SELECTIONS - 22 October 2008

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

Canterbury 3-2 Dorf Command [9]

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

Ascot 1-2
Canterbury 1-2
Doomben 4-2, 5-2

(* Any updates at Ascot later on *)

Comments: Canterbury 3-2 Dorf Command has won her last two in nice fashion at Kembla Grange. Gets in here pretty well at the weights after the claim and given she won't be far from the lead around the turn you'd have to think she'll look a chance in the straight. The Geelong Cup's status as a lead up race to the Melbourne Cup received a boost a few years back when Media Puzzle flogged them before his famous win on the first Tuesday in November with Damien Oliver on board shortly after his brother had died in a trackwork accident in Perth. This year's race looks like having little bearing on the Melbourne Cup though the winner might be good enough to sneak a place. It really looks like a race between 1-Light Vision and 6-The Wolverine. Light Vision beat Baughurst last time and that horse came out and walloped them on Saturday in a similar class of race while The Wolverine has beaten Zavite home when they've met and has been close to Light Vision. I'll have to stick 2-Bauer into quaddies, as the overseas horse cost me the quaddie at Caulfield on Saturday and this fellow looks like he's got similar form to that winner.