The Vaal, Thursday 19 Nov

OH FLOWER OF SCOTLAND 😢

What a disappointment Wine Tasting was,even a 125-1 shot beat it.

mr hawaii wrote: Flower Of Scotland can earn again

Lovely picks today -

Luckily I covered on that in the last and at least got my money back

Well done Mr H

Should have stuck with my heart .

Oceania,why did the fkn horse line up..No report nothing .. grrr

Pulse wrote: Oceania,why did the fkn horse line up..No report nothing .. grrr

Oh well a quick glimpse and the money was down for Flower of Scotland and Olivia S

Frodo wrote:

TSants18 wrote: Anything that has run a decent race from a wide draw today should be followed. The draw bias has been at play all day in my opinion. With them being forced to race on the inside trip, the outside going is dead.

I concur - and I am now very worried about Wine Tasting - somehow made it to the last leg of the P6; hopefully WT can be positioned towards the middle without losing too much ground; but given the draws, Speechmaker is a real danger - IF seeing out the extra 200m ...

Did not see the race, but Frodo must be right about the draw thing

They closed down the outside of the track and had the starting stalls middle inside. although they had a false rail at the 400m nobody was using it. If you looked at the head on you could see the outside was more lush than the inside indicating that they cut and rolled down the inside and not the outside. I think they are trying to negate the bias.

I always like to watch the first couple of races before playing a p6 to see where the better going is. It was decidedly middle inside from race 1.

mr hawaii wrote: Flower Of Scotland can earn again

Mr H...in your territory...I respect your and Frodo's comments... Kenilworth belongs to PeterD...
and I especially like durbs post about Coenie de Beer
what I liked about the Vaal track...is that a poor draw may be overcome...by a good jock...

Pulse wrote: Oceania,why did the fkn horse line up..No report nothing .. grrr

a) OCEANIA (P Strydom) fly jumped leaving the stalls, landing awkwardly, throwing her head back and making contact with Jockey P Strydom’s face. This resulted in Jockey P Strydom becoming incapacitated and as a consequence, he was unable to assist this mare in running. This incident was corroborated by the Patrol film.
Jockey P Strydom was attended to by both the paramedics and the Course Medical Officer following this race.