PICK A SLOT Cambridge Night of Champions BOAY Friday Comp

[Gammalite]

Race 5 for the 3 year old Fillies is up next.

Chief and Mikey ride on the Red Hot Fav BESIDE ME. could end up being the next 'Adore Me' the way she is going.

NoworNever 1+2,  the Galah has 1+5,  Brodie has 2+3+6  , TABbie has 6+8+9 driven by the Southerners.

Ranga has the ABC's running hot in this one with 2+4+6+8+9.  Gamma dead in the water again 🙄. 

[Gammalite]

Carter once again unstuck by the cunning old Fox Mark . Another Marky Boy special drive on WITHOUT YOU,  and he gets the money for NoworNever and the Galah as well knowing who the Big guns are .

The Galah also picks up 2 points for BarryP's horse 4th for a 10 points haul in that one. 

 

[Gammalite]

RAce 5 Result  Without You 1st, Arafura 2nd, Beside Me 3rd, YoureTheOneThatiWant 4th .

HALF way HOME

BOAY Slot leaderboard after Race 5 

Now or Never 32 points .  Chief 28 points. 

[Gammalite]

Ranga has 2nd and 3rd in Race 5 with Arafura and Beside Me to move up and attack for the Lead !!! 

NoworNever has been setting a strong Tempo up front aided by some classy Mark Purdon drives. 

 

BOAY Slot leaderboard after Race 5 

NoworNever  and Ranga both  32 points ,   Chief 28 points   ,  TABman  24 pts  (also 2nd and 3rd with the SI drivers )

The Galah 22 pts,    Brodie and Mikey  both 20 pts,     Gamma 6 pts.  

[Gammalite]

Race 6 time for 3 year old boys .  

NoworNever 1+2,  the Galah has 3+7,  Mikey has 4+10 , Gamma has 9+10, Brodie has 8+9 , Tab has 2+ 8 

Rangatira with 5+8+9+11   for the ABC slot and Chief sits out this one on the sidelines. 

[Gammalite]

At the line race 6 and Brodie,  Ranga  and TABman all on the 20-1 Roughie winning from the outside barrier.

These boys are fine judges of horse flesh and pick up 8 points each for that to close in on NoworNever who didn't get the 'Choc's' in that one (running 3rd lol) 

[Rangatira]

3 minutes ago, Gammalite said:

These boys are fine judges of horse flesh 

I just back what The Brodster tells me to.

[Gammalite]

RACE 6 Result   Bettors Anvil 1st, Greased Lightnin 2nd, Got the Chocolates 3rd, Metal Mickey 4th.

 

the Galah got 8 points for 2nd and 4th , and TABforever got 12 points with a 1st and 3rd haul !! well done 🍻 . 

 

BOAY Slot leaderboard after Race 6 

Rangatira 40 points (and new leader) 

NoworNever and TABman    both 36 points ,   Mr Galah  30 pts,     Chief and Brodie  28 points   

 Mikey  20 pts,     Gamma 6 pts.  

[Rangatira]

6 minutes ago, Gammalite said:

 Metal Mickey 4th.

Awesome blast from the past for Clive Herbert

[Gammalite]

The $600,000 TAB trot is up next (hope that doesn't mean Ben Hope and Bob Butt run the Quinella for TABman 🤣)

In Race 7  

NoworNever has 1+2,    the Galah has OscarB No.3 ,  Brodie has BetNwin No.9

Mikey has 1+3+4+6  ,  Ranga has 4+9  ,  TABman has 7+9 ,  Chief has Zip again (sorry Chief) 

and Gamma has a smacking 1+2+4+5+6  , about time goting roll forward from the back 😆 

 

[Gammalite]

Nice Improvement from the winner there after running 4th last year in the Inaugural TAB trot.

Found it a bit easier without Just Believe In it this time for new TAB trot title holder ARCEE PHOENIX.

Muscle Mountain was my pick in that but was a tickle disappointing after nice 1-1 sit. A 1-2-3 finish for the Aussies but with 5 runners they had the ammo to do it.

 

[Gammalite]

Race 7 Result The TAB trot slot. ArceePhoenix 1st, Queen Elida 2nd, The Locomotive 3rd , Muscle Mountain 4th.

Ranga , Mikey (moves up 3 places)  and Gamma on the Winner there, with Gamma getting 2nd and 3rd as well for a handy 18 points. 

 

BOAY Slot leaderboard after Race 7

Rangatira 48 points ,   NoworNever 42 points,   TABman  38 points ,  Mikey 32 pts,    the Galah  30 pts,     

Chief and Brodie  both  28 pts,   Gamma 24 pts.  

[Gammalite]

Race 8  A standing start. A few will be out of it right from the start. as they gallop out the back.  

( Galah and Gamma not in this race either, galloping to the kitchen for Cup of tea 😅 ) 

NoworNever has 1+2,  Mikey has 5+9,  TABbie has 1,    Brodie has 1+3+5+12 ,   Chief has 10+11,

and the Slot leader Rangatira  has 1+2+6+11 which are Boudica and 3 x Roughies.  

[Gammalite]

Oh crap . all the local trots have started in Aus as 5.30 now. and they're not broadcasting race 8. what a rip off !!! getting some stupid standing start in Hobart race 3 instead🙄.

[Gammalite]

Race 8 result  Matai Phil 1st, Boudica 2nd, The Surfer 3rd, Cos I can 4th.

Comp leader Ranga picks up 2nd and 4th for 8 more points. Mikey got 4pts while Surfing in that race.

BOAY Slot leaderboard after Race 8

Rangatira 56 points ,   NoworNever 42 points,   TABman  38 points ,  Mikey 36 pts,    the Galah and Chief  30 pts,     

 Brodie  28 pts ,   Gamma 24 pts.  

[Gammalite]

Race 9.

And onto the BIG pace. The Betcha Slot race . with a few decent horses running here.

Introducing for the Galah  The Duchess , Merlin and Chase A Dream

For NoworNever we have The Duchess and The Don 

For Brodster we have Don't Stop Dreaming and O Connor

For Ranga we have Chase A Dream

For Mikey it's the Don , LTF, DSD and Chase A Dream ( could nearly get the F4 ? ) 

For Chief we have Republican Party

For Gamma we have Don Hugo and Leap To Fame ( small Quinella chance ? ) 

and for the TABman driving like a madman in this one it's DSD, Pinseeker, OC, RakerotheRocket and the Pub party too. 

good luck everyone !! 

[Gammalite]

Go the Queenslander !!! 

I've known Grant and Mark for as long as I can remember and can't speak highly enough of them .

Gentleman of the game.  just like their dads Bill  (who I competed against) and Roy .

I'm so pleased to see that Quinella of 2 of my All time favourite harness blokes 🍻👍😍

[Gammalite]

Is hard to tally that after the heart flutters lol.

Race 9 result . Leap To Fame (the mighty Queenslander ) 1st Blacks a Fake couldn't win in NZ in 3 starts there , so guess Leap To Fame now overtakes him as the Best i've ever seen.

Chase A Dream 2nd, Merlin 3rd and Don Hugo (ground into the ground by Larry is 4th) 

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BETCHA Race result points.

Mikey (with the Quinella) and Gamma on the winner.

The Galah, and Ranga on the runner up of Marky boys who went great in that race .

So Ranga with 6 points from his lone runner there still holds the lead over Mikey who collected 16 points for 1st , 2nd and 4th in the BETCHA slot race to move into 2nd spots. 

BOAY Slot leaderboard after Race 9

Rangatira 62 points ,  Mikey 52 pts,     NoworNever 44 points,   Galah 40 pts,     TABman  38 points , 

Gamma 34 pts,     Chief  30 pts,       Brodie  28 pts ,  

[Gammalite]

It's not possible to catch Rangatira in the last race ,

with Mikey having one runner (no.8) and NoworNever his 2 inside runners, as Ranga has CRAZY No.1  himself.

He can now go 'Crazy' as the SLot King of BOAY  !!!! 

Congratulations Ranga ! you are little ripper mate and all the best for a great weekend .   

[Nowornever]

Well done Ranga and thank Gamma for the interesting format.

[Rangatira]

5 minutes ago, Gammalite said:

He can now go 'Crazy' as the SLot King of BOAY  !!!! 

Congratulations Ranga ! you are little ripper mate and all the best for a great weekend .   

Cheers Gamma, thanks for your efforts.

[Gammalite]

The Night of Champions is over for another year.

Leap To Fame getting to cross to NZ and take out the 'Race' defending Champion Merlin , and also grind down the current Interdominion Pacing Champion Don Hugo as well to really seal the deal.

LTF Now officially an International 'Superstar' 🌟. am still shaking head at that performance. 

on the BOAY superstar list we had the final race 10 to complete. Sorry But I near fainted after the Betcha R9 , seems like the ultimate top of Everest to me with a QLDer winning in NZ,  and am only recovering now at breakfast ☕.

Race 10 result  :  Crazy 🤪  1st, Trifolium 2nd, Patrick Mahomes 3rd, Rewiri hill 4th.

well in yet another fitting result for the evening after several already CRAZY did in fact win the last race for our star runners of the night (Ranga and NoworNever) to gather another 8 points each lol 😆

RANGA had gone 'Crazy' before the last anyway with the joy of it all 😂.  Mikey rounded out the BOAY trifecta getting 3rd place with Patrick Mahomes. Chief and Brodster picked up 6 points each for the 2nd placing for the Crystal Hackett trotter.  

Brodster and Gamma finish at the back. Never mind mate . there's always next year and some more great action 😆. we'll just have to go CRAZY and buy💰 a better Slot. 

 

FINAL POINT SCORE

Ranga 70 points ( has leapt to Fame 🏆 and new BOAY champion) 

2nd Mikey 56 pts,  3rd NoworNever 52 pts,  the Galah 40, TABman 38, Chief 36,  Brodster and Gamma 34.

 

 

[Blackie]

That was awesome to watch , what a beast of a horse. Poor old Don Hugo trying his heart out and be spat out like that.

I had the stopwatch on at home and only looked at it once I clicked across the line and thought I had messed up the marks looking at the time.

Merlin flat(most of them were)along way from home but I thought went really well considering he needs a good trip usually, a pass mark from me, but Larry, WOW. Any breeder looking at that may have a replacement for Bettor's Delight's DNA.

Have one for me Gamma.