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Professor’s red hot tips for Flemington races on 17 March 2018

The Professor had a good collect last week on Redkirk Warrior and he is looking for more value in today’s selections.

Make sure you back them each way.

Flemington

Race 1 Horse 3 – Quilista
Race 2 Horse 2 – Scarecrow
Race 3 Horse 5 – Demerara
Race 4 Horse 2 – Khulaasa (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 5 Horse 2 – Humidor (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)

You can hear the Professor discuss how his selections went tomorrow from midday on Sportzfan Radio on 88.3 Southern FM.

Good luck and good punting!

The Professor

Professor’s red hotties for Flemington races on 10 March 2018

The Professor came up trumps for the ladies at the Tennis club last week and believes he has another couple of winners in his selections this week.

Make sure you back them each way!

Flemington

Race 2 Horse 5 – Kings will Dream
Race 5 Horse 8 – Shokora
Race 6 Horse 1 – Redkirk Warrior (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 7 Horse 1 – Shillelagh (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 8 Horse 1 – Hartnell

Good luck and good punting!

The Professor

Professor’s red hot tips for Flemington races on 3 March 2018

The Professor returned to form last week and he is looking forward to further success at Flemington today.

Make sure you back the tips each way.

Flemington

Race 4 Horse 1 – Oregon’s Day (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 6 Horse 4 – Poetic Dream
Race 7 Horse 11 – Grunt (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 8 Horse 1 – Fell Swoop
Race 9 Horse 6 – Scarecrow

Good luck and good punting!

The Professor

Professor’s red hotties for Caulfield races on 24 February 2018

The Professor is looking for an improvement in form today in what looks like a very difficult day to pick winners.

Make sure you back the tips each way!!

Caulfield

Race 3 Horse 1 – Overshare
Race 6 Horse 3 – Brave Smash (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 7 Horse 1 – Long Leaf
Race 8 Horse 8 – Russian Revolution (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 9 Horse 1 – Hartnell

Good luck and good punting!

The Professor

Professor’s red hot tips for Flemington on 17 February 2018

The Professor has spent extra time this week looking through the race fields and feels confident that he has picked a few winners at Flemington today.

Make sure you back them each way!

Flemington

Race 4 Horse 7 – Kings Will Dream
Race 5 Horse 13 – Handsome Thief
Race 7 Horse 13 – Peaceful State (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 8 Horse 1 – Redzel (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 9 Horse 16 – Manolo Blahniq

You can hear the Professor discuss how his tips fared with the Judge and Coutta on tomorrow’s Sportzfan Radio from midday on 88.3 Southern FM.

Good luck and good punting!

The Professor

Professor’s red hotties for Caulfield races on 10 February 2018

The Professor’s winning record for the ladies at the Tennis club took a bit of a battering last week with only one selection gaining a place. All the more reason to consolidate today at his favourite track at Caulfield.

Make sure you back them each way!!

Caulfield

Race 5 Horse 1 – Shoals (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 6 Horse 6 – Merchant Navy
Race 7 Horse 1 – Levendi
Race 8 Horse 1 – Hartnell (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 9 Horse 1 – Silent Sedition

Good luck and good punting!

The Professor

Professor’s red hot tips for Caulfield races on 3 February 2018

After two winners for the ladies at the Tennis club last week, the Professor is on a bit of a winning run. He is looking for a few more winners today with these selections.

Don’t forget to back them each way!

Caulfield

Race 3 Horse 2 – Twitchy Frank (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 5 Horse 12 – Eurack
Race 6 Horse 3 – Snitty Kitty (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 8 Horse 10 – Bravo Tango
Race 9 Horse 5 – Malaise

The Professor will discuss how his tips fared when Sportzfan Radio returns for 2018 tomorrow from midday on Southern FM.

Good luck and good punting!

The Professor

The Professor’s red hotties for Caulfield races on 27 January 2018

After a reasonable return last week, the Professor has hit a rare streak of form, especially for the ladies at the Tennis club, where he has bagged five winners from six selections over the last three weeks. He is looking to improve on that today at Caulfield. Punters should note a very early start with the first race at 11.00am.

Make sure you back the tips each way!

Caulfield

Race 3 Horse 4 – Oohood
Race 4 Horse 3 – Smart Coupe
Race 7 Horse 6 – Red White & Blue
Race 8 Horse 2 – Tshahitsi (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 9 Horse 4 – Morton’s Fork (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)

Good luck and good punting!

The Professor

Professor’s red hot tips for Flemington races on 20 January 2017

After taking a successful run at Gold Coast races last week (3 winners and a second from 5 selections), the Professor returns to Victoria today and sees Flemington as a likely source of winners.

Make sure you back them each way!

Flemington

Race 3 Horse 1 – Civil Disobedience
Race 4 Horse 2 – Addison
Race 5 Horse 6 – Crusty
Race 7 Horse 4 – Nature Strip (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 9 Horse 10 – Malaise (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)

Good luck and good punting

The Professor

Professor’s musing – Arnold or Van Marwijk for Socceroo’s coach?

I read that Football Federation Australia (FFA) Chief Executive, David Gallop said there had been ‘huge’ amounts of interest in the
Socceroos coaching position from local and overseas candidates. One wouldn’t need to be a Rhodes scholar to understand such a level of interest in the position recently left vacant with the resignation of Ange Postecoglou. After all, the hard work has already been done given that the Socceroos have already qualified for the 2018 World Cup.

With at least fourteen candidates on the list of potential coaches, I note there are only two Australians – Graham Arnold and Tony Popovic. Aside from Postecoglou, the Socceroo’s recent past is littered with International coaches such as Guus Hiddink, Pim Verbeek and Holger Osieck. The difference between Postecoglou and the other three is that Postecoglou cared about the future of Australian soccer, the Socceroos and the A League. To the others is was just a job with one simple task – to qualify for the World Cup with no real interest in much else.

Talk has it that Dutchman, Bert Van Marwijk is a short priced favourite for the job. Van Marwijk’s recent claim to fame is coaching Saudi Arabia to qualification for this year’s World Cup. He is back on the shelf after the Saudi Football Federation couldn’t agree with him on the terms of a new contract.

For Australian soccer’s continued growth, the FFA need to appoint a
local person and Graham Arnold would be the perfect choice. He has the qualifications for the job. For a start he has already been in charge of the National squad back in 2006 and 2007. He has gained more experience in the intervening ten years and is currently the coach of the very successful Sydney FC. Postecoglou proved conclusively that Australian coaches are up to the task of coaching at International level so there should be no impediment to appointing Arnold.

However, I have no confidence that the FFA will get this most important of decisions correct. After all this is an organisation that squandered $45.6 million of Federal assistance in an ill fated (some would say impossible) attempt to convince FIFA to award the 2018 or 2022 World Cup to Australia and we all know how that turned out.