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Good memory @curious. Though I'm sure @Newmarket will still say she has peaked and the latest successes are just luck. Or he thinks Jamie Kah and Jamie Melham are two different people. Jamie is getting her confidence back after that horrendous fall and should continue to improve. Unless the breeding barn interrupts!! How many Jockeys have won the Caulfield Cup/Melbourne Cup double in the same year?

Well they havent done it this week. The report says nothing about irrigating this week or have I missed something?

Sorry to shatter you delusion but I'm not upset. It is actually amusing reading the crap you write albeit now becoming repetitive. The gaps were always going to come. They always do over 3200m and it is easier to push past a tiring horse. Contrary to what some amateur punters think, such as yourself, a Jockey on a tiring horse will often move over for one full of running. Of course the difference is it was 3200m NOT a sprint. Also tiring horses will drift off the rail. Jamie rode the perfect patient race especially when you read the real hard luck stories from the other Jockey's where their charges clipped heels, didn't settle, got caught 3 wide etc. Also another factor was when Land Legend surged to the lead and upper the tempo at the halfway point which made some gaps in the field and made a staying test. Jamie being the cool calm experienced Jockey she is didn't panic. She got the horse to settle beautifully, took the shortest route home and pushed the go button at the right time. I wouldn't struggle but quite frankly educating you would do a disservice to the NZ Racing industry as they need your regular valuable monetary contribution.

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Well Written is starting in the NZ 1000 Guineas. Drawn 3 and short priced favourite.

Is the water table high at Riccarton?

There is no proof of Mitchell Dawson using something for an unfair advantage.

You really are a plonker. First you bag the horse AND Jockey and after the race you say it was a lucky run. Jamie placed the horse perfectly and put it to sleep until the right time. Pushed through the gaps when needed and the horse did the rest. Not much luck at all. As you should know, but obviously don't, over 3200m at Flemington the gaps will happen as horses tire up a very long straight. Just requires a patient calm rider of the calibre of Jamie Melham to ride through them.

She is a good Jockey. Very good hands and kind to a horse.

So you lost your dosh.

You're too sharp

Well it was your first discounted horse AND jockey.

I backed it and got it in the pub sweepstake.

So you are looking for a $7.10 dividend to break even?

LOL if it was a school yard they'd only last 5 mins. Most are weight handicapped and the rest have slow reflexes!!

So you are having win bets on 7 horses?

Blah blah blah. Must be the $10k bet you are putting on or your lead cell is inhibiting the WiFi connection.

Bollocks. You non-picked two horses now try and pick the first four.

I guess it is the Kiwi way to find someone to blame. What about the Club Committees and Members sbould they carry some blame as well? I believe so. So you were "interested and passionate" about the sport of racing but "voted with your feet" which presumably means for the last 30 years you didn't do anything. Yet you readily blame someone else? An amorphous group you call "those that govern the industry"! The tide turned when to be a member meant you no longer turned up for working bees or remained active or read annual reports or attended meetings or lobbied for change but instead just paid your membership fees and expected top class facilities to wine and dine at the few times a year that they could be bothered to turn up.

It is about markets and economics. Who in their right mind at today's costs would spend 4 to 6 years breeding and developing a stayer? Unless you are loaded with cash of course. Or you roll the dice and buy a developed horse from Europe with a syndicate. As for the Aussie's focussing on earlier - developing horses haven't you noticed that many of the horses winning in OZ still have Kiwi breeding?

So you bagged two horses and a Jockey. Not quite your best form. So that leaves 22 horses for you to give us your selections from.

Beats a local committee member going around with a fist full of tickets trying to sell them. From what I've seen of punters clubs is they never return a profit which I guess doesn't worry you as you are used to it now.

Just be greatful that they are running a punters club - you will have more chance of winning something.

Farmers for their time perhaps but methods improved and not many of the old school moved with the times hence the lack of track maintenance.

Well if that's your view why post about Tasmanian Court Judgements that subjectively say all padded whips hurt and are cruel? That was your interpretation. @curious you can't run a crusade batting for both teams. Unless you are Anti-Racing of course.