And better than ever?
P.S Trigger won a trial as well today.
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And better than ever?
P.S Trigger won a trial as well today.
What a trial by Quinny! He is going just as good as he ever was if not better. I still think that Avonnova is definitely the horse to beat. Strong and versatile.
The king is back(Trigger), and he has a horrid draw and some very, very good horses to contend with... Hope lance goes easy on the Champ, as he has had a good little break!
Just saw the barrier draw.. Avonnova looks even more hard to beat for mine. I think Quinny will need a ballistic tempo and a good horse to tow him into the race, otherwise I can't see him winning. Thoughts?
Why does Triggers trial replay have to be **#*# up! Grrrrr!
Mach Beauty in 1, Avon 2, Quinny 6, Stuey 7.
Sub 1.51?
Quinny drawn in no mans land. Reckon he'll need them to go a 55 first half to be a chance to get over them?
Will Avonnova be able to hold the death from SSL? Will he want the trail maybe?
Chilli drawn to be 3 pegs??? Or will he keep the back of Avonnova??
GREAT RACE
Chilli Palmer @ 8-1 is laughable. Anything under 33-1 and you're being fleeced. Incredibly overrated horse at this stage. He has a 400m sprint tops in him with zero gate speed racing against horses that run back to back what he can only run one of.
You guys are reading this race completely wrong.
Team Hall get it right 99/100 and Quinny has brilliant gate speed when they can/want to use it. He'll be running the gate for sure on Saturday night.
With minimal gate speed from Condagen and even less so from Terror Time and Chilli Palmer trailing through, Quinny will be be straight onto the back of Avonova. I also think Condagen will beat Chilli Palmer into the two wide line if Picker is awake.
Stuey also runs the gate and on their last start there's the possibility that Mach takes a sit on him ?
Either way, the Champs goes Whoosh !
IMO, Chilli's only hope of a top 5 finish is from 3 pegs.
And imagine CP wins lol :p Who is Quinny's main dangers in your opinion and who will most likely end up being the fav on the night?
Bob, u say the halls get it right 99/100.......if they go forward then that's the one.
Might have a little on Chilli now!
Apart from the ludicrously short prices he has started lately I'm not sure who 'rated' him. I'm sure one thing that most did rate, was his phenomenal performance when sitting on Guaranteed's back and looking at the draw this weekend it's very possible to see him get a similar run on the back of a similar type to Guaranteed. I'd love some of bobs 33s each way but reckon he will be around the $12 mark. In the Tatts market posted Avonnova is the one who is massive unders......he should be double digits.
Ok, we'll agree to disagree and time will of course tell. If u r right then it's race over...1-2 or better the others have zero chance of holding him off.
Wow, markets up early not only for the Sunshine Sprint but also for the Melton finals this weekend. Well done Tatts!
Quinny now $3, wow get on. Can't see Chilli starting those odds, should drift. I was just making a comment I think finally things go his way (like they did in the Guaranteed race) and I reckon he can make a significant turn around on the result last week and run past Avonnova - who will be having his hardest run to date.
One things for certain, It's going to be a cracker of a race. Avonnova has been up for a while but he's a very serious horse that can race near the lead and run his last 1/2 in 55's or less consistently. I just hope they go mad up in front as they will run some serious time and IMHO there's probably only 2 horses in the field that can come home in sub 54.
I took $2.75 then $2.80 for $175 total so not exactly breaking the bank. I've just attempted to stick a further $175 on @ $3 and received a error message. Deleted the bet, refreshed the page, still $3. Logged out, went back in after a minute and Quinny is now $2.50. I see this all the time with the Corporates, occasionally with the TAB's. So with the $175 I like one at a bit of odds in the Winter Cup @ GP on Friday night @ $31 and $6. I attempted to put $25W and $150P, error message. Log out, go back in and it's shortened 10 points. I withdrew what I had in the account and I'll be emailing Harness Racing QLD tomorrow.
Every State authority has to come together on this and go after them, the Corporates and the TAB. Every dollar these guys turn away from Harness Racing punters is cents in the dollar that should be going back to the industry and isn't. I can't get $350 on at an average of $2.85 in a G1 feature. It's a joke.
Peter V'Landys has got the ball rolling for Racing NSW and HRA should be right with him.
The trouble that Harness Racing has unlike the Thoroughbreds is that Harness Racing has sold their souls to Tabcorp (& Tatts) for peanuts and I doubt they've the backbone to fight.
I have a budding family connection to the sportsbetting industry and a participant told me at the time of the changes to % turnover or whatever it was a couple of months back that they would be looking to ramp up their market share of betting on other sports and that racing would suffer.
With the variety of choices on offer and Australia's blind love of a punt, I imagine they could do this
I wonder whether we have created a monster that can just as easily harm us as it can help us?
We are waiting with baited breath here in WA as the State Government has looked into the sale of its utilities to try and get out of the shit...and of course our Government owned TAB is in its sights.At the moment our TAB pays back into the local industry the highest percentage of all the States and any sale will be fraught with danger in most peoples opinions.Reading your last few posts Harold you are dead right!! its a joke that they wont take a good bet or ban punters from being too successful.Yep lets jump on the bandwagon!!
Chilli Palmer has his knockers but his scratching is a loss
Disappointing Kev, I think he could have played a part in the race with his big finish but it still should be a cracking affair.
Go quinny!!
Well done to Quinny! Couldn't have asked for a better trip! Why would Coburn not just sit on Quinny's back has me scratching my head.. He handed the race to Quinny. Very bad move IMO!
So true i reckon Smoken.
What other driver would be sitting one/one with Quinn "exposed" in the death, and then you choose to go around him and swap places giving probably Australias fastest sit sprinter the sit on your back, allowing him to then just go "ping" in the last 200?????????????????????????????????????
All credit to the winner, but he was given the winners cheque after Avonnova went around him.
I'm still a scratching my head as to who in there right mind would do what Coburn did.. If he allowed Quinny to breeze, it would have been game over for Quinny! Stupid move, Quinny was handed the race on a silver platter!
Dont know about game over for Quinny from the death. I myself probably would have stayed one one but you must remember how many horses have come from behind to outsprint Quinny?
There is no way Quinny would have won if he was breezing! Especially with Avonnova on his back! He's the best sit sprinter not warrior!
I think you should blame Jnr...he outsmarted them by coming out hard.
Or Coburn was out of his mind.. What would have happened if Coburn decided to do the smart and logical thing and stay behind Quinny? It would have backfired big time for GHJ.
How many times has quinn been in the death in the Eastern states for any horse to have that chance? Thats the most important thing here, quinn was "exposed" running crazy fast times and he hasn't done that before over in the east against this class, hence most would think he would have been quite susceptible. But once Avon went around, game over, quinn wins.
He'll yeh Breno!!!
Breath taking! Obliterated the track record.
From a punting perspective I was thrilled with the result. Very surprised that Stuey didn't run the gate and when he didn't, I was even more surprised (appreciative) that Cockburn vacated the 1-1 to sit parked. I understand that Avonnova has been making mince meat of them up there but he couldn't win the race giving Quinny the 1-1.
Don't really think that Avonnova could hoof it with Quinny in a sprint as he's not this type of horse and not many horses can, Suspect that Cockburn knew this as well and really his best option was to get in front of Quinny and hope that Mach Beauty who was running along in quick sectionals had taken the sprint out of the great horse, But not to be. Full marks to young Lauren on Mach Beauty for running them along but was beaten but not disgraced by a better horse on the night. The time was quite staggering on a 1000 metre track.