The Gelding’s attention returns to Flemington tomorrow and is looking for one final path to punter’s glory prior to the New Year!
As always the bets are on an each way and all up basis.
Flemington
Race 3 Horse 3 – Roundabout
Race 4 Horse 4 – Taiyoo
Race 5 Horse 5 – The Sicilian
Race 8 Horse 3 – De Little Engine (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 9 Horse 1 – Kaiser Sun (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Good luck and good punting!
The Gelding
The Gelding’s attention is on Flemington tomorrow as he looks to finish the year on a big note. Last week should have put a few pennies in the Christmas Club for the ladies at the Tennis club. After the year they have had it will be chicken and champagne for the celebration, not dry biscuits and spumante.
As always the bets are on an all up and each way basis.
Flemington
Race 2 Horse 1 – Calming Influence
Race 5 Horse 2 – Tuscan Fire
Race 7 Horse 4 – Kingdom of Dreams (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 8 Horse 2 – Tried And Tired
Race 9 Horse 7 – Making Mayhem (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Good luck and good punting!
The Gelding
The Gelding’s attention returns to the metropolitan area tomorrow when racing is at Moonee Valley. After an inglorious weekend on the punt, he is hopeful that it was the fresh air of the countryside that dimmed his usual sharp talents for spotting a winner.
As always the bets are on an each way and all up basis.
Moonee Valley
Race 4 Horse 4 – Kingdom of Dreams (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 5 Horse 8 – Cobblestones
Race 6 Horse 9 – Eruption (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 7 Horse 10 – Kaiser Sun
Race 9 Horse 7 – Tango’s Daughter
Good luck and good punting!
The Gelding
The Gelding’s attention this Saturday is unusually at a provincial meeting at Ballarat. When asked what he thought of tipping on a meeting in the country, his response wasn’t all that enthusiastic…”Hard to get excited about a country meeting on a Saturday after the Spring Carnival”.
That being said, he is enthusiastic about the tips!!
As always the bets are on an each way and all up basis.
Ballarat
Race 3 Horse 6 – Gracious Prospect
Race 4 Horse 2 – Reigning Meteor (by Northern Meteor)
Race 6 Horse 1 – Prompt Return (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 8 Horse 6 – Vilonova (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 9 Horse 1 – Eximuis
Good luck and good punting!
The Gelding
The Gelding’s attention is firmly fixed on Sandown this Saturday and he described the fields as being very ‘open’ (Gelding talk for hard to pick a winner). Notwithstanding that, he has set himself for a break out day!
As always the bets are on an each way and all up basis.
Sandown
Race 5 Horse 2 – Pride of Penzance
Race 6 Horse 1 – Sonntag
Race 7 Horse 2 – Stratum Star (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 8 Horse 5 – Generalife (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 9 Horse 3 – Politeness
Good luck and good punting!
The Gelding
The Gelding’s attention is at Flemington this Saturday for the last day of the Cup Carnival. After three winners last Saturday, the Gelding is looking at building on his good form.
As always, the bets are on an each way and all up basis.
Flemington
Race 2 Horse 14 – Cadillac Mountain
Race 5 Horse 3 – Le Roe
Race 6 Horse 10 – Chautauqua (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 7 Horse 1 – Hooked (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 9 Horse 4 – Fast ‘n’ Rocking
Good luck and good punting!
The Gelding
Well the big three races of the Melbourne spring have been run and won by international horses. The Japanese took out the Caulfield Cup, the Irish the Cox Plate and now the Germans have the Melbourne Cup. If Adelaide had been owned by Italian interests you may have questioned who won the war! There has been a lot of discussion about the influx of international horses and whether there should be a quota placed on them, particularly for the Melbourne Cup. Bunkum I say. If the locals want to win these races they should adjust their breeding and training regimes and start to focus on middle distance and staying races and not just breeding and training for sprinter/milers. For too long getting a horse to produce early in it’s career has been the focus instead of looking to the future. I think we should keep bringing in the international horses as not only are they better than the locals, they add plenty to the discussions at this time of the year. With Slade Power running in the Darley Classic tomorrow, the pain for the locals may not be over and we may be beaten at our own game.
I remarked last week about the pitches that had been produced in the recent test series against Pakistan and that may have been disrespectful to the Pakistanis’ as each of their second innings were better than our first in each test. The Australian’s were completed outplayed and any pretensions they had for being number one in the world has taken a severe blow. To be number one you have to be able to win in all conditions, not just those that suit your best players. Some of the selections have to be questioned as well. Bringing Glenn Maxwell in and playing him as a number three seemed as strange as the puzzling decisions in dropping Alex Doolan and Steve O’Keefe after one test. I can understand the theory of playing to your strength, but clearly the pitch blunted even the best fast bowlers, let alone the likes of Mitchell Starc. The batsmen need to learn how to play spin and the spinners need to learn how to bowl in those conditions.
What an amazing performance by the West Sydney Wanderers in the Asian Champions League final. For a club that has only been in existence for just over two years, they have played in two grand finals and won the premier club competition in Asia. Admittedly the A-League has only been going for a short time, but for a start up club to have achieved that much in such a short space of time is unprecedented. I think it even out-strips the Melbourne Storm’s win in the 1999 NRL grand final. It must say something about Tony Popovic’s coaching and he must be high on the radar for the national team or something substantial overseas.
Have a great weekend!
The Gelding is still away enjoying the oriental breezes and misses another Group One race day, this time Cox Plate day at Moonee Valley. I wonder how Mrs Gelding convinced him to be out of Australia at this time of the racing season. Fortunately, he has managed to spend some time at the computer in his luxury hotel suite and emailed his tips in.
Moonee Valley
Tonight
Race 7 Horse 2 – Lankan Rupee (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Saturday
Race 5 Horse 1 – Precedence
Race 6 Horse 5 – Trust in a Gust
Race 8 Horse 8 – Criterion (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 9 Horse 4 – Sauvito
Good luck and good punting!
The Gelding
Well the Spring Carnival is in full swing and this week sees the running of the WS Cox Plate. It doesn’t look to be a classic field, but it is probably the best that can be assembled. However, I do question the inclusion of Wandjina who has been placed in only two of nine starts, but obviously got a start based on his third placing in the Caulfield Guineas. Unfortunately last years winner was a maiden who had similar lead up form so the precedent had been sent, but I don’t think it sends a good message when you tout yourself as the Weight For Age Championship of Australasia. My tip in the race is Fawkner, but they all have to get past The Cleaner.
There was a lot of grandstanding in the corridors of power this week about cage fighting/mixed martial arts. To allow the mixed martial arts fights without the cage, is like boxing without the ropes. The fighters can still hit their opponent the same way, they just do it in different surrounds. What real difference does it make. I have watched a bit of the UFC on Channel 1, but not for some time. It seems to be well adjudicated and from what I understand there have been no catastrophic injuries. If these guys want to fight each other in a controlled environment then I cannot see what the problem is with the use of the cage. I also find the Police Commissioner’s comments about violence a little hard to fathom as well given the acceptance of all types of fighting sports in the community. I have a nephew who is doing mixed martial arts training and I am sure my brother would much rather he practised his sport in a controlled environment, with or without a cage. The proper control is the key, not the cage. Will I go along and watch, no.
Now my last comment this week only has a loose connection with sport because his wife swum in the 1938 Empire Games for Australia. E G Whitlam must surely be one of the most interesting politicians ever produced in this country and I always considered that having spent so long in opposition, once he got into power, he tried to implement too many programmes too quickly. Like a good marathon runner, if he had paced himself his legacy could have been greater. Anyway I can thank him for my tertiary education, a national health system and Blue Poles that I saw in Canberra recently. Vale Gough.
Enough of my own political grandstanding, have a great weekend!
The Gelding is off grazing in sunny Hong Kong at the moment and all we are left with at the Sportzfan Radio desk are his scribblings on the back of a used tote ticket with respect to his selections for the Caulfield Cup.
Punters may well query how the Gelding could possibly be out of the country at such an interesting time in horse racing!
Take as each way bets, a quinella and trifecta!
Caulfield
Race 9
Horse 14 – Lidari – Gelding says Simon O’Donnell wouldn’t be in it if he didn’t think it could win this one! (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Horse 15 – Lucia Valentina – The current race favourite and has run over this distance before but beaten home third after getting too far back in the field. Drawn nicely in barrier 12.
Horse 1 – Admire Rakti – The top weight and one of the Japanese raiders will be in it at the finish!
Good luck and good punting!
The Gelding