The Gelding’s attention returns to Victoria today and the meeting at his home track at Caulfield. After several weeks following the ponies in Sydney, he is looking forward to being back on familiar ground this afternoon.
As always the bets are on an each way and all up basis.
Caulfield
Race 3 Horse 11 – Mr Sneaky (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 4 Horse 2 – Moonlites Choice
Race 5 Horse 1 – Doubt I’m Dreaming (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 8 Horse 1 – Charmed Harmony
Race 9 Horse 11 – Fastnet Latina
Good luck and good punting!
The Gelding
The Gelding’s attention remains in Sydney at Randwick today and after last week’s good outing with two winners and two second placings from five selections he is looking to increase the number in the win column!
The Gelding’s attention remains in Sydney at Randwick this Saturday and he is hoping the weather won’t be a factor as it has in recent weeks. Today he has placed his faith in the top weights in four out of his five selections.
The Gelding’s attention remains in Sydney for another week with racing at Randwick. After a number of near misses last week, he will be trying to find the winners in some very good fields.
The Gelding’s attention remains in Sydney today and specifically on the race meeting at Randwick. He had a lot of near misses last week and is looking to turn those placings into winners today.
Great to see the Australian cricket team hang on in the third test in India. Peter Handscombe obviously took my previous musing to heart and produced his best innings of the tour and in the context of the series, perhaps the best innings of his fledgling career. I think this
is probably the first time since the third test of the 2005 Ashes series when the Australian team has batted out a day to save a test. On that occasion Ricky Ponting batted nearly the whole day and we escaped with a draw with one wicket in hand. The Indians really took the game away from Australia on Sunday and to hang on as we did was a great effort and keeps a very interesting series alive going into this weekend for the fourth and final test of the series.
Australia in Alice Springs in the Sheffield Shield final and in the AFLW we have Brisbane Lions hosting Adelaide Crows on the Gold Coast. As Victoria has won the last two Shield’s perhaps it is a winning formula, but clearly not ideal for local cricket fans. This scenario was apparent at the start of the season, however, the AFLW grand final is a bit more embarrassing for all concerned. The groundsmen in control of the Gabba apparently see their primary job to prepare the ground for the first test match of the year and AFL football takes a back seat. Leigh Matthews has said that this situation has existed since the Brisbane Lions started playing there and perhaps now with the Queensland state government getting involved, football might be treated a bit better.
Maxwell has now grabbed his chance. Steve Smith has again been impressive and continues to push his case for the best batsman in the world at the moment. Peter Handscomb has been a little disappointing. After his four tests in Australia where he excelled he has now returned scores of 22, 19, 16, 24 & 19 so he has a got a start in each innings and failed to go on. I am not suggesting he should be dropped, but he needs to convert a start into something more substantial. Fingers crossed the Aussies can get the job done in this test and put the acid back on the Indians.
the day grand final, but I am certainly not against a twilight match. I would not be in favour of a night grand final as I think it would detract from the functions and BBQs that people have based around the current fixture but that could transfer to a twilight time slot, but a later start would not be as conducive.
weekend and it is a shame that a heavy track is likely. My tip is the Blue Diamond winner, Catchy, as long as she handles the track conditions.
The Gelding’s attention is at Rosehill today for the running of the Golden Slipper. The good runners are out today and he hopes winners will be easy to select.
The Gelding’s attention is at Flemington today and he is in some fine form at the moment. He had two winners and three seconds from five selections last week and says he was unlucky with two of those being beaten by the narrowest of margins. He is looking to continue that form today.