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I didn't pursue it. Just thought it seemed unreliable. I'm not sure there is any correlation between website data and punter spend. I often go on to bookie sites where I don't even have accounts to check pricing and price movements. Credit card spend data may relate to punter deposits, but surely without matching withdrawal data, that has to be a pretty useless measure? -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Sulabella’s (NZ) (Proisir) love affair with Rotorua continued on Wednesday when the Ruakaka mare stormed home to record her sixth career victory in the Arawa Park Hotel Rotorua 1560. It was a sense of déjà vu for trainer and part-owner Michelle Bradley, with the daughter of Proisir having won the exact same race a year prior. Wednesday’s victory extended Sulabella’s perfect record at Arawa Park, and Bradley had a positive feeling about her chances when heading to the meeting. “When I sat down this morning and looked back through her races, especially the one here last year, I thought she would be a good chance,” Bradley said. “Then I got on course and I thought it might be a bit wetter than she would have liked.” But the footing proved to be favourable for Sulabella, who ran out a one length victor over Mister Roquette, but it wasn’t all smooth sailing, with her saddle slipping with 800m to go. “I don’t know if it is unfortunate or fortunate that her saddle slipped when she got going at about the 800m,” Bradley said. “But it was a great result, I am really happy.” Bred by Highline Thoroughbreds’ Cam and Eva Heron, Sulabella was offered through their 2020 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 2 Yearling Sale draft where she was purchased by Bradley for $12,000. The Herons retained shares in Sulabella, and while she has been a work in progress, the trio have been rewarded with half a dozen wins to date, with earnings north of $110,000. “I quite liked her at the yearling sales when she went through. She was only a little filly, but I quite liked her,” Bradley said. “She has had a couple of issues. We didn’t think she was going to get back to the races and Cam and Eva spent quite a bit of money and time on her as a young horse and we got her back into the stables, and we haven’t looked back. “She has won six races now, which is six more than a lot of horses. They might not be the biggest of races but it’s great to get good results and see her running well.” Bradley said Sulabella can be a bit of a handful, so to get the win on Wednesday was rewarding. “She is not the easiest horse to ride and I have got to ride her every morning,” she said. “It is great to get a result out of a horse like that, who is hard work.” Sulabella has a liking for wet tracks and Arawa Park, and Bradley said she will likely make the long trek south to Rotorua once more in a few weeks to try and extend her golden run at the track. “She was really looking forward to the step up in distance and she likes Rotorua,” Bradley said. “She will probably look at coming back here in two-and-a-half weeks and maybe stay at the same distance, but I would like to get her up to 2000m at some stage.” With Sulabella being a full-sister to Group Two winner Bourbon Empress and Group Two performer Pimlico, the broodmare paddock is beckoning the rising seven-year-old, however, Bradley would love to add a few more wins to her tally before then. “She is a full-sister to Bourbon Empress. She doesn’t have to do much when she has got good breeding behind her as well,” Bradley said. View the full article -
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Queensland Oaks ambitions with Bearings didn’t eventuate but Sydney-based trainer John Sargent is hopeful the staying filly can land a winter city win at Flemington before he turns his attention to next season. Sargent has Bearings (NZ) (Tarzino) set to contest Saturday’s Mahogany Challenge Final for three-year-olds and is convinced the step up to 2500m is what the daughter of Tarzino is looking for. Bearings was sent to Melbourne to contest a heat of the series over 2000m at Flemington at her most recent start on June 21, when the filly came from last in the field of 14 to finish fifth with Dean Yendall aboard. “I thought it was a good run, first time that way around,” Sargent said. “She got back and the pace wasn’t overly strong, which didn’t suit her, but I thought she hit the line as good as anything in the race and she’s just crying out for that extra distance.” Sargent said the Mahogany Challenge Series came onto the radar as an option for the filly after she missed gaining a start in last month’s Group 1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) on June 7. Instead, Bearings raced in Sydney on that day, finishing fourth over 2000m, before attention turned to Melbourne. “We were taking her to the Oaks in Queensland and she didn’t make the field, so we changed tack and thought there was a good staying race, similar distance, down in Melbourne,” Sargent said. “So that’s why we changed and headed down there.” Bearings’ two wins from nine career starts have come on NSW provincial tracks at Goulburn and Newcastle, and Sargent believes the three-year-old is on the improve. “She’s just getting better with time,” he said. “She’ll go out after this and I think she’ll be even better at four and five. She’s just a staying filly from New Zealand and has just taken time, that’s why she’s just hitting her straps now really. “I’ve kept Dean Yendall on, he knows the filly now and there’s no need to change anything.” Sargent said Bearings stayed in Victoria after her recent start and had done well since, so he is hopeful she will be able to settle closer on Saturday, somewhere midfield, depending on where she draws. If Bearings can keep stepping up into her four-year-old season, a return to Melbourne at some time during the spring might be on the cards. “It just depends how she matures, but I think she’ll be one of those black-type staying fillies that could get back down to Flemington, hopefully, and run in a Matriarch or something like that,” Sargent said, when discussing what type of level Bearings might be able to reach. Bearings was bred by Mapperley Stud and purchased by Tricolours Racing for $140,000 from their Book 1 draft at the 2023 Karaka Yearling Sale. View the full article -
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Harvey Wilson always kept a close eye on Jerricoop (NZ) (Zed) at Waverley and his vision for the gelding has come to life this year as he prepares to step up in grade in Saturday’s OTL Group LTD Hurdle (2800m) at Te Rapa. Previously trained by local horsewoman Erin Hocquard, Jerricoop collected two victories over staying trips and performed on rain-affected ground, the perfect formula for a jumper. After showing interest in the seven-year-old, Wilson welcomed him into his stable just under a year ago. “Erin trains in Waverley and is often next to us at the track, so we see a lot of her,” Wilson said. “We used to say that we’d love to get this horse as a jumper, and now we have. “He hadn’t done any jumping at all when we got him and he took a little bit of teaching, but once he cottoned on, he’s been good.” Despite the relatively short turnaround, Jerricoop has performed like a seasoned professional in his two jumping starts to date, placing on debut behind Yolo before scoring a comprehensive maiden victory at Te Aroha a fortnight ago. This weekend, the son of Zed will return to the north among a select field of eight hurdlers, with his performance likely to dictate where Wilson looks next this season. “We were very happy with his win the other day, he was very well-ridden,” Wilson said. “Since then he’s been working around the farm and we galloped at the track yesterday, just his usual routine. “We’ll see where he takes us, he’s gone up a grade now and there are some good horses in there on Saturday, but it’s not the very top grade, so we’ll be able to see where we fit in.” Jerricoop will continue his association with English hoop Joshua Parker, who is coming off a string of feature hurdle victories with Billy Boy, including last Saturday’s Wellington Hurdle (3200m). View the full article -
No. Cameron Rodger told me last year that their figures: ... are based on the method we use to track customer spend with offshore operators which is a combination of: Web traffic data; Personal (anonymised) credit card spend data; The fact that they are way out of line with GST, POCC, and published study data, doesn't seem to come into it.
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