SELECTIONS - 8 June 2007

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

Swan Hill 4-10 Gracie [24]
Swan Hill 5-2 Vainsky [24]
Swan Hill 8-7 The Roman [24]

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

Canberra 2-1

Comments: Meetings abandoned from one end of the east coast to the other, demonstrating that the drought has ended. Welcome back, La Nina. Swan Hill has always been a good track for us, as I've commented before, so let's hope we get a result there today from our three picks. 4-10 Gracie goes fast and has finished close enough to them to be considered a chance in this. Drawing 11 from the 1000m doesn't matter too much at this big track so she should be somewhere near the lead 200m out. 5-2 Vainsky plummets in class from recent assignments and looks to have a terrific e/w chance. His record on wet tracks doesn't look that good but they're all in much harder races so it's best to overlook that fact. 8-7 The Roman was beaten 10+ lengths at his first two starts before leading all of the way to win at Ballarat when stepping up to a mile. He then tried to lead all of the way when beaten 10L in Class 1 company last time. That was on a slow track so maybe it didn't help but he's by Umatilla and they're normally good in the wet so I'd want to see $15+ to have a go on this guy.