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FRITZY BOY (1E)

19

A Kiwi galloper who has won one race since 30/8/08, so he should consider himself blessed to even get the gig as first emergency. Ran fifth of nine in a Listed race four starts back, so he’s hardly Rough Habit or Sunline reincarnated.

STRYKER

20

Finally got around to winning another race last Saturday, but with the possible exception of Graceful Anna, they weren’t a very talented bunch. Had a disgraceful 8.58% win strike rate before last Saturday, so why does one more win last Saturday suddenly make him some budding superstar.

SKIDDAW PEAK (2E)

21

Would be some – with “some” being the operative word - hope in a Welter sort of race in Victoria, so should never leave that State. We already have enough pretenders from Victoria here. There ought to be a quota put on them annually.

SO ANYWAY (3E)

22

This little darling finally won a race the other day at Scone (14/5/10) after an absence of well over a year (previous only other career win was on 25/2/09 at Warwick Farm by the width of a cigarette paper). I think the owners are still at church, on bended knee, thanking “the great one” for shining down on them that day at Scone. She’s another one who should never have been allowed to cross the Queensland border. In fact I bet you the Bookmakers Association are paying her way to Brisbane. If that is the case it is a national disgrace - and I bet you the Bookmakers Association have paid for a whole truck load from Sydney and Melbourne to come here – just to fill their already burgeoning bookies bags. I might write a story on that next week to expose the way it works. I can feel another exclusive coming on. Got to love Carnival time.

PRINCE BRAEMAN

23

If he’s anything, he’s a wet track Welter horse in Sydney. Come to think of it he might get those conditions Saturday in Sydney, after the footballers at ANZ Stadium last night nearly got washed down stormwater drains, so he’s better off there. Stay put Paul - and do a rain dance.

MR UNFORGETTABLE

(4E)

24

A wet track Welter type of horse who should be racing Prince Braeman in the mud on Saturday in Sydney. Stay put “little Aussie battler” - and just jump in your jalopy and travel to Newcastle and do a rain dance with Paul and you can quinella a race in Sydney.

LATIN NEWS (5E)

25

Has the “Bart factor” and shows promise, but with respect, Bart has been a fellow Earthling for over 80 years, so he has had ample opportunity to twig that his horse needs to earn prizemoney to get into such races as the Doomben 10,000 as he’s won the race before. Now at the end of the day Latin News is 10 weeks off turning 4YO and if his owners and trainer decide to only race him once at age 2 – and give him just six starts so far as a 3YO - why should he be able to leapfrog a horse that has already earned a lot of prizemoney. If Billy Bloggs from the backblocks of Boggabilla, Bourke or Bedourie, trained Latin News “they’d” probably conclude the run the other day was a fluke, instead of all these tossers getting on their soapbox. The young horse still has his chance to make the Stradbroke field by winning an exempt race and I’m that old that I can tell you that that is the race Mr Cummings will have in mid – not the Doomben 10,000. Earth to urgers.

MONTON

26

A very ordinary conveyance at the best of times. He went like a crippled soldier crab in Brisbane, that had been hit by a fully loaded semitrailer, the other day – and this was the only outlet that accurately potted him – both in the race preview and on radio.

PINWHEEL

27

Couldn’t get home in Sydney the other day, so how could he win a Doomben 10,000?

SARGE IN CHARGE

28

Who was the eternal optimist who nominated this little treasure? Nearly held up the next the other day at the Gold Coast when tenth of 15 behind Beethog - and then Beethog did hold up the next last Saturday at Doomben. In an exclusive, I can tell you that the SES spokesman Terry Tarpaulin told me as recently as this morning that “We are still scouring the area behind Doomben racecourse for Beethog, but sadly we think she may have found her way onto the new Gateway Bridge and jumped off. Sniffer dogs tracked her to the Gateway, but then lost the scent”.

SISTER MADLY

29

She’s been all over Australia racing from Queensland to South Australia and all points in between, so why hasn’t she had her chance to earn prizemoney? After all she’s seen more of Australia than the late, great Slim Dusty did. (Apologies mentioning Slim if you are into Mad Dog, Fifty Cents and stuff like that but I’m not into the modern “singing”, as I’m happy to stay back in the 60’s and 70’s, rather than watch people with bits of metal through every imaginable orifice of their body roll around on stage doing Louie The Fly impersonations whilst muttering words I cannot understand).

DEER VALLEY

30

Can’t get hot in races restricted to her own gender, so how would she win a Doomben 10,000? She’d need to be allowed to cut across the infield to be in the finish.

OLONANA

31

Can’t even run 1200 metres, so how could she run 1350 at Group 1 level? She needs a lung transplant before being ever nominated for a 1350-metre race, so watch for that gear change to happen before backing her.

WARRIOR GIRL

32

Stewards claim she pulled up sore last Saturday in a 2MW/LY race and she hasn’t won past 1000 metres, so how could she win a Group 1 race over 1350 metres?

HAPPY HIPPY

33

It’s the wonder that stewards don’t swab a horse with a name like this every time he sets foot on a racetrack. He’s been placed once at Group 2 and Group 3 levels and has not won a black type race above Listed level, so how would he win an all age gender Group 1 race?

READYOR

34

Has won a Listed race at Kensington. They’d have to be kidding.

BLAZING HEARTS

35

Won a Class 6 city race in Brisbane last year at 100/1 and my Quadrella tickets instantly became confetti. He was just a tad hard to find - as at his previous start he’d run sixth of 19, beaten nearly six lengths at Rocky, so how would he win a Doomben 10,000?