Author: glamourtips

Hardened punters view the end of the Spring Carnival with mixed feelings.  Sure there has been a lot of racing and its great seeing the good horses go around  but it’s tough having to share something you love with a lot of once  a year punters who are always asking you for tips.  There are lot of unexpected results and finding a winner can be problematic.  

It’s probably  also a hangover from the time spent in queues at Flemington  while the person in front of you took ages putting 10 place bets and  a key box trifecta with 5 different horses to run 2^nd & 3^rd just before the race was about to start. By the time all the bets were read back the race had started and the horse that you wanted to back had won by the length of the straight.

The TAB phone account was not an option because unless you put your bets on 6.00 am all you got was an engaged signal.

So, it is awesome to be able to get back to the serious business of punting without distractions. The programme at Ballarat does punters no favours and it may be necessary to head over to Perth where 9 times out of 10 the races are won by the locals, mostly ridden by WJ Pike.

Theme Bet

Our theme be this week is weapons, other accoutrements of war and their effect Race 2 Periscope (13) Race 4 Scorched Earth (11) Race 9 Hard Landing (9) Race 10 Star Missile (4). If all these horses win you would be entitled to an approximate dividend of $30,076 on your $5.50 Yankee or Parlay 23 & 4. However, that outcome depends on Periscope emerging from the depths. 

Ballarat

Race 6 Hint of Mint (8) Chassis (7) Balle Dor (4) Arctic Shock (3) & Sophia’s Choice (10)

Race 8 Power Scheme (16) Harlem (2) Kings Will Dream (3) So Si Bon (1) & Junipal (4)

Race 9 Sisstar (7) Hard Landing (9) The Astrologist (3) Whipcracker Way (4) Hawker Hurricane (1)

Race 10 Star Missile (4) Ocular (11) Titian Blinders (5) Yao Dash (7) & Viral (6)

Ascot

Race 4 Acromantula (2) Race 6 Kallaroo (4) Race 8 Inspirational Girl (11) Race 9 Festival Miss (12)

Kembla Grange  

Race 7 Purple Sector (11)

Toby’s Titanic

Lay of the Day

Race 9 Ballarat Astrologist (3)

PREMIUM TIPS

The 1960s saw the first man on the moon, the Beatles and the musicals my Fair Lady and the Sound of Music.

Thomas Sean Connery stared in the first James Bond Movie Dr No, winning at Baccarat and bringing down his first villain to threaten world peace. What a legend. Apart from anything else he was a punter who never lost and a cigarette smoker who survived  to the age of ninety.

As Sylvia Trench famously and magnanimously said “I admire your luck Mr ????”, providing him with the entree to one of the famous lines in movie history.

In June 1965, 52,000 people made the trek to the then outer suburb of Springvale to go to the first meeting at the newly built Sandown. Named after a racecourse in England not much has changed since other than the value of the real estate that it sits on except a lot less people go the races there

It’s been a while since a really good horse ran at Sandown. Neither Winx nor Black Caviar chose to start there, and I am not sure if Makybe Diva did either. The horse who the main race is named after Zipping was a more then useful performer who apart from the four classics won an Australian Cup, a Turnbull stakes and was placed fourth in three Melbourne cups.

Few or no people at the races has been a bit of a thing at Sandown over recent years {or decades} so things won’t be really be that different on Saturday. 

Perhaps you could celebrate at home on Saturday with a Chico Roll washed down with Spumante or Wynns Claret out of a flagon.    After the races you could maybe stream a Bond double feature to complete the mid twentieth century experience.

I’ll be watching Thunderball and Goldfinger. Thanks for the memories, Sean.You gave us all something to dream about. For most of us reality turned up but during the 1960’s you made at least one little boy very happy.

Sandown

Race 3   Neighbourhood (8), Kemalpasa (2) Streets of Avalon (1) Order of Command (3) Blazejowski (5)

Race 5 Kenya (6) Junipal (3) Buffalo River (1) Iconoclasm (5) Haripour (4)

Race 8 Princess Jenni (8) Sound (4) Brimham Rocks (3) & Future Score (5) & Lord Belvedere (6)

Race 9 West Wind (10) Power Scheme (3) Pacodali (3) Goldfields (5) & So Si Bon (2)

Newcastle

Race 5 Super (13) Race 6 Perfect Radiance Race 7 Rainer (3)

Toby’s Titanic (Lay of the Day)

Race 8 Avilius  

Lauchlan Kenneth Scobie Mackinnon was born on the Isle of Skye and came to Melbourne when he was twenty -three and four years later was a partner in the Melbourne Firm Blake and Riggall. In those more genteel times, he found time to be Chairman of the VRC as well as a company director on various boards. He lived in South Yarra and had a stud farm in the Goulburn Valley.

He was not what you might call a warm and fuzzy character.  He used his position on the VRC committee to add an additional 4.5 kgs to the weight for age scale especially for Phar Lap after the gelding always beat his horse Carradale. He then insisted that Phar lap run in the 1931 Melbourne Cup carrying a massive 68 Kg.  (He finished 8^th) No wonder the legend  went overseas!   

A number of champion races horse’s such as Lonhro, Rogan Josh So You think and Rubiton have won the race which has a rich place in Flemington’s history. It was Bernborough’s last race after his shock defeat in the Caulfield Cup and this ended in badly. None of the more recent winners would fall into the champion category particularly since 2016 when the VRC made the surprising decision to change the date from the Saturday before to the Saturday after the Melbourne Cup.

If you are in front for the Carnival going into Stake’s day keep a little back. It is traditionally a nightmare day for punters. Even though the races have changed not much has improved since the perfectly named Tears I Cry (trained by Ciaron Maher and ridden by Nikita Berriman)  won the then Emirates Stakes at 100-1 tipping out even money favourite Weekend Hustler. The Trifecta paid over $61,000.

Theme Bet

A Scottish theme with a touch of Wales and Ireland would be appropriate for Saturday Italian Race 1 Scottish Dancer (7 ) Race  2  Torbreck (7) Race 3 Harlech (3)  Race 5 Gallic Chieftain (20) Race 9  Wicklow Town (12)

A winning Super Yankee (Parlay Formula 234 & 5 Bet) will result in a dividend of $622,020 but you may run into issues with the size of the pool and the limits that bookmakers place on dividends for multiple bets. In any event the UK has just gone into lock down so who would want to go there anyway.  

Flemington

Race 5 Pondus (2) Le Don Vie (1) Future Score (7) Chapada (4) Creedence (8)

Race 6 He Doc (4) Bivouac (3) Santa Ana Lane (1) Libertini (9) & Nature Strip (2) 

Race 7 In Good Health (8) Toffee Tongue (2) Challiot (13)  Bonvicini (5) & Paradee (6)

Race 8 Fifty Stars (1) Harlem (2) Mugatoo (5) Dalasan (7) & Arcadia Queen (9) 

Sydney

Race 6 Captivant (2) Race 7 Madam Rouge (2)

Toby’s Titanic (Lay of the Day)

Flemington Race 9 Arcadia Queen