Leica Lucy has been impressive but the Te Rapa race was a walk sprint albeit interupted in the run home...$1.45 only if they repeat the dose, Rooke fell asleep on Alaskan and surprised to see hes back on? 2400 looks good  for the Oaks and 7s place excites if she gets there....you know the odds so try and beat them 🤣

They said earlier tonight only the top 2 from each heat was guaranteed a place, plus LTF and the Chariots winner, then 2 wildcards. I imagine with the likes of superstars  Swayzee and Don Hugo winning their way in, the 2 third place runners might sneak in. I hope so. 

they could both be in ok Idol-mate. Not 100% certain but thought the invites were Leap To Fame as current title holder, The Chariots winner (Bay of Biscay) and the first 3 in each of those 2 sprints tonight to make up the 8 horse $1,000,000 Miracle Mile field. so that would be Swayzee, Don Hugo, Catch A wave, Captain Ravishing and the 2 x kiwis STB and Tact McLeod. I hope that's the case anyway. 🤩

Bit of a ride shotgun by Luke there for Cam Hart on Bay of Biscay . so not getting anything from there.  Bay of Biscay will get the Miracle Mile spot but probably not one of the chances. 

You'd think STB would get one of the two wildcards, wouldn't you? A brilliant Ants Butt drive saw Tact McLeod pay yet another divvie without winning. 

I hope you get some with Some American PS . Yes still up to watch BNU and then off to bed lol 

Sooner The Bettor was a great 2nd last year to Leap To Fame too. so is a sure fire chance alright . Maybe Swayzee and 1/2 brother Larry might fight each other for a forward spot at the halfway and play right into the STB hands. Old mate Pete McMullen couldn't win the Ultimate Driver title for me  last week Charlie , but tonight he has had 4 wins and a very unlucky held up 3 back the fence on Stormtide from his 5 drives tonight. he's not in last 3 races. He has a great strike rate.  Better Knuckle Up about to jump. reckon you are up late to check him out. 👍   just had a win on Don Hugo so going for a Luke double' with Some American . in the Chariots of Fire . Luke is so cool in the Big Group 1's , I sometimes think he is related to MarkP lol 😅

I think this will be one of the best Miracle Miles ever don't you think PS ?  Great run by Sooner the Better tonight as well 😀

Is quite astounding what they did tonight. both caught out wide and working for a half, then holding them off all the last quarter. in quick 1.48. too. Leap To Fame has a huge job to beat them next week in the Miracle Mile.? might get beat this time round.🤔 Catch A Wave quite an eye catching run too coming from last for 2nd . He has already Won a Miracle Mile previously and a Chariots of Fire too , (so can go a bit 😅)

Wow what can you say about the efforts of Swayzee and Don Hugo tonight , just incredible 

How has this site moved to this level……

Gotta love how they get away with it, bloody ridiculous but they get results

Marketing 101 isn't it?  If you want to promote something to an uninitiated public, you need someone they recognisable to front your campaign.  No good rolling out racing personalities for the sake of it.  Imagine Mark Walker popping up in the ads trying to generate some public excitement. Anyway the topic has been thrashed out enough on the Guy Heveldt threads but at the end of the day you want TV people doing TV things, and horse people doing horsey things.  Its a winning formula for all sports broadcasting whether it be rugby, sailing, olympics etc...  As soon as you start placing people outside their areas of competence it turns into a shambles.

You mean Laura "I'll Front Anything/Everything" McG? [McG sounds like her rap name]. She even fronted Sky Speed for a time when one of the regular hosts was absent for a week or three. She looked extremely uncomfortable have to talk about race cars/drivers. I actually felt sorry for her there, thrown in the deep end with no life jackets in sight. A faux pas by Sky TV as the sole remaining host could have coped better alone instead of trying to include somebody that doesn't know the difference between ____________ and ____________ [fill in the blanks yourself 🤣]

LOL Max made a fortune today with a bob each way on his 2 lay bets in 12 races...

Adding insult to injury, we now have to put up with a 10 days worth of promo hype for the Kiwi featuring that famously knowledgeable Kiwi racing personality ...(drum roll, please) LAURA MCGOLDRICK GUPTILL SMILEYMcSMILEYFACE FFS ...why??? if they really needed to 'celebritise' this any more...why not get Francesca (no surname required)? catchin' mah drift...or am I bein' obtuse? (Shawshank...no second word needed)

Never got the gap so we'll never know wether he would of won, just no luck today, he'll keep.

Standings after Week 4.  Two rounds of qualifying to come.     ENTRANT Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 TOTAL 1 Jayar 42 31 38 22 133 2 Kilcoyne 11 39 37 42 129 3 Al Feilding 33 34 36 24 127 4 Pegasus 30 18 34 44 126 5 Say No More 38 42 35 10 125 6 Pete Lane 32 24 23 45 124 7 Richie 23 38 33 29 123 8 Gubellini 37 35 26 21 119 9 Canterbury Man 5 43 28 39 115 10 Blaird  16 40 27 28 111 11 Houlahan 34 46 0 26 106 12 Joan 40 22 13 30 105 13 Basil Brush 36 26 41 2 105 14 Floyd Pink 4 45 44 12 105 15 Majestic 19 36 16 33 104 16 Sayer 14 20 42 27 103 17 Peter RS 13 8 43 35 99 18 Pheroz 28 41 6 23 98 19 Reacher 21 29 30 18 98 20 Von Cettes 35 16 9 37 97 21 Jack  31 19 45 1 96 22 Pak Star 15 44 29 4 92 23 Kiwignome 26 37 15 11 89 24 Pure Steel 8 9 40 32 89 25 Hall 0 25 19 43 87 26 Seddon 39 2 4 41 86 27 Ohokaman 22 33 17 14 86 28 Black Kirrama 24 21 1 38 84 29 Aaron 12 30 7 31 80 30 Chestnut 17 14 31 16 78 31 Arjay 25 27 25 0 77 32 Montydrum 41 28 2 5 76 33 Scooby 27 23 17 9 76 34 Insider 6 32 22 15 75 35 Dogzstar 29 0 8 36 73 36 Foxmerts 20 1 12 40 73 37 Koriokaramea 0 7 32 34 73 38 Ponderosa 3 11 39 19 72 39 Kloppite 43 5 21 0 69 40 Lucasduke 9 15 24 6 54 41 Winner69 0 17 20 17 54 42 Alf 10 13 14 13 50 43 Seakem 6 4 10 25 45 44 Mr gee 1 12 5 20 38 45 Voice Of Reason 18 6 0 0 24 46 Maximus 0 3 11 7 21 47 Manfield 0 10 3 8 21 48 High Sparrow 0 0 0 3 3

Yes, its a bloody shambles. We think NZ racing is badly run, but even we wouldn't be as arrogant as NSW.

Week 4 - Flemington R8 - Final Race Nine lives lost and three eliminated in the final race, including Pondy but not Rev. Pete holds on for a good win with no lives lost, while Pegasus and Hall round out the top 3. NAME LATEST RACE TOTAL LIVES LOST Pete Lane 0.00 481.41 0 Pegasus 0.00 461.40 2 Hall 2.00 422.49 1 Kilcoyne 2.00 406.27 0 Seddon 0.00 381.89 1 Foxmerts 2.00 368.18 1 Canterbury Man 2.00 366.44 1 Black Kirrama 2.00 309.87 2 Von Cettes 0.00 300.94 1 Dogzstar 2.00 291.41 2 Peter RS 0.00 287.70 0 Koriokaramea 9.35 283.57 2 Majestic 0.00 270.91 1 Pure Steel 0.00 270.82 1 Aaron 1.81 258.38 2 Joan 12.50 245.71 2 Richie 0.00 230.59 1 Blaird  38.46 230.09 0 Sayer 0.00 228.72 2 Houlahan 0.00 225.87 1 Seakem 0.00 224.37 1 Al Feilding 2.00 208.90 2 Pheroz 0.00 199.67 2 Jayar 2.00 190.28 1 Gubellini 19.23 151.94 1 Mr gee 0.00 349.48 3 Ponderosa 0.00 296.17 3 Reacher 0.00 160.34 3 Winner69 2.00 296.41 3 Chestnut 29.41 167.32 3 Insider 2.00 219.94 3 Ohokaman 0.00 392.83 3 Alf 2.56 352.61 3 Floyd Pink 34.48 317.46 4 Kiwignome 12.50 257.32 3 Say No More 0.00 251.00 3 Scooby 0.00 380.76 3 Manfield 0.00 257.51 4 Maximus 0.00 228.11 4 Lucasduke 0.00 224.62 3 Montydrum 0.00 96.38 5 Pak Star 0.00 266.68 4 High Sparrow 0.00 237.69 4 Basil Brush 8.70 233.72 5 Jack  23.81 272.09 6 Kloppite 2.00 226.31 5