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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
West Australian Racing
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The Good
Red Ora - Debut campaigns for Perth horses don't get much better. Has won a Magic Millions, has beaten older horses when giving them weight, has won from the breeze, has won swooping, has swum to Rottnest, and apparently did Jacob's Ladder 25 times as a yearling with the blinkers off.
One Way Lucky Street - On a side note, I'd backed it in its first start and haven't backed it since. Happy Valentines Day Trevor Andrews.
Better Late than Never (land) - Drifted in the market, drifted back around the home corner (with Palace Intruder pushing through inside it), but never drifts when the finish line is in sight. This girl is a winner.
Broken Record - How good is Durrant? Can teach a noted non-winner like Peck to win and Chester Road was a very nice return in Melbourne after showing little here in his last campaign. Also absolutely nothing wrong with Real Love's run, the 2000m at Flemington will suit her nicely if that is where she's targeted.
New Time - I think the New Time of 3 years ago would've been beaten two lengths in the same scenario as it was in yesterday, he really found when under a lot of pressure rounding the turn.
The Bad - Race Field Planning
So we have the Magic Millions 3YO, Challenge Stakes, Magic Millions 2YO, and then we finish with......what???
The Ugly - It's Miller Time
Not sure if everyone assumes that Danny and Simon are related, but there's a marked difference. When Danny's horses lead they go along at a good pace and well judged rides/fit horses can beat his mount home.
When Simon's lead they seem to be well backed (let's be honest most of his are well backed anyway), do some work to get to the front, get unchallenged sectionals after that and kick clear at the top of the straight. Temporise (x3), Vengabus (x2), Longma, Shalo (x3), Puteri Jewel, Fuld's Bet and Libertys Gem (x2) have all done this after November. Twelve times in less than four months. Either too many jockeys seem happy to let them get away with a bit once they do some work to lead, or Simon Miller is simply too good a trainer when his horses race in that scenario. The biggest issue I have with this is that there generally seems to be other genuine leaders in the race who choose not to lead. One thing is for sure, if the money starts coming for a Miller leader you probably want to follow in.
Global Flirt - If you can't buck off a 67 year old man, you probably won't be winning another race. But seriously, nice work by Danny to stay on, he'd be spending the majority of his riding fee on an icepack for his bruised plums after that performance.
Red Ora - Debut campaigns for Perth horses don't get much better. Has won a Magic Millions, has beaten older horses when giving them weight, has won from the breeze, has won swooping, has swum to Rottnest, and apparently did Jacob's Ladder 25 times as a yearling with the blinkers off.
One Way Lucky Street - On a side note, I'd backed it in its first start and haven't backed it since. Happy Valentines Day Trevor Andrews.
Better Late than Never (land) - Drifted in the market, drifted back around the home corner (with Palace Intruder pushing through inside it), but never drifts when the finish line is in sight. This girl is a winner.
Broken Record - How good is Durrant? Can teach a noted non-winner like Peck to win and Chester Road was a very nice return in Melbourne after showing little here in his last campaign. Also absolutely nothing wrong with Real Love's run, the 2000m at Flemington will suit her nicely if that is where she's targeted.
New Time - I think the New Time of 3 years ago would've been beaten two lengths in the same scenario as it was in yesterday, he really found when under a lot of pressure rounding the turn.
The Bad - Race Field Planning
So we have the Magic Millions 3YO, Challenge Stakes, Magic Millions 2YO, and then we finish with......what???
The Ugly - It's Miller Time
Not sure if everyone assumes that Danny and Simon are related, but there's a marked difference. When Danny's horses lead they go along at a good pace and well judged rides/fit horses can beat his mount home.
When Simon's lead they seem to be well backed (let's be honest most of his are well backed anyway), do some work to get to the front, get unchallenged sectionals after that and kick clear at the top of the straight. Temporise (x3), Vengabus (x2), Longma, Shalo (x3), Puteri Jewel, Fuld's Bet and Libertys Gem (x2) have all done this after November. Twelve times in less than four months. Either too many jockeys seem happy to let them get away with a bit once they do some work to lead, or Simon Miller is simply too good a trainer when his horses race in that scenario. The biggest issue I have with this is that there generally seems to be other genuine leaders in the race who choose not to lead. One thing is for sure, if the money starts coming for a Miller leader you probably want to follow in.
Global Flirt - If you can't buck off a 67 year old man, you probably won't be winning another race. But seriously, nice work by Danny to stay on, he'd be spending the majority of his riding fee on an icepack for his bruised plums after that performance.
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Incompetent jockeys or dodgy sh!t going on? Surely you'd have to think the latter is most likely because they simply can't beat the leader if it's form is superior and on paper they look the winner, when you let it get away with murder up front.
Or maybe they are too scared to put the heat on the leaders and risk criticism if their own mount can't finish the race off?
Has been discussed here before on different threads, A few more are just starting to see the forest through the trees it seems.
Miller is not the only one doing it now, bit like taking candy from babies
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