Trainer Leanne Applewaite and apprentice Renee Hinricks combined to win Race 2 at Callaghan Park Rockhampton yesterday afternoon with Forade and they were photographed by the Justracing camera following the win. Watch next week for a whole heap of photos from the day - and stories from the day will also go up over the next few weeks.

I have always been highly critical of all the positive crap that gets spoken and written in the racing media. “They” are cumulatively worse than politicians at election time. If the Titanic was sinking they’d find a positive – they’d probably say they were “just flushing the decks with some clean ocean water to save sweeping them”.

Here we go again tomorrow. We have three races that had to be held over from last Saturday’s Flemington meeting to this week. Ask any trainer you like and their horses have all benefitted from the extra week off. Today in an article attributed to Michael Manley and Nathan Excelby in Brisbane’s The Courier Mail “Melbourne foreman for Darley, Paul Snowden” thinks that Denman having an extra seven days off between the scheduled running of last week’s Australian Guineas and this week’s has been a “a blessing really,” continuing, “if anything I am more confident because of the (extra) week (off).” Now I’m not real bright, but if Denman was in fact "trained to the minute” for last Saturday afternoon then approximately 10,080 minutes later the horse is even better. Fair dinkum.

Have you heard around the racing television shows, radio stations and read in newspapers all about that “biased” track at Rosehill on 27 February? Anyone who tipped one that got beaten, or who trained or rode one that got beaten that fateful day can apparently use “biased track” as an excuse for their defeat, as long as someone in the media suggests it first. So far this week all I’ve seen, or heard, or read, is Queensland trainer’s Johnny Wallace and Roger Milne talking about “that biased track” when their horses Shoot Out and Captain Sonador ran second and third respectively in the Hobartville Stakes on 27/2/10. Gee they’d have come home quickly those two horses if the track hadn’t been “off” where they came. Fair dinkum. They’d have to run the quinella tomorrow in the Randwick Guineas then, seeing they were so severely disadvantaged by that “biased track” last start. We shall see if they can run the quinella tomorrow, that’s as long as there’s not another “biased track”. This time it might be that the bias suits horses three off the fence whose name started with the letter “A”. Fair dinkum, thank God we never heard of bias when I was a kid growing up. In fact it is only since they started ginning around and watering tracks that the word bias even surfaced. “Bias” is a fact of life, but not in the magnitude some would lead punters to believe.

Brad Tamer from Unitab advises the following jackpot information is happening tomorrow. There is a Trifecta jackpot on Race 8 at Flemington tomorrow, the Australian Cup, of $93,226. There is also a Quadrella jackpot of $95,073 on the Melbourne (MR) Quadrella tomorrow. There is also a First 4 jackpot of $19,116 on Albion Park Race 1, the MI or better pace.

The apprentice weights for Doomben should be:

Today on www.brisbaneracing.com.au with Brisbane expecting showers, I preview the rescheduled Australian Cup, on www.sydneyracing.com.au I preview the Sweet Embrace Stakes from Randwick, whilst on www.melbourneracing.com.au Tim Hickman looks at Flemington.

Galilee has filed this report on Adelaide which reads:

Last week: Magnificat. Yes I now agree with the Editors note, but we salvaged something with Capecover win in the Cup – a Paddy Payne quinella - shaping up as a trainer with a lot of ability. Congratulations to the Payne stable. This week we go to Oakbank for their carnival and we wish the committee all the best. Not an easy programme by any means. At the moment we have a track rating of a Dead 4.

         Race 6 – CHILDHOOD CANCER ASSOCIATION HANDICAP – 2150M ZOBEL FINACE HANDICAP 1600m

In this race I have selected the Fran Houlahan – Brian Johnston trained 4YO Tarawera. During the week I heard a radio interview from Sky Racing featuring Fran Houlahan and I thought that she was terrific and came over very well. I hope a few readers heard it. I have a feeling that it may have been an omen – when doing the form I kept coming back to Tarawera. He does come back 950 metres from last start and hopefully can handle that. Tarawera is second up and has a good record there – also he usually leads, or at least runs along up on the pace, an advantage here and has won only one race from nine attempts and that was over 1600m. He has good form around the distance of this race. This is an astute stable, known mainly for its jumpers, but also the training of stayers. Houlahan and Johnston would naturally want to be winning this race to pay expenses and jockey Ben Claridge is riding very well. I also feel that we will get good each way odds here and that is my recommendation.

Selection:  7 each way.   Good luck.