Monday, May 05, 2008

SELECTIONS - 5 May 2008

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

Alice Springs 2-2 Gold Magic [6,7,18]

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

Ararat 5-3
Ipswich 3-7, 4-10, 8-13
Narromine 7-3

Comments: I don't like the Darwin or Alice Springs tips but we're committed to providing tips wherever there's a TAB meeting. Alice Springs 2-2 Gold Magic took 9 runs to break her duck in that region after moving from Queensland. She was a beaten favourite at 5 of those runs including running 3rd of 4 as a twos-on pop. She'll be short today and I'm not too interested in backing her even if she is selected by three really good systems.

Black Book: One of our POOMAs, Mr Novara, goes into the BB after a 4th that showed he clearly needs a senior jockey, as the 4kg girl couldn't handle him on the bend and he lost a heap of ground before running home hard. Anyone who backed Sunburnt Land yesterday would have been on happy terms with themselves all the way through the race. He settled nicely, got a run at the top of the straight and put the issue beyond doubt inside 200m, winning comfortably. He's a smart horse. On the other hand, his stablemate Pure Beauty had every chance so she comes out of the BB.

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