at least $6. Sunshine Coast 9-5 Stirring led all of the way to win well over this course last time. She'll have to go forward from the gate and she's another that I want to get $6+ for to get interested, as this field includes some talented gallopers on the up.

Black book: I predicted we'd make a profit from the black book yesterday, which we did, but it wasn't as easy as I thought. Saint Sebastion ran extremely poorly to finish last at Rosehill in a performance quite out of character. I won't take him out on that run. Today we have: Morphettville 3-7 Little Arrow - this girl went into the BB after his first run, which paid immediate dividends next start at Caulfield. She certainly looks up to this race. Morphettville 6-1 Lazer Sharp got the chokkies for us last time at $10+. He's had 8 runs since going into the BB returning about $20 so he's a bit of a favourite for us. Given how easily he rounded them up last time you couldn't think that he was anything other than a great chance here. Sandown 5-2 Adam's Peak toughed it out well for 4th last time and will appreciate this easier race.