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Discussion for the greatest race on earth
Probably too early but oh well!
Wonder if Jameka will have another go
Probably too early but oh well!
Wonder if Jameka will have another go
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Surely Jameka will be going Emirates given her relative performance in Oz Cup v Melb Cup last year.
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i think you fly Qantas not emirates if you going to europe, Emirates is only if she goes dubai.
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What a stinker. Much like Jameka's Melbourne Cup performance.
One of the star 3yo crop will salute
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if we have a MC thread surely we need a grand final of australian racing thread. only a couple weeks away and i mean it's the grand final after all.
Yes. The pinnacle of australian racing
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If Winx gets beat beforehand - what weight would she get?
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about 3kgs less than she deserves so she is tempted to run
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The winner will come from one of the following
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As Lee Freedman famously said "you try and carry that on your back" lol
Godolphin sniffed around long and hard last year and I reckon QEWY might be the one to break the duck for them. It's going to happen for them eventually.
Versatile horse, led the whole way at Geelong and won well, ran midfield in the Melbourne Cup and improved sharply down the straight, and was then the best thing in Australia that day leading from post to post and winning the Sandown Cup last year.
Versatile horse, led the whole way at Geelong and won well, ran midfield in the Melbourne Cup and improved sharply down the straight, and was then the best thing in Australia that day leading from post to post and winning the Sandown Cup last year.
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don't think Qewy is good enough especially with the extra 3-4kg this time round. i will wait to see what new blood Appleby brings over.
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Francis Of Assisi is fave ATM
Yeah he'll be mid 50's kgs. But I'm happy enough having a little look at 51s. I'm not a huge punter, more of an avid spectator and happy to open up the kick 12 months out to see if I can prove myself right.
Unless I'm on track, then it's a free for all.
Maybe a year too soon but I hear (Our) Yangtze is developing quite nicely.
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Vazirabad!
Has the style and turn of foot to feature in the Melbourne Cup, but would the Aga Khan head over again? Arc may be too tempting and his last experience was Verema (still best horse in that race IMO may she RIP
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Vazirabad!
Has the style and turn of foot to feature in the Melbourne Cup, but would the Aga Khan head over again? Arc may be too tempting and his last experience was Verema (still best horse in that race IMO may she RIP
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And a great run from Beautiful Romance but as they say don't win it the first time head downunder you won't the next
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Vazirabad!
Has the style and turn of foot to feature in the Melbourne Cup, but would the Aga Khan head over again? Arc may be too tempting and his last experience was Verema (still best horse in that race IMO may she RIP
I'd think they'd have more lofty ambitions than Melbourne given the staying ranks are pretty weak over there at the moment (especially with OOSG getting rolled AGAIN over night in Ireland).
Plus its pretty exposed so would get a stack of weight I would have thought.
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i would much rather be on Beautiful Romance than Verizabad on that run but they did go pretty fast up front and only beat Big Orange who has failed twice here so the juries out.
Thats a magnificent race track by the way!
Have you been to Meydan HeathComeBack ?
Imagine it would be extravagant to say the least!
Best overseas track I've been to is Goodwood it really lives up to the "Glorious" tag.
Most picturesque closely followed by Brighton looking out to the ocean
On topic I disagree I think Vezarabad would be the one I'd like to be on. It raced with the sit and sprint style we love here for staying races and proven on multiple occasions can win over 3200m at Gp1 level
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you can't really judge on this horse beat that horse which failed here. will lead to dead ends. Yeats still flopped and Red Cadeuax is still part of folklore. surfaces, weather, undulatations, travelling and race pattern change too much from europe. safer but still fraught with danger from oceanic/asian racing nations that are very similar to aus.
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naa i havent been .. yet!
as for the race, i find that sitting outside the leader is the end of most horses chances, and the further they go the harder it is to win. if BR gets a sit she wins by a couple of lengths, but on the basis of not really knowing the horses racing pattern i dont know if he/she always does that
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