SELECTIONS - 22 December 2007

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

Ascot 3-1 Stramos [26]
Colac 1-5 Port Regis [22]
Colac 6-7 Joncetto [5]
Kembla Grange 2-5 Daughterofdarkness [25]
Randwick 4-1 Takeover Target [23]
Toowoomba 3-14 Stunning [23]
Toowoomba 4-3 Junas [23]

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

Ascot 4-1, 8-1, 8-11, 8-12
Bathurst 4-3, 4-8
Colac 3-5, 6-3, 7-10
Eagle Farm 2-1, 4-3, 5-6, 6-16
Kembla Grange 6-4
Morphettville 3-1, 4-9, 5-6, 7-3
Sandown 5-7, 7-7

(* Any updates at Ascot later on *)

Comments: Colac 1-5 Port Regis comes from one of our better systems but when you're backing a horse that's having its 20th start and is still a maiden you want to get a price, which won't happen here. That said, he won't meet a worse field in his life. His opposition has had a collective 75 starts for just 3 placings. I can't remember a worse field, come to think of it. Colac 6-7 Joncetto could win and might run last. He hasn't run a drum in two runs on slow going so it's problematic as to whether he'll get through it here. Kembla Grange 2-5 Daughterofdarkness is by Dracula and out of Night Lark. Surely they could have come up with a better name? That's one of the great bad names of the last 20 years. If she repeats her last start effort then she'l go close in this, though. Randwick 4-1 Takeover Target is a great sprinter but doesn't have a great 2nd up record with just 1 win from 5 goes albeit mostly in tough races. I'll just enjoy watching that race, I think. Toowoomba 3-13 Stunning led them up and got run down by a potential topliner in Azzaland, which was having its first start. Unless one of the first starters is any good you'd think it's a race between her and Jester Rumble. Toowoomba 4-3 Junas has earned his owners a cheque every time he's gone to the races, notching up his Maiden win before going for a spell. Has drawn off the track but has a lot of early pace so should be in or outside the lead after 200m or so. Is a genuine e/w chance.

Black Book: Morphettville 3-2 Artina didn't beat much but was never extended when winning softly up the straight at Victoria Park last time out. I think she might be pretty good, which is why she's in the black book.