Melbourne Cup Top 4

[MacDougall]

Got on Simenon at $21 and it's already into $17\. Heard that it ran faster final 400m than Zoustar in an 800m trackwork and stays all day (ran and won two times in three days over 4000m+ last year). If there's some pace in the race (and I think Ruscello is gonna try to gap em) it's a special.

 

[Tiger_Watto]

Got on Simenon at $21 and it's already into $17\. Heard that it ran faster final 400m than Zoustar in an 800m trackwork and stays all day (ran and won two times in three days over 4000m+ last year). If there's some pace in the race (and I think Ruscello is gonna try to gap em) it's a special.

There is a few punters talking up Simenon's track work…

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[Knuckles]

Fiorente

Saville

Tres Blue

Good result …........... bad luck to you Watto ......... hope you backed your one each way :wink:
I thought you had me at one stage but Olly showed what a champion jockey he is.

 

[system]

Verema was destroyed due to an injury sustained in the race

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Verema was destroyed due to an injury sustained in the race

Facebook has lit up with Animal Welfare pages posting all about this. No doubt having a sulk about a horse being put down on the track but will sit down to a steak or chicken breast tonight completely ignorant of how it came to be in front of them.

Denis Leary was right, nobody cares when we kill the ugly animals.

 

[system]

Horse meat has a certain charm.

Alpaca is where it's at though. That is a top notch stewing meat

 

[Fade_To_Black]

Verema was destroyed due to an injury sustained in the race

Facebook has lit up with Animal Welfare pages posting all about this. No doubt having a sulk about a horse being put down on the track but will sit down to a steak or chicken breast tonight completely ignorant of how it came to be in front of them.

Denis Leary was right, nobody cares when we kill the ugly animals.

Bet the owners and trainer were more disappointed that they lost the race moreso than the horse. Wonder if any of these fattered, greedy bastards would still be in the horse game if there wasn't prizemoney involved? I'd guess not.

 

[happy_tiger]

Had a small wager on Fiorente , but it didn't cover the other losses for the day

 

[Glen_McWilliams]

Verema was destroyed due to an injury sustained in the race

Facebook has lit up with Animal Welfare pages posting all about this. No doubt having a sulk about a horse being put down on the track but will sit down to a steak or chicken breast tonight completely ignorant of how it came to be in front of them.

Denis Leary was right, nobody cares when we kill the ugly animals.

Bet the owners and trainer were more disappointed that they lost the race moreso than the horse. Wonder if any of these fattered, greedy bastards would still be in the horse game if there wasn't prizemoney involved? I'd guess not.

As an owner of several greyhounds and two horses I can tell you from experience that anyone who gets involved for the prizemoney is pissing in the wind. You get involved for the love of the sport and the thrill that comes with it. I can also tell you that when one breaks down in a race (which happened to one of mine about 2 weeks ago) that your concern is immediately for the animal and no longer the race. You have made a bunch of assumptions about the owners of that particular horse without knowing them and that just isn't fair.

 

[Glen_McWilliams]

What a horrible day for thoroughbred racing.
Gai Waterhouse the winning trainer with Damien "I've only had one bet in my life and that was $10k on a horse in the same race as me" Oliver riding. Add to that the treatment farce the morning of the race. The Victorian stewards have shown again they are more interested in feel good stories than policing the game.

 

[Jerry_Seinfeld]

What a horrible day for thoroughbred racing.
Gai Waterhouse the winning trainer with Damien "I've only had one bet in my life and that was $10k on a horse in the same race as me" Oliver riding. Add to that the treatment farce the morning of the race. The Victorian stewards have shown again they are more interested in feel good stories than policing the game.

Yes I think its fair to say that the Medias love affair with Gai is not matched with the racing Industries feelings towards her.

 

[innsaneink]

Verema was destroyed due to an injury sustained in the race

Facebook has lit up with Animal Welfare pages posting all about this. No doubt having a sulk about a horse being put down on the track but will sit down to a steak or chicken breast tonight completely ignorant of how it came to be in front of them.

Denis Leary was right, nobody cares when we kill the ugly animals.

Bet the owners and trainer were more disappointed that they lost the race moreso than the horse. Wonder if any of these fattered, greedy bastards would still be in the horse game if there wasn't prizemoney involved? I'd guess not.

As an owner of several greyhounds and two horses I can tell you from experience that anyone who gets involved for the prizemoney is pissing in the wind. **You get involved for the love of the sport and the thrill that comes with it.** I can also tell you that when one breaks down in a race (which happened to one of mine about 2 weeks ago) that your concern is immediately for the animal and no longer the race. You have made a bunch of assumptions about the owners of that particular horse without knowing them and that just isn't fair.

I reckon youve made a few assumptions too.
Im sure many are only in it for the money
I know some personally
Fools they are

 

[Pokies]

The following article may add some perspective about what stable and connections felt.

http://au.sports.yahoo.com/racing/news/article/-/19695810/calls-for-a%20minutes-silence-after-melbourne-cup-horse-is-euthanised/

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

The following article may add some perspective about what stable and connections felt.

http://au.sports.yahoo.com/racing/news/article/-/19695810/calls-for-a%20minutes-silence-after-melbourne-cup-horse-is-euthanised/

Doesn't stop the bleeding hearts making uninformed comments about how the owner was too tight to stump up the cash to fix the horse and how they are only a commodity, greed, self interest etc…

Not one of these idiots took the time to think that if you were the owner of a million dollar mare and it could still go to stud on 3 legs or get fixed up to rake in millions more don't you think that the greed and self interest would take over. They put them to sleep because it is a life-ending injury. They've tried it with horses before and they all die eventually, usually after months of pain and agony.

The only difference was this happened on a race track in front of an audience of millions, rather than a paddock out the back of Taree. If it were the latter, it would have been a .303 to the side of the head.

 

[Fade_To_Black]

for all of the f€&$wits that reckon it isn't about the money, they are having a tug of themselves. hope your lazy $10 brought you a new pack of smokes and a few free schooners. by no means a tree- hugging hippy but it is 100 percent all about the greed. simon oddonell was just asked whether as a trainer he had ever grieved over a horse that had been put down due to racing…" yep, such and such was a 2 to 1 favourite...." just goes to show the mentality of greedy bastards In the racing industry. if a jockey dies then it is a shame and all that, feel sorry for the family but they are in the racing game by choice so tough luck TBH, same as racecar drivers. the horses or dogs aint doing it by choice

 

[system]

What a horrible day for thoroughbred racing.
Gai Waterhouse the winning trainer with Damien "I've only had one bet in my life and that was $10k on a horse in the same race as me" Oliver riding. Add to that the treatment farce the morning of the race. The Victorian stewards have shown again they are more interested in feel good stories than policing the game.

Yes I think its fair to say that the Medias love affair with Gai is not matched with the racing Industries feelings towards her.

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[happy_tiger]

What a horrible day for thoroughbred racing.
Gai Waterhouse the winning trainer with Damien "I've only had one bet in my life and that was $10k on a horse in the same race as me" Oliver riding. Add to that the treatment farce the morning of the race. The Victorian stewards have shown again they are more interested in feel good stories than policing the game.

Yes I think its fair to say that the Medias love affair with Gai is not matched with the racing Industries feelings towards her.

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Yes when you are married to that scumbag Robbie and the equally devious little rat of a son well I wonder why she isn't loved by all and sundry

You can't possibly tell me that Tom and Gai don't discuss things that they shouldn't

 

[GNR4LIFE]

for all of the f€&$wits that reckon it isn't about the money, they are having a tug of themselves. hope your lazy $10 brought you a new pack of smokes and a few free schooners. by no means a tree- hugging hippy but it is 100 percent all about the greed. simon oddonell was just asked whether as a trainer he had ever grieved over a horse that had been put down due to racing…" yep, such and such was a 2 to 1 favourite...." just goes to show the mentality of greedy bastards In the racing industry. if a jockey dies then it is a shame and all that, feel sorry for the family but they are in the racing game by choice so tough luck TBH, same as racecar drivers. the horses or dogs aint doing it by choice

Beat it Dian Fossey

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

If they were as greedy as they are made out to be, they'd keep these prize horses alive and put them out to stud regardless of the pain and anguish their "recovery" would put them through and make money off their offspring.

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[Fade_To_Black]

for all of the f€&$wits that reckon it isn't about the money, they are having a tug of themselves. hope your lazy $10 brought you a new pack of smokes and a few free schooners. by no means a tree- hugging hippy but it is 100 percent all about the greed. simon oddonell was just asked whether as a trainer he had ever grieved over a horse that had been put down due to racing…" yep, such and such was a 2 to 1 favourite...." just goes to show the mentality of greedy bastards In the racing industry. if a jockey dies then it is a shame and all that, feel sorry for the family but they are in the racing game by choice so tough luck TBH, same as racecar drivers. the horses or dogs aint doing it by choice

Beat it Dian Fossey

Probably would have been funnier if you got the name right douche.