Friday Night Lights

[Gammalite]

The lights are still on , and the fields are a good size tonight with many 8 horse fields. giving all runners a chance of victory. 

Thank the goodness so you blokes can't pick on Auckland when Addington is racing near the same numbers for a change . 

Is the STONEWALL bloke getting some BIG bets  💰 on tonight to annoy the Brodster ??

Telfers and Tim already WON race 1 with Christies Art at $1.80 so looks like the Money is on .  and he's cashed up already.

Is SLOTS winning? what about AKATEA ? CARBON in the 8th?  Could be a FOUR-PAck for Tim and Steve/Amanda in the end? 

Looks Like they stuffed at Auckland though.😳

Heavily backed CAPTAIN's SECRET beaten by the stable-mate in the first race ?? 😅 Josh kicked on too well on the leader. Forbury will be spitting chips😂

wouldn't see Allstars messing it up like that. 😉😎

maybe they can make up for it in Race 5 Alexandra with 3 of the 8 runners lining up. Bit of team-work and they can get the Tri ? 

 

[Nowornever]

Telfers have definitely found the same formulae as Emma Stewart

[Nowornever]

Just back all their runners even the three legged ones🤣

Edited 3 hours ago by Nowornever

[Gammalite]

A few kiwi ex-pats  at Albion Park tonight . so worth a look too for a $ fiver or 2 .

Race 1.  Megs Boy $1.70    (thought that was 'Mels Boy' for a moment . Ranga would remember him)  

Race 2. the FFA  Speak The Truth $4.50  started in the Grins race and 2nd in a Miracle Mile . so wins this ? maybe

Race 3. Shard's Matrix  $4.80   won a couple of races at Addington last June . might be a winter horse lol 😅

Race 4. Golden Fire $3.00   Gold Ace mare from AKLD , back in grade from open Mares last start. wins.

Race 5. Sweet Addition $3.00  A sweet draw for Swayzee owner Mick Boots and top man Pete McMullen

Race 6.  Crap race . giving the flick 

Race 7.  TOSS-Up here . we have Premier Paul $7.50 from O'Reillys and Fernco Nel  $2.00 from Larsens in the deep South . Better follow the money and go with star driver Pete M driving FERNCO NEL 

Race 8.  a popular one here Post Painter .$1.25  raced all round the South Island last year but primed for this with a           fast 1.52 placing last start (and a win previous start with first run in Australia)  

MegsB + Speak the Truth + Shard'sM + GoldenF + SweetA + FerncoN + PostPainter

1.7 x 4.5 x 4.8 x 3 x 3 x 2 x 1.25 =  $826      might be worth a 5 bucks look ?  . 4000- 5 

cover $5.00 on Golden Fire R4.    and still win a 'Fiver' anyway if the other 6 flop  🤣   Lets go Kiwis !!!

[Gammalite]

48 minutes ago, Nowornever said:

Just back all their runners event even the three legged ones🤣

The money was on again alright . Here SLOTS was $3.80 in to $2.20 when the plunge came.

He came up a head short as Carter clung on . the winner $2.90 out to 5's when they jumped with all the money on Slots. Slots got Lovely drag into it as well by the stable-mate. thought was gunna blow em away for second.

Carter a great Trainer /driver though. near best in the country nowadays ? 

[Gammalite]

Well they drove the 3 Telfer runners with a bit of strategy in the Race 5 Final, the best they could , but the Leader Won.

somehow Abernathy got away with a 34.4 quarter . I have never seen Metro class horses going so slow. they were crawling 1400m round to the bell . 

Dickie had to go forward with Iron Brigade (backed 3-1 into 2-1 here )  as had no choice at that stage.

perhaps the ''3rd string Telfer' horse should of just got stuck into the leader harder at the half mile ?  

The Pole Draw 3rd Telfer runner nearly won it anyway .narrow  Half head 2nd up the passing lane. 

[Rangatira]

8 minutes ago, Gammalite said:

somehow Abernathy got away with a 34.4 quarter . I have never seen Metro class horses going so slow. they were crawling 1400m round to the bell . 

used to get fined for that in Aust back in the day ?

[Gammalite]

23 minutes ago, Rangatira said:

used to get fined for that in Aust back in the day ?

Am sure there are still 'Slow quarter' Fines Ranga.

I just had a look at the QLD Rules of Harness Racing . There are 186 Pages. It was too hard to find.

There are that many clauses to do with 'everything' they would make great forum discussion , some of the topics are very interesting.  But it's a bit like reading and chatting about 'War And Peace' in length 😎

[Rangatira]

22 minutes ago, Gammalite said:

Am sure there are still 'Slow quarter' Fines Ranga.

Seems wrong, leader should be exempt.