Speaker 1join the conversation text us on 0 4 double 9 7 3 6 7 3 6 live across australia this is giddy up with gareth hall yes good
Speaker 2morning this is giddy up with gareth hall on this friday the 13th of november it's a big hello to you listening on your local se and track and rsat 927 dials wherever you may be listening on the sen and rsat apps and of course watching us on racing.com we are live from duncow this beautiful race course in southwest victoria on the doorstep of the grampians and it is great to have your company at this famous race course really and has one meeting per year and they'll pack out this joint eight thousand people will be rocking up so mark hunter mark hunter is with me the great man we had to buy him a jacket he's rocked up to duncow in shorts and t-shirts uh t-shirt and um he probably needs a few t-shirts but he's got he's shivering but it's great to have you here mark hunter hello to you morning gareth morning
Speaker 3all i look i know how uh all those years ago stewart diver felt lost on the mountain there it's one of those mountains it's um yeah it's fresh it is fresh um but it's great to be here what a beautiful race course it's a ripper you see the i think on the race book that photo of the mountains in the background and it looks fantastic once once the the day clears it'll be beautiful
Speaker 2and big show is always on a friday so mark hunter with the hunter's edge as we dissect this meeting at sandown jesus a good meeting at the back end of the carnival it is
Speaker 3look it's it's it's a challenging time i think i heard you say earlier in the week most people who do the form are basically exhausted after the cup carnival and then they've done well this meeting it's not a not a mundane boring meeting it's a good meeting yeah the highlight there's a
Speaker 2cf4 stage it's a small but really competitive field with a host of group one winners doing battle in that feature at wait for age over the 1400 meters so we'll dissect that meeting with mark hunter to kick it all off we've got the weekend preview after that then carl hooper who's the boss these days of dunkeld he will join me there's a couple of great characters that will join me as well locals they tell me um they've got a couple of stories to um explain to us um so looking forward to that then we'll find you some winners as we go right across australasia as we always do on giddy up on a friday especially looking ahead to the weekend feature racing in perth looking forward to that mark hunter um the pinnacle start and would you believe william pike on a thursday on a thursday afternoon pikey i don't know what he was thinking got suspended for nine days yes he had
Speaker 3a little rush of blood there at about the 300 ducking back inside much to your horror i couldn't believe it straight on the phone rallying the troops finding out what's going
Speaker 2on i said to pikey what are you doing riding on a thursday afternoon at bunbury before the pinnacles yeah so has he made a decision what he's doing well he's got i think he can either ride railway stakes day or he rides um winter bottom stakes day he's got ray mcnerio and he's been booked for cosmic crusader so i think what will happen if if uncle bob says you're riding cosmic crusader on the railway you'll ride that horse if he doesn't go to the railway with cosmic crusader he might take the suspension early and ride ray mcnerio but i think at the moment he'll be missing the winter bottom unless he can appeal the penalty yeah i'm not sure i'm not
Speaker 3sure but there was looked like there was
Speaker 2interference there yeah yeah um we've got johnny sadler joining us as well last runner i think so um first time he's had j mac ride for him yeah in the last race merry go that is interesting so looking forward to catching up with johnny sadler as well giddy up always brought to you by bet365 and zach tumbridge will join us a little later on as well of course for the weekend preview cfo stakes day tomorrow you can still get your tickets 15 at ticket tech a terrific lineup of thoroughbreds they're doing battle of course the feature is the cfo stakes and to kick off the hunter's edge in fact let's roll the opener on giddy up it's time for the hunter's edge with mark hunter and the hunter's edge brought to you by the kia celtas hybrid available now find out more at kia.com slash au aiden jolly looks after sand down we haven't raced at sand down for a little while and he joins us now good day aiden morning gareth and mark how are you good thank you mate when was the last time we did race at sand down uh exactly nine weeks and
Speaker 4three days but uh there you go up to 10 so yeah well deserved um well-deserved break obviously with what was a very busy uh winter period and yeah sort of just on 30 race meetings for sand down so um yeah it's well deserved um by the team just to sort of come up for air and just track it more and more so so we just sort of completed a major reno really big focus on the aeration and hollow time coring where we just pretty much pulled the guts of it out and tried to get this track draining um yeah better than what obviously what it has in the past through winter and um yeah give it a sort of decompaction and yeah could not be happier as i stand out here looking at this track at the moment it's uh presents really nice how much rain around yeah really good question i um i spoke to the bureau this morning and yeah they're sort of suggesting anywhere between two and five they're more confident with that two mil prediction thus far okay i will give them a call a little bit later on we're just out at the 1600 meter shoot at the moment just doing our inspection to determine yeah what we do with um today's irrigation if we do apply and i think at this stage i'm um yes more so probably going to hold off um yeah if we were racing today i think it just sets up beautifully with that 10 mil applied yesterday and the 10 prior so 20 mil of irrigation and i think that's going to be a lot of work and i think that's going to be a lot of for the week thus far with 12 mil of rainfall the last of that falling on uh saturday just gone and yeah i think if we're racing on this deck today we'd see a four for at least majority of the day if not all of it um it's certainly not too firm but it was still got just over 24 hours to go so very similar uh to the moya you know a few months back where yeah we're sort of looking at not nowhere near as um sort of the predicted rainfall that we were sort of yeah looking at for the moya with up to upwards of 15 mil but yeah just sort of got to rub the crystal ball sort of type thing and just see what we do this afternoon but at this stage i'm thinking of holding off if we are going to get that two mil it's not going to be anywhere between sort of two i'd say 6 p.m and 9 p.m tonight and then we might get some light showers through the early stages of tomorrow morning so we wish
Speaker 2you the best of luck trying to predict what's going to happen with the weather um so you reckon we'll be on a good fall for the majority of the program i think we'll be on a good fall for the majority of the program i think we'll be on a good fall for the majority of the program regardless if that rain comes there tomorrow what about the wind conditions yeah
Speaker 4very subtle wind conditions tomorrow it's right right now you wouldn't blow a candle out and i'm thinking it's going to be probably very similar tomorrow it's very overcast um just a very slight mist um as we walk around at the track tomorrow so look i think if the sun does pop its head out then we might get some very slight drying but um look it sets up for a good day regardless like we're not going to have to put a you know a great amount of rainfall on um sorry uh irrigation on i think we're going to have to we're just really going to rely on that that rainfall that i've spoken about but yeah 10 weeks off um we've had a lot of natural rainfall through that period between september and now and track walks extremely even i can't yeah pick a spot that you want to be um obviously it's been well publicized that yeah come the 500 meter mark yeah when we race those um had those meetings over hillside that they're going to obviously um yeah get into the straight and there's only going to be that rail which is on you know lakeside true so it's 12 meters in um it sets up for a really good and exciting card where horses can basically just tick date where they want to go on the home straight and it gives every horse their chance yeah so why why the cutaway then uh yeah so we as you would have seen we we trialed the idea of running 1200 meter um yeah races on hillside throughout winter and um yeah the vga um obviously in consultation with the jockeys just agreed that their fields of 10 would be the limit so that was an ideal just a very short uh run to get into that hillside bend and um yeah so we can't basically ruled out running 1200s over hillside and with that thoroughbred stakes um yeah race meeting this sat day um yeah being obviously it's a 1200 meter race we've got to run them on lakeside so yeah out of the the nine races for the day gets set up over the hillside um circuit and then that one for that one race we pull down the back straight rail and they run over the lakeside turn so um i think it sets up for an exciting day it's different um it's been done in the past and we're going to do it sort of going forward for a few other race meetings and like i said where the rails position there's really no excuses for any horses getting trapped on the inside and every horse gets their chance
Speaker 2well we wish you the best of luck aiden thanks for that thanks guys much appreciated bye there's aiden jolly looks after sand down like the old trotting days with the sprint lane then so no one should get held up no no if you get held up here you've done something and it's interesting because you've got a horse like jimmy star for instance and we'll get to this race in just a moment but as ethan brown pointed out he's just a different horse when he gets to the outside but he's going to have a heap of room you would imagine if you can visualize it now with this cutaway at sand down where he could go back to the inside and he shouldn't be surrounded by too many horses you would imagine now he
Speaker 3won't have a horse around him you think you would assume if bavok leads and chateau takes a sit off it if that's the way the race does unfold jimmy star is too back the fence so yeah they come they zigzag down to the inside it's like the old uh gavin lang yes yes trots they sit two back the fence and three you go um how do you think this track will play well it should play as well gary i should play well like it hasn't been used for ages it is interesting with the cutaway i think it does give most horses a chance because they they zigzag inside they tend to get closer than the outside so i think every horse should get its chance sometimes with
Speaker 2cutaways the only thing that worries me about it all is the tempo because sometimes the jockeys think they can get out and usually the tempo isn't as genuine as it is with no cutaway i don't
Speaker 3like cutaways in the trots i think it takes away some skill of driving yeah um and it becomes a bit robotic because as you say they know they're going to get out yeah so no one
Speaker 2has to make a move no so it'll be interesting to see how the jockeys go about it um tomorrow um and i guess we haven't really had an example like this on a big route one
Speaker 3day no we had that day i think steiner might have won at sandown for memory so it has happened you a lot before uh but not very often um let's
Speaker 2have a look at the first race and uh this is over the 2400 meters now it's a noose is the favorite at 2.90 with bet 365 it's been a firm favorite as well the spider wide gate mr o'reilly at six dollars has had a little bit of backing um federer has been solid and the rest have been easy um including dad and dave what do you make of this
Speaker 3race well i think it's the best race i've ever had i think it's the best race i've ever had i think it's the best for the day it knew so it's a pretty fair horse it showed good ability last campaign on soft ground with that big win at caulfield although it had the race run to suit that day in the pattern come back from a spell good first up on the dry and last time just had no hope from back where it was the way that race was run it did a terrific job to finish fourth it's out to 2500 meters which should suit it will have to go back from that gate off a moderate tempo but look i just think it's too good eight for your own good it's going really well it just keeps improving each time it steps out you can see d the race is going really well it's going really well but look i just think it's too good eight for your own good it just keeps improving each time it steps out lane forward outside leader controlling the race it's going to be hard to beat three jonich comes through the same race as iknusa got too far back and nine dad and dave it's another one come through the same race it's just about ready to fire i just think iknusa is a better horse so i think iknusa will win 12 8 3 and 9 it just looks better than the rest
Speaker 2doesn't he it's a noosa because i think he's a he's a star that can feature in some of the better staying races next
Speaker 3spring yeah look he's lightly raced very promising the first two starts were terrific it just it's gone up in grade and just progressing the right way so it does look ready to go and
Speaker 2hillside should allow horses to really flow into the contest
Speaker 3hopefully well it's going to be back there doesn't have to be breakneck speed on paper you think mr o'reilly would control the race again with d lane outside it so they'll be it will be back in the field and we'll be giving them a start that's probably the only issue i've got with it winning yeah if you had a choice all right
Speaker 2from a punting perspective you could bet at caulfield valley flemington and hillside we won't throw in lakeside because you hate lakeside which track would you choose um from a
Speaker 3fairness point of view they're all pretty good on their day yeah there's no major issues well from a punting perspective some people i'm happy to bet at mooney valley when there's a bias with those inside two lanes so i'm happy to bet on that track where you get you can sort of set the race up how you think they'll settle yeah and where the best part of the track is that gives you an advantage over the other track so i'm happy to bet on that track whereas if they're all fair makes it harder to find the winner so i'm happy to i'll go with mooney
Speaker 2valley with a bias race number two over the 1300 meters here um karen's the favorite at three dollars for lloyd kennerwell jamie mellon aliro's at seven dollars per cash at 750 parvenu's at seven dollars fifty graham b gave her a good enough push there she's first up over 1300 meters whether it's too short or not time will tell but futter was well supported there pakenham last friday night the friday before um at ten dollars skipper's canyon at 13 and then ruska roma at 13 here in just a journey at 19 do you like this race no
Speaker 3no i don't i'm going to tip parvenu it may well be too short for her but she may be the best horse in the race she's not hopeless over short ground she won that short court short course race at pakenham last campaign two trials she's trialing well she didn't have the best of luck up in queensland and i'll go with her as the one to beat 12 karen she can win she's crazy odds drawn wide with speed inside so we'll need things to go right missed the kick and nothing went right last time and two skippers canyon been a while between drinks costly horse i thought the trial was good no shock if he gets over the top so in a race if i was going to bet it'd be something on parvenu but i doubt i'll play 9 12 2 so you're going to get a hot dog here at dunk held i'll go and get some something to wipe the icicles off the back of my head yeah
Speaker 2hey just before we go to a break i can't believe have you got your stick surge have you got his where's his stick can you get that for a search um mark hunters turned up here at dunk held and i can't believe what i'm seeing so you're actually going to walk this track at dunk held today here it is there you go this is this is the stick did you walk it the other day down the straight are you giving mark zara like he's taking all the credit down the straight for his victory he takes
Speaker 3credit point bar point barrow who's taken 12 months he won't acknowledge he went early on the straight on buckaroo and he won't acknowledge you come off the fence on middle earth in the corfield cup so he's one of those lakes who can't say wrong yeah so we're wrong but no i didn't walk it for the final day i can't believe um what'd
Speaker 2you make of that straight race like because you're being big on this regarding the jockeys walking the track and making sure they get it right down the straight
Speaker 3it's a massive difference gareth you watch the race lady catalina one it was in the perfect lane you know the horse that went outside that they're just disadvantaged by it it's up to two ratings worse if you get out wider where liam air rates so it's got to it's got to be an advantage to be in the right lane and zara zara just dies for the cause he waits and waits and waits until the gap comes then he takes that spot on the lane then he waits again then he takes the spot again he doesn't get flustered to going back inside or hooking out he just rides the straight
Speaker 2beautifully i can understand why you get so frustrated they're backing horses down the straight when you can walk the track and you know which is the right place to go and your jockeys
Speaker 3don't go there well it actually was a bit more prompting during cup week than even usual i think there were two lanes there for the first two days and maybe a similar or even less for the last couple so it makes it very difficult if you're in the wrong spot to win the race you think it's your professional responsibility to find that spot and it does suck really
Speaker 2when you've got like tempted to beat carling rising that can't beat peter snowden's man what's it called again plaintiff yeah how does that happen it's just
Speaker 3like if you line those horses up in sydney plaintiff would be what eight ten lengths behind tempted at 200 to one and just would have no hope of getting near it i guess that's the
Speaker 2beauty about straight racing like you can have a look at the other side of it that's it's just a
Speaker 3different ball game yeah my only thing is if you're going in the cool more and you're racing to make your horse worth that much money million dollars yeah like you think of the old days at flemington where there were those two lanes on the inside they had for some of those big days it's not entirely perfect i don't know what i don't know what they do it's difficult really it's not how you know it's not as if he keeps those two lanes quicker than the rest it's just how the track is down the straight
Speaker 2yeah and he and he has to aerate it because as you pointed out before um or off camera that it is unsafe yeah you can't have
Speaker 3traffic if that's where the transport goes it's firmest outside two lanes yeah it's dangerous racing are you going to apologize however to sam friedman for point barrow yeah it was the first message i got after the race i think she said it can't win no it's no good no i said it's overrated social she's going as well as everyone said the first message i got was i think she's going okay i said please she'd be playing off by her head drop off and then you got stuck in dilemma key
Speaker 2for the track because you made you look like an idiot no i didn't um and before we go to this break a big happy birthday to one of the legends of the game a man that i love dearly when i was growing up punning this man i used to love backing the great nifty wilson who turns 80 today a true legend of the game yeah he is for sure 80 he only finished
Speaker 3riding five years ago well you asked me you asked me before about a punting story and i remember he there were two kaylee horses kaylee prosperity and kaylee treasure maybe in at sundown and um i think nifty nifty got put down on the one you think would be the outsider okay they're both first starters and nifty was on the one that was heavily backed yes yes and julie saluted down the center so one of the great punting jockeys he was a fantastic jockey yeah
Speaker 2and a better bloke like just a true gentleman um yeah so happy birthday nifty we're going to take a break if anyone is around dunkeld at the moment and he's got a blanket or a pair of pants can you come and drop them off because i'm worried that he'll freeze to death here this is the hunter's edge here on giddy up a special giddy up we're live from dunkeld it is great to have your company we'll come back and we'll preview the rest of the cfo stakes meeting at sandown next join the conversation text
Speaker 1us on oh four double nine seven three six seven three six live across australia this is giddy up with gareth hall welcome back to
Speaker 2giddy up we're live from dunkeld a special giddy up on this friday morning of course it's dunkeld cup day there tomorrow eight thousand people will be here mark and i don't know if you can see the 10 in the background it's the marquee there just um at the back of the winning post um there'll be 700 people in that marquee there tomorrow. And that is the population of Dunkeld.
Speaker 3Well, it'd be hard to imagine how they fit 8,000 in the course. Yeah, well, they do.
Speaker 2Yeah. So looking forward to it. You organised the accommodation for us yesterday and we had to cancel it. We had no beds, no TV, no hot water. But I was in Snowtown. What's that place called? I don't know. I'll do the organisation next time. Hey, and do you know next Wednesday, which will be November 18, we're at Silks Cranbourne as we broadcast Giddy Up Live there next Wednesday from Silks at Cranbourne as we get set for the Cranbourne Cup and the Meteorite Barry draw. Now, SEN and Giddy Up have got a slot in the Meteorite. Are you happy with our selection, Marzu? Well, after its last run, I think you'd be a little nervous. Well, it was in the wrong part of the track, wasn't it, down the straight?
Speaker 3It was cast. Yeah, it was. Took all the good horses out there. It'd be hard to beat around the bend there at Cranbourne. It finds its best form. It can win for sure. But that last run, I think that was its first run for Kieran.
Speaker 2Yeah. Yeah. Just got to get it out onto the track and then we'll be right after that. Race number three. This is at Sandown tomorrow on CFO Stakes Day over the 1,400 metres. Fundamental Nature was good there at Flemington in that last race on Oaks Day. Kieran Murray, Ethan Brown combined. It's at 2.30 here. We've bet 3.65. Porter at 3.30. 3.40. Grid Girl at $9. For Riviera at $10. Are they backing anything here? El Rocco is solid at $21. Road Cone at $19 here. Oak Beach at $12.
Speaker 3What are you thinking? I'm thinking it's a race of no value. Fundamental Nature the one to beat. It was a fantastic win on Oaks Day. There weren't really many horses making big ground from the back. Jet Smash had a good enough lead. Kicked well. And Fundamental Nature just about peeled out the run of the day to win. So it's a quiet ride there. Seemed to relish that. It draws wide. We'll have to go back from the gate and give them a start again. But the way it won just might be too good. Five Porter. It was scratch from that race. I don't know if it had a setback or because Jet Smash, the stable mate, was the leader. I'm not sure what the reason was. It's had a month between runs, which is not unusual for the horse. It has got El Rocco to annoy it for the lead. But it will go forward, get a good run, give a good kick and be hard to beat. If there's a blowout, I think six in. Pulsive reaction. Decent horse, this horse. Coming off a break, it's trolled well. Craig Williams, midfield, weaving through, should be running on. So for the one to beat, just no value. Four, five, six. Four, five, six.
Speaker 2But tough to back the favourite at that price.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's too short.
Speaker 2Yeah. We move on to race number four. Geneva's the favourite here at $5 over the 1,800 metres. But this is a tough race here. Killinor won nicely at Geelong at $5.50. The Muffin Man was the eye-catcher, I thought. The Blackburn. Booker, I reckon. The other day at Bendigo at $8. Oceana Dream at $9. Brave Danza at $9. Politely done at $10. And then double figures for the rest there.
Speaker 3Look, it's a very hard race, as you mentioned. We've had three people tip me the Muffin Man since yesterday. You're one of them. I didn't tip her.
Speaker 2I just asked, did you like it? Because I liked his last run. And if you said back it, Gareth, I'd back it. But you said there's no pace in the race. So it makes it difficult for the Muffin Man.
Speaker 3Well, I'm going to tip Brave Danza. I think Brave Danza is a decent horse. It had a good campaign last time. Second to Parvenu. Good win at Flemington. And then good on the heavy at Flemington. It's come back. It's only had the one jump out that I've seen. Tried well. It'll be midfield. Should be strong down the middle to beat number one, Oceana Dream. I thought it was terrific first up. Back on the fence. Not the clearest passage. Ran well. Too politely done. It's got a zero next to its name. It had no luck at Flemington. And 12 kill in all. Took a while to break through. And did have every. Every possible chance. I don't think that was an overly strong race. But it's a Kieran Maher improver. So 4, 1, 2, and 12. That's interesting there. First up there for Matty Kamani you like. Well, I'll be fit. You know, Matty Kamani gets them hard and fit. It never runs. It basically never runs a bad race. Except for when he took it up to Sydney. What do you do from that draw then? Nah, midfield. Just some midfield somewhere. Or just forward to mid. It's a horse that can race forward. Has raced back. I would think somewhere right at where it's comfortable, Gareth. Three wide with cover. Peel out. And should get every chance.
Speaker 2Interesting that Matty Enright, good trainer. He gets an opportunity to train for Tony Ottobre. We all know that Uncle Tony doesn't mind changing his horses around from time to time. So he'll be fourth up ready to go. What does Luke Currie do from that draw?
Speaker 3Well, at least he's got a good draw. So he did get a long way back from the wide gate last time at Bendigo. You'd think would be a little bit closer. Ran great. Look, it was hard to make ground from the back like it did. It was terrific. On the outside, it was the run of the race. So in a race, you could have lots of picks. It's one of them. I like politely done, but I'm worried about the gates. But D-Lane is on fire this week. He's on fire. He could win the Jockey of the Month the way he's going. The Jockey of the Month. What is that? Well, I think someone has a Jockey of the Month competition. Oh, corporate. How do you work that? I don't know, really. I think you get a. Is it nationwide? No. Oh, just Victoria? Yep. Okay. Yep. So back. Ride for luck. Got a. Good turn of foot, the horse. And it will be steaming home at the finish.
Speaker 2All right, then. We'll have a look at race number five. And this is the first of the features. The Sandown Guineas over the 1,600 metres. Bet 3.65 market here. And it's a fascinating market because they're coming from everywhere. Different form lines. Magnus and Tenshia was very good last Saturday Geelong. It's on the quick backup. Jeez, it was great to catch up with Tate Weir. I think she's a star. She's a great ambassador for the game. She speaks so well and she's training so well. She's at $4.20, or her horse is here, with bet 3.65. Star of Macedon's been easy out to $6. Consulate at $7. Harry Lyme was very good the other day. And Adrian Bott out of all of his runners this weekend, when I asked him about the $100 staking plan, he went with Harry Lyme. Strong tempo. Got a good push for this horse at $9. Milson's point at $11. Katoto at $12. Hydro Rush is at $13. And then Fast Freddy at $13. And the intriguing runner here is on Glay. First up for Clint McDonald from Nick Ryan at $13.
Speaker 3Mark Hunter. I'm going to tip strong tempo. I think it's the best form. I think the Carbine Club, ongoing with the Carbine Club, has been the best form there in that race. The Roaring Sun was on the fence getting a good run. Unhinged was box seat. Conquer the World was 1-1. Strong tempo had to go back and around. They might have a little doubted a mile before the race, but it was great. It was good. It was good through the line. It will have to go back here for Harry Coffey. The pace looks okay in the race. Blend in. Every horse should get its chance on the hillside, so we'll go with strong tempo at odds. To beat 7, Magnus Intentia. Look, it's a massive class rise, but it sat up on the speed, raced away. It won well and should relish the mile. 11, Consulate. I thought it picked its way through the field, run on well at Flemington, and two-star of Macedon, who may have given up, given itself up the other day. It ran third. Might have been ridden a bit forward, but just whacked. So six had odds for me.
Speaker 27-11-2. So this favourite, I know you love your data. Has it smashed the clock for it to be favourite coming out of a Geelong Saturday provincial race?
Speaker 3Well, the only guy you've got, the last race of the day, ran, I think, from memory, about a second slower. But I'm not totally sure, because it was a murky weather day. I'm not totally sure if they did have any rain or not through the day at Geelong. So to answer your question, it ran five or six lanes quicker than the last race. Does it surprise you that he's favourite? Well, and that it's been so well-backed and solid, it probably does, yes. But, look, it's, as you mentioned, Tage is really making an impact. The horses are improving. They're racing well. And this one was very strong through the line. So the mile should suit.
Speaker 2And you pointed out strong tempo probably needs that. And you think there'd be enough of a tempo for this horse to finish off.
Speaker 3Yeah, you've got Harry Lyme from in. You've got Hydro Rush led one last time. And the two from out wide, Magda Cententia, and Fast Freddy probably go forward as well. So there should be solid enough tempo for every horse to get its chance. No Harry Lyme. Got to run the mile. Look, it's got a chance. It's got to run the mile. That would be my little query there.
Speaker 2So that's a look at the Sandown Guineas there tomorrow. So that's the first half of the car with Mark Hunter for the Hunter's Edge brought to you by the Kia Seldas Hybrid. Available now. Find out more at kia.com slash au. I can't believe you weren't going to bring a jacket.
Speaker 3Well, you know, I don't usually bring a jacket.
Speaker 2I thought I was in the studio. You're going hiking today. You're looking forward to going for a walk? Maybe. Yeah. We're going to take a quick break. This is Giddy Up. All thanks to Bet365. We're live from Dunkeld. We'll take a break and we'll come back with plenty more straight after this, including looking at the features there at Sandown tomorrow.
Speaker 1Join the conversation. Text us on 0499 736 736. Live across Australia. This is Giddy Up with Gareth Hall.
Speaker 2Welcome back to Giddy Up. We're live from Dunkeld for a special Giddy Up. It's great to be here. I'm looking forward to going to the races tomorrow. My first Dunkeld Cup meeting, Mark Hunter. Well, see if we can find my Gareth up on speed. Well, you're walking the track. So you said you just backed the leader. So we'll see how we go. Is this your first Dunkeld Cup meeting? Yep. There you go. What other meetings do you want to get to that you haven't been to?
Speaker 3Um, I enjoy, i enjoy going to tracks i haven't been to so you know pretty well any any track I haven't been to. You were surprised how big Hamilton was yesterday. It's huge. Yeah. I haven't been there for. It's a beautiful town. The day our Mace Gay won the Caulfield Guineas. Okay. That was the last time I was in Hamilton. Why? We're going to Casterton Races on a football trip.
Speaker 2Okay. There you go. Footscray. 0499736736. Now, that's a Garrett's Horse and Hound text line. Unfortunately, our text line's down today. It's frozen. It's frozen, yeah. There's been an outage there with Outlook. Obviously, if you've got an Outlook email, you can't get one today. Spun's lost his context. Yeah. I don't know what Craig Hutchison would be doing today without his emails, but there you go. And, of course, the Hunter's Edge brought to you by Kia. The Kia Seltos Hybrid available now. We're up to race number six, and this is the Doverdon Stakes. Richard Jolly joined me yesterday for SA time, and he said the Brenna Moore's just done an extremely good job. He's probably not the best horse in this race, but he's the horse on the up, and he's taking on a few of these gallopers that might have showed a little bit more, but are out of form at the moment. So, Brenna Moore's the favorite at 320. Don't Hope Do at $6. Oak Hill at $7. Lake Forest at $7.50. Peloton at $8.50. Tennessee Spirit at $10. Philosopher at $11. Saluted at $15. We bet $3.65. And then, you've got McGaw at $23. Thanks, McGaw. George is at $26. And Unflinching at $81.
Speaker 3Shocking race. Yeah. Out-of-form horses. Horses you can't trust, except for number eight, Brenna Moore, who, look, it's no star. It jumped in grade last time to go to that Imperatories race, and probably should have won. Came out sideways at the start. Cost herself a length and a half. Just got beaten. It looks to map pretty well here. Looks to be about fourth or fifth there behind Goodspeed. At least you know what you're going to get with the horse. To beat number three, Don't Hope Do. I don't know if it's going, or it's not going quite as well as it can, but it's racing consistently enough for a race like this. One Oak Hill. Look, just didn't race well. Got its head up. Didn't race well first up. Went poorly. Its best could win. And five, Philosopher, who didn't have the best of luck last time. It's racing pretty well, Philosopher. And where it's drawn, it can be out in the middle of the track and running on. So, eight, three, one, and five. Could McGaw think Gorge is an Unflinching win if they find their best? Well, McGaw could win if it found its best, but you're going back a fair way. Yeah. How did it win down the straight that day? I don't know. It's missing the kick now and getting itself into a spot. Unflinching's the leader. It's massive odds. It wouldn't shock you to run a race. And thanks, Gorgeous. It's been a while since we've seen good form from thanks, Gorgeous. Barrier one, maybe not ideal there. So, I'd say no for it. No Peloton? Peloton, look, it's got some chance. It's a better setup, isn't it, this time around? Well, 1,200 fully tests it. But 1,000 suits it. This sort of race suits it. Wouldn't shock if it stuck its head out like it did three starts ago.
Speaker 2Yeah. Race number seven. This is the Thoroughbred Club Stakes. Now, this is on the lakeside track. So take note, as Aidan Jolly pointed out, they can't fit that many horses on the hillside track. So they've got to go to the lakeside. The 1,200-metre start is too close to a corner. Correct. Yeah. So there's only capacity of 10 for the 1,200-metre start on the hillside. So they have to go to the lakeside here. This is worth a million dollars, this race, Mark. A million. Natural flings at $4. Disappointing there the other day down the straight in the Coolmore. Calvin McAvoy told us there on the Wednesday agenda, just forget about it. And if you give her another chance, she's clearly got the best form lines in this race. Afari at $6.50. SeaQuint at $7.00. Aroused at $7.00. Kieran Starr at $8.00. Cannington at $11.00. Semantics at $13.00. Interesting. Andy McAvoy said that he reckons Semantics is a better filly than Semantics. SeaQuint. Angels Furies at $17.00. And then Nishioka at $17.00. Calamari Ring at $20.00 to $1.00. Lady Catalina at $40.00 to $1.00. Cavill Avenue at $40.00 to $1.00. Then Ruby's Choice is a good filly on her day at $61.00. And almost an Angel at $100.00 to $1.00.
Speaker 3This is a good race. It's a good race. Look, there's not much between them. I'll take number nine, Afari, who's had the blinkers on for two starts. Led and bolted in two ago. Yeah. They went back from the gate in that Regal Ambition race. It went fantastic. Had to pick its way through. It ran on really well. It maps here to set up about fifth or sixth behind the good speed from the barrier. Eighth, SeaQuint. Probably should have won last time. Came out in the worst part of the track. Just got out-bobbed. It's got a good chance. I agree, number 12, Semantics is a very good filly. She also was in that straight race that Lady Catalina won. She was just roaring through the line. The 1200 will suit her. She has a tricky gate. 13 aroused. Both runs very good. Goes forward and six Cattington. Had a good spot for the race last time. One whale is a good horse. Drawing wide here on the lakeside is not easy. So, nine, eight, 12, 13, and six.
Speaker 2I'm hearing correctly, aren't I? Because sometimes you give it to me for not listening. But you've left our natural fling. Cold. You've left our natural fling. You kind of forgive horses for one bad run, don't you? Well, I don't know. She's better than SeaQuint. Well, she ran 1200.
Speaker 3She ran 1200? Oh, will she? Yeah, I reckon. Well, look, to me, she looked like a little bit of a tired horse in the cool more. She went forward. She was quickly beaten and didn't offer much resistance. So, I wouldn't fall over dead if she wins. Obviously, she's favourite. But, and she's on the lakeside. If she can find the top, she's going to be hard to run down. But I just thought 1200 metres, I thought she was looking at the end of her campaign rather than the peak of her campaign.
Speaker 2Yeah. So, who's going to be in the first half of this field here? Because I think that if you're on top of the speed over the 1200 at the lakeside, as you keep on telling me is my mental when it comes to punting, it's such a big advantage. So, who's the speed here? And who's going to be in the first four or five?
Speaker 3You've got Arouse going forward. You've got Angel's Fury going forward. You've got Natural Fling from the middle. Yeah. Semantics is a horse they can't light up. So, she's got to find a spot just behind them. And Lady Catalina. And the lead in one last time flew the start. So, you think it would go forward as well. So, being on the lakeside, it should generate good tempo early.
Speaker 2No shame. So, it's scratched here. Let's go through these horses in the Thoroughbred Club Stakes. Yes or no, can they win? Number two, Natural Fling. No. Number three, Lady Catalina. No. Four, Ruby's Choice. No. Five, Calamari Ring. No. Six, Caddington. Yes. Seven, Kieran Star. I'm going to say no. Eight, Sea Quint. Yes. Nine, Afari. Yes. Ten, Angel's Fury. No. Eleven, Almost an Angel. No. Twelve, Semantics. Yes. Thirteen, Aroused. Yes. Fourteen, Nishioka. Yes. And fifteen, Cavill Avenue. No. Angel's Fury is an interesting one. She was disappointing first up, but like last prep, she had ability that they thought
Speaker 3that she could be competitive in a cool more. She might be a soft tracker. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's got to prove she can run 1,200 as well. So the way she went down the straight, she didn't offer a lot of resistance there. It would be a big improvement for her to come out and win this over 1,200.
Speaker 2It's 41 minutes past eight. This is the Hunter's Edge. All thanks to Kia and Bet365. We'll take a break on the other side of it. We'll come back and we'll have a look at the feature, the C4 Stakes.
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Speaker 2499-736-736. It's 17 minutes to nine. 43 minutes past eight. You know, I should know better, but after 8.30, you've got to go, you look forward to nine. So it's 16 minutes to nine. Great to have your company. Giddy Up brought to you by Kia and Bet365. The Hunter's Edge is brought to you by Kia. The Kia Seltos Hybrid. Available now. C4 Stakes meeting. Ten races. The highlight is the C4 Stakes. You can still get tickets at Ticketek. $15. That's a bargain, really. It is. High quality gallopers doing battle, including the C4 Stakes. No scratchings. Fascinating betting race. The market has Baywack at $3. And the solid favourite. Second favourite, Jimmy Starr at $4.80. Shatavar at $4.80. Angel's Capital at $5. Pericles, who won the Russell Boarding over the 1,300 metres in Sydney last start at $7.50. Splashback at $19. War Machine at $26. And Desert Lightning is at 100-1 here, Mark Hunter.
Speaker 3There's not much between them, Gareth. 1, 3 and 5. I think the race, the all-age stakes pretty well sums them up. Baywack leads, dictates, kicks and wins. Angel Capital back inside, not having much luck, runs well. Jimmy Starr, slow out, gets the outside, runs on strongly. So, I think that pretty well sums up all three horses. So, I think they should all get their chance. I'll go with 5 Baywack. Has to lead Shatavar. Shatavar draws 2. Baywack 3. Baywack normally flies the start. Shatavar was a bit slow away at Flemeth. And so, I would say James would look to jump, lead, control the race, give a kick down the hill. And it's going to be very hard to run down. 3 Angel Capital. Any time the track's dry at 1,400 metres. It's going to be hard to beat. It's got a great chance. One Jimmy Starr. I think it almost. Be a bit tardy away here, still end up two back inside. If Shadovar follows Bavack, that'll leave a two back inside. The cutaway comes, Ethan ducks back to the inside. As long as the horse runs on well inside horses, then it's going to be right in the finish. So there's very little between the three big guns, 5-3-1.
Speaker 2Bavack's interesting because James McDonald's having a chat to him this week. It's going to be interesting to see how he goes following the fence here. Like, will he get lost when you turn for home because the cutaway comes into play and there is no rail? Well, it's a question you can't really answer. No. But I never thought about it, really. No. It's going to be interesting. Well, it shouldn't be an issue. No, you shouldn't think so. But he's going to give it. At his best, he should just win, shouldn't he, Bavack, if he produces
Speaker 3that Memsie run? Well, not really because that was on soft ground. Yeah. Angel Capital's basically ruled ineffective and Jimmy Starr went ordinary. So you didn't see the real of the two dangers. You go through the all-age stakes, probably gives you a better guy. Jimmy Starr, you know, had things wrong, ran well, and Angel Capital had no luck. I think on dry ground, there's very little between them. If Chateauval leads, it will make a different race. If Chateauval did lead, it would make it a very different race. Do you think she'll lead? Probably not. Not first go this grade. I think they'd probably take a sit.
Speaker 2The key to Bavack's chances is to make sure that he gets to the front. Under his own steam.
Speaker 3He usually jumps pretty quickly. And Chateauval wasn't bringing it away last time. So hopefully for Bavack's Barracus, it can fly the start and lead.
Speaker 2So what about Chateauval? Are you surprised she's this short in the market?
Speaker 3She's flying. When she missed the kick the other day at Flemington, I thought she might be in trouble. But she just railed through, controlled the race, and blew them away. This is a very different task with these really good group one horses coming at you. So. Am I surprised she's that short? Probably. She's going super. Tom David trains winners. She's going super. She's getting better every time. But this is a much harder task.
Speaker 2She had tomato toasting gold medalists chasing her. This time she's got Jimmy Star, Angel Capital, and Bavack. Yep. Sums it up. What about Jimmy? Barry number one.
Speaker 3His last couple of goes, he's had inside that I can think of. He was. He doesn't like it. The barrier one when Zara rode him and the fence was carved. He doesn't like it. He doesn't like it. He doesn't like it. So you'd be forgiving of that. The race up in Queensland where he drew middle, ended up inside, didn't fire. And you go a fair way back to the Rupert Clark when he looked like he was jogging and just got hopelessly held up on the corner and never got out. So I can see why there would be a theory Jimmy goes better outside horses.
Speaker 2One of the great rides I reckon of the spring was last Saturday in the champion stakes. Benny Mallum. He was brave from gate one to where he's that horse all the way back to last because he believed he didn't quite see Cosmic Crusader come up. Come at, come at him in a Cox play. So he wanted to make sure that this horse got to the outside. And it was a beautiful ride by Mallum from a tactical perspective, knowing his horse to make sure that he got the best out of him. Jimmy Stark, would Ethan Brown do something similar? Even though the cutaway's in play, if he does like to get to the outside, can he try and get on the back of an Angel Capital?
Speaker 3Well, if he's slow out, he could end up, depending how slow out he is, he could end up back there. He could end up back there anyway. But look, I guess that's one thing you could think about. Get back and look for the back of Angel Capital. But you're going to be, you're going to be giving a big start to Baywack. And I think the theory with Jimmy is he's slow out and he gives them too much start. So that's not really something that I think they would entertain. Pericles, if he drew lower, do you think he'd be far shorter? He'd have a better chance. I don't think he's as good a horse as the other three. He's a very good horse, but not as good as the other three. From that barrier, I don't know what Willow does. A lot of horses are looking for similar spots, like War Machine, Desert Lightning. You know, they're all looking for similar spots. So I don't know where they're a spot for Pericles. If anything goes wrong for him in the race, I can't see how he can beat the other three.
Speaker 2I'm really looking forward to this race because I think sometimes you've got Jimmy Star, you've got Angel Capital, and you've got Baywack. Their best trip is 1,400 metres. This is their go. Yep. Would you agree?
Speaker 3Yep. And it should set up so that every horse, they'll be giving Baywack the start, which may. Prove the deciding factor, but they're only a small field. They should all get their chance.
Speaker 2Can they win, yes or no? And the CF4 stakes a group one level with Mark Hunter. Number one, Jimmy Star. Yes. Two, Pericles. No. Three, Angel Capital. Yes. Four, War Machine. No. Five, Baywack. Yes. Six, Desert Lightning. No. Seven, Splashback. No, I don't think she's very good, but I don't think she's quite good enough. And eight, Shadavar. I'll go with no. It is ten minutes to nine. We'll take a break. We'll come back and have a look at the Zipping Classic next. Mark Hunter with me. All thanks to Kia. The Kia Seldas Hybrid available now. Find out more at kia.com.au. We're looking at the Chandon Zipping Classic over the 2,400 metres. This is a terrific race. I'm looking forward to it. There's some different storylines here, some different form lines. You've got the Caulfield Cup champ taking on Small Fry. He was second to the Melbourne Cup champ in the Geelong Cup. And he's first start in this country for Joseph O'Brien. He's the $2.90 favourite in the OTI colours. Kingswood's won a Caulfield Cup and he's the second favourite, would you believe? He's 360. Juja Cabot hasn't missed out on too many fights this time around. He's at $5. He was placed in the Melbourne Cup. You've got Trafalta at $7. She's a hustler at $16 who won this race last year. Dark Bonnie at $19. Middle Earth at $30-1 and Asterix at $40-1. Knight's Choice at $50-1. Mark's Horse Vauban at $50-1. Torosino's at $50-1. And then big prices for Strictly Business at $126. And Smokin' Romans at $150-1.
Speaker 3Go tip Kingswood, Gareth. I think this horse is absolutely humming. It's run in the Caulfield Stakes. It was a beauty. Set up on speed. Tufted out. And wasn't far behind. She's an alibi. Then went to the Caulfield Cup. Covered ground. Beautiful ride from the 600 for Johnny Allen. Let them all go. And come to the outside. It was a terrific win. So I just think it can't be going any better. It doesn't have to go any better. And it's going to be mighty hard to beat. 10 small fry. Obviously, Chase Stone, point of law in the Geelong Cup, which is great form. It'll get a beautiful run for Zara. 5 Jujikibo. We take a line a few starts ago, or a couple of starts ago, beating Kings Valley. That horse should have nearly won the Caulfield Cup. Fantastic in the Melbourne Cup, Jujikibo. A 9 Travolta. Getting ready for upping distance. Has been very competitive with Jujikibo up there in Sydney. So 2, 10, 5, and 9.
Speaker 2Small fry's an interesting runner. He was so good behind point of law. Many say another. 100 metres, he beats the Melbourne Cup champ.
Speaker 3I think point of law went a lot, lot better in the Melbourne Cup than it did in the Geelong Cup, even though it's a good form line. Yeah, Domney Mann ran third, tailed off last at Flemington there last week. So I think point of law did go a heap better in the Melbourne Cup than it did in the Geelong Cup. So possibly a touch flattering form line.
Speaker 2Do you have a theory regarding horses having their second start in Australia off the plane?
Speaker 3Not really. The stable. No, not really. No, no, don't.
Speaker 2No. Jujikibo is a great horse, isn't he? He was ridden perfectly, I thought, in the Cup by Sammy Clipperton.
Speaker 3He's going great. He is. He's just going every run. Look at its form, 3-2-1-1-3, just not running badly in the top grade. Who leads? Well, the leader here could come from a few of them. Darkbunny's up in trip you think would take a sit. Same with small fry. She's a hustler, will be forward somewhere. Kingswood forward somewhere. Smoke and Romans likes to lead. They've been riding Torrenzino handy, and you've got Vauban from out wide who can go for it. Can go forward. So the pace should be genuine for a 2,400. Are you surprised Vauban's going around? No, this is the race I think it should have been set for after Geelong. I think it ran at Geelong. It was below par. It's nine years old. A run in the Melbourne Cup potentially could finish its career. So I was really surprised it went there and it ran accordingly. I think trying to, you know, if you're trying to get more wins out of Vauban, I think the Melbourne Cup was probably the last race you would run in. So after that run at Geelong, this would have been the natural stepping stone. Could you back him at $51? No, I couldn't back him. Look, he's been a great horse. You want to see him. It's got a big turnaround from the Melbourne Cup.
Speaker 2And Asterix is an interesting run. A scratch Melbourne Cup day.
Speaker 3Yeah, Caulfield Cup run, I don't think it's good enough to win. It's a handy start, but I just don't think it's good enough to win.
Speaker 2Yes or no, can they win the zipping classic number one night's choice? Nope. Two Kingswood. Yes. Three Vauban. Yes. Four. Sorry, no, no, no, sorry. Four Smoke and Romans. No. Five. Jujica Bow. Yes. Six Middle Earth. No. Seven Asterix. No. Eight Torrenzino. No. Nine Trafalta. Yes. Ten Small Fry. Yes. Eleven Dark Bonnie. No. Twelve She's a Hustler. No. And 13 Strictly Business. No. This is Giddy Up, live from Duncow. You thought you were cold. The great Campbell Brown's arrived in thongs. In shorts. In shorts and t-shirts. Oh, what a world we're living in. He's kidding. He's got a kidding. But when you find love, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how cold you are. We'll take a break. We'll come back with plenty more.
Speaker 1Live across Australia, this is Giddy Up with Gareth Hall.
Speaker 2It's great to have your company. It's a special Giddy Up on the doorstep of the Grampians. Mark Hunter's going to walk the track throughout the Grampians. The Dunkeld track. We'll start with that, Gareth. And see how we go. Could be frozen, I thought. But I'm looking forward to tomorrow. It's been on my bucket list coming to Dunkeld Cup Day. 8,000 people here. It's going to be a lot of fun. So bring it on. You've done the form for us. Well, you're going to do it for us and tell us tomorrow, aren't you? Because we're live here for a special Giddy Up from 6 a.m. It's going to be cold tomorrow at 6 a.m. From 6 to 8. So can't wait for that. And you'll have your tip for us. Sure. Hopefully. The Hunter's Edge brought to you by Kia. Find out more at kia.com slash a Europe to the last race, which is the Henley Homes. Henley Homes, great supporters of racing, especially Victoria. It's a sum and stakes over the 1500. Black is in his team. Do a wonderful job. If I had enough money, I'd go and buy a Henley Homes. Now, defeaters are scratching the nine for these mares. Market has Concord Connie. She's odds on. After finishing second in the group one, the Empire Rose, she's $1.80. Super Fabulistics at $6.50. Savitry at $7.50. Tomato Toasty has the Shadovar Four Minds at $11. Terri Lee at $15. And this is the fascinating runner. Johnny Sadler is going to join us later on. $19 Mary Gold, but James McDonald rides for the great man. Silicab at $26. Astral Flame at $30 to $1. Bossy Benita at a big price. And then we go. We go out to horses at $150 to $1 like a bewitchery.
Speaker 3She'll probably win. Concord Connie. Concord Connie. Sorry, she's come back from a spell in great order. Terrific in the Tristark from the back against the pattern of the day. Terrific against Lady Shenandoah, who's, you know, you're measuring stick for mares. Yeah. She draws wide. I think she'll balance up middle to two-thirds of the way back. She'll come down the outside and she'll probably win $12. Super Fabulistic, I think, is the danger. I think it's a real important. It doesn't improve. Each time it got a hit on the backside with a whip, it just went quicker there at Flemington. Well, that's the idea of it, isn't it? Well, yeah, but some don't respond here. It really picked up and went and was charging through the line. So B. Mellon takes over from a good barrier. And three Mary Gold. Good mare on a day, Mary Gold. Would great to see Sads go out with a winner and J-Mac riding, I think, for the first time for Johnny. So good luck to both. Four, 12 and three.
Speaker 2Johnny Sadler and James McDonald, $19. Mary Gold, can it win at its best?
Speaker 3Well, it ran in the same race last time as Concord. Connie wasn't as good a run. I think the theory from the jockey was the track was, even though it was a good four, it was a bit choppy and shifty and that took away Mary Gold's finish. So I would hope we don't get Ranger in the day. Hope the track's still dry and she should go better.
Speaker 2All right, then. Your best bets, please. You've got a staking plan. You've got $100 today with the 10 races and Spud's got her best.
Speaker 3And I need a Friday fill-up. My best bet is race one, number 12, Ignusa. The Dino Multi, race one, number 12, Ignusa, into race 10, number four, Concord. Connie, the Ramma Ruffy, race five, number six, Strong Tempo. It's $8. It was $9.50 yesterday.
Speaker 2Hey, that's not allowed. Like, Ramma. Oh, semantics, semantics.
Speaker 3Race seven, number 12, semantics.
Speaker 2Ramma doesn't like it when you double figures. I know you're cold, but please don't insult our listeners and viewers.
Speaker 3It feels like nine. If it's nine degrees. Danny Delray, Daily Double. First leg, one, three, and five. Yeah. Second leg, three, four, and 12. The Quoddy. First leg, six, eight, nine, 12, and 13. Second leg, one, three, and five. Third leg, two, five, nine, and 10. Last leg, three, four, and 12. We're going to spend our $100 like this. Race one, number 12, Ignusa, $50 the win. Race four, number four, Brave Danza, $20 the win. And at the $8.50, we're going to have race five, number six, Strong Tempo, $30 the win. Spud is race nine, number one, A Fire of Gidgee Coles is his best. And the Friday fill-up, I like this one. I like this one. Race five, number two, Gazzarati at Pakenham. I think ideally suited 1,400 metres. Gazzarati, that's Charlotte's horse. Yep. Yep. I reckon he can win that race.
Speaker 2I've got one. I've got one. I've got one for you, Friday fill-up. I hope it bolts in as well. Go on. Horse at UO Stone, overactive. Overactive. Yeah, I've got a tip for that from Gavin Bedgegood yesterday on Giddy Up. It's not a bad race, but it did trial well. Yeah. Are you backing him? I've backed it before and I'm scarred. What else have I got for you? Have you got a Dunkel tip for us? Dunkel Cup. I haven't seen the fields. What do you mean you haven't seen the fields? That's what we brought you out here to have. Have a look at the Dunkel Cup meeting. Which part's not clear? All right, then. You enjoy yourself. You enjoy yourself today. What was that, Louis? I think Louis is trying to say something. Navy King. Navy King. There you go. Hey, the boys who work on the roads there with the stop signs, they're big fans of yours. They've just texted in there. A little bit worried that you will break down and might not finish off the walk today. Pristine condition. A few text messages coming through. What's been your favourite footy trip over the years?
Speaker 3Probably Gold Coast. It was always good. Okay. Yeah. Better than Castleton? Well, we went to Warrnambool. It was our footy trip. The ones that couldn't get overseas went to Warrnambool. What do you mean couldn't get overseas? Well, whatever reason, money or time or whatever, we couldn't. So a bunch of us went to Warrnambool and we made our way to Castleton races. All right, then. What was Spud's best again? A fire of Gidgey coals.
Speaker 2Race nine, number one. Yeah. It'd be tough to beat. Very good three you're on. And you'll be live from Perth next week. Yep. Yeah. You know, that show will start at five o'clock. I understand this. That's five o'clock. You'll have to get up at four. All right. Thank you, Mark. And we'll catch you tomorrow morning. Thank you, Gareth. For a special Giddy Up. We're live here from six to eight. So you'll have to get up at 5.30. We appreciate you making the time anyway. Enjoy Dunkeld tomorrow. Thank you. Campbell Brown's going to join me. And Johnny Sadler. What about those two characters? So Brownie is at Dunkeld. I don't know what he's doing in Dunkeld, but I promise you, Jackie Epstein, I'll be asking him the tough questions. And then we'll catch up with Johnny Sadler. And I'm looking forward to having a chat to him. And then after that, it's the weekend preview. This is Giddy Up live from Dunkeld. It is great to have your company. Go and have a hot shower, Mark.
Speaker 1Thanks. Thanks. Text us on 0-4-double-9-7-3-6-7-3-6.
Speaker 2Welcome back to Giddy Up live from Dunkeld. And I've got a special friend who has joined me here. And I didn't expect him to be here. Like I was walking the streets of Dunkeld yesterday and I spotted the brown dog, Campbell Brown. And I rang you and you didn't answer. So why are you here? I just came up yesterday to climb Mount Abrupt. It was a lovely day. The sun was out. Mount Abrupt, of course, in the Grampians. At Dunkeld, you look, it's just at the side of the racetrack. Sammy Highland looks at it every day from his property in Hamilton. And it was good. It was a nice walk. I got lost. I actually didn't end up at the top of Mount Abrupt. I ended up at another part of the Grampians, which just sums up my life at the moment. You know, just not sure what's happening. But you're rugged up. Yeah, it is freezing. You've got goosebumps. I can see. I can see your legs. The cold is just all in the mind. It is, 100%. I love doing ice baths. But when the wind rips through, it's really difficult, really, to be here for four hours. But what a cracking. It's a shame I've got to actually work tomorrow. Where? SEN track with cams back and tags. Okay, you should be here, really. I should, yeah. In that marquee. Yeah. But I thought I'd just come up. Yeah. I thought I'd come up here and check out the place because I've heard great things. 700 people, as I said before, in that marquee, and that is the population of Dunkeld. I spoke to a few locals yesterday, and they said that two years ago, it was a really hot day. They ran out of alcohol at three o'clock. Oh, no. That won't happen. And the joint blew up. There was fights, and those people are getting attacked for their drinks and everything like that. So they can't afford that to happen again. There's now a cap on how many people. People can attend. Okay. Now, you've done the form for tomorrow. We're about to catch up with one of my favourite characters in the game. The great Johnny Sadler. Yeah, his career's coming to an end. He's going to work with Clint MacDonald, but he's got Mary Gold in the last race with James MacDonald aboard and Befuddled as well with Jackson Radley going around in race number two. But he is one of the great characters, Johnny Sadler. He is. Racing needs more of it. They do, don't they? I reckon we lack a few characters. No, we do. We do. And, yeah, we enjoy this great time. Great game, but the bigger the character, the better. Now, tell me what you were doing on Sunday in Sydney that I saw. Well, I went up to Sydney for a sort of – I had a really big spring carnival. I thought I just – I wanted to go out with a bit of fun, so we got on a yacht called Mischief, 180 footer. It's not bad. Yeah, you were – Travis Head? Yeah, Travis Head and I were speaking, you know, about Usman Khawaja and Australian cricket at the moment. Who have you made it? Oh, well, you know. What would you do? It would be the equivalent of me walking into Kmart today and seeing someone shoplift, right, and then reporting you might use later. Yeah. What did you make of – what do you think the Australian captain – I think Pat's going to have a chat to the media at 9.30. Yeah, so he should. I saw him in a very heated discussion with his wife. Yes. He got papped out the front of his house. That was uncalled for. Well, I don't like the – I don't like the paps, you know. No. They've got me a couple of times. They got you actually walking the mountains yesterday. You found love at Dachau. I will say this. I walked the mountains for two hours yesterday and did not see one person. I was singing at the top of my lungs from Zach Bryan and it was great to get away, but – Is it true that, like, a farmer wants a wife and – No, mate. Absolutely not. Yes, yes. I've come up here on my own accord. That's a lie. I've heard the Royal Mail is a great place to eat, so I went there and tried their Angus steak and it was nice. All right, then. Don't lie to us. You're lying to us, Brownie. The family, you're lying to us. I would never. I would never. Anyway, I'll learn everything from you. So what do you think will happen today at this media conference? Did you ever call your own media conference? Like, get on X and say – Yeah, well, when I got sacked from the Suns, I had to call them. Well, I didn't call it myself. They did. But I had to sit through a torturous 15 minutes and express, you know, remorse and guilt when I actually didn't have any. But these are the things you sometimes have to do. You do, don't you? Like, you say you lied to everyone. You've lied to people before. So it'll be interesting to see what Pat has to say. Hey, Johnny Sadler joins us, the legend. Hey, Johnny, welcome to Giddy Up, mate. Thanks, Gareth. Nice to be on. Yeah, we're Campbell, Brown and Gareth all, mate. Is this your last Saturday meeting tomorrow?
Speaker 5I'd be hopeful that – I'll go to Cranbourne the following week. Okay, yeah. But as far as impact in the city is concerned, tomorrow would be my last day. How are you feeling, Sats? Yeah, mixed emotions. Mixed emotions. It's definitely time for me to wind up. I have no regrets there at all. But, of course, I'm going to be there. Of course, everything, as Campbell just alluded to before, everything does come to an end at some stage, whether it's your training career, footy career or whatever, and something that you've been doing for 47, 48 years, it's – yeah, life's going to be a little bit different.
Speaker 2It's been a remarkable career, John. Congratulations. We were talking about – you've been one of the great characters in racing and you've been one of the great characters for four decades. Who are some of the people that you've met over the journey that are characters and scallywags in the racing industry?
Speaker 5Scallywags covers quite a few, Campbell. I reckon you were a scallywag.
Speaker 2I was, but I sit in the racing industry. So, obviously – Oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 5I'll stay in the profession, I know. But, yeah, a lot of – one that comes to mind to me, and he's not in great health at the moment, but he's a terrific bloke, and it's Pat Webster from Sydney. Just a hell of a funny man and better to be on the right side of him than the wrong, but just a – just, you know, a terrific bloke. A terrific bloke. And, yeah, there's – I haven't asked that question about the scallywags of the game, but, geez, a lot of great people.
Speaker 2Yeah. Geez, I wish I was there during the times at Caulfield and that hut. They tell some wonderful stories. Who is the – and you tell some great stories as well, but who was the trainer that threw the photocopy out of the – the trainer's hut that day?
Speaker 5Yeah, well, could only be one. Yeah. And another great character, but also a great trainer in Peter Moody. Yes, yes. Yeah, yeah. He threw the photocopy, which was – it surprised quite a few, but he doesn't get like that very often. I think he's mellowed a bit, but he's one of those blokes' moods that, look, you could talk to him on Friday and he could train three group one winners over the weekend and he'd be the same bloke on the Monday. Just a really good fella.
Speaker 2What were the repercussions of that photocopy? Did he have to buy a new one? Did he get a reprimand, a fine? What came of it?
Speaker 5Campbell, I'm not sure. I'm actually not sure. It did happen before I went to Caulfield, but as you said, there were some great days. It's a bit different here at Pakenham now where we're all divided up a bit and we have to do a lot of walking instead of eating toasted sandwiches. So Pakenham's been good for the wait.
Speaker 2My favourite story out of the Caulfield days, and you're about to go and work for him, Sads, is Clinton McDonald. Didn't he run nude down the street one day when we were in Hustler? Someone got his number, got his phone, and Terry Bailey was the chief steward and they swapped Ross McDonald's number for Terry Bailey. So Clinton McDonald thought he was ringing his old man, but he was ringing Terry Bailey, abusing his old man. Who was the one that did that prank on him, Sads? I'm not too sure.
Speaker 5Once again, that was before my time. Before your time. Jeez, that was funny. Have you seen Clinton lately? Can you imagine him running down the street nude?
Speaker 2Yes, yes. I can picture it. Yeah, yes. It wouldn't be a great sight, Sads. Not a good sight at all. But you're going to go and work with him. I reckon that would be. Great combo. That is one of the great combinations, I reckon. Are you going to be like Chris Fagan where you've retired and you thought, well, I'm only going to have a part-time job, but now all of a sudden he's full-time with Carlton?
Speaker 5Well, look, yeah, don't go comparing me with that great man. But, look, just there in an advisory capacity. Okay. And I just, you know, one of the jockeys said to me on Tuesday, he said, oh, God, you two, 100 to 1. Lee Freeman texted me and said, I'll give it a month. But, of course, I'm there. I'm there. I'm there in, as I said, an advisory capacity. So I will only be there wanting to help, not putting my head in and saying you should be doing this and should be doing that, but just suggesting things and trying to keep him on the straight and narrow.
Speaker 2Well, good luck there. It's like trying to keep Kimball Brown on the straight and narrow. It can be done, though. It can be done. It's not like nothing's impossible these days. And, Sads, I'm fascinated tomorrow in the Summon Stakes. Like, how did you – James McDonnell wouldn't even ride at Flemington in the last race because he couldn't get out of Melbourne quick enough so he could catch the flight back to Sydney. But you've been able to get his services in the final event there tomorrow afternoon. How did you do that?
Speaker 5Well, I'll tell you, it is a wee story about that. When I found out Daniel Stackhouse, who usually rides there, had to – take another ride, I thought of James McDonnell and Rhys Murphy actually rang his manager, but we didn't hear back. And I've always had a great relationship with the Mallion family and, of course, James is married to Katie. Katie, yeah. She's a wonderful girl and always had a great relationship with her. So I thought I'd give Katie a call. And she said, I think that'll be right. She said, I'll come back to you in a couple of minutes. Well, she rang back in about a minute's time and she said, he's on. So it's smart. Don't go through the wife and not the manager.
Speaker 2So Guesty's too scared to talk to James about the last race at Sandown and Sads has just gone straight to the wife. Straight to the top. And he's under the thumb, James. He does what he's told.
Speaker 5He's a smart guy. He's a smart guy. He's a smart guy. not mean if that's the case.
Speaker 2What did you say to Mickey Comerford the other day, that any advice you'd give to young trainers, Sads, what would that be?
Speaker 5Oh, yeah, it was just more so to the women out there, just don't marry a trainer, for God's sake. And I'd almost put footballers in the same class. Yes, especially Campbell Brown. You've got to be so, you know, pretty selfish. Yes, yes. Yeah, I didn't go that well at the marriage stakes, guys, I've got to tell you. But we got a lot of, we got seven beautiful kids out of it anyway.
Speaker 2Yeah, you've been a wonderful sire, Johnny. You've been a wonderful sire. Now, tell me this, mate. Are we having a bet tonight or tomorrow? Like, if I gave you $100, what would you do with it? Because you've got Befuddle there, he goes around in the second race, and you've got Little Richo, who won for you nicely there the other day, and you've got a couple of other chances there at Pakenham tonight.
Speaker 5So, tonight, in race three, there's Hill of Olives, who was disappointing but ran into a lot of trouble at first start. I think she'll run a lot better. Yeah. I'm not saying she'll win, but she's big odds and she'll run a lot better. Above the frost line, the same, in race six. Yeah. And Little Richo's really racing well, and he hasn't shown me any signs that he's gone backwards. So, he'd be the best of the three tonight.
Speaker 2Beautiful. Should we back Marigold tomorrow?
Speaker 5Yes. Yes. Yes. Look. But definitely on an each-way basis, I think the favourite will be very, very hard to beat, Concord Connie. That's it, isn't it, Concord Connie? Yeah, that's it. That's it, Johnny. Looks probably one of the bets of the day. But I can guarantee you there's not as much Bitcoin as what the market suggests. Let's just hope it doesn't get lost. Well, yeah. Look, it'd be good to have someone to blame if he does.
Speaker 2Yeah. Hey, Johnny, we'll talk to you. I'm going to get you in the studio. I don't want to sit down and have a long chat to you for Beyond the Barriers. But on behalf of everyone in the game, brother, you've been one of the great characters, one of the great storytellers, one of the great punting trainers as well. And we're going to miss you, mate. But every time Clint McDonald has a run of room, we'll just get you on the line because you'll tell the truth.
Speaker 5You wouldn't lie to us. Talking about the truth, guys, if you can make that interview after my last day, I will be able to then tell you the truth.
Speaker 2That'll be box office. The shackles will be released. Freedom. Freedom, that's called. Congratulations, John, on your career. Hey, go and get them, Johnny. And yeah, hopefully you get the cash there with Mary Gold tomorrow in that last race.
Speaker 5Great to talk to you guys.
Speaker 2What a legend, John Sadler. What about you, Brownie? Do you have any winners for us? Well, I've done plenty of form. I did punters yesterday, like Bayvark, to just jump and lead in the CF4. I think that's going to be a hard horse to run down. Rap Shadavar's having its first crack at Group 1. The company thoroughly deserves it. Harry Lyme, each way in the Sandown Guineas. There's a couple of Waterhouse Bot runners that I like, and I thought the run in the Amanda Elliott on Cup Day was absolutely superb. Had no right to fail. Finished third and did, so up to the mile. Going again with Sequin. Okay. Back to the well there. It's been up for a long time. Yeah, it has, but only beaten a lip down the Flemington Strait on Oaks Day and actually did a lot right that day. Like, didn't have the high head carriage and a few things. Small fry in the Zipping Classic. Just think Juja Kibo, 3200 Melbourne Cup back in trip. No Kingswood? Yeah, we like Kingswood, but I just think, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Form is pretty good around small fry with point of law. Isn't Gavin Bedge good? Absolutely flying. And super fabulistic in the last. I like Chidiak each way up in Sydney, Newcastle, so Chidiak. And best of the day is Sandown Race 3, number four, Fundamental Nature, the QMR runner. Jag back to last. Peel out. Whoosh. Straight down the middle of the track. Should be getting the job done. I'm proud of you, Don. Form for about five different meetings right across the country. Yeah, I have. Well, I have to. You know, it's my job now. Yeah. Not as professional as Mark Hunter, obviously. I don't live and die by my results, but I like to tip. You know, my best of the day in every day of the carnival, all one. Now, tell me this. Sammy Highland was meant to come and say good day to us, but he says he's lost. He's lost. Is he? Well, I went to the back. I went to the cemetery side of the race course. And I text you. Yeah. Yeah, I might go climb that mountain. I might go climb that mountain again and head back to Melbourne. What do you think? Hey, dog, it's good to see that you found love. Farmer wants a wife. Absolutely haven't found anything of the sort, mate. It eludes me. It eludes you. Save that love story, I reckon, for your afternoon show. But we appreciate you coming in to say good day, mate. Safe trip home. And yeah, we'll have to get to it. You'll have to get to Dunkeld next year. Next year. We'll come and make a day of it. Yeah. All right, brother. Thanks for joining us. Good on you. Giddy up. The one, the only, Campbell Brown. The weekend preview team next year on Giddy Up.
Speaker 1It's now time for the weekend preview. With Mick Gannon, Dean Watling and Ben Caluzzi.
Speaker 2Great day of your company. It's going to be a great day here tomorrow. Let's welcome in the weekend preview team because they've done the form for the Hunter meeting at Newcastle and the C4 Stakes meeting at Sandown. And then after that, Carl Hooper will be joining us. Not the West Indian off spinner, but the man who runs Dunkeld, the race club. He'll join me, Hoops. He's been a great administrator for country racing in this state of Victoria. So looking forward to catching up with Hoops. And then we're going to catch up. We're going to catch up with a few of the locals as well for a special country corner here on Giddy Up. Live at Dunkeld. But let's welcome in the weekend preview team. And first of all, let's head to the studio. Benny Caluzzi is with us.
Speaker 6G'day, Benny. G'day, G. No, I'm actually from home. I think Zach is in the studio. But I got told to stay put. So I'm joining online for the first time.
Speaker 7And hello to you, Zachy Tunbridge. Good morning, G. Yeah, keeping the seat nice and warm for you here, mate. Isn't it nice there?
Speaker 2Yes, it is. It's a little cold, but it's beautiful. I'm loving my time here at Dunkeld. You get up here later on, don't you?
Speaker 7Yep, I'll be up there this afternoon and keen for a big day tomorrow.
Speaker 2And we're doing the show live tomorrow morning from 6 a.m. A special Giddy Up. The Noonan boys will be on as well from 6 to 8. And then, of course, we've got normal programming after that. And then we're here at Dunkeld for the races. Mickey Cannon joins us now.
Speaker 8G'day, Mickey. I can't quite hear, Mickey.
Speaker 2Is your line dodgy?
Speaker 9I'm good here, G. Can you hear me?
Speaker 2Yeah, I can hear you loud and clear now. How's things, mate?
Speaker 9Yeah, doing well, mate. Really well. Looking forward to this. A hunter, big hunter meeting. And Group 1 racing continues. So no time for a rest. We'll just keep punching on.
Speaker 2And Dean Watling, hello to you, mate. Live from the City of Churches on this Friday morning.
Speaker 10Yes, good morning, G. Good morning, all the boys. Yeah, I've come down to Adelaide to find God, G. Got to sort myself out. Yes. But it's raining down here. It's not the best. But what is the best is the cracking many at Sandown and Newcastle.
Speaker 2They tell me with your love life these days that you definitely need to find God. Wow. I do, G.
Speaker 10I do. So, no, I've come down here on a searching mission. Hopefully, I can figure some stuff out.
Speaker 2Let's play the music. Let's get our mega-boost horse. Hello to you, Zachy, once again. Who is the mega-boost horse on this Friday?
Speaker 7We're going Concord Connie in the La. So $2.50. Head to the race card. I can see a lot of people have already taken it. But that's going to be up for the next half an hour or so.
Speaker 2I don't mind Concord Connie. She's definitely the horse to beat. But, geez, that Marygold spruik there from Johnny Sadler with James McDonald. It excites me. It excites me. Each way, I reckon. But, anyway, Concord Connie, $2.50. She won't start that, will she, Benny? I know you're in love with her.
Speaker 6She won't start anywhere near $2.50, G. Especially for a few of these favorites winning during the day. She's got a significant class edge on them. She'll just be mapping in the back half of the field.
Speaker 2All right, then. Let's have a look at the Bet365 weekend preview top four multi as well. So, I'm having a look at it now. You take it away there, Zachy Tumbridge.
Speaker 7All right. So, yeah, I think there was a scratching just in Inui, but if that's not the case, it'll go back up. But it's big odds. It's about $18 that I'm looking at. So there's 400 customers that are on at the moment. So strong tempo for you, Chicks for Gano, Kingswood for Ben, and glorious moments for Dino. This is a big price.
Speaker 2So I'm confident with mine, strong tempo. It'll get back, but it should run into the top four, surely. Glorious moments at Newcastle. That's you, Dino, isn't it?
Speaker 10That is me, G.
Speaker 2Yeah. Kingswood for you, Benny Caluzzi. That's it. Like, surely the Caulfield Cup champ runs in the top four.
Speaker 6Correct. Especially if he's going to Hong Kong. If he doesn't run top four, he won't be going.
Speaker 2No, he's got a win to go to Hong Kong, Gavin Bedgecook told us yesterday. And then Chicks for you, Mickey Gannon.
Speaker 9Yeah, getting a big price about Chicks around $14. So I don't think there's a whole lot between Regal Problem and Chicks. Chicks got the job done over Regal Problem last time, and you see Regal Problem is $3.70 here. So I'm just going for the value. I'm not sure if she necessarily wins the race, but puts a bit of value in there, G.
Speaker 2All right, then. Let's get stuck into our preview. We're going to start with the Hunter meeting at Newcastle. Mickey Gannon, how do you think this track will play?
Speaker 9Yeah, I expect lanes of 3 to 10 to produce most winners. So just off the fence, if the rain doesn't come, which there's a little bit of rain forecast, but just looking at the radar, most likely to arrive, you know, a few mils tonight and then a few mils tomorrow night. So a warm enough day, expect a drying surface there, and you wouldn't want to be sort of further back than sort of top six in transit. So definite advantage to be on speed up and in. I'd say worse than midfield, might be a bit of strife there tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 2All right, then. Let's have a look at this meeting, and we'll start off with the first league of the quad at Newcastle. There should be a massive crowd there. Their biggest day of the year. I think it's past Dino Newcastle Cup Day now, the Hunter meeting. Yeah, we're in.
Speaker 10Yeah, it's a bit tricky. You get to the Cup meeting, gee, it sort of changed a little bit, but the Hunter's massive. Obviously, they've had a big year in the sport, so I dare say a massive crowd out there.
Speaker 2The NZB three-year-old spring stakes over the mile for these three-year-olds, of course. What's the market doing here, Zach Tunbridge?
Speaker 7Yep, and kick up Rocky for Desley Foster is the favourite. 250, if you logged in, you'll see a little bit of an extra boost there on that runner. Prince of Verona, they've had a little bit on, and one at odds is Kotodo with Tyler Schiller. That's into 750 now.
Speaker 2All right, then. Mickey Gannon? Mickey Gannon.
Speaker 9Yeah, good enough horse to be competitive, kick up Rocky, but I'll take it on. Just different form lines, been beating up some average tasks up there in Queensland, and then you're coming up against horses that have won their maidens down here. I think the two key chances, I'm in a stage where I'm low. I think if he can get forward and rolling, he'll be very, very hard to beat, and he's absolutely screaming out for the mile second time, gets his chance to do so. So he's a pure miler here. I think some of them probably aren't necessarily proven at that distance range. Prince of Verona gets a good upgrade with Nashua Wheeler rolling forward from an outside draw as well, just from a big positive perspective, first time out to the mile by Casavecchio suited as well. So it'll be the two and a six. Not overly keen to be betting up. Might probably back the six on a one by four basis and hope for absolute peach from Timmy Clark, Dino.
Speaker 10Yeah, well, Springs Fakes is normally an addition that you can sort of find at one coming through the grades impressively, but the seven of the nine runners have won their last start, so it's very open, I dare say, can't turn anyone out of any horse. I agree with you again. I think the favourite's way too short. Yes, can win the race, but you'd want to be doing a little bit more up in Queensland to deserve to be a $2.50 favourite. I thought the debut, or sorry, the first up win of Horologist was really good. That ties in through quarterback, and there's a couple other nice enough horses there, I think, up to the 1,600 metres, and can have tactical speed. We saw in the trials and last preparation it showed tactical versatility, so Horologist on top for me, Benny.
Speaker 6Yeah, look, I'd love, a little bit better than the $2.50 or $2.60 that we're getting, but I thought Kick Up Rocky was one of the better bets of the day. This horse is just screaming for a mile. He's a big beast of a thing looking at his replays, and I know we say he's beat nothing, but he did beat a horse called Ashkirk 2 back, who are one out of two and beginners three from five, and it's not a bad horse itself.
Speaker 2Let's have a look at race eight. This is the Newcastle Herald Hunter. This is the feature worth a million dollars over the 1,300 metres. Of course, it's in the CFL stakes in Melbourne, and then run, Harry, run doesn't take his place. Big field, plenty of chances. He's been the best back there with bet 3.65, Zach.
Speaker 7Yep, by far and away, infancy, and now a favourite as well, so $6.50 with that boost, and the only other one that they've had a little bit on. We took bets as high as $16 for King of Rousseau, all the way into $7.50.
Speaker 2Mickey Gannon, I wanted to be all over King of Rousseau. I think he was a massive chance, but gate 16 has dented my confidence. Yeah, it's an absolute disaster, really, Gareth.
Speaker 9Yeah. Half his field, and a bit of strife, especially though we predict the track to play. So, I don't think three wide with cover will be a big spacious track as necessarily the place to be. Even four wide without cover is even worse. So, they're going to have to go back, and they're going to need a lot of luck, and they're going to need a really fair track, and I think there's probably three things they probably won't get on the day. Infancy was really, really good there. Made up, you know, a lot of ground, and looked to have a fair bit more to offer. That was against Lazura. That was in the invitation of King of Rousseau. Of course, you've seen Lazura come out and frank that form, albeit only meaning by a small margin, but a slow tempo. I think the rim was still had a bit of merit to it. So, Infancy, clearly the horse to beat. I think the horse that can beat Infancy is She's An Artist. Draws tricky enough at 11, but probably comes into nine with Fierce and Rottergill unlikely to go around, and no jockey at this stage I can't see for She's An Artist. Just trying to look here if anything's updated. No, no jockey at this stage. No, no jockey. No. But I think that she can win a race, go 53 kilos. She's in. She's on the way up. You get to see her ceiling, I think. Obviously, we saw a huge rating on the Fleming Australia. That was an outlier, but she's probably getting closer back to running her career peak, and I think she's a really, really good chance in the race. I'm happy to back the 17 and the seven, Dino.
Speaker 10Yeah, I want to see what jockey gets thrown on. She's an artist. I agree with you, Gunno. I think she's in the right form, the right frame of mind. I love Lazura to her win. Hey, Warwick Fund. They put her into the race, and that was the difference between her winning and losing probably the last three starts prior to that. She can think about it. She can do things wrong in and around the pack. So I think the other key, too, is you've got Golden Shran, and you've also got Cold Crusher drawn out wide with her. So they're going to roll across. That gives whoever jumps the board, She's An Artist, probably the opportunity to use that to flush across and land up on speed or nice enough and close enough. I think the other one, too, is General Salute, who does have tactical versatility as well, expecting them to go pretty strong here. So horses, maybe, Gunno, that are in behind the speed at a rock-hard fit is why I'm leaning the She's An Artist on top, Benny, from General Salute.
Speaker 6Yeah, this is tough, boys, isn't it? I think Infancy is probably your map horse, drawn barrier five. She should get a Butte run, but I still had King of Russo tentatively on top. I think he brings the best form lines. He beat Jimmy Star home in that Russell Boulding. Look, the map is going to be a little bit awkward, but hopefully big field, bit of pressure, he can get his chance.
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Speaker 10You can, G, and 10 every Friday night's are back, too. So you can grab that for tonight's meeting as well. So.com.au, don't forget it, G.
Speaker 2All right, I won't forget it ever again. 18 minutes to 10, we're going to take a break. We're going to come back and have a look at the final two races at Newcastle with the Weekend Preview team. Welcome back to Giddy Up, all thanks to Bet365. We're live at Dunkeld. Bring on the Dunkeld Cup meeting there tomorrow. Plus, if you're in Melbourne, make sure you get to the CFO Stakes Day at Sandown. Tickets are just $15. The Weekend Preview brought to you by Macca's. There's more to drink at Macca's this summer. Go on, take it for a sip. Dean Watling, Mickey Gannon, Zach Tunbridge, and also, of course, Benny Caluzzi with me. The Weekend Preview Top Four Multi is up. It'll last for about 10:30 today, I reckon. Strong tempo, race five at Sandown. Chicks race six at Newcastle. Kingswood race nine at Sandown. And glorious moments. It will be a glorious moment if we can get that top four up. Race 10 at Newcastle, Zach. So we've got, what, 10:30. $18.17 is terrific value.
Speaker 7Yeah, it's a big price this week, so yeah, that'll go down just a little bit. It'll go down just in price as soon as this segment finishes. So generally, you finish around then. So $1,400 or so already on there.
Speaker 2And Concord Connie is the mega boost horse, Benny Caluzzi. And I'll tell you what, poor old Charlotte Littlefield is, she'd be a little bit disappointed we've gone with Concord Connie because we have got some of the superstars world racing beat with our mega boost. Like, we got karting rising that everyone thought was impossible to get beat. We got-- - Cheese alibi. - Cheese alibi beats. And then we got Tempted Beat. Quite extraordinary behaviour by us. Keep going, son. Keep going. Good luck to Concord Connie this week.
Speaker 6She gets a chance, she's standing on hillside.
Speaker 2Yeah, like, it doesn't look good for her. Eric and Kyle had none. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. The bowfin is over the 2,300 metres. It's worth $300,000. No scratchings to report just yet. It's an interesting race. What's the market doing, Zach Tunbridge?
Speaker 7Yep, they really like Savvy Spy. That's the top of the market at that $2.80 price. But the only one they've ever touched is Bestower, but they're all over Savvy Spy for sure.
Speaker 2Dean Watling, who do you like here?
Speaker 10Yeah, the favourite goes on top, Savvy Spy. Skipping through the grades, dominant last start win and does have tactical versatility. So gate four, peak fitness now. The trip won't be a worry. And plummets to 53 kilos. So we know in these staying races, Gano, more often than not, the stayer in form is the one that comes out on top. So Savvy Spy. Although Bestower was probably the danger, maybe a little bit better if the rain did come, Gano.
Speaker 9Yeah, completely great. Savvy Spy, progressive seven-day back-up a tick. And Zuleika's on a seven-day back-up as well, coming out of a Group 2 race down there at Flemington, being the matriarch. I'd say she's a clear danger. I think the only two for me, the only two horses that I think really look like they want to put their name up in line. And we're in a race, Benny. So the eight and the five. You can put it back on both.
Speaker 6Yeah, look, Savvy Spy is going to be hard enough to beat here. But I just thought she looks a little bit short. She hasn't run a big rating yet. Maybe she gets her opportunity to do that on Saturday up in grey. But I thought Bestower is just absolutely airborne in this preparation. So I'm going to be backing her each way. She's got to extend her form to the 2,400 metres, but she's running these monster splits, final 400 metres, final 600 metres. And if she can run a strong 2,400 metres, she's going to be a good race. She's going to be a good race. She's going to be in this a long way.
Speaker 2We go to race number 10, the final event on the program. It's a benchmark 94 over the 1,300 metres at Newcastle tomorrow. So she's an artist, gets a run in the Hunters. So she comes out. You can put a line through the 14, 16 and 19 as well. Who will start favourite here, Zach?
Speaker 7Well, I hope Dino got the nice price because glorious moments. We were betting as high as 10. It's all the way into 550. That's the favourite. Really popular. The Blade has had a little bit of love and won at odds. This is Navy Pilot. It's now $17, but there's been plenty of bets.
Speaker 2Take it away, Dino. This is one of your better bets on the program and your nomination for our weekend preview top four multi.
Speaker 10It is, G. And, Zachy, I did get the good price. So you can put a line through it. Can't win now. Over the goggles. Nip me for sure. Not with that attitude, Dino. It's like your love life. It's the reverse engineer, G.
Speaker 2You're too negative these days. You're going to have a positive outset.
Speaker 10Okay, G. Can't lose. Lose glorious moments. And will not lose. It's a really good end to the day. There's a little bit to play at, obviously. You've got a couple of emergencies there. A couple of horses have come out. So the speed map is tricky to sort of figure out. But I think regardless of who turns up and who doesn't, it will be a fast tempo, 1,300 metres. Glorious moments is a really, really smart golf. It goes terrifically fresh. Trials have been smart. 1,300 metres, you could maybe say that's a slight query first up. But I dare say it's been trained to the minute for this. Any rain around helps. I think a dry deck's no worry. But the rain probably improves its chances. Lands up on speed like Gunno's referenced. So I think it's the best way home. Do respect a couple of others in the race. I thought the move there for Navy Pilot was interesting. It's been flushing home of late. And also the blade's been running well, Gunno. But glorious moments firmly on top and one of their better bets across the program.
Speaker 9Yeah, I mean, it's like a backward big glorious moment. It was a really good horse. I gave him three trials last time out. He got the job done there first up. I think it's interesting. I think the small holes you could probably poke in the third nanometre's first stop, that's some sort of query. And the fact that he's best has probably been on the soft six sort of side of the track. If we don't get any rain, we'll probably be on a firm track. So small holes and the blade, I think, will be of benefit on a firm surface. So they're the two horses. If it's like playing quaddies, I'd just be having the 10 and the 11, Benny.
Speaker 6Yeah, now if she's an artist, definitely go into the hunt, I am. We've got a lot of good horses. moments as well. You referenced that troll last time, Dino. He runs six in it, but a couple of hundred metres past the post. He's right on the heels of the leader. So he's going really, really well. Look, 1,300 metres first up, some query, but he's two for two at the 1,300. So pretty keen him in an open race.
Speaker 2All right, then. What about our best bets there at Newcastle on Saturday afternoon? We'll start off with you, Benny, and then we'll go to Mickey and then Dino.
Speaker 6I'm going to be with Kick Up Rocky in race number seven, and let's go with Glorious Moments in the last. I'm warming to him.
Speaker 9I'm going to go to race number nine, two-bet play, the eight and the five, Saluka and Savvy Spine, and then finish off with another two-bet play. I found it a really tough day, Gareth. I thought the blade and Glorious Moments in race 10. So race nine and 10, two-bet play, and take your doubles and do your thing there. But really, really tough day, Dino.
Speaker 10Yeah, it is. They're going to look to bookend the program race one, the two-bet play, and then they're going to look to bookend the program race one, the two-year-old race, 900 metres, the 11, Stella and I, really smart juvenile for the Waterhouse and Bot Camp. And we go to the end of the program race 10, number 11, Glorious Moments. Gee, hopefully bookend the Newcastle Hunter meeting.
Speaker 2That's a look at the Hunter meeting there at Newcastle. It's nine minutes to 10 o'clock. This is the weekend preview, all thanks to Maccas. On the other side of it, we'll take a close look there at Sandown for their big meeting highlighted by the group one, C4 Stakes. Welcome back to Giddy Up Live from Dunkeld, all thanks to Bet365. And this is the weekend preview, thanks to Maccas. There's more to drink at Maccas this summer. There'll be a few people having a good sip here, tomorrow afternoon at Dunkeld. Zaki Tunbridge, you'll be here at Dunkeld. What are the specials for the Bet365 punters this weekend?
Speaker 7Yep, plenty going on. So you've got a winnings boost across three venues tomorrow, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, because that's all kicking in. Then it's got mega boosts and we've got the multis and stuff. But yeah, I'm keen for Dunkeld. We've got a big activation there tomorrow. So if you are there, pop over to our tent. Plenty going on.
Speaker 2Hey, Benny Caluzzi, I couldn't believe it last night. My phone started to go off. Did you see Pikey in race five there at Bunbury? And I said, no, I didn't actually. I wasn't watching Bunbury. I watched a few races at Bunbury, but I missed race five. And then I watched the replay and I thought, oh no, Pikey. And you've got to love him. You've got to love his competitive nature. Like he was on the favourite. He caused interference. He was charged. I thought he might only get a reprimand. He hadn't been suspended for 12 months. And with the pinnacles around the corner, I thought they might just give him a bit of a warning, Pikey, but he actually got nine days. So it looks like he might be out of the Winterbottom Stakes. Can you believe it? The biggest star of the hall.
Speaker 6Yeah. Was he booked to ride Ray Magnerio, Jay?
Speaker 2Yeah, I think he was. So there you go.
Speaker 6It's a bad, it's a bad blue to be making on a Thursday afternoon, but you know, that's, it happens sometimes.
Speaker 2It begs the question, Mickey Gannon, and I had a chat to Pikey yesterday. What are you doing riding at Bunbury? On a Thursday afternoon?
Speaker 9Just trying to rack up the winners, Jay. Um, yeah, competitor.
Speaker 2Yeah. So, um, yeah, I don't know if he can actually appeal the, the time of the suspension. Um, so yeah, I think he'll miss one day of the pinnacles. So, um, that is disappointing if he doesn't miss the Winterbottom Stakes. Um, that means he'd be, well, if he misses the Winterbottom, that means he's riding Cosmic Crusader in the railway. So. I think he's going to miss the Winterbottom Stakes. I would imagine, um, with 61 on his back. So there you go. That was the big news that broke there yesterday. Um, just before we're going to preview the Sandow meeting after, uh, 10 o'clock just with the weekend preview, top four, Maltsey, Zachy, Tunbridge. We haven't got long to go, have we?
Speaker 7No. And because, uh, love story has been scratched out of race number six. So that's had to firm up. So it's around that $15 mark now, but that's taken a lot of juice out of race six. So I think chicks has gone into about eight bucks. Now. Um, yeah, but yeah, still a good price.
Speaker 2And Concord Connie, how long is she up for with the mega booster 250 in that last race
Speaker 7at Sandown? I'd say about another eight minutes or so. So you have to go to the race card and it's a $2.50, 1800 customers on so far.
Speaker 2So I reckon around 10 past 10. Is Braden working again or is he off?
Speaker 7No, we got Declan. Declan's on board.
Speaker 2All right then. Well, he got there. Well, since we got tempted, carring, rising, and also, um, she's alibi beat short, there's should give us $2.50 until 1030 and gamble responsibly 1-800-858-858. Hey, we are going to take a break. It's quickly approaching 10 o'clock on the other side of it. We will preview, of course, the meeting from Sandown tomorrow. It's a beauty as well. The highlight there is the sea of four stakes. The group one at wait for age over the 1400 meters.
Speaker 1Text us on 0-4-double-nine. 736-7353. 6 live across australia this is giddy up with gareth hall welcome
Speaker 2back to giddy up we're live from dunkeld we've got um a special country corner coming up shortly um carl hoof will be joining us of course is the racing manager here at dunkeld we've got a couple of the locals that will join us as well um just after the weekend preview so around 10 30 and a little later on we'll catch up with adam hamilton live from addington if you love your harness racing even if you don't follow harness racing there's a race at addington that you can't afford to miss the greatest of all time leap to fame is the second favorite behind captain's mistress who could be the greatest mayor that we've ever seen she did beat um leap to fame in the inter-dominion at albion park in the middle part of the year and she's got the draw to lead over the 2000 meters at addington and she's the short price favorite with bet 365 you're getting around two dollars for leap to fame who was so dominant one of his greatest ever victories in tuesday's new zealand trotting cup but that was over the two miles and he'll have to sit outside of captain's mistress which will make it really difficult for him today but you can never rule him out so looking forward to that at addington today we get to see leap to fame take on captain's mistress it is a race that you cannot afford to miss if you love your racing mickey gannon betsy.com.au's dean watling benny caluzzi and sectumbridge with me for the weekend preview all thanks to mackers there's more to drink at mackers this summer go on take it for a sip let's preview this sandown meeting um tomorrow afternoon the c4 stakes is the highlight now you can get tickets still for the c4 stakes meeting 10 races terrific program got the sipping classic the million dollar three-year-old phillies race as well so tickets are 15 there at ticket tech but let's kick off with the first league of the quaddie there at sandown tomorrow which is race number seven on the program and i'm just getting it up now on my computer screen to have a look at the market here for the seventh race and it is natural flings the favorite it's the move to strike thoroughbred club stakes she's at four dollars here it was interesting sectumbridge listening to mark hunter who's taking her on in fact mark hunter didn't have natural fling and he's top one two and he's top five which surprised me interesting
Speaker 7well natural fling holds about 38 percent of the book at the moment um it's into it's around four dollar mark 425 with that boost sequined i'm still sick from that last start that hurt and um but the other one they've had a little bit on is aroused
Speaker 2all right then what are you doing here benny caluzzi
Speaker 6interesting thing to know with this race is it is the only race run on the lakeside circuit on the card um tomorrow which means it's going to be a lot of fun and it's going to be a lot of fun and it's going to be a lot of fun and it's going to be a lot of fun and it's going to be a lot of fun and it's going to be a lot of fun this 1200 meter lakeside setup at sandion is a significant advantage to be on speed you want to be in the first couple in the run back in two horses but my best result one of my better bets of the day is a fari for chris waller ever since they put the blinkers on this philly she's gone to a new level the last couple of starts bolted in leading at rose hill and then was mighty unlucky after drawing wide and should have gone closer in the vanity to regal ambition so she's going excellently would have loved to have had james mcdonald on he's got scratched in cheyenne but i'm still keen and i'm going to have something small on natural fling just as my saver look she could be gone she could be over the top but she gets her chance around the lakeside and she's a backable price
Speaker 2all right then mickey gannon
Speaker 9yeah the best version of natural fling blows in a way do we see that she's been on the regression since uh first up performance so you know it's tough you've got to weigh all these things up probably probably more waiting for a mounting i'll push her and sort of see how she parades so listening to the likes of pete anthonis who would be uh would be good at this sort of situation uh afari definitely right there inside draw a positive from this start point i think aroused the other one uh with a fair bit of upside lightly raised two starts on the up nowhere near um her ceiling i think she can win and you know so at this stage i'll have the 13 just in front of the nine from a betting perspective and we'll wait and sort of see what the mounting out throws up for the two natural fling dinner yeah
Speaker 10really really good race i thought this was one of the races of the day oh i think it's going to be a really good race i think it's going to be a really good race you reference what horses do coming out of the mating ground they can skip straight to sort of these group threes group twos and group ones quite quickly but the market sometimes disrespects that so you got a natural thing who's coming out of really good races yes but he's regressing for all a favor like you mentioned gonna if i like that horse i'd be waiting for the yard you want to get ticks there deep into the preparation she's had a solid prep where you see a horse like afari coming out of a maiden at rose hill and then run right up to regal ambition so i'm going to i think a horse by the name of kieran star is over the odd she was around a two dollars last start absolutely butchered missed the kick and you got blue door form first up so i really like that there's stacks of speed i know benny mentioned you want to land on speed well there's an abundance of it i think they'll run on for midfield and kieran star gets there and the other one g's caddington i've got a lot of times this silly i think she's very very smart yes might get back but i'm hoping they all overdo it up front and it sets up for the six and the seven kieran star and caddington
Speaker 2it is an interesting race really and and as you pointed out mickey gannon you're gonna have a look at natural fling in the yard i was surprised mark hunter's taking her on if you forgive her for one bad run down the straight at um at flemington her form lines are better than the rest aren't they clearly yeah they do they
Speaker 9just stand out there's no doubt about it obviously running second uh on a heavy deck behind the next episode who came out on a cool morning in good style or bear he did go to a new level in the cool more uh um i my concern gareth is that she's just she's on the way down it's been a long prep so yeah look yeah as i said at the start if she runs near her best she blows him away whether or not she's going to produce that here that's that's the query that's what you've got to
Speaker 2work out all right then and um well done to move to strike um he's a stallion the owner's there for sponsoring this race the thoroughbred club stakes obviously he's an up-and-coming stallion based in victoria at um of course he's sponsoring the thoroughbred club stakes and this is a beauty of a race like a million dollar three-year-old philly's race at this time of the year it deserved to have a strong field and that's what it's got um there tomorrow afternoon at sandown race number eight on the program the second leg of the quaddie is the big one it's the group one cf4 stakes over the 1400 meters i think the mrc and i and and racing victoria have been rewarded for moving this race to the back end of the spring instead of the start of the autumn you've got proper 1400 meter group one wait for eight superstars here and jimmy star bave whack and also angel capital um zach tunbridge i'll be fascinated to hear the market now um with bet 365 what price will bave whack start tomorrow you
Speaker 7think yeah bave so it's around 320 now it's very popular holding 45 percent of our hold at the moment you've got jimmy star there that's only holding about 12 and it's sitting on the third line of betting uh shadow bar has had some good support though that's now into four dollars and 80 second best backed in the race and then they've had a little bit on angel capital but bave walked the best fact i've
Speaker 2been loving the debate and the different opinions leading up towards the cf4 stakes there tomorrow afternoon mickey gannon some say shadow bar should be double figures some say that she's a wonderful chance as she steps up in class bave wax the favorite i've talked to a few different form experts as well they say that angel capital should be a lot closer along with jimmy star so i can't wait for this race
Speaker 9tomorrow it's a great race guy i think in a small field it's a tactical race as well so i think first off we look at the speed map you know shadow bar gets kieran mcavoy craig williams hops off i think as a rule james would be more positive than kieran and i think bave are probably going to jump better than shadow bar so i think we can just uh put a pen through the theory that shadow bar will lead so draws more favorable bave rock can just go to the front j-mac can roll roll across shadow bar in behind first time at this sort of group one wait for age uh great here looks really good horse should get an opportunity to run top three for sure i think bave will get to set the opportunity to win though there's absolutely no excuses for him he gets to the 1400 meters we know how good he is three from three and all those runs have been you know clear career peaks so gets a perfect setup here tomorrow and every opportunity three dollars we might look back and say that was ridiculous price i'm leaning that way way i can definitely understand why people would make a case for angel capital um and also jimmy star who you know with the cutaway there there's going to be ample opportunity even if he is back to the inside albeit i prefer to be backing him at his ideal setup which i'd imagine which is trying to get to the outside of runners and run over the top so therefore i think we just default back to bave off with the ideal setup here dino um can land in front and hopefully prove too good for them over the 400 meters where he absolutely
Speaker 10loves it yep cracking cracking race so that's any um analysis they're gonna i think the other horse that you got to remember is pericles who went to a complete new record last start over the unsuited um sort of 1300 meters of death they up to um 1400 meters here it's a big chance too i think by wax best wins this race is he at his best well he comes out of some really really strong races he gets his ideal set up where there's not a whole lot of pressure he can roll out in front get into a lovely rhythm i think sandown will suit him down to the ground jay may jumps in big ticks there i do think the market will come for a shot of art but i think he's going to win this race i think he's going to win this race I know it's around that $4.60, but recent form is key. You know, the big guys love those sort of numbers, the last two starts. They don't care where the horse has come, who it's beaten. They just back it off the figures that it's coming into the race off. So I think that horse will be firm. I'm with you, Ganna, and Biwak on top.
Speaker 6Benny? Yeah, I'm against the two leaders in this race. I think Biwak and Shadovar both like to really control and dominate their races. And I think there might just be enough pressure for them to crack. I thought Biwak, his last couple of ratings have just dipped a little bit. And Shadovar, I just don't know if she can repeat those performances at WaveFresh level. So I'm backing Angel Capital and Jimmy. I think you'll get an opportunity to back them both around the $5 mark. And I think with the cutaway, they both get their chance. Jimmy Starr gets the blinkers off. That screams a bit of intent with me because often with the blinkers on, they miss the start, which he has been doing even worse than he usually does. So barrier one with the cutaway, he gets his chance. And Angel Capital, if he brings his Rupert Clark performance, he'll go close as well. So them two for me. And Pericles goes in the quad.
Speaker 2Interesting. Your mentor there, Dean Watling, Tommy Halock on our social media platforms, on SEN Track with his Betfair show. He was all over Shadovar. He wasn't all over Shadovar. He reckoned she should be 20 to 1. And you think that she should be, what, $3.50. So obviously, he's not your mentor anymore.
Speaker 10No, gee, I've gone straight past him. No, no. He's a good man, Tommy. Yes. I think this is perfect.
Speaker 2I'm at betsy.com.au now, Tommy. I don't even know who you are anymore, basically. I've already passed him.
Speaker 10He thought he was K-ing rising. I was just tempted up the inside. No, it's good, G. I think it just shows the different ways in racing you can have an opinion. So Tommy's not a massive ratings guy. He's more of an eye, sort of a time, the replay type of punter, where you see sort of Brad Davinson come out, obviously, yesterday, saying that he's really keen on Shadovar and myself as well, the numbers that you sort of get. I think you can line them up, even though sometimes replays is hard. You sort of reference horses you were beating and that sort of stuff. But like I mentioned, the numbers don't lie as such. But Benny mentioned a good point, straight to wait for H.E. Can it reproduce those numbers? We'll find out on Saturday, G.
Speaker 2So she rocks up Shadovar and she saw Tomato toasting gold medalist behind her. With all respect to those two mares, they're not in the same conversation as a. Bavewack and Angel Capital and a Jimmy Starr. So it is a massive step up in class for her. And she had been leading, getting away with some nice sectionals there in the early part. Obviously, she's very good, but. It was totally there that helped
Speaker 9her the other day, G, as well.
Speaker 2Yeah, she's had a few things that have gone her way. But it will be fascinating to see how she goes. And she adds a lot of interest to this race. So, yeah, I love the team having a crack. And Joe O'Neill and Tommy Dabbin, they are on fire at the moment. So, yeah, it's going to be.
Speaker 6G, remember a couple of starts ago, I had these horses in my top four and she barely fell into fourth as a $2.20 favourite.
Speaker 2I know. And you haven't forgiven her for that, Ben. In the ratings, right? We can see. Yeah. We see you on social media. Yes. Yes, Dino.
Speaker 10Is there any reasoning for the booking of Kieran McEvoy versus, obviously, Craig Williams has been in the saddle for the past two, is it? Yes. I don't know, actually. That's a very good question. Yeah. Well, Pericles was dual accepted for the Hunter and for down in Victoria. So, you'd imagine off that, Craig would have been sitting going, well, I don't know if they're going to come here. Let me lock in Shadovar. And Kieran McEvoy, he is a terrific jockey. But is he a terrific front-running jockey? I think that's another point we probably haven't touched on, too.
Speaker 2Well, you've answered your own question. You think he's no good in front, basically. Kieran McEvoy, Dino, is that what you're trying to tell us?
Speaker 10No, I think it's just interesting that he's the chosen jockey for that type of horse. And especially Sandown as well. I know it's been a while since James has ridden there. I dare say it's been probably even longer since Kieran's ridden there. I just thought it was probably a point there where her recent form has been outstanding. She's been rated incredibly well. But Craig Williams jumps off and jumps on the key rider who's $7 in Pericles.
Speaker 2Well, if you're Craig Williams and you've watched Pericles do what he did in the Russell boarding. Defeating horses like Jimmy Starr, Headwall, Cabellus was third. And Chateauvard's been going well. But if you had the choice two weeks out, which way would you have gone, Dino?
Speaker 10I would have gone Pericles. So, yeah, that's probably the answer itself, G.
Speaker 2Yep. I reckon that's why.
Speaker 6And also, I think J-Mac is having his first ride on Bay Vucked as well, under race conditions
Speaker 2anyway. And that's interesting. Waller obviously gives McDonald the first option for these horses. But Nash was on Bay Vucked and they seem to have gone on or got on pretty well. But Nash is staying in Newcastle for the Hunter. So, I wonder if Nash had the choice or James had been booked for Bay Vucked. So, that's interesting as well. But, yeah, it's a great race, a really interesting race for so many different reasons. So, yeah, I can't wait for the C4 stakes there tomorrow afternoon at Sandown. This is Giddy Up in the Weekend Preview, all thanks to Mac. As we're going to take a break and we're going to come back and have a look at the zipping classic next here on Giddy Up. Welcome back to Giddy Up, 17 minutes past 10. We've got a great family here on Giddy Up. A lot of our listeners have texted in and they've just told us that Craig Williams was booked for Pericles before the Russell boarding. So, he was booked nice and early by Cadolphin and Bjorn Baker. So, that's right. He is riding Pericles over Shadovar there tomorrow afternoon. It'd be interesting to ask him which horse he would ride right now if he had the choice. But he's been booked for Pericles a long way out basically there, Dino. So, that's the story why the champion. We'll be riding Pericles tomorrow in the All Stakes. Race 9 is a zipping classic over the 2,400 metres. No scratchings to report, but we've got the Caulfield Cup champ. We've got Small Fry who was second in the Geelong Cup and Juju Cabot that was placed in a Melbourne Cup. It's one of the best zipping classics we've seen. What's the market doing here, Zach?
Speaker 7Yeah, it's a bit interesting. So, Small Fry is the favourite around 290. Kingswood 360 and Juju Cabot 5s with Travolta 7s. In terms of best backed runner though, that goes. To Juju Cabot, then Small Fry. But yeah, they like Juju Cabot. Still around that $5 mark.
Speaker 2Who are you backing here, Dean Whatling?
Speaker 10Really, really good race. I know Benny's keen on this race. I won't spend a whole lot of time. I'm just going to back the obvious and that Small Fry brings that form through the Geelong Cup point of law. We saw that horse. Yes, it's a query 2,400 metres. I'm not sure how hard they go, but you can offset that by riding it forward. And Ghana has some really, really smart 2,400 metre form back overseas too.
Speaker 9Yeah, he should just be too good for them. Small Fry, I think here, G, rolls forward from a good draw. The four-month frame, best bet of the day, Small Fry, Benny.
Speaker 6Well, I'm going to be seeing from a different hymn book then here. I think Small Fry, he got a really fast-paced aim in the Geelong Cup with the Euphrates in a good tempo. I think that really suited him. Point of law has gone on to do what he has, but he's lifted his rating enormously. So, I think this is going to be a little bit more of a slowly. Slowly run race, and I think that's going to require a better turn of foot. And that's exactly what Kingswood has. He comes through the Caulfield Cup where he sat a little bit wide. He was much too good for them there. And Gav's saying he's still in great form if he's going to be going to Hong Kong. So, I'm backing Kingswood and having a small saver on Jujikebo, who was awesome in the Melbourne Cup. Look, he has gone to that grand final. But like Kingswood, he does have a turn of foot at the mile and a half. And I think that might be key here with what could be a slowly run race. Especially if Smoke and Romans comes out and goes to the – he's entered for a Country Cup, isn't he, Jay, on the weekend as well?
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah. So, it'll be interesting to see what they do there with a few of those runners. But, yeah, especially Smoke and Romans. So, James Johnson's been booked at the moment. And he has also been nominated for that Country Cup there on the Sunday, which is at Mowi. And Damien Lane's been booked. So, it'll be interesting to see what the MarCamp do. He's a far better chance in the Mowi Cup than he is in a – in a Zipping Classic. But it's a fascinating race. The Caulfield Cup champ, Kingswood. It's hard to believe, really, isn't it, Benny, that you win a Caulfield Cup and you rock up here to the Zipping Classic and you're the second favourite?
Speaker 6Absolutely. Well, look, those point-of-law form lines are there for everyone to see. I just think they're being overplayed slightly. Small Fry, he's got form over, you know, 4,000, 3,200 metres back home. And I just thought the race shape, which can be so – so important in these staying races, suited him last up.
Speaker 2Let's have a look at the last race here. And this is for the Mayors. The Henley Holmes summons stakes over the 1,500 metres. And Henley Holmes do a wonderful job sponsoring races right across the state, but especially with the MRC. And we've got a short-priced favourite here. You could have got $2.50 about 10 minutes ago for Concord Connie. But she's at $1.80 with bet 365, Zach. Was she popular? As our mega-boost horse.
Speaker 7Yep, very popular. Round out the day, tick over 2,000 customers. on that. $1.80 is the price though, but you've got Superfabulistic at $6.50, $7 with the boost, and Savitri is the third line of betting, but they're only pretty much back in the top two.
Speaker 2Benny Caluzzi, you're all over. Concord Connie here.
Speaker 6Yeah, she should just win, G. I mean, Sandown Hillside is one of the fairer tracks that we've got in the country. She's probably going to get back beyond midfield, but she was an 86 raider going into the Empire Rose, and she ran Lady Shenandoah to a length and a half. She's gone up 16 rating points, but still gets in here with the 56 kilos under this sort of set weights scale. She should get back and just storm home and be too good. Superfabulistic and Savitri set a decent enough tempo, but yeah, Concord Connie, she was enormous a couple back against the severe bias with Shadovar, and then last up, run second in the Group 1.
Speaker 9Mickey Gannon? I love any push for Marigold to place, G. I know you might be half keen on that one as well. They've got a big push.
Speaker 2You've got a big push, Mickey Gannon. I don't think I could push you any bigger into her each way, Marigold.
Speaker 9Yeah, there you go. I think she'll run an enormous race. Concord Connie is clearly the obvious horse for Washington's last week for your peak, and she did deserve a favourite here, Dino, but from betting prospects now, if you missed the $50 odd that we're getting with the Megaboos, I think Marigold to place would be your best bet here, Dino.
Speaker 10Yep, like it. G, is there any other targets for Concord Connie? I'm just thinking, we're probably going to get it back here, but there's no bigger fish to fry later in the proper ration. Paddock after this, Dino. Paddock. Yeah, well, I dare say Craig's going to use that as his advantage and maybe try a settle or touch close. I think they're a big, big kick to that horse, and Marigold, is it when's Sudler's last day or last runner, G? Is that this race?
Speaker 2So, last city runner on tomorrow, and then he's got his last run as a Cranbourne Saturday week. Yep. Yeah, we all know. It's a Metro meeting, but yeah, this is his last Metro runner at a Metro track.
Speaker 10We know racing has funny ways of doing omen bets and all that sort of stuff. G, it's a big watch on the three, but I think Concord Connie turns up and probably obliterates him here.
Speaker 2I love the story with Johnny Sadler. He rang Guesty and Rhys Murphy trying to get McDonald, and they didn't get back to him, and then he said, well, stuff this. I'll go straight to Katie Mallion. And within 30 seconds, he's booked to ride this man. So, the moral of that story is, if you want to get McDonald, just ring Katie and stuff Guesty, because he won't get back to you. Best bets there at Sandown tomorrow, boys. We'll start with you, Mickey Gannon, and then we'll go Dino, and then we'll go Benny.
Speaker 9Yeah, I think Smallfire will win the Zipian Classic. I think Mark Zara will just roll forward and take the race on and prove far too good for them. G, that's the only play that'll have their win, and they'll place Marygold in the
Speaker 6last. Benny? I think Ignoos is a really nice stay at race number one, so I'll be backing it. Going over to race number six, Don't Hope Do is a really nice prize in the Dalton. Six bucks. It should be closer to $4 and contesting favouritism. Afari, race nine. I do like the dual bet play of Angel Capital and Jimmy Star. Kingswood in the Zipian Classic, and then Concord. Connie, to round us out.
Speaker 10I'll just have the two bets. Race seven, I'm going to have a Tommy two bet play, the six Cattington and the seven Kieran Star. In race number nine, I'm going to go
Speaker 2Smallfry G-Man. And that was thanks to Betsy.com.au, Dean Watling's best bets there. Zachy Tunbridge, give us a spell podcast. Any specials there?
Speaker 7Specials? No, we don't give specials, but no, there's a couple. I've had a few in Newcastle. There's only one horse I've backed in Melbourne. That's Don't Hope Do in race six. I think it's about six or seven bucks.
Speaker 2Strong Tempo, each way special race five in the Sandown Guineas and Marygold, each way all day in that final race there in the Summon Stakes at Sandown. The Giddy Up Weekend Preview Top Four Multi, $15.38. Strong Tempo, I'll lead the way race five Sandown into Chicks race six at Newcastle, Mickey Gannon. Kingswood race nine at Sandown for Benny Caluzzi. And glorious moments for Dean Watling, race ten at Newcastle, $15.38. That multi is there on the homepage there on the Bet365 app. Dino, you enjoy yourself in Adelaide. We appreciate your time. Mickey Gannon, enjoy Hunter Day. Benny Caluzzi, enjoy Sydney tomorrow and Zach Tunbridge, I'll see you here later today at Dunkel. Beautiful.
Speaker 7Can't wait, G.
Speaker 2Thanks, boys. That was the weekend preview. All thanks to Macca's. Now, we're going to take a break. On the other side of it, we've got a special country corner, but Paulie Sebastiano, are you there? Can you do me a favour, Paulie? You can do bag of tips today if that's okay.
Speaker 11I can do that for you, Gary.
Speaker 2And then take a break and then when we return, we'll have a special country corner live from Dunkel. I've got some great characters here. Miko Shanisey, Dale Collins, Glenn Richards, Carl Hoofer will join us. So it's going to be a great country corner. Can't wait for that. That's coming up next here. After Paulie does bag of tips here on Giddy Up on this Friday
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Speaker 11OzEquipment.com. Gareth will be back in a moment with more of Giddy Up. But it is time now for Bag of Tips. Paul Sebastiani here with you. And Bag of Tips, of course, brought to you by Bet365 because it's never ordinary when it's brought to you by Bet365. Chances are you're about to lose for free and confidential support. Visit GamblingHelpOnline.org.au and of course, OzEquipment Rentals. OzEquipment.com. Brett Zarafa is our Racing.com expert for today's meeting. At Geelong for the Arvo meeting. He's got two plays for us today. Race 9, number 2 Redders. And his next best is Race 3, number 5 Lafana. So 9, 2 and 3, 5 for BZ at Geelong. Tonight's meeting at Pakenham. Sam Lyons has done the form for Racing.com. Three plays for Sammy at Pakenham tonight. His best bet comes up in race number 2. It is horse number 8 Mongolian Hero. Race 2 number 8 Mongolian Hero. We shift along to race 4, number 6 Celtic Park as his best value of the night. And the best ruffy comes up in race number 4. It's horse number 7 King West. So best bet 2, 8. Best value 4, 6. Best ruffy 7, 4 at Southside Pakenham. Daniel Nuttall at Bordertown today. His best bet is race 3, number 5 Private Jet and race 7, number 6 Sky Talker. And his best value is race 2, number 14 Buffo. So 3, 5 7, 6 and 2 14 for Daniel Nuttall. Luke Ovenesian, he's done the form for all three meetings in New South Wales today. We'll start with Gundagai race 4, number 7 Winterhall and race 7, number 13 Narcissist. 4, 7 and 7, 13 for Luke at Gundagai. At Ballina, he's race 4, number 3 Buckeye and race 7, number 3 Cajun. So 4, 3 and 7, 3. And at Canterbury for the Friday night meeting, he's with race 3, number 4 Landing Gear and race 8, number 3 Cajenga. So 3, 4 and 8, 3 at Canterbury. We shift over to Harness Racing. Darren Carroll has done the form for Geelong today. Race 1, number 5 Miss Your Flamel and race 4, number 8 Snack Lover. So 1, 5 and 4, 8 for Darren Carroll at Geelong today. All thanks to Harness Racing New South Wales, the home of the Carnival of Cups where Australian music royalty meets quality Harness Racing action. Amanda Rando has done the form for Newcastle. She's also got a selection at Young today as well. So Newcastle, race 1 number 1 Island Mandalay and at Young, race 6, number 4 Sweet Dream. So 1, 1 at Newcastle, 6, 4 at Young. And Glenmore, he's done the form for Gloucester Park tonight. Race 4, number 10 here's Hervey. Race 5, number 12 the Champ Minstrel. Race 6 number 1 Carrard and race 7, number 5 Control the Room. So 4, 10, 5, 12 6, 1 and 7, 5. And that wraps up Bag of Tips. If you missed any of those tips, Apple, Spotify, make sure you like, subscribe, giddy up with Gareth Hall is where you can find all of those. And all thanks to Oz Equipment Rentals, supplying equipment to the construction, mining and road works industries, ozequipment.com. And of course, all thanks to Bet365 because it's never ornery when it's brought to you by Bet365. Chances are you're about to lose for free. And confidential support, visit camlinghubonline.org.au. Straight after this, it's back out to Gareth at Dunkeld.
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Speaker 2conversation. Welcome back to Giddy Up Gareth Hall with you. We are live from Dunkeld, all thanks to Bet365. And I've got a couple of very special guests who join me here live at Dunkeld. I nearly taped my headphones off, but I've got them back on. Carl Hoofer is a man that I've known for a long time. He's been a a long servant in the racing administration game here in Country Vic Victoria, especially working in the Mallee where I'm from at Mildura and Swan Hill. But now he's at Duncow. Carl, hello to you, mate. Thanks for having us. Good to see you down here. What a job this is. It's a great job. I love it.
Speaker 12Get that closer to your mouth there, brother. Great community, great people that work behind the scenes. They do all the work. Then we come in and we just manage the logistics and the customers and the ticketing. You look at the mountain every morning when you come here. How good. It's so calming. Just such a great view. Like I said, great community, great people, great job.
Speaker 2And this lady has been well known to the racing game for a long time as well. I think she's found love in Duncow. Sarah Peatley, hello to you, sis. G'day, Gareth. Duncow, before you started to live here, did you ever come to the races here?
Speaker 13I certainly did. Okay. Yes, probably about a decade ago. I popped up here for a weekend for my first Duncow Cup and it was incredible. So I'd recommend all Victorians and anyone else Australia-wide, make it your business to get here one day because it's just amazing.
Speaker 12So how many people will be here tomorrow, Carl? I'm hoping for seven and a half to 8,000. Yeah. In a town, like the town of 700. Yeah. So 10 times the town. So it's a massive crowd. Back in the heyday, yeah, there was 10,000 here. Yeah. But seven and a half, eight, still a massive crowd in country racing.
Speaker 2It's a beautiful backdrop here where we're broadcasting at Duncow. And you told me, and this probably sums it up, the marquee at the back of the course here holds 700 people, which is the population of Duncow.
Speaker 12Yeah, it is. And that marquee has gone from strength to strength. It sold out six weeks early. They have premium tickets now. So it's because it's a great experience out there. It's a bit of an experience like no other. Yeah. The middle with the great backdrop and, yeah, it's a great way to experience. And, Sarah, they come from everywhere, don't they?
Speaker 2Right across the state. But it's sort of in the, it's obviously on the doorstep of the Grampians, but you can come from the Wimera. You can come from Warrnambool, Camperdown, those type of places. A lot of people come from Ballarat to enjoy this day. And there's a lot of buses, a lot of people camping.
Speaker 13Yeah. You know, there's people coming from Darwin. Yeah. There's people far and wide. But, yeah, it's going to be a cracking day. The forecast is. It's looking pretty good. No showers at this stage. So, yeah, looking forward to it.
Speaker 2And it's not that cold either. Like, you're in T-shirts. Brownie was in his thongs. It's just because I'm soft. And Mark Hunter was soft a little bit as well. But it's actually, it was quite warm there yesterday. And in the afternoon when the sun comes out, you do have to put on your sunscreen.
Speaker 12Yeah, yeah. Yesterday was just a cracking day. And tomorrow will be fine. It warms up as it keeps going. The day, everyone will. Enjoy comfortable racing conditions for all.
Speaker 2And, Sarah, you've worked for a host of different organisations in the racing game. You spent a lot of time at the ATC. What makes these type of days so special for the racing fan?
Speaker 13Well, I think it comes down to country racing. It's the heartbeat of the industry. It's a little bit more relaxed, as we know. There's a lot of characters floating around. Easy to make friends. And, you know, it's pulling it back to grassroots. And, you know, what is there not to like about that? You know, you've got your local trainers, jockeys, but you've also got the big shots. Kieran Marr's got one of the favourites of the Cup tomorrow, of course. So, you know, it really is incredibly diverse and inclusive.
Speaker 2What's your role tomorrow?
Speaker 13Tomorrow, I'm actually hosting a lot of people from Melbourne and Ballarat. Okay. But I'll also be helping out with Fashions on the Field. Yes. So we've garnered about $10,000 worth of prizes. And we'll go around and encourage people to come out. We'll encourage the men and the women and anyone else that's looking pretty fabulous to get on board and have a bit of fun with it.
Speaker 2So what advice would you give to the people that are thinking of coming to Duncowd and competing in the Fashions on the Field? Because, obviously, you've got to dress to the occasion and the region, really.
Speaker 13Well, yeah, it's a little bit more relaxed. But I think if you dress to your personality, first and foremost, that is always a good starting point. Having worked with a lot of stylists over the years, that's the number one piece of advice. But something that's also big. Something that's a bit colourful. Something that makes a bit of a statement. Obviously, a good hat or a nice piece of headwear and an outfit that matches is always a good start.
Speaker 2My mail is that your great friend, Mark Guest, who's the manager to the champion jock in James McDonald, has actually – and he's been very stylish this spring, but he's backing himself in.
Speaker 13Well, Guesty is one of the VIPs here on Track to America. Is he really? There you go. So I'm absolutely going to recruit him to enter Fashions.
Speaker 2Yes. We wish you the best of luck, Guesty. And then, Carl, so is the ticket still available? Yep. So how do we go about doing that?
Speaker 12So all of the enclosures and the packages are offline, but you can buy a GA ticket online, so you don't have to queue up at the gates or there's tickets available at the gate. So you can still come. Plenty of space, plenty of room. If you're making a decision today, come along. You won't be disappointed.
Speaker 2And it's a beautiful drive as well from Melbourne. Like, it's three and a little bit hours, but it doesn't feel – it doesn't feel that long, really, because it's such a – it's a beautiful drive, especially once you – you can go through the Grampians or you can turn off at Ararat, go through Ballarat. It's an easy drive as well.
Speaker 12Yeah, it is. And you just won't be disappointed when you get it. Like, it'll go quick for you. It'll go quicker on the way home after you have a great day out. Good on you.
Speaker 2And obviously, it's an important week as well, Sarah, for the thoroughbred industry.
Speaker 13Yes. So next week, we kick off with National Thoroughbred Week. Next week it is, yes. But, yep. So it's a really important initiative for the industry Australia-wide. Basically, what we do is open up stables, stud farms, spellers, retrainers, you name it. Anyone that has a touchpoint to the thoroughbred industry, kick open their doors and it's free, free to the public. So just visit thoroughbredweek.com.au and basically book your ticket. Do something with your family and the friends and just see how well these thoroughbreds are getting treated.
Speaker 2It's been an important initiative that I think that it's been terrific that the PRAs get behind, but especially the bigger stables as well. Educating people on what it is like to be involved in a horse stable.
Speaker 13Most definitely. Well, we've got Kieran Marr, Chris Waller, Gay Waterhouse, all the Flemington trainers, but also Liam Howley, who has a runner in Dunkard Cup. Liam's got his doors open. He had 150 people turn up last year. Yeah, a carton, yeah. Absolutely. So it's far and wide. So just get behind it, everybody.
Speaker 2It should open your doors. Oh, Swan Hill. Yeah, we should. Yeah, come up with Swan Hill. Austin Coffee and see how it's done there. Nathan Hobson there as well. Well done, mate, you've done a great job. A bit different country to the Mallee this. Yeah, it is a bit different country, but it's so good.
Speaker 12Yeah, it is. It's beautiful here and thanks. Mount Abrupt, have you walked that yet? No, I haven't got that far, but I look at it every morning when we're here this week and yeah, thanks a lot for coming up.
Speaker 2Yeah, no, we've loved it, mate. We're going to be up here tomorrow, so looking forward to it. We're going to be here tomorrow doing the show from six, six to eight, a special Giddy Up, so that'll be fun. Sarah, you go and you've got a lot of work to do today. You're hosting people tonight at the farm. You'll be back here tomorrow, so I wish you the best of luck with all of that. I won't need it.
Speaker 13You'll be there, Gareth.
Speaker 2Give us a hand. And I tell you, one tip if you're coming here, you do need to be organised because you probably need to go to a Bottle-O or something like that because there's only one pub here and it doesn't really do takeaways, but there's a Calcutta there tonight. Yeah, the Calcutta's there tonight.
Speaker 12Yeah, so get along to the Royal Mail. It's a great pub, the Royal Mail. Great pub. And Cup Eve, we'll be pumping and then everyone get here tomorrow.
Speaker 2Look out. Enjoy the day. Carl, well done. And Sarah, you enjoy yourself. We appreciate you spending some time with us on Giddy Up and Carl, thanks for having us. No, thanks for coming up, Gareth. Carl Hoofer there, the boss of Dunkell and also Sarah Peatling, who's a Dunkell local now. And she'll be running the Fashions of the Field and hosting a big group of people from Melbourne and Ballarat. So over the next couple of days, we're going to take a break on the other side of it. We'll continue on Country Corner and we've got a couple of the locals that will be joining me here live at Dunkell here on Giddy Up.
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Speaker 2Up, a special Giddy Up, all thanks to Bet360. We'll be right back. Giddy Up, a special Giddy Up, all thanks to Bet360. And this is the Country Corner. Thank the Country Racing Victoria. Country Racing's got it all this spring. Find your next Country Cup at country.racing.com. We have found our next Country Cup. It's at Duncow. And a couple of Duncow legends join me here. Mick O'Shaughnessy and Greg Richards. Mick, hello to you, mate. Great to meet you.
Speaker 14Good, Gareth. Lovely to have you here.
Speaker 2And, Mick, it's great to have you, and you brought your great mate Greg with us. G'day, Greg. How are you, mate? I feel like I'm – I know it's a different radio station, but Macca on a Sunday. I can't believe Macca on a Sunday hasn't been here to Dunkeld because I know he loves his racing. And people have been telling me for years that I've got to get to Dunkeld, Mick, and I'm finally here. And it's the most picturesque race course that I've been to. It is a beautiful place.
Speaker 14We're very fortunate. - Yeah. - I think it's one of the best race courses in the world. The prettiest ones, it's been, and we've been on the cover of the, the vrc official report yeah which is um a good feather in our cap yeah i've been um a committee person since 1969 1969 and um i've seen lots of changes of course yeah seen it here um when we've had a couple of hundred people here yeah and we used to um drive past the bar to put the horses and get a ute load of blokes yeah and um that used to be a bit of a task until one day we've got a dam out here oh this would be 35 years ago yeah we've got a dam on the course and it was a pretty hot day was 38 degrees in november and in november and we got up to um um the fourth race yeah anyway jeez they're calling for these just put the headphone there that might not be working here mickey you go beautiful anyway we're calling yeah we got you there we're calling for blokes to put the horses in yeah yeah anyway they um we got four or five out of the bar local blokes and of course this was before the barrier tendons yeah were registered anyway we the local girls had found the dam by about the fifth race yeah and they're over there having a swim yeah and of course they didn't have the so the next race the boys pulled up at the bar with the ute and there was standing room only
Speaker 2yeah there you go that won't be happening this year is the dam still here
Speaker 14yeah it's half filled in yeah yeah no we don't allow anybody
Speaker 2around there no how long have you been um going to the dunkel cup meeting he greg
Speaker 15i've been in the committee for 34 i think yeah years yeah it's a life sentence yeah yes you get on it we all die here yeah and we hope it's not too soon it's what's
Speaker 2all it's what it's all about isn't it mate mateship and and doing something for the community so what does this race meeting and race club mean to the people of dunk held and the surrounding areas
Speaker 15well it's it's yeah well apart from the financial um advantage for businesses and uh everybody involved in the area it's just it's it's a traditional thing people are going to be doing it it's a traditional thing people are going to be doing it i say to people what are you doing here where'd you come from oh i came from mornington yeah well how long you've been coming here well i came here in the pram yeah yeah so it's just become a tradition for people yeah um you know we have buses bloody hundreds of buses that come from all over the it's it's amazing really isn't it yeah
Speaker 14it's extraordinary you must be proud of that mick well i was in darwin at the cup um four years ago this big trestle table and this fella said where are you from mate i said dunk held oh he said i called there a few years ago he said to that hotel yeah he said um seven hundred dollars later i said jesus i said come to the races anyway the next year he brought 20 people down to the races from darwin yeah and then i've got a daughter in mildura yes who um is um involved in the health industry up there she tells me their iga man from golgol brings a bus down and picks up purple from aryan stall okay halls gap and gets to dunk and then goes
Speaker 2back on the same day no no stays
Speaker 14the night and goes back the next day so that's how it is it's word of mouth like i've seen over the years with the kids leaving school yeah look they all um tell their friends oh you better you better get down and curl races we'll see
Speaker 2you there how does the town cope with um getting to 8 000 people here tomorrow it's a town of 700 how do you cope
Speaker 15with it all greg uh well uh a few years ago we didn't cope very well you ran out of beer didn't you no we had 15 000 people here so that stretched friendship a bit um it came to the local coppers
Speaker 2just to say oh we apologize for that we got
Speaker 15pretty good here yeah police don't worry um look most people come by by buses now which is fantastic so it's safer and more economical heap of people come out of hamilton obviously warnable port fairy portland all over the place yeah it's fantastic
Speaker 14but since we've had the um there are families getting back to the races now yeah with the young ones yeah yeah because of the um alcohol laws yeah which years before we used to have no alcohol laws here and they'd arrive with coles trolleys and slabs of beer and of course you know what happens when that happens you both get together yeah yeah yeah so we've got i'm families now integrating with the young ones yes which is really good
Speaker 2it is terrific mate and um this is why i love racing when you go and meet people like you two that love this game but you do it for the right reasons and it's part of a big family do you have like a a favorite cup that you can remember we'll start with you greg and then i'll get your
Speaker 15favorite cup mick my favorite cup was and don't ask me the year yeah but we had that many nominations you know how when you get a lot of norms in the in the maiden or something you split the race yeah well we had that many nominations for the cup we decided to split the cup there you go we ran two dunk hill cups and we had to fund it ourselves because you know the racing industry i don't know whether they knew about it or happy about it but we had to fund the second one ourselves and i doubt if that's ever been no happy you know whether that's ever happened anywhere else split it was a luck of
Speaker 2the draw was there a stronger
Speaker 15cup don't know how
Speaker 2we did it i can't remember it's a long time ago
Speaker 14well my favorite cup would go back to 40 or 45 years ago when the local judge was here sitting in the tower yeah yeah and as the horses came past the post a bee got in there and and he knocked it away and knocked his bottle of beer over and they said who won he said you'll have to go and ask the jockeys that's a true story that's a true story absolutely i'm a bit concerned the
Speaker 2judge was drinking yes yes and he knocked his beer over and didn't see the finish no and what did the jock and the jockeys usually wouldn't tell the truth either i would imagine mick i can
Speaker 15remember him coming up along the straight here and you're looking up at the tower and one bloke said we reckon such and such one and now the jockey rode up behind he said an expletive yes yes hey he said i reckon i won no so i don't know how they split it no do you remember who might have tossed
Speaker 2a coin yeah it's a tab meeting tomorrow so you can watch it how long have been a tab
Speaker 14meeting for oh for um for the last 10 years yeah more than that i'd reckon yeah
Speaker 2rick mackintosh was telling me today that um he's got the best view in the house he's calling action and it's one of the most oh we all know it's one of the most picturesque race courses in the country i think it's rivaling a broom there in western australia when they've got the the ocean on the background there but um um it's some track isn't it it's a beautiful community wonderful people yeah
Speaker 15the the best view yeah if you can get to walk across the straight yeah and look straight at the mountains yeah it's extraordinary and the horse is coming out of the mountain yeah what
Speaker 2would you do if you're in dunkeld and like you go to the races you stay for a couple of days what else would you do well well
Speaker 14there's halls gap yeah just around and now there's a famous walk from halls gap right to dunkeld along the top of the mountains yeah 167 kilometers surely that'll take a hundred percent i'll get by it for a
Speaker 2while mick that would keep us busy you know i've got a minute we need a winner have you done the form for
Speaker 14us no no i'm sorry will you be
Speaker 2punting tomorrow
Speaker 14i will be yeah probably in melbourne now okay or interstate i've got a friend in sydney who gives
Speaker 2you the form
Speaker 14who gives me the form every saturday and you
Speaker 2listen to giddy up and get all your tips too certainly do um what about you greg have you had a winner
Speaker 15for us christine pools in the last she's only got one ride i believe for the day that'll do it so that's an omen yeah now just on that point yeah i remember one day with christine pools and and a few other jockeys uh i've got 40 seconds the steward said you need to put grass clippings where on the on the pass across the track because the horses would spook at it we went and got a lawnmower cut all the bloody clippings put them on there and those jockeys arrived in a helicopter and blew them all away true story
Speaker 2hopefully that won't be arriving in a helicopter tomorrow they might hey um anyway thank you
Speaker 14very much hey mick
Speaker 2you're a bloody legend welcome thanks for having us good on you gregory i hope you're back next year yeah we'll be back dale collins and his dog jack's gonna join us who sing so i can't wait for that they'll join us straight after this break but you're bloody legends you're what country racing's all about and i can't wait to go to my first dunk cup meeting tomorrow thanks boys great time for a
Speaker 1break you join the conversation text us on 0499 736 736 live across australia this is giddy up with gareth hall
Speaker 2Welcome back to Giddy Up. It's a special Giddy Up, thanks to Bet365. Live from Dunkeld as we get set for the Dunkeld Cup meeting, one of the most famous meetings in country Australia. We welcome our friends now listening to us on their local SEN Turf Dial right throughout WA. And they join our audience on RSN SEN Track and watching us on Racing.com. Busy hour coming your way. We'll find you some winners in the Territory, New Zealand. It's New Zealand Cup Day there at Ricketts tomorrow. We'll preview the opening day of the Pinnacles at Ascot with Terry Leighton and also, of course, Peter Anthonis. And then we'll find you some winners at Annington with Captain's Mistress taking on Leap to Fame. And the boys will preview a big night at the Dogs at Sandown tonight with Jason Adams and Georgie Frugia. But Put Collins joins us here with his dog, Jackson. Legends of the Dunkeld region. Put, thanks very much for joining us, mate. G'day, Jackson. How long have you been on the committee? Because you're old, man. Was before you. And you played a major part at this race club.
Speaker 16Exactly, yeah. Dad's a life member. He was a clerk of the course for many years. Okay. So I remember coming over here as a kid. Yeah. From, I don't know, from when I could crawl, I suppose. And we'd come over here and the races. More so on the Sunday morning after we'd scavenged through the bars. Used to put sawdust down on the bars and down the bar floors and we'd scab all the coins. We were always finding coins. Yeah. And all that sort of stuff. So I grew up around there and Dad with Trigger, his horse that he used to bring and do the clerk of the course.
Speaker 2Yeah. And how many people on the committee, Put?
Speaker 16There's 14 of us, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah. And how much work goes into getting this day right for the local community?
Speaker 16A lot of work. Yeah. A lot of work. Yeah. It's enjoyable work, especially for me. I was sort of semi-retired. Yeah. And, yeah. I've just basically just mow and clip and contain the course built up to, you know, today.
Speaker 2Yeah. Yeah. Have you been blown away, obviously, how successful this day has become? Dunkeld Cup meeting, how people come from far and wide just to come to your community?
Speaker 16Once it got rolling and young ones know where they're coming to, you know, you're looking at schoolies, you know, they've just finished their exams. Yeah. So when that's all gone on the go, it's towards Christmas and the bus trips and all that sort of stuff together. So once that's all, it's just, it's grown from there. Yeah. When people come in and enjoy themselves and you're giving them an environment where they do enjoy themselves, they tell their mates they want to come back the next year. So, and it's just grown from there.
Speaker 2And then obviously the committee, obviously all locals.
Speaker 16Yep. Yep. All get on really well. Tear in and do the. Do the work that needed to be done. Yeah. And that's what's happening today, leading up to that. So yeah, we're well ahead of school.
Speaker 2And it's all ready to go, mate. Basically, yeah. It looks, it's a beautiful place. It's God's country, really. In the middle of nowhere, in a way, like you're 20 minutes from Hamilton, but you drive through Dunkeld and there's a pub and there's a couple of corner stores, but that's about it.
Speaker 16That's about basically it. Yeah. Yeah. But we've got the mountains as well, so.
Speaker 2And the mountains are beautiful, mate.
Speaker 16Yeah. And the big red comes around. It comes around the area as well. So it's a. It's a beautiful
Speaker 2place to wake up to.
Speaker 16Well, I've woken up to it most of my life. Yeah. And still waking up, so yeah.
Speaker 2And Jackson, tell us a little bit about Jackson, because he's the most famous dog in this part of the world.
Speaker 16Oh, I wouldn't say that. Yeah. But he hasn't laid his first record down for singing, but that's not far away. So he can sing. He can sing. Yeah. He's good at singing. Self-taught. Self-taught. Yeah. He's sort of followed my voice for a little while. And then. He's broken out on his own, but we're sort of a duo as well. So he's the rabbit control officer around here, so you've probably noticed when you came in, there's no rabbits. Yeah. That's because of this man. Yes. He's nailed quite a few.
Speaker 2As he said, he's doing his job. I don't know if we can get the other mic here, because we'll get Jackson. Can we go to a break? Where was the other mic there, Serge? Can you. I'll hold it. This is nearly my. This is sensational. So as we go to a break here on Giddy Up Live at Dunbar. Duncowd. Jackson, the singing dog, of course, with his mate, Pud Collins. Take us to the break, mate, with some singing there with Jackson.
Speaker 16You're ready. I probably only need to do that close, but anyway.
Speaker 17You ready, Jackson? Righto. Righto. Ready. I was born under a wandering star. I was born east and far. I was born. I was born.
Speaker 2Sensational, Jackson. Hey, good on you, Pud. You're a bloody star. That was sensational. We've been doing Giddy Up for just over four years, but that's been my highlight, Jackson. On that note, we'll take a break. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha. We're live at Duncowd as we get set for the Duncowd Cup meeting here in southwest Victoria. If you're watching around Australia and you don't know where Duncowd is, it's about three hours out of Melbourne. The people of Duncowd and the surrounding areas. Some of the best people that you'll come across. And the singing dog, Jackson, is my great mate, David Short Shorty, watching in WA, said, the singing dog, if you don't mind punters, unbelievable stuff. I've seen it all now. I have seen it all. We've got plenty to come now in the final part of Giddy Up. We're going to catch up with Jane Ivel, Andrew O'Toole's not far away, and we'll preview the opening day of the. Pinnacles with Peter Anthonis and Terry Leighton. But NT Thoroughbred Racing, it is simply the best racing entertainment in the Territory. We go to Fanny Bay there tomorrow afternoon. Andrew O'Toole joins us. G'day, Andrew. G'day, Gareth. Where do we start with your plays, mate?
Speaker 18Yeah, it should be a pretty good meeting tomorrow, Gareth, which is good to see, about 10 days after Melbourne Cup Day. In the first, number two, King of Key, the Tommy Logan stable going really well. He's second in the premiership, Tom, with eight wins. Behind Gary Clark on 16. This horse back to 1,300 metres, which he won at two starts ago. Dropped back to 1,100 last time and ran fourth. But this is his go. Race one, number two, King, Keyed. If we go to the fourth, the Valet-Philip Neck Handicap, and Tommy again with number six, Steamy Mist, Billy Cray rides. This mare's only had two starts in Darwin. She's won them both. Admittedly going up in grade, but only has to reproduce that last start. Very impressive win, and she'll be hard to beat again. Number six, Steamy Mist. And in the last race five, and that is number two, Bold Suiter, trained by Gary Clark, Jared Todd in the saddle. Let the side down last time. Missed the jump badly, was never in the race after that. But if it gets away tomorrow with them, barrier three, I think it'll take all the beating. Race five, number two, Bold Suiter.
Speaker 2So race one, number two, race four, number six, and race five, number two there at Darwin on a Saturday afternoon. Good on you, Toolman. Thanks for that, mate.
Speaker 18Thanks, Gareth. Good on you, mate.
Speaker 2There's Andrew Tool, NT Thoroughbred Racing. It is simply the best racing entertainment in the territory. You can wake up with New Zealand racing and kick your day off with a Kiwi bet. What's gambling really costing you? For free and confidential support, visit gamblinghelponline.org.au. There's a lot of Australian flavour there at Rickett and Tomorrow as the Aussies try and win a New Zealand Cup. Jane Ivel joins us. G'day, Jane. Morning to you. Can the Aussies win the New Zealand Cup?
Speaker 19Potentially, yeah. I think they probably can. It's not probably an overly strong edition of New Zealand Cup. And just Charlie, who won the Metropolitan, I've got a few queries over whether he stays out a strong two mile. So absolutely. I know Tom Charlton spoke to Trackside New Zealand during the week, and they're pretty confident that Athabaskan can certainly stand up. Really, he's coming back in grade quite significantly, taking on that type of field in New Zealand. And by all accounts, he's travelled over really well.
Speaker 2Yeah, and we had Charlotte Littlefield on the show there yesterday. Tajanis represents her stable. And she reckons Tajanis is an each-way chance. He settled in nicely. He's been in New Zealand for nearly a month. So he's at $9 there with bet $3.65. Where do we start with your best bets there at Rickett and Tomorrow?
Speaker 19Well, I'm only actually having one bet at Rickett and Tomorrow. I thought that they were really competitive. Of course, we've got Group 1 racing with the three, three-year-olds in the 2000 Guineas. But I'm just electing to follow Platinum Tack again at Rickett and. He's going around in race seven on the back, out from winning the lifted Pegasus last weekend. He lines up in the stewards over 1,200. Although he won pretty decisively over 1,000 last, 1,200 is really his trip. He's won six of his 10 career wins over the 1,200 metres. And I think he's racing as well as he ever has. He's won his last two in a row. He probably won't get the same race set up to suit him on Saturday. like he did last week, but he's the best horse in the field, so race seven, horse number one platinum attack is my best bet at Brickadon, and then I'm actually concentrating on the second meeting in New Zealand on Saturday. I think it's a bit easier to find a winner, and that's at Tauranga.
Speaker 2Yes. Where do we start with your best at Tauranga?
Speaker 19Race number two, so pretty early in the day. I'm with the I Promise, who was a galloper who were really impressed at the trials before he stepped out on debut. He won on debut last month by Toronado, and he just did everything right. He was professional. Good gait, speed, sat on pace, and showed a really good turn of foot. The race rated really well. We've already had a winner out of it. So second up, I think he's capable of taking the next step. So race two, course two, I Promise, and then race three, the open handicap over 1,400 meters, and I'm with Smart Love, who showed a lot of promise last preparation. I liked the return at Te Rapa. It was a solid fork. It came from the tail of the field in a race that really suited the horses that sat up on speed. So it was taking some ground off the leaders. It was against the pattern. The mare's got a really good second up record. She'll strip fitter, and she'll handle rain-affected conditions. Jess Rotol will start favorite in the open 1,400, and he's on the backup after placing at stakes level last start. Barrier one's going to be a massive assist from him. For him, he's a galloper that likes to lead, dictate turns, and that's generally when he wins, and he can probably do that, but I just like the price around Smart Love. So race three, seven, four, five, and eight.
Speaker 2Beautiful. So race two, number two. Race three, number seven at Taronga. Your special's there, Jane. You enjoy your weekend. You're on Giddy Up tomorrow morning as well on the Seven Network, and Giddy Up Saturday, of course. So we look forward to watching you there, but you keep on dominating like you have been for us. We appreciate you, Jane.
Speaker 19Yeah, as long as we can keep finding winners. It's been a while, isn't it? But I'm looking forward to racing tomorrow.
Speaker 2Good on you, Jane. Thanks for that. There's Jane Ivor. Thank you. Wake up with New Zealand. Racing. Kick your day off with a Kiwi bet. And if you fancy a Hellraiser, enter now to win a 10-pack of bourbon and cola. Make sure you drink responsibly. That's what they'll be doing here at Dunkell tomorrow afternoon. Hey, I've got to take a break on the other side of it. We're going to preview day one of the Pinnacles with Terry Layton and Pete Anthonis. Welcome back to Giddy Up, Gareth Hall with you. It's day one of the Pinnacles there at Ascot. And what a carnival it promises to be. I can't wait for it. And it is a fascinating day there tomorrow. And all thanks to WA Racing. Tune in to Racing WA TV on 7plusandracing.com. It's your ultimate destination for everything racing in the West. Of course, we've got the Jungle Mist. We've got the Colonel Reeves, the lead-up towards the Winterbottom Stakes. We've got the Champion Fillies. We've got the Placid Arc Stakes for the three-year-olds. And, of course, the R.J. Peters Stakes, which gives some gallopers their final opportunity to try and qualify into WA's most famous race. The Railway Stakes. Let's welcome in the best team in the business when it comes to analysing WA Racing. Terry Layton, hello to you.
Speaker 20Good morning, Gareth. Good morning, viewers.
Speaker 2Pete Anthonis, hello to you.
Speaker 21G. Hall, morning to you. Morning to Terry. Morning to everyone at home. This is a belter of a car, G. How much time have we got to talk about it?
Speaker 2We've got a little bit. I can't believe Pikey's riding a Bunbury on a Thursday afternoon, Terry. Can you believe it? Unbelievable. Like, God bless Pikey. God bless him on a $2 favourite to do what he did. But, obviously, he's caused interference. I looked at it. I thought, surely the stewards can play the game. I know they've got a job to do, but just give him a reprimand. He hasn't been suspended for 12 months, but he's been given nine days. So, it looks like, at the moment, he'll miss Winterbottom Stakes Day.
Speaker 20Yeah, I think you're right. Just play the game. We shouldn't be saying that. That's not how it probably should eventuate. But, what a drawcard he is to WA Racing. And, yeah, no, rules, rules, rules. I get it. Yeah, we can't do that. Rules and rules. That's the theory, mate. I just love, as you said, I love that he's going to race for, what's the first prize of that? Probably $13,000 on Thursday afternoon. Nobody else gets that horse home, by the way, if it wasn't for him. So, I hope the connections bought him a glass of champagne after the race or after the last. But, no, good on him. That's his competitive spirit.
Speaker 2Yeah, 100%. But, I don't think he'll be riding. I don't think he'll be riding on a Thursday afternoon before the pinnacles again. Race 6 is the Jungle Miss Classic. It's a fascinating race here, Terry Leighton. Which way are you going here for the mares? Because there's a few chances that have had good backing with Bet365.
Speaker 20Yeah, certainly. I've not had a bet in this race at this point in time. But, there's a few that are well above my price. So, we should start by saying there's a big Easterly on course on Saturday, Gareth. So, I expect it has, mate, and it's 30 degrees. It has to play on speed, like properly on speed. So, I just need, you need to factor that in when backing horses like Chinquay Stella at $1.90. Like, I thought Chinquay Stella might go to the Colonel Reeves and Bob might look at a Winterbottom. That's how good the last effort was. But, in this particular race, I reckon Chinquay Stella is going to be backing about 8th. Sensational lead, playing at Sweet will tag it. Ladies Pro will tag it. They could be so far in front of Chinquay Stella at the 200 or the 300. And, I know she'll reel off an awesome last split. But, with that, I think Chinquay Stella is going to be back in about 8th. In the conditions of the day, oh, I just think she's a little bit of a risk at $1.90. So, look, if I was betting now, I'd be back and playing at Sweet at $7 and Ladies Pro at $9, $10. Just from those nice sucks in behind cessation. But, I haven't been game enough to have a bet and back against Chinquay Stella just yet.
Speaker 2She's, Chinquay Stella's at $1.90, boost with 210, we bet 365p. What's the price of the favourite for you?
Speaker 21I couldn't get her. I couldn't get her. I couldn't get her shorter than $2.40 a bet. So, I'm actually with Terry. I thought the trials of Ladies Pro were really good. Like the map here, Freddie Kersley on board. I think he'll be hungry, just trying to stamp himself. So, from barrier one, at worst, three-back defence. And, as Terry said, there's not a whole heap of speed in this race, although it should be genuine with cessation, dracana and playing at Sweet. So, I thought Ladies Pro, the different form line coming into this, and she's shown pretty dynamic sort of turn of foot previously. I think she could be ready to go here over $1,200. And, I don't know. I'm just happy to take sort of $7. We're getting close to $10 now. So, I think that's a bet.
Speaker 2Yeah. Ladies Pro, what about $8.50? Big opportunity for Fred Kersley. I thought he didn't get the opportunities I reckon he deserved in Victoria. And, Grant and Alana Williams have seen the talent in Fred Lee. And, Fred will be the number one rider for Grant and Alana Williams. So, he'll get the option of, I think, their best chances. Obviously, William Pike going back to Bob and Sandra Peters. So, it's a big opportunity for Fred in WA. And, he rides Ladies Pro here at a good each way price. I like the way you're thinking there, Pete and Terry. Race 7 is the Colonel Rees. Well, did you hear Jackson the singing dog just before here at Duncow? It's the Omen bet here. He was telling me he's all over Basset Hound Jackson at the $3.20 with bet $3.65. You can boost him to $3.50. Talk and Co. She's a beauty, isn't she? She's at $5.50. Immortal Bliss, $6.50. Rope them in at $7.50. And, an Oscars fortune at $10. Rissoles at $16 here, Pete. Are you still keen on talking Co.?
Speaker 21Not in this race. As Terry's already alluded to, the map is a concern. Barrier 12. There's no real speed in this race either. There's Thermosphere Lad drawn Barrier 14G. And, although he'll probably take his time rolling forward and set a genuine enough tempo, there's a big question mark on where everything else in the field settles. If Basset Hound steps from Barrier 1, he could conceivably end up three back the fence. He might even be able to find leaders back here. There's no reason why, you know, a horse like Rissoles or Jazz Session or Rope Them In or Twisted Steel would be used up early to try and cross to the fence. So, in some world, and there's simulations here where Basset Hound ends up leaders back and gets, like, the craziest run of all time. But, he could also miss the barrier or miss the start by about two lengths. So, who knows? This is an impossible race to bet into right now. That's all I can have to say. I could make a case for the top six here. But, this is a very difficult race to assess. Terry Layton. Terry Layton.
Speaker 20Yeah, it's a cracker. I did a bit of self-reflection, actually, while doing this race. I've realised in years gone by, I've underrated Joker's Grin, Amelia's Jewel, Elite Street. And, I just need to be wary. I don't know why. I think I'm just an arrogant idiot. And, I just feel like I need to take it to the up-and-comer for some reason. So, at least I'm self-aware. You know, that's the most important part. I just think I need to be careful with Basset Hound because he's on the rise. He's a horse that I feel like he should be doing more. Or, I feel like the runs of Divine Belief were just as good. But, I also feel like he's a horse that will keep rising to the challenge. So, my plan is to save on Basset Hound if I'm getting over $3. I'm with Pete. I think the map actually ends up quite good from Barrier 1. I think Barrier 12 would be a nightmare and it couldn't win. I think Barrier 1 is perfect. Yes, you could be unlucky. I get that. But, this is also how you can win the race as well. So, I think too many people are just potting Barrier 1. It's usually a very good gate for a reason. I think the horse that's been forgotten is Rope. them in Gareth, he's, he's been our best weight for age sprint, but quite some time he's won his last four first up recent trial was a slight query definitely um but that was a few weeks ago and the trial before that was great so i'm just going to back wolfie in to have him right um i think rope the min deserves to be close to equal favorite or second favorite to basset hound and he maps forward he matters to be off and going before talk and go before immortal bliss um i just think rope means the complete and utter forgotten horse once again and um 758 bucks that's an easy result and mcgruddy's
Speaker 2back on didn't he get sacked for the pontiff and now he's back
Speaker 20on himself he self-sacked himself so they wanted to ride forward that's good english but some something like that he uh they wanted to ride him forward in the belmont sprint and hyperion and sean didn't really want to ride him forward so they put the ponton that's my understanding at least and they put the ponton and um i think they'll go back to well he'll be ridden with cover obviously over over this trip um but i still think they can ride him with a degree of positivity early and as pete said not much speed in this so if you're the first off and going with the easterly um good luck catching a uh rope them in at set weights and penalties the
Speaker 2champions phillies is the feature a profit motive for mitchell pateman the all-conquering mitchell pateman a dollar 55 would bet 365 treasured legacy 550 dixie do 17 ruthless angel at 26 and miss billy jean at 26 here terry the more you look at this race with her tactical speed like she showed there the other day um is a dollar 55 value for profit motive in your market now
Speaker 20to be honest it's about my price i'm not going to be taking the dollar 55. what we need to remember by this stage of the day is if there is that there is that easterly in play it will be on speed there'll be a few that go forward unexpectedly here so if they go in with the mindset we're going to try and lead which i doubt they will um it could end up like that but i think it's going to be an exciting race and we'll end up very interesting and if they go with mindset we'll see where we end up it's not impossible from that awkward gate that profit motive leads a three wide line and treasured legacy ends up on profit motives back but i mean that's just me trying to find a way to get this horse beaten she was dominant um she looks like she's the real deal she doesn't look like slowing down this preparation i couldn't take a dollar 55 but knowing she goes around that short gareth don't forget there is fifteen dollars available for the northerly and if she makes it there and she's happy and she wins this as well as the market suggests there's no way a three or a three-year-old philly with 50 kilos starts 15 in a northerly she'll start significantly shorter so i'm probably just going to have something on the northerly futures market i hope she does a number
Speaker 21on them pete
Speaker 2anthonis yeah no no win bet here
Speaker 21for me g but i think there's one of the great place bets of the season um if you believe in sb profile pucker up started favorite versus profit motive um in that horse's debut uh pucker up then has had basically no luck i reckon it was a flat run last time out we're not suited anyway um on sp profile alone i think she deserves to be basically single figures in this race and we're getting around six seven dollars a place so for me that's one of my bigger bets of the day is pucker up the place just
Speaker 2with these sp profiles um what about if the punters were wrong pete
Speaker 21no that's that's irrelevant g um the punters it's market collection you know of all this intelligence and when these horses aren't really established so to speak and pucker up's not making the burgess queen field anyway but we're getting around six seven dollars a place so for me that's one of my favorite bets of the season i don't know if it's a good bet for me but i think it's a good bet i don't know if it's a good bet for me but i think it's a good bet for me but i think it's a good bet for me market support before being scratched there's usually an inkling that some of the data profiles and splits and you break it all down there's people far smarter than me who are able to actually take these prices and stick them into a computer so um look sometimes punters are wrong but it all comes down to probability right i can walk outside get hit by a car and that would be the end of me so you know that's a very good point at some point
Speaker 2yeah let's hope that doesn't happen let's hope that doesn't happen a beautiful human being i'm
Speaker 20with by the way i'm with you i'm with you gareth sp profile most overrated thing in horse racing sorry pete i just love to disagree with someone and i haven't really disagreed with anyone on this program but it is in the early
Speaker 2part of their career it is um but i can understand where pete is coming from where does pucker up get to then from gate nine pete midfield
Speaker 21three wide with cover and what's a bunched messy race g and there's every chance that this race will break the pattern of the day um because if there is speed in this race outside of the favorite i don't think it's going to be particularly good speed or strong speed late so i'm looking for a very messy race and momentum is going to be the key i wouldn't even might like profit motive is three wide no cover it's possibly one of the better spots to be on the day i would suspect um especially if the easterlies
Speaker 2in play now this is a beauty the placid arc stakes as well a fire of gidji coals the caricata champ is a 2.80 um back at set weights he does look well placed doesn't he he's 280 with bet 365 i thought he would be a little shorter you can boost him a little bit but he's a little bit shorter he's a little bit shorter but he's a little bit shorter he's a little bit shorter he's a little bit shorter he's a little bit shorter he's a little bit shorter he's a little bit shorter he's a little bit shorter god bless you terry god bless you one last resort he told us to get on at twelve dollars he's into 360. um but he's still got a win now achy breaky at nine dollars levadi de mezzo is at thirteen dollars so he defeated the favorite there the other day um coz i am at 21 jeez i got a good push there from dan pierce yesterday on giddy up stable mail with coz i am and then big red zoom at 23 gain tree at 23 boy crush at 26. i got a good push there from dan pierce yesterday on giddy up stable mail with coz i am and then big red zoom at 23 gain tree at 23 boy crush at 26. i got a good push there from dan pierce yesterday on giddy up stable mail at 23 gain tree at 23. i got a good push mark also 26 and then mark also 26 and then mark also 26 and then dawn dancer and harbour rise 29 dawn dancer and harbour rise 29 dawn dancer and harbour rise 29 chances here pete anthonis who wins the chances here pete anthonis who wins the chances here pete anthonis who wins the placid arc stakes
Speaker 21placid arc stakes placid arc stakes well i think the market's pretty obvious well i think the market's pretty obvious well i think the market's pretty obvious here g but i still think there's a little here g but i still think there's a little here g but i still think there's a little bit of juice in one last resort and it it's all going to come down to map here there's obviously going to be good speed here of dawn dancer anaconda jones big red zoom all rolling forward gain tree next line with one last resort on the outside of that horse i suspect with the fire of gidgee coals blinkers on they'll try and get some cover with that horse being a little bit aware of the fact that he sat three wide no cover there last time out um but that map profile for one last resort and the figures from that midweek clear best of the day um the market's cottoned onto it terry was all over it and rightly so but i still think there's a little bit of juice there so one last resort i could see getting backed into favorite here so i want to be backing it early and saving on a fire of gidgee coals late but i think it's a big gap to third here with a map disadvantaging horses like achy breaking lavati de bezo terry yeah pizza i reckon
Speaker 20this already looks like a real two horse race at 280 and 360 i reckon they both only get tighter i mean if one last resort firms into favoritism a fire can't uh shorten a huge amount but um i just think the market is going to have such a big gap to third exactly what pete said so um on reasonable terms with ourselves at the moment um but look the fire gives you goals 2.80 i think that's the bet if you haven't had a bet to this point in time i respect one last resort's going to be in position a it's going to get every chance like every conceivable chance to win this race i am just at the setway it's going to back the horse it's been there and done it before a little bit concerned by the lugging bit on a fire gidgee coals but i backed dan morton and the team to get things right at this time of the year so if i'm having a bet now a fiery giddy coals is the one at 2.80 but i'd be very very very surprised um i reckon the only way one of those two don't win is if chris parham's a bit more aggressive on achy breaky um lands midfield with cover and those blinkers going on uh find those couple of lengths like it suggested it may have done in the trial so she's the danger and i'd be surprised if that's probably not your trifecta of achy breaky gets
Speaker 2normal luck i'm looking forward to this race it's going to be intriguing race especially a fire giddy coals would be great to see him well we're on one last result they can fight out the race but um looking forward to seeing what unfolds there and then we go to race number 10 and this is the rjp the stakes you know what this is my favorite race dealing wa um i've been next to terry lazian when he's been heartbroken he's back the favor for the railway stakes and they don't win the rjp and he does his cash um and we might get a similar story yes yes um a dollar 80 needs to win to qualify and then chris parham has got a difficult choice to make because he would have been booked i would imagine for the fourth favorite hot and high as well so you'll have to make a decision as you write rock fest or hot and high um we're not getting ahead of ourselves here at all chris but rock fest is a dollar 18 that dominates the market could you take a dollar 80p
Speaker 21uh yes but i won't this is such a tactical affair whoever made it last race on the day deserves an absolute pay rise because this is going to be so high attention um the map looks like awesome boy of the crossover noseband off rolls forward and sets a genuine tempo and that gives every horse their chance on paper but it's going to be really tactical between rock fest western miss and i'm not ruling out like clockwork i i think that she still has splits that would basically declare her as good as any other horse in this field and with my man group one patty carbury on board yes i have to have a bet on like clockwork if they're making ground but that's a big if at this stage of the day so look i think rock fest on paper deserves to be this short but he still needs the luck and there's just going to be a little bit of tactical decision making for a few of these jockeys early it's going to be a great race to watch but at this stage i'm going to be sitting on my hands if they're making ground i have something small on like clockwork but i just can't wait to see what unfolds here it's going to be high tension well i mean this time last year right we saw cosmic crusader you know yeah there's a list of them as devoted as you said um going back over the years i would love to see half this deal in the railway
Speaker 2but that's not how it works terry terry will terry
Speaker 20sorry you go i said
Speaker 2you know too well it doesn't work like we would all want it to work And the R.J. Pete is over the years.
Speaker 20No, it doesn't. Thanks for bringing it up multiple times as well, Gareth. I really appreciate that. But first of all, Chris, I'll take him about one second to make the decision. He'll choose Rockfest over Hot and High in a heartbeat would be my thought process before any barrier draw. I'm the same as Pete. I could take $1.80, but I'm not going to. And I'm the same as Pete. The only horse I've actually already backed at it got out to $17, $18. Like clockwork was a world price when it got to that number. So I'm still of the opinion like clockwork is a better horse than Western Miss. I'm probably alone in that. Maybe Pete might be with me to some degree. But like clockwork was huge last start at the 12, was huge the prior start at the 1,000 behind Basset Hound. It just needs this 1,400, 1,500, 1,600 metres and a nice fluent run. Who knows? They could be more positive. Don't forget Pike Road, like clockwork, aggressively first up, did all the work and was so strong late. So look, I didn't intend on backing like clockwork. I marked it, I think, $8.50. So I didn't mark her too short or anything. But, oh, she's out in the mid-ish teens and she might get back there if Rockfest starts sort of $1.80, Western Miss, $4. Maybe she's the way we're going to end up here. But expectation is Rockfest wins, wins well, and maybe wins again next week.
Speaker 2Your best bets on this program. We'll start off with you, Terry.
Speaker 20All right. Race number three, Excel Indeed. I thought it's two runs for Tiana. Tiana and Jared Noski have been huge. I think they can actually kick up, hold out. He's Angelic, who might want to sit at the 1,200. I think it's a better move for the camp at the 1,200 metres to sit rather than lead. At a distance, it's a query out. So Excel Indeed at $4-ish. I'm happy to make probably the best bet on the cards. Westbound in race number five, something near 230, 240. I think with Pike going aboard. Westbound, if Western Miss and like clockwork weren't in the RJ Peters, Westbound would probably be in the RJ chasing a spot in the railway too. So back in this type of grade, I think normal luck. Westbound will take care of them. And in the Colonel Reeves, rope them in is the play. And I'm going to chop out on Basset Hound just for my mental health.
Speaker 21Peter. Yes. Pucker up the place in the champion Phillies G and then one last resort, save the fire of Kitchy Coles, which is boring. But I'm backing myself in to get the market right here. And I've been wrong quite a few times this season. So I'm looking forward to being wrong. And once again, and only having the bet on one last resort.
Speaker 2Love your work, boys. Bring it on. What a day to kick off the pinnacles. So, so much intrigue, so much on the line. I can't wait for it to all unfold there at Ascot on a Saturday afternoon. Good on you, Terry. Good on you, Pete.
Speaker 21Cheers, Jay. Thanks, Jay.
Speaker 2There's Terry Layton and Pete Anthonis. We'll take a break. We'll find you some winners there in Adelaide with Heath Pope tomorrow. The jump out King's not far away. Adam Hamilton live from Annington to build up this. Clash between Leap to Fame and Captain's Mistress in the trots. And then we'll finish off with some tips with a big night at the Meadows tonight with Georgie Ferugia and Jason Adams.
Speaker 1This is Giddy. With Gareth Hall.
Speaker 2Thanks for raising SA. Always great to catch up with our next guest, the great Heath Pope from sectionaledge.com.au. It's his new website. It's a terrific tool for us punters, sectionaledge.com.au. Hello to you, Popey.
Speaker 22Oh, good morning, Gareth. Thank you, mate.
Speaker 2How's things, mate? So sectionaledge.com.au, you've got a special offer, haven't you?
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Speaker 2Beautiful, Popey. So the email's pretty – well, not the email. The website is pretty easy, sectionaledge.com.au, sectionaledge, one word,.com.au. Hey, I love it. I love it, Popey. We are running out of time this morning, so let's just run through your best bets at Morphanville tomorrow.
Speaker 22Yeah, mate, very quickly. Race three, number five, Shy Star. I'm pretty keen here, mate. Forget that second up disappointing run. Dropping back to 64 grade. Blinkers going back on. Gets a really easy lead here, Gareth. Pretty keen. This is a really sharp improve at third up. I've got a rate at $3.25.
Speaker 2Yes. Race three, number five.
Speaker 22Yeah, race three, number five. Now, real keen here. Rates four, number five, Mathematician. As you know, I don't like tipping favourites, but this is still value in my opinion. Now, this race, they are going to go like absolute oakley platers, and that is going to get right into this horse's hands. It'll be smoking its pipe out the back, and it'll be just charging over them. First up, this horse is a black type horse, mate, so I think anything in black odds is a terrific bet.
Speaker 2So, that's $2 there, we bet $3.65. Race four, number five, Mathematician.
Speaker 22Yeah, mate. Let's get to me twice, man. Race seven, number two, to Tory. Now, stepping up in triple will be ideal. Now, its latest run, mate, it had no luck at a crucial stage. Still produced the fastest final 600 metres of the race in a very similar race it is. Wasn't far away. Now, prior to that, it won two of its three previous runs, Jake, Taro, Jolly, it's a good combination, mate. You can't go much wrong, and I think it's a $5 chance.
Speaker 2Race seven, number two, and the final of your specials?
Speaker 22Yeah, another each-way play, mate, in race eight. Number eight, Maldini. Now, it has drawn wide, but it'll roll forward, make its own luck. Also, the big thing I like here, it is really, it's dropping four kilos, Gareth. That last start run, it had no luck. It was only beaten just over 11. And it should have been right in the finish. As I said, dropping four kilos, I think it's a great each-way play, not panel riding, and I've also got it rated a $5 chance.
Speaker 2Beautiful. So, race three, number five, race four, number five, race seven, number two, and race eight, number eight, your play's there at Morphinville tomorrow. Go to sectionaledge.com.au. That's sectionaledge.com.au for your service there. It's a free trial. All you need to do is type in TVSEN. Is that right? TVSEN. Beautiful. TVSEN. And then away you go. That's sectionaledge.com.au. Good on you, mate. We appreciate your time, Popey, and good luck this weekend.
Speaker 22Thanks, Gareth. Enjoy out there, mate. Good on you.
Speaker 2There's Heath Pope. The jump out king extraordinaire, Scotty Amor, joins us.
Speaker 8G'day, Scotty. Hiya, Gareth. How are you, mate?
Speaker 2Good, thank you, mate. Take it away with your best bets, please.
Speaker 8The best bet. It's in race one, Sandown, H Noosa. I thought it was very, very good at Flemington last start. Third up here. As long as they run it at a decent enough tempo, he will get home over the top of them, and I think he'll be winning.
Speaker 2So that's race one there at Sandown. Itchy Moosa there. I like the way you're all thinking. What else have you got?
Speaker 8Race 10 at Sandown. Concord Connie should be winning, but the barrier, it's made it really, really tricky, in my opinion, for her. I think they'll have to go right back on her. And Savitri, I think, will get a very soft lead. I thought she was very good last start at Caulfield, and if she gets away with very, very soft sectionals in front, I think Concord Connie could have real issues picking her up. So I think Savitri's a really nice each-way bet in the last.
Speaker 2Beautiful. They're the only two specials for you there, Scotty.
Speaker 8Yeah, they're the two I like on Saturday. We'll just try and keep it simple, Gareth, and hopefully get both of them home.
Speaker 2What happens if we back Scotty Amor, the jump-out king extraordinaire?
Speaker 8If you're back with the king, you're where all the bling.
Speaker 2Beautiful. And we'll kick it off with Itchy Moosa in the first race two at Sandown. Good on you, mate. Thanks for that.
Speaker 8Cool. Cheers, Gareth.
Speaker 2Enjoy Dunkel. I will, mate. Time for a break on the other side of it. We're going to Adam Hamilton live at Addington next. We're live from Dunkel. Massive night at Greyhound Racing at Sandown tonight. We're in the middle of the Dream Chasers Festival. We've got the Melbourne Cup Eats next Saturday night. And then, of course, the most famous race, in Australia. in Greyhound Racing, the Melbourne Cup, the Saturday after. But it's the Prelude night tonight, the Laurels final as well. Jason Adams and Georgie Ferugia have got all of the mail for us ahead of a big night at Sandown. Jason, Georgie, hello to you.
Speaker 23And a very good morning to you, Gareth, and everyone tuning in here on Giddy Up. And you're right, it's a big meeting tonight. It's a bit of a gap week in terms of dream chasers. Of course, we're not on Racing.com tonight. We'll be back on Saturday week for Heats of the Melbourne Cup. But annually, Georgie, it's a meeting that's always full of quality because it's a last-ditch effort for a lot of these Greyhounds to qualify for the Melbourne Cup. And, of course, the cherry on top is a shootout, the Laurels. So there really is a lot to sink our teeth into tonight.
Speaker 24Yeah, last throw at the stumps. Obviously, there's nine as well. So the nominations were huge, Gareth, for the Melbourne Cup Preludes. And sprinkle in a little bit of Laurels and shootout, as you mentioned. And we've got an unbelievable night. There's a couple that I like, Jase. What about you?
Speaker 23Yeah, there's a couple that I do like. We'll get to them. But I guess when it comes to the talking points of tonight, I mean, it's easy enough to glamour it up with these feature races that we've got in front of us. But the talking points, the real things everyone's going to have an opinion on tonight, the first of them comes up in Race 4 without a trace. Now, it's just a graded staying race. However, the narrative around her is really interesting. I think the response from her running the Top Gun Stairs last week was a positive one. I think most people thought that she'd improved on what she'd been doing. But again, tonight, I mean, if she's going to have many impacts on the Boltree Series in a couple of weeks' time, she needs to go really well tonight.
Speaker 24Yeah, and Gareth, it's no secret. We've been pretty vocal, and I know you've spoken to a couple of other different people that thought she was a little bit lucky to get into that Top Gun Stairs. And look, she performed okay. She still ran 42.50. I'm tipping her on top here, Jase, because I just think this is her race to show the greyhound world that she's not far off her best. She's got a vacant box on her outside. She went 4.90 early in that Top Gun. Top Gun Stairs, guys, who nine times out of ten, you're going to lead in a race at the Meadows running that. So I think she can dictate terms early and then be fairly hard to beat. She has been a drifter, though, Jase. She was odds on for a while, pushed out to about $2.25. I just think if she cannot win this, she's absolutely no hope to take out the Boltrees because the level just goes up. And you can only beat her up against – she's up against a greyhound like Hurricane, who's a talented dog, Mapunga Donna. There's some good greyhounds in the race, but I think if she's even at 85%, I think she gets the job done.
Speaker 23There's a lot of stories out of the Top Gun for sprinters last week as well. Wrongly accused. We'll get to him in just a second. But Jungle Johnny, who, of course, started one of the favourites in that race, is yet to deliver here in Victoria. He lines up tonight in a prelude of the Melbourne Cup in race 10. This is the easiest assignment. Still a good race, but the easiest assignment he has had for a long time. The speed map suits him to the ground. Will we see the best of this superstar, Jungle Johnny, tonight at San Francisco?
Speaker 24Yeah, and like we said on air, credit to Mark Gatt, who hasn't hidden behind anything. He said there was no excuses for that Top Gun run in a sense that he had his draw. He seemingly got clear running early, didn't he, Jay? So, yeah, you're right. I think this maps well for him. There's not a great deal of speed. I think the big danger is a poor winder who gets to the line okay. A power fanon can begin, and so can Dashing Slay. But are they at their best? That's the other question. And the pink flying Ducati is just a really talented, solid dog at Sandown Park. So, yeah, I think this is a really good race. Look, he won't get it all his own way, but from the box draw, Jase, I get the feeling that you like him. Yeah, I do. I do like him.
Speaker 23We'll get to our tips shortly. Just before that, the shootout tonight, that is race nine. It's a four-dog spectacular. There is four greyhounds a part of this race, and there has been for 27 years, I reckon, the duration of this race. And we've got wrongly accused. The Top Gun champ from last Saturday night has boxed one $1.50 favourite. Is there a situation you can see tonight where he gets beaten, or is it as simple as. He just wins this race?
Speaker 24Oh, look, I think the large majority and the large percentage would say that he would just win the race, but it's not easy, Jase. I mean, sparring two starts ago ran 29.09 at Sandown. Last start at the Meadows ran 29.76 from off the pace. Got home in 11.88, which is similar time to what wrongly accused. Got home and to the naked eye, it looked like one of the runs of the year, and no doubt about that. So he wouldn't want to get held up too early. I really want to see, and with all due respect to the other three greyhounds, I want to see him get out and go, run that low, five seconds, and then he would be able to smash 29 seconds for smithereens if the track is playing really well. So what about you? Do you think he can get beat?
Speaker 23I just don't think enough is going to go wrong for him to be beaten. So it's going to be theatre either way. If he gets clear, all eyes on the clock, we're going to see one of the great performances. But then if he's off the pace, it's all about what's he going to do from that position in the field. So that's going to be a ripper.
Speaker 24With that run home, I mean, I really want to see a scenario where sparring's in front by a length or two and it's game on.
Speaker 23Yeah. That'd be fantastic. These fireworks. All right, best bets tonight, Georgie, at Sandown Park on, as we've discussed, a really, really high-quality card.
Speaker 24Yeah, look, they've taken the prize, Gareth, but race one, number one, Indy Melman, I thought was one of the better bets, but he was 225 into about $1.70 now, so we're not getting much meat on the bone there. I really like Without a Trace. I think she's drawn well. I think she can dictate terms early, be hard to beat. Race six, number one, Cleo Starr. Again, she's one of those greyhounds that is so much better when she's in a rich vein of form. She can go off a little bit, but she's, she's racing well, and I think clearly the best is race seven, number two, Storm Hustler. I've been a big Storm Hustler fan. I think he gets his race here, Jase. I think he'll, again, get to the front and be hard to beat. He's just been a little bit tardy early in his last couple of starts. I think he'll rectify that tonight.
Speaker 23All right, my bets are race, where are we looking? Race, where's Cleo Starr? I think she'll win, and race 10, number two, Jungle Johnny. I think we'll get a fair dink reminder from this bloke about how quick he is tonight. He's got every opportunity. in the world, and if there's a bit of value, one who's first up, race three, number seven, Deadly Cool, who's near enough to $20. So there's a throw with the pegs, G, and our take on what is going to be one hell of a night at Sandown this evening, headlined by the shootout and wrongly accused in race nine this evening.
Speaker 2Good on you, boys. Thanks for that. There's Georgie Frugia and Jason Adams. We've got a few minutes left, so I'm going to head out to Waddington. Adam Hamilton joins us live from Waddington. Leap to fame takes on Captain's Mistress, the two champs, of the sport, going around the free-for-all at Addington today, which is at 18 minutes past four. Adam Hamilton, hello to you, mate. What's the build-up feel like there at Addington with these two champs going head-to-head again?
Speaker 25Yeah, it's a little bit surreal, Gareth. Welcome to you and all of the listeners and viewers. It's fascinating to back up after Tuesday, isn't it? I mean, it would rarely happen, but it happens here, and to think that leap to fame, scored arguably the most important win of his career on Tuesday, but actually faces a bigger challenge today, the way the barrier draws have turned out.
Speaker 2Can he beat her? 2.30 leap to fame. Captain's Mistress, $1.45.
Speaker 25Look, the scratchings will help. Mathematically, it's going to be incredibly difficult. You'd imagine she'll break the track record in front, which means he's got to cover about an extra 25 metres sitting outside of her. And in track record time. So mathematics say it's going to be an almighty task, but we are talking about leap to fame. He can do the impossible and he's going to have to go even better today than he did on Tuesday to win, Gareth. It really does look her race to lose, but she would want to go a lot better than she did in the Victoria Cup.
Speaker 2Yeah, you can't rule him out, leap to fame. So, yeah, I can't wait to watch it. And then in the trotting free-for-all, Gus Adola. $1.35. Is it just, is he home at $1.35?
Speaker 25It's way too short, I think. Tuesday, he was terrific Tuesday, but the 3,200 metre standing start is actually made for Gus. He's too good for these trotters, but you couldn't take $1.35 in a sprint race drawn the back row, Gareth. I think that's unders.
Speaker 2Bring it on, mate. What's your best there at Addington?
Speaker 25I, look, I don't, I just, I struggle to find an absolute standout during the day, Gareth. So, you know, I just, I don't want to steer anyone into something unless I'm super confident. But to me, it's all about just watching this rematch today. If leap to fame can beat her today, even I'll be a bit stunned.
Speaker 2Yeah, I just got this feeling something amazing is going to happen. I know that probably mathematically, it's impossible, but this horse has proven that the possible, the impossible is possible, if you know what I mean. I can't wait for it. I'm jealous of you.
Speaker 25Enjoy. Good on you, mate. I'm about to head down to the stables and see if the champs are arriving yet, Gareth. Enjoy the race.
Speaker 2Thanks, mate. There's Adam Hamilton there. Boy, it's been a bit. Thanks to everyone at Dunkheld. Thanks to Bet365. William Pike's just got in contact with me there. He's got two options. Appeal the severity of the nine-day suspension and run the risk of trying to get a stay and all backfiring or just miss the winter bottom and ride on Railway Stakes Day. So that's Willie Pike. He's got a decision to make there. Thanks for your company. I'm back tomorrow for a special Giddy Up from 6am with the Noonan Boys. Join us then. Thanks for your company as always. Have a great day.
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