VIC Derby- all 3 Heats to C. Alford

[Triple V]

Outstanding effort that. Lennytheshark, Guaranteed & Macha.
How long since that has been done...if ever? GO PUPPET! The big question now is...which way does he jump for the Final? Unless the horse draws out with the Hot Dog Vendor I am picking it will be Guaranteed.

[Toohard]

Outstanding effort that. Lennytheshark, Guaranteed & Macha.
How long since that has been done...if ever? GO PUPPET! The big question now is...which way does he jump for the Final? Unless the horse draws out with the Hot Dog Vendor I am picking it will be Guaranteed.


All 3 spot on, perfect drives too. Got 4 for the night.

Probably wrong thread to post this on but we went to Ballarat last Friday night.
C.Alford driving in 2nd last. N. Jack driving in last.

We left before last. It's about 100k drive each way for us. Probably got to sleep about 12.30 am ish

We had a horse in trials Saturday morning at Cranbourne.
We up 6am. Off to trials Cranbourne. 100k+ each way again but in other direction.

Both C. Alford and N. Jack were there driving in the trials.

I did it hard on way home. Eyes very heavy, Got home just after lunchtime.
Managed hour or so kip on couch when got home

Went to Melton Saturday night (me looking for somewhere to fall asleep by now).

Again C. Alford and N. Jack driving there.

C.Alford drives 4 winners including 3 Jaimie mentioned above,

And they both drove at Ouyen 400km+ to the north on Sunday.

I got few years on both of them but I was completely knackered Saturday night when we got home.
All I did in between driving to and fro was watch races\trials and feed few horses we have here.

They drove to the races\trials. Drove the horses in races\trials.
Then got their own horses to look after, do form for races they driving in, etc, etc.
They sit behind 500kg+ of horse doing 60kmh+ in a flimsy contraption with couple of bits leather for steering.
They get $70 for a losing drive. Looking at stats of top drivers, 1 win per 5 drives about the top of the scale. So 80%+ of the time they driving for $70.
There's a host of top drivers out at the moment due to bad falls; Darryl Douglas, Scot Dyer, Damien Wilson, John Justice, etc,

Can't question their dedication.

[aussiebreno]

All 3 spot on, perfect drives too. Got 4 for the night.

Probably wrong thread to post this on but we went to Ballarat last Friday night.
C.Alford driving in 2nd last. N. Jack driving in last.

We left before last. It's about 100k drive each way for us. Probably got to sleep about 12.30 am ish

We had a horse in trials Saturday morning at Cranbourne.
We up 6am. Off to trials Cranbourne. 100k+ each way again but in other direction.

Both C. Alford and N. Jack were there driving in the trials.

I did it hard on way home. Eyes very heavy, Got home just after lunchtime.
Managed hour or so kip on couch when got home

Went to Melton Saturday night (me looking for somewhere to fall asleep by now).

Again C. Alford and N. Jack driving there.

C.Alford drives 4 winners including 3 Jaimie mentioned above,

And they both drove at Ouyen 400km+ to the north on Sunday.

I got few years on both of them but I was completely knackered Saturday night when we got home.
All I did in between driving to and fro was watch races\trials and feed few horses we have here.

They drove to the races\trials. Drove the horses in races\trials.
Then got their own horses to look after, do form for races they driving in, etc, etc.
They sit behind 500kg+ of horse doing 60kmh+ in a flimsy contraption with couple of bits leather for steering.
They get $70 for a losing drive. Looking at stats of top drivers, 1 win per 5 drives about the top of the scale. So 80%+ of the time they driving for $70.
There's a host of top drivers out at the moment due to bad falls; Darryl Douglas, Scot Dyer, Damien Wilson, John Justice, etc,

Can't question their dedication.
Spot on. The hours they put in is insane.
Massive effort by Alford, I would say he will be on Guaranteed.

[Triple V]

:eek: Geeze, I'd be in the back of the Cardiac Ambulance if I was operating on that schedule for any length of time. Staunch efforts both. They must be as tough as boiled Galah.
Incidentally....GO GUARANTEED! GO YOU GOOD THING!

[aussiebreno]

GO GUARANTEED! GO YOU GOOD THING! Careful now....

[Triple V]

Not subtle enough Breno? :rolleyes:

[Greg Hando]

It's called old age Paul i think i've got a little bit on you by way of age ( 51 ) and used to be able to them sort of thing's now i can't drive to the shop without a cut lunch. My eldest boy (22 ) is the same now work all day and drive all night to go somewhere then turn up for work again as fresh as a daisy.

[trish]

Derby Heats in Sydney 28 horses.

Oaks heats 42 horses.