... and the draw to suit
How was Jilliby Nitro ever going to win R5 at Melton tonight without another horse to help him
The Douglas stable had Fr1 and SR1.
Jilliby was never going to be allowed to cross Ozzie Playboy
I loved the check by Ellen Tormey early to make sure Captain Confetti had held her back
Jilliby had to have another horse take the death and give him the 1x1. Unfortunately for the Lee stable they only had one runner in the race
Maybe if they had it all again, Lochie may have hung back at the start to encourage something to come around him, or he may not have put the pressure on until much later so that he might have stolen a march before the sprint lane came up but then again he wasn't to know that the 1x1 was going to fold up and make the sprint lane irrelevant
Just a reminder to punters to really really analyse a race when a stable has more than one runner, especially when they have drawn favourably
You cannot accuse the Douglas stable of team driving - it was simply stacked against the Lee horse
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...22#MXC21042202
It was of course because they both Douglas horses had good gate speed. The same stable had Front 1,2,3 in a later race but not the gate speed to utilize the advantage
Last edited by Messenger; 04-22-2022 at 02:00 AM.
per un PUGNO di DOLLARI
PP is suggesting that it is not only when the stable has 2 runners
Take how Ozzie Playboy just handed up the lead so meekly to the plunge horse in R8 at Bendigo last night
This is after fighting and holding the lead at his previous two starts in higher class races at Melton
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...22#BNC29042201
Not even a question from the stewards
per un PUGNO di DOLLARI
Josh Aiken decided to throw a spanner in the works for the Douglas stable in R5 and contested the lead then took the sit to put the heavily backed Shortys Mate 3 back
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...22#MXM30042201
Last edited by Messenger; 04-30-2022 at 10:30 PM.
per un PUGNO di DOLLARI
A classic example of why we don't like 2 horses from the same stable in the same race
As you will see the death horse stitches up the favourite in the lead for the stablemate in the 1x1
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...22#APC03062205
per un PUGNO di DOLLARI
They were near on equal favourites
I can understand why stewards QDT by Connor Clarke on Belmont Royale in R5
Handing up the lead on a track without a sprint lane was only going to be to the stablemate
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fi...22#BAM16072202
per un PUGNO di DOLLARI
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote