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Finally, The Everest is here and we get an idea of just what the huge prizemoney can do for racing. The race will feature…
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Yep 2yo racing isn’t really my thing. The real problem is that one win is enough for a career at stud.
…going to avoid some of your other comments 😊
Gai Waterhouse: Like no other trainer in the world
Hey thanks Nathan, hope you’re keeping well mate! I’m not deep into the nuts and bolts of racing so much while (still) in Germany but The Roar could use our support.
Fiorente, now that was a horse. A shame we only saw him a handful of times here, really!
Gai Waterhouse: Like no other trainer in the world
Cheers kk. Cheeky indeed, and well played.
Enjoyably that race was pretty much on perfect Gai form – Time For Peace made Farnan work and had the lead throughout the mid-race but too good and too race ready, even on debut.
Gai Waterhouse: Like no other trainer in the world
Hey mate.
The Lakers confound me. They both are and are not wasting a prime year of LeBron. Until he was injured, things were sailing along more or less as we’ve seen from LeBron’s new teams: adjustment is required, but overall success is there.
Now that both he and Rondo are injured, we’re seeing what you’re talking about. Organisation issues include no shooting coach, which is showing in terrible FT% night after night. Even something as core basketball as Lonzo’s inability to finish a layup is being “fixed” by him spending time with Rondo. Not with an actual coach, a former player that could provide help, but because Rondo is injured and is helping out. C’mon.
I’m parroting someone I read or listened to but you see it in the progression of D’angelo Russell’s game, and even just his shooting percentages, at an unexpectedly good organisation at the Nets, compared to the lethargy of improvement from the “young core” in LA.
Anyway – assuming no trades are made – it all hangs on LeBron’s participation and this over/under: 30.5 regular season games. If he plays out more than 30 games, the Lakers make the playoffs and probably make a run. If he plays less, it’s seriously likely they even scrape in and face the Warriors first round, or miss out.
Are the Lakers wasting a year of LeBron’s prime?
Cam! 🙂 Do you like Magic Circle even without much of a drop of rain?
Melbourne Cup 2018: Exotic bet help – quinellas, trifectas, first fours and more!
G’day Nathan! 🙂 I’m walking back my Magic Circle prediction – Yucatan will need to prove his 3200m credentials but if he manages like he did that Herbert Power win, it’s probably all over!
Melbourne Cup 2018: Preview and top tips
Sheek, great to read your extended thoughts. Thanks for the insights. It should be a truly run race indeed this year. That’ll make it a proper test.
Melbourne Cup 2018: Preview and top tips
Hello mate – yes you like to see them go beyond 2400m. One wrinkle is that European horses are generally kept it work, so all runs this entire year (Euro horses only!) go towards their 10,000m counter and their general fitness.
I think you’re right on the track but it looks like a hard track for now
Melbourne Cup 2018: Preview and top tips
Well, a theory is better than no theory… but if that comes off you can write next year’s preview, I give up 😉
Melbourne Cup 2018: Preview and top tips
Thanks Geoff! It’ll be a highlight if I’m not totally wrong, at least 😉
Melbourne Cup 2018: Preview and top tips
Absolutely a crucial factor Don, if he settles he’s a massive chance. Good luck with your Triple M theory! 🙂
Melbourne Cup 2018: Preview and top tips
Cheers marfu – just remember it’s the hardest race to win!
For everyone else, while I’ve mentioned it above, without rain Magic Circle blows right out of contention.
Melbourne Cup 2018: Preview and top tips
Divanation manage to get the win today at least! 😉
As Oscietra retires, will Makybe Diva or Black Caviar produce high-quality offspring?
Oof, New Tipperary… don’t have to be dead to be stiff there.
Scone Cup 2018: Form, tips and preview
Sorry it wasn’t the other way around, but we were there or thereabouts!
Group 2 Adelaide Cup runner-by-runner preview and tips
Yes the money is definitely part of their consideration mate. Lot of bikkies. The Arc would be fantastic but the timing, again…
2018 Group 1 Chipping Norton: The return of Winx
Spot on mate. I’d rather she comes back and keeps going, mind you! 😉
2018 Group 1 Chipping Norton: The return of Winx
Yes he’s a good horse Razzar and you’ve said it well. I would say by now the Winx factor means you can either throw caution to the wind, Red Excitement style, or just run your own race and be happy to be there or thereabouts.
2018 Group 1 Chipping Norton: The return of Winx
Ooh, here’s an interesting topic you’ve opened up. Which races would you rather see her in overseas?
One small advantage of Ascot is that the timing isn’t too bad to come back over for the spring.
2018 Group 1 Chipping Norton: The return of Winx
Ah, David Lord. A sad day. A true great of the sport who, I mean this in the fullest sense possible, lived and breathed sport. Not much else caught his eye, not much passed him by.
The extraordinary thing about Lord, when I was editor of The Roar, was how ferociously he worked his craft. He stayed up all night watching and writing, and would fire off his missives – sometimes short, sometimes pages long.(If his piece wasn’t published fast enough, or it was edited a bit much, or we cut his most volatile words down, heaven help your mobile phone. I was always grateful that he took to ringing someone else when I finally told him to chill out a bit after a few too many 6am calls…)
The Roar’s co-founder, Zac, rightly quoted in this piece, was generous and kind to Lordy in his final years, and I’m truly grateful that was the case, and no doubt Lord’s family was grateful, too.
His final three pieces focused on the Masters – he loved his rugby, his golf, his tennis, his NRL, and had his favourites. But before that, he’d paid tribute to Wayne Bennett, he’d commented on boxing, the Socceroos, racing and Gai Waterhouse, our Test team he called Dad’s Army, and plenty more.
Lordy was ferocious with a beer, too. Loved a pint, and only some dodgy hips slowed him down in the end. Vale Lord.
RIP, David Lord: Australian sports journalism icon was 'always thoughtful and thought-provoking'