SELECTIONS - 11 June 2007

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

Ballina 1-2 Creole's Shadow [23]
Townsville 4-2 Prince Of Steel [21]
Townsville 5-5 Monashee Warrior [15]
Townsville 6-1 Why Cut A River [23]

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

Camperdown 1-11, 8-2
Eagle Farm 5-11
Murray Bridge 1-2
Randwick 6-9
Townsville 5-4, 5-9

(* Note - late POOMA due to not having the late Randwick data file. Later update - oops, got that wrong, wasn't a POOMA *)

Comments: How good are these new systems going? 2/23! It can't get much worse than that, surely? One of our ruffies nearly lobbed at $130 yesterday at the Sapphire Coast, only getting caught in the last couple of hops. Ballina 1-2 Creole's Hope started favourite on debut and ran a good 2nd behind what looks to be a smart horse. He steps up 300m in trip and has to come from gate 10 so I wouldn't want to take short odds but the rest of them don't look much chop. Townsville 4-2 Prince Of Steel has been a really good horse for connections and gets his chance to win here. He was outsped in a strong race last time behind the flying Captain Wheland when he finished powerfully into 3rd spot so the step up to 1200m should suit. Townsville 5-5 Monashee Warrior is a black book horse so comments below. Townsville 6-1 Why Cut A River doesn't look very well placed in this but he has the Chillemi/Crossland magic, which will give him a chance to get home.

Black Book: Eagle Farm 4-6 Slim Pickings is a horse we had a couple of nice wins on at double figure odds last preparation. He hasn't won first up but his form at around this distance reads 131310 with the duck egg being in the Listed Wheetwood at Toowoomba. He gets back and steams home and might be a first up chance at nice e/w odds. Eagle Farm 5-10 Scenic Silver won for us two starts back but his two runs in black type company have been his only unplaced ones and this is a Group 2 race. That said, he drew 17 of 17 last time and was only beaten 3.5L in finishing 9th so from his better draw might be a good e/w chance, as well, in what looks an even field (given that Gold Edition has to get a mile). We've had three wins from three goes with Moonee Valley 3-2 Lucky Secret but that's only given us around $2 profit given how short he's been. Looks about a $1.30 shot today, as well. Townsville 5-5 Monashee Warrior is a POOMA selection today so that won't help his chances. He missed the start at his first run, worked around them to the lead and cleared out to win by 5L in an impressive performance. At his next run he was also tardy away, worked hard up on the fence to lead, kicked clear but was left a sitting shot for Hostility to run him down. They were less than a second outside of the track record that day and beat the 3rd horse clearly so, along with the other non-POOMA, Little Dreamer, look the only three chances in the race.