curious

Read again. I said accomplishment of a kiwi bloodstock agent, not a kiwi owner, trainer or jockey. In that respect it's an outstanding feat imho, and whether the owners he was acting for were the China Horse Club or the Kiwi Horse Club is irrelevant.

Yes, I think that's what makes Gronkowski's performance remarkable. Must have run his last half mile in 44?

Possibly one of the greatest accomplishments of any Kiwi born bloodstock agents.

Rightly so. Atrocious.

Was Restoring Hope's role to just sit outside him and try to stop anyone else pressing him? He seemed to retire on the turn unasked and left them to it.

I thought he was foaled in the US?

Good question. I don't know. Maybe mare bought in Oz and bred NHT before being shipped back to US? But he looked like he wasn't even going to join in. Some patient ride and if he'd begun, history might have been different. Have a look at his start here.

curious Report post Posted May 27 More seriously, with Audible out, I like Hofburg and Gronkowski. I did leave it to Baffert of course, as I said I would. I note that I also correctly named the two most likely to beat him, including the second horse which was 69/1 at the time. Of course you'd have been on to that because of the trainers first time lasix strike rate of 25% I guess. Is that better than first time blinkers?

Yes, I thought that he was just waving it at him. On another note what a performance by Gronkowsci and Chad Brown. He was motherless at least 12 lengths off Justify round the first turn. Got a dream run through on the rail but all the same, to finish a length and a half off that horse in his first start in the US was some effort I thought.

Way too good! Just kept looking better and better this week and almost went to sleep in the gates. I was hopeful turning in but I'll take the trifecta. Hope you got some of it.

Interesting, he's out to $2 on the NZTAB and into 3/5 there as some predicted.

Yeahh.. good we get it on ESPN and don't have to put up with a $5000 claimer from Golden Gate covering half the screen and no HD on Tside.

Looks pretty spot on this morning.

Weather perfect. Forecast fine dry 80 degrees.

And have they still not got the drains at Otaki to run uphill? I just got a message transferring the June 22 meeting to Hawera?

If you recheck your numbers barryb, I think you'll find it's more than 3 days but less than 7.

Bloody tough gig that Triple Crown ... and Baffert has been there.

Yes, all the ones you want to bet with but it keeps you logged in to all accounts.

Quite right Thommo. I leave it up to the trainers to apply the gear that will help the horse run to its best in the same way I leave it to them to decide what work to give it on Tuesday morning and what to add to the feed on Friday night. You'd probably want that info as well I imagine. Is the quotient better for blinkers on, or blinkers off in maiden races ?

For Thommo, the pen readings are even across the track this morning.

I think he's too busy trying to work out the pen readings on Saturdays and recovering from the effort on Sundays.

Yeahh, I'd stick with the SP bookie like Turny, wally. Can bet on credit too, so don't need EFTPOS. They seem to have made a come back.

I'm probably wasting my time trying to help you Thommo, but the fact is that when you punt you are basically competing with all the other punters out there. They all have the same information. Unless you somehow have access to info that most others don't, any additional info such as the stuff you keep going on about will also be available to all the competing punters so will give you no advantage when you assess a horse's chances against the available price. What part of this are you not getting? Since the pen readings you want are available in OZ, does that make your punting on Oz races more successful than on NZ races where they are not?

He'd probably simply like to know all the winners before the off.