Interdom 2022

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Who will drive Beyond Delight in the final? Nathan Jack or is he out of favour after beating the stable in the Breeders Crown final with School Captain

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Even money favourite Queen Elida will create history if she wins the trotter’s final as no 4yo mare has ever done so

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If Emma was serious in rating Mach Dan her best chance - then the market is completely wrong and Honolua Bay and Act Now should be about $5

https://www.harness.org.au/media-roo...?news_id=59216

Mach Dan has come into $13 on TAB after this - he will follow out Act Now

Disappointed in the article not mentioning who is driving Beyond Delight, you would think the public should know by now, fields and betting agencies still have Mark Pitt driving two horses

[aussiebreno]

Race only a couple days away now. Its the race I think everyone in the harness world is looking forward to most. Two hot horses drawn the front, both around $2.50 equal fave a victory here could stamp one as the best pacer in Australia. Yes we all cant wait for Patronus Star V Magnificent Storm!

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Very funny Brendan and wrong thread

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You hear Adam Hamilton on TrotsVision saying we cannot be rigid in thinking about the Inter format - citing the fact that we are not attracting all the best horses

Maybe Adam should consider the prizemoney decline as the possible reason for this

2022 Melton $500k
2021 Menangle $500k
2020 - Covid
2019 Auckland $500k
2018 Melton $500k
2017 Perth $1.1m
2016 Perth $1.1m
2015 Perth $1.3m (December)
2015 Menangle $750k (March)
2014 Menangle $750k
2013 Menangle $750k
2012 Perth $1m
2011 Auckland $800k
2010 Menangle $1m
2009 Gold Coast $1m
2008 Melbourne $750k
2007 Adelaide $500k
2006 Hobart $1.5m
2005 Auckland $750k
2004 Perth $500k
2003 Christchurch $500k
2002 Sydney $500k
2001 Brisbane $500k
2000 Melbourne $1m
1999 Auckland $400k

Yes, you have to go back to last century to find the Final run for less
$500k is not exactly standout 'grab the public attention' prizemoney
Is the list above actually symbolic of our decline?

The rot started in 2018 (Melton's last Inter)

Part of David Martin's balancing the books?

Did he leave us in a better position? Sometimes you have to spend more on Big events to have a profile which then ends up paying for itself

Although the funding method is controversial, I guess this is what the Eureka is attempting to do (at the expense of the Inter?)

I know a past forum poster who may have just the idea the Inter and Adam Hamilton need for she forwarded me a copy of an email that she sent to our CEO back in 2017, which is not only thought provoking and ahead of its time in terms of what has transpired of late but also aimed at having $3m up for grabs

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Manning on Beyond Delight.

Nathan Jack really out of favour.

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So how does it work when a stable has 5 starters?
Jodi Quinlan has to have a plan to beat Honolua Bay just as David Moran has to have a plan to beat Act Now and of course we have to throw Mach Dan into the mix
Do they follow Trainer instructions?

[aussiebreno]

So how does it work when a stable has 5 starters?
Jodi Quinlan has to have a plan to beat Honolua Bay just as David Moran has to have a plan to beat Act Now and of course we have to throw Mach Dan into the mix
Do they follow Trainer instructions?

We will know in the first 100m with lead battle between Honolua and Act Now.

Louis and Ego always been driven as if non-stablemates.. I remember one race in Vic they stuffed each other up. Temptation must be there for Louis to soften them up before Ego gets to the chair though.

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I think they would love Honolua on Act Now's back so they will want them both to cross I Cast No Shadow. Leader and leaders back - one will win unless last week's run took too much out of Act Now and he cannot even deliver Honolua to the sprint lane
The red herring could be if Mach Dan follows through on Act Now's back and lands 1x1 after Expensive Ego goes to the death
The way McCarthy has been talking however, it would seem that he knows Ego cannot sit in the death the whole race and win so who knows