Comments on: Bauer On The Media Puzzle Path With Geelong Cup Win! http://themelbournecupguide.com/bauer-on-the-media-puzzle-path-with-geelong-cup-win Your Guide To The Race That Stops A Nation Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:09:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: haveabowl http://themelbournecupguide.com/bauer-on-the-media-puzzle-path-with-geelong-cup-win/comment-page-1#comment-63 haveabowl Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:55:08 +0000 http://themelbournecupguide.com/?p=190#comment-63 Yeah, The Moonee Valley Cup will be an interesting form race for the Melbourne Cup. Baughurst seems to me to be the fittest horse in the country right now and I think that if anything manages to gun it down over the 170m straight, then that has to be a great M Cup run! I am hoping that it is the Chariot that does that given my early speccing of it for the Melbourne Cup. Red Lord has to be a good chance and if Largo Lad is as good as the Hayes stable propaganda machine makes it out to be then it is a show as well. For the Cox I can't look past Alamosa, running within 2 lengths behind the Hussler over his best trip is for me a great sign. Theseo at odds and Zarita as the on-pacer amongst the stayers if it gets out to silly odds. My co-blogger is on me about Master O'Reilly as well. Yeah, The Moonee Valley Cup will be an interesting form race for the Melbourne Cup. Baughurst seems to me to be the fittest horse in the country right now and I think that if anything manages to gun it down over the 170m straight, then that has to be a great M Cup run!
I am hoping that it is the Chariot that does that given my early speccing of it for the Melbourne Cup. Red Lord has to be a good chance and if Largo Lad is as good as the Hayes stable propaganda machine makes it out to be then it is a show as well.

For the Cox I can’t look past Alamosa, running within 2 lengths behind the Hussler over his best trip is for me a great sign. Theseo at odds and Zarita as the on-pacer amongst the stayers if it gets out to silly odds.

My co-blogger is on me about Master O’Reilly as well.

]]> By: Admin http://themelbournecupguide.com/bauer-on-the-media-puzzle-path-with-geelong-cup-win/comment-page-1#comment-62 Admin Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:53:57 +0000 http://themelbournecupguide.com/?p=190#comment-62 Hi Haveabowl Thanks for contributing. Ice Chariot, we'll see how he is going after the Moonee Valley Cup this weekend before the Cox plate, a noticed in the Daily Telegraphs and Best Bets that he has been tipped by a few people and is up in the top three for a few others. So there is at least some interest in him, not to fussed if he does not win this weekend, at $5 I won't be on him, just looking for a real strong showing, top 4 would be good especially if he is coming home again like the Caulfield Cup. I am probably going to get on Red Lord for the Moonee Valley Cup. For the Cox plate, I am thinking Sirmione and Zipping for value, I cannot see Samantha Miss winning, she has been impressive for a 3 year old in Sydney, but that is against other 3 year old fillies, big step to race older horses etc...and she ain't no Savabeel or Octagonal, come to think of it, she ain't no Makybe Diva. The pressure really comes early in the Cox and she won't be able to sit and sprint like she has in Sydney taking off with 300m to go. Probably will be a moderate tempo, then the heat will be applied 600m out, and given the bendy nature of Moonee Valley they will be peeling wide for runs. I like your top 4, but I cannot take Master O'Reilly at all, Nom De Jeu certainly has the form, hence Red Lord, and Bauer would be my 5th pick. Good Luck Hi Haveabowl

Thanks for contributing. Ice Chariot, we’ll see how he is going after the Moonee Valley Cup this weekend before the Cox plate, a noticed in the Daily Telegraphs and Best Bets that he has been tipped by a few people and is up in the top three for a few others. So there is at least some interest in him, not to fussed if he does not win this weekend, at $5 I won’t be on him, just looking for a real strong showing, top 4 would be good especially if he is coming home again like the Caulfield Cup.

I am probably going to get on Red Lord for the Moonee Valley Cup.

For the Cox plate, I am thinking Sirmione and Zipping for value, I cannot see Samantha Miss winning, she has been impressive for a 3 year old in Sydney, but that is against other 3 year old fillies, big step to race older horses etc…and she ain’t no Savabeel or Octagonal, come to think of it, she ain’t no Makybe Diva. The pressure really comes early in the Cox and she won’t be able to sit and sprint like she has in Sydney taking off with 300m to go. Probably will be a moderate tempo, then the heat will be applied 600m out, and given the bendy nature of Moonee Valley they will be peeling wide for runs.

I like your top 4, but I cannot take Master O’Reilly at all, Nom De Jeu certainly has the form, hence Red Lord, and Bauer would be my 5th pick.

Good Luck

]]> By: haveabowl http://themelbournecupguide.com/bauer-on-the-media-puzzle-path-with-geelong-cup-win/comment-page-1#comment-61 haveabowl Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:12:49 +0000 http://themelbournecupguide.com/?p=190#comment-61 The Caulfield Cup bias leads me to still have some reservations about All the Good though I couldn't leave it out. I have been debating with a friend since Caulfield as to why Littorio didn't go on. I am willing to forgive and think that he might have hit a flat spot in his prep whereas the other view is that he is best suited over 2000 (runs out 2400 + but with the same ability..) I have been concentrating on runners who sort of defied the bias in the Caulfield Cup - Master O Reilly, Nom De Jeu and I am going back to the well on Ice Chariot. Thought that he had no luck, tried to follow the other closers and Schofield had to put the brakes on and pull it even wider and by the time he started his run there was less than 150 to go! Still finishing 4 Lenghts back is tribute to how well he ran on. Anyway, my top four at this stage are Nom De Jeu, Master O Reilly, All the Good, Sirmione.. On the cusp are Bauer and Ice Chariot. Are we going to see Profound Beauty or Septimus before Cup day? The Caulfield Cup bias leads me to still have some reservations about All the Good though I couldn’t leave it out. I have been debating with a friend since Caulfield as to why Littorio didn’t go on. I am willing to forgive and think that he might have hit a flat spot in his prep whereas the other view is that he is best suited over 2000 (runs out 2400 + but with the same ability..)

I have been concentrating on runners who sort of defied the bias in the Caulfield Cup – Master O Reilly, Nom De Jeu and I am going back to the well on Ice Chariot. Thought that he had no luck, tried to follow the other closers and Schofield had to put the brakes on and pull it even wider and by the time he started his run there was less than 150 to go! Still finishing 4 Lenghts back is tribute to how well he ran on.

Anyway, my top four at this stage are Nom De Jeu, Master O Reilly, All the Good, Sirmione.. On the cusp are Bauer and Ice Chariot.

Are we going to see Profound Beauty or Septimus before Cup day?

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