Here is the Melbourne Cup field. No doubt you have form guides scattered around the study (lounge room, loo, kitchen bench). Thought you might like to start the discussion. Mount a case for your selection: 1 11113-66-101 AMERICAIN(15) Gerald Mosse 58.0 Alain de Royer Dupre 2 2-01794-1311 JUKEBOX JURY(6) Neil Callan 57.0 Mark Johnston [Read more]
V.R.C. Derby Day Almanacker Selections
October 28, 2011 by 7 Comments
A ripper card at Flemington tomorrow. The predicted inclement weather adds complexity to the equation solving process. Our experts have been busy unlocking the form guide code and secrets. This is what they’ve come up with. Race MOC’s Morals Flynn’s Fancies Smokie’s Smokies Harms’s Hopes 1 Galah First Course Meethaq Galah Galah Meethaq First Course [Read more]
Crio’s pre-Derby Day deliberations
October 25, 2011 by 22 Comments
by Chris Riordan It’s Tuesday night. Incredibly, this time next week the Melbourne Cup will have been decided and I’ll have my feet up on the couch during what is half time of the Flemington Carnival. There are so many great stories waiting to unfold and I’m looking forward to being a part of [Read more]
GIGSTUFF 58
October 22, 2011 by 2 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz HISTORY REPEATED IN GEELONG CUP It was a case of history repeating itself in last Wednesday’s Geelong Cup, and not just because Dunaden emulated Americain’s performance of last year (winning the Cup as a top-weighted French horse) but because he became the 18th horse with a one-word name containing [Read more]
M.V.R.C. W.S. Cox Plate Day Almanacker Selections
October 21, 2011 by 8 Comments
I’m as mad as hell. The reason? I’m self-appointed president of an underground resistance movement called the Keep the Initials in the Race Names Freedom Fighters or K.T.I.I.T.R.N.F.F. Come the spring, the K.T.I.I.T.R.N.F.F. peruse the form guide looking for those initials internalised in our pomp. Sadly we’re disappointed. Where is the W.S. in the Cox [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: Cox Plate 2011
October 20, 2011 by 15 Comments
It’s the week between the Caulfield Cup and the Cox Plate. Racing’s hype machine is in top gear. We’re the main game in town for a couple of weeks. Inevitably, talk is of last week’s combatants and their path to Flemington and of the upcoming “WFA Championship of Australasia”. But this year there’s another level. [Read more]
Geelong Cup Almanacker Selections
October 19, 2011 by 22 Comments
The titular heads of tipsterdom are back to solve the Geelong Cup (Gup according to some) equation. Good punting. Smokie’s Smokies 1. Dunaden 2. Bauer 3. Perfect Pecs Smokie says the French stayer (Dunaden) has some decent form behind it. He highly rates Luca Cumani as a trainer, but probably [Read more]
Caulfield Cup Day Almanacker Selections
October 14, 2011 by 11 Comments
During the Cups Carnival, The Footy Almanac will provide an unparalleled tipping service. These keen form analysts have seen and done it all on a racetrack. They’ve backed winners from Dederang to Broome. They’ve scooped massive trifectas, quadrellas and cups doubles. Some have purchased dining room tables with the winnings. Some have had the misfortune [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: Caulfield Cup 2011
October 14, 2011 by 11 Comments
Caulfield Cup Day is an institution, primarily in Melbourne’s south-eastern burbs but, more broadly, it has a recognition factor beyond race fans and it traditionally coincides with a spate of iconic meetings around the country. In fact, if I weren’t swinging the bag on course I’d be more likely to be found in the more [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: Caulfield Guineas Day 2011
October 7, 2011 by 7 Comments
Welcome to any novices as well as the regular readers of this racing section of our site as the gallops finally get their turn in the local sporting spotlight. Feel free to ask questions, add ideas and, of course, justify some tips. You’ve chosen a great weekend to tune in as the Spring has spluttered [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: GF Weekend 2011
September 29, 2011 by 12 Comments
Punters prepared to weave through a fixturing maze will be rewarded with a festival of G1 races. Footy, The Show and now wild weather have wrought havoc on this great racing weekend- but there’s a dazzling meeting to kick off Friday Nights at the Valley, Randwick’s classic Epsom Day follows and then HQ’s Turnbull “brunch” [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: It’s Show Time!
September 23, 2011 by 8 Comments
Caulfield gets an “extra” meeting this year and I’ve finally realised that the Rupert Clarke Stakes is in fact the modern incarnation of the Invitation/Show Day/Marlboro/EatWellLiveWell etc that was for some time run on the public holiday we have subsequently lost. It has always been a good race – and, yes, the Show starts this [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: Underwood 2011
September 16, 2011 by 7 Comments
Though it is far from a vintage Underwood Stakes card, the MRC deserve a big crowd in response to their various initiatives – most prominently free admission – for the Spring Carnival Prelude day on Saturday. With no AFL games, hopefully balmy weather and a ripper Rosehill meeting on the TVs, we’re anticipating plenty of [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: John H. Dato Day
September 9, 2011 by 3 Comments
Whilst I stop short of insisting anyone has a bet, this week or in the future, it’s fair to say that if you intend to get involved with Spring features then, at the very least, carefully watch the replays from this Saturday’s meetings at Rosehill and Moonee Valley. The season’s first Group One, the million [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: Craiglee Stakes
September 2, 2011 by 17 Comments
Craiglee Stakes was always a day to get to Flemington, scour the doubles charts and focus on the weeks ahead. Traditionally the minor round was over and so the rhythm of the footy season was broken. Footy and Netball clubs flirted on the lawns on end of season trips and the sun occasionally made an [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: Memsie Stakes Day
August 26, 2011 by 10 Comments
It’s not a vintage Memsie Stakes – a time honoured campaign launcher – but, nevertheless, this Gr2 feature race and several others here and at Rosehill this Saturday will be subjected to close scrutiny, especially as the Doubles Bookies have now got their teasers well and truly posted. The next time we are at the [Read more]
Into the Valley of Death……………………….
August 23, 2011 by 6 Comments
by Damian O’Donnell The good people at Down Syndrome Victoria must be Geelong supporters; they organized their annual fund raising day at the Moonee Valley races on the same weekend that the Cats have a bye, meaning of course I can attend Moonee Valley without having my ear to a radio all afternoon. It [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: Moonee Valley 20 August
August 19, 2011 by 4 Comments
I don’t expect bookies to get any sympathies from punters. Sworn enemies, their motive is, of course, to get each other’s money. It is a simple stand-off, but in some ways also a reason why there’s a history of grudging mutual respect on a changing landscape. Once upon a time I’d only bet with a [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: ‘Time Honoured” Spring
August 11, 2011 by 3 Comments
Peter Lawrence is a former Committeeman with the Melbourne Racing Club. Fawning to him, former colleagues have shafted legendary sports identity (and remaining link to the Williamstown Racing Club) J.J. Liston, renaming from 2010 a time-honoured “Spring”-board for WFA stardom. The horses, of course, know nothing of this blight and the owners and trainers still [Read more]
Crio’s Racing: Aurie’s Star Handicap
August 5, 2011 by 8 Comments
The Aurie’s Star Handicap is on at Flemington this Saturday. Actually, it is not that important an event – Budge, who goes back a bit further than me, reckons it was formerly run mid week – but it has the potential to create a groundswell of interest and notice that the “good ‘uns” are not [Read more]
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