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I see that now.   Final Deadline racing and winning twice at Addington a year ago in April for T.Bagrie racing as DEADLINE.  so as a late entry into the New Zealand race winners slot you give away the win.😎 The Galah with the 'NZ race winners Slot' 🇳🇿 now Declared the BOAY Slot winner 🏆 .on 66 points. well picked Mr Galah !! 🏆. The fine NZ horses were great all night , culminating with the stunning Win by Captain's Mistress.  Grimson team a 'good' 2nd lol.👍😉  well done Blackie 🍇   The JANITOR (by Always B Miki)  is also bred in NZ but didn't race or win there .  He might do soon though in the Cambridge Slot race by Betcha next month. will be hard against Leap To Fame though.

What IS really interesting is that both @the galah and @Brodie have admitted they haven't bothered to read the HRNZ Annual Accounts!!!! Which I might add are freely available for downloading from the Incorporated Societies website amd the HRNZ website.

THEY didn't use the comparison.  I did and it wasn't SPIN.  It was for CONTEXT and COMPARISON which you keep banging on about.

So they HAVEN'T squandered it all contrary to @Brodie and your assertions.

From what I can see for the 4 straight sprints, 3 were won on the outside, only the Newmarket on the inside?

They essentially all won on pace and on the inside.  The OZ commentors (which I rate)  explained Damask Rose's odds lengthening from $4.4 to over $6 was due to the prevailng pattern working against her draw and racing style.  Under the circumstances her run had a lot of merit.  Especially when she was 3 wide albeit with cover for most of the race and wider on entering the straight. In the Newmarket it was noticeable they didn't split and all tried to get to the inner.

Nothing to do with it. Im sure he does , but they are just buying up cream of crop , trackside & media celebrate it like its something of significance.     

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It is difficult to place a one dimensional horse whose forte is 2400m.  You can only race that distance two or three times at most in a season and you have to build to it. We've discussed Leica Lucy before and as I said then they went to the well too many times.  Robbie Patterson said she needed a break.  She basically only had one preparation leading to the NZ Oaks win.  Sometimes it takes a long time to recover sometimes they don't recover. I also wouldn't listen to what a Jockey says.  Often their post race media comment is slanted by disappointment and or a poor ride.  LOL I can think of numerous occasions where a Jockey has had a shyte ride and blamed the track conditions. If Thats Gold is better suited to mile-middle distance then he has more chamce in OZ than an outright stayer.