The Professor and the Gelding give their four red hot best bets for today’s Oaks day meeting at Flemington and the Professor’s Parlay that includes an NFL match and a Premier League fixture.
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4 red hot tips for today’s Melbourne Cup day meeting at Flemington on 7 November 2023 & the Professor’s Parlay
The Professor and the Gelding give their four red hot best bets for today’s Melbourne Cup day meeting at Flemington and the Professor’s Parlay that includes an NFL match and a Premier League fixture.
The red hot tips for Oaks Day at Flemington on 4 November 2021 and the Professor’s Parlay
It was ‘almost’ for the Professor and the Gelding on Cup Day with four placings from four selections. The duo will try and improve on that today with some winners! The track is rated a Soft 6 with rain predicted during the day and the rail is out 5 metres for the entire circuit.
Don’t forget to back the tips each way!
Flemington
Professor’s tips
Race 4 Horse 13 – Saltpeter (for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Race 7 Horse 2 – Riot and Rose (also for the ladies at the Tennis club)
Gelding’s tips
Race 2 Horse 1 – Sirileo Miss
Race 8 Horse 1 – Elusive Express
Professor’s Parlay
Race 2 Horse 1 – Sirileo Miss into Chelsea to beat Burnley into Brighton and Hove Albion to beat Newcastle United (EPL).
You can see the latest episode of That’s Racing!! here.
Good luck and good punting!
The Professor
Friday musing – Travis Dean, Tarzino, Michelle Payne
Great to see young Victorian batsman Travis Dean make two unbeaten centuries on his first class debut last week. He joins four other batsman to have done the same thing, but he is the only one to
remain unbeaten in each innings and he also scored the most runs. My only concern would be that the other four are hardly household names. Arthur Morris also achieved the feat, but the game was not an official first class game. Hopefully Travis goes on to emulate Arthur Morris who was a very good opening batsman for Australia.
Tarzino was a very impressive winner of the Derby as he hit the front very early in the straight and nothing could run him down. However, two things stand out regarding the race, firstly no horses were able to 
make ground out wide on Saturday (or Tuesday for that matter) and secondly, the horses that finished behind Tarzino really looked to lack a little class. He beat second by a length and a half with a further four and a half lengths to third. Hardly a vintage year, whereas the Oaks looked to have three or four genuine chances and I think we might see a few of them go onto bigger and better things.
The Melbourne Cup provided a bit of the “romance of the track” with Michelle Payne saluting with a 100/1 shot with her disabled brother 
the strapper, I don’t think anyone begrudged them the success. What a great story. A lot of traditionalists have decried the internationalisation of the Cup in recent years and it was great to see the race won by local owners, with a local trainer and a local jockey.
Enjoy the weekend!
AFL & NRL Grand Finals, Arsenal…..
Well the AFL Grand Final is over and the competition has seen it’s second three-peat in the space of 15 years and this is in the context of a competition which has a salary cap and draft which is supposed to even out the competition. You factor in that Geelong has also won three in five years in that same period and the Swans have played in four Grand Finals and won two as well and it seems to be an indicator that once clubs get to the top it is hard to topple them despite the 
draft and salary cap. It has meant that Brisbane who completed the initial three-peat struggled after competing in the last of their grand finals in 2004 and Geelong are starting to struggle now having finished out of the finals for the first time in nine years. It seems though that teams are having long sustained runs at or near the top. Free agency and trading also favours teams up the top as good players only want to go to ‘destination’ clubs.
The NRL provided a lot more interesting grand final than the AFL with the high drama of the golden point result. While it might be sour 
grapes on the part of Wayne Bennett, I must say I think to lose a game in that circumstance would be pretty hard to take. If they are going to have extra time, it should be ten minutes each way as the golden point comes down to luck or bad luck as Brisbane’s Hunt would attest.
It was good to see last years VRC Derby winner, Preferment win the Turnbull Stakes and last years VRC Oaks winner, Set Square run third in the same race. Too often these days the winners of those races 
disappear the following year to be never seen again. I hope they both go on and have a successful spring carnival as it adds to the value of those races.
It was also great to see the Gunners fight back after a very disappointing display at home against Olypiakos during the week to 
come out and trounce Manchester United by 3-0. The three goals came in the first 20 minutes and Man U did not look like scoring. I think this year Arsenal have a side which could be good enough to win the title, they just need to be consistent through the entire season.
Have a great weekend!