Well, you were right. NO GOOD AT ALL!!! I hope you didn't back it, OR ARUNEE. After today, I'm not sure I should be giving any tips at all. ABSOLUTELY DISGRACEFUL!!!

Mo,

If I ever give out 'best bets' on here in future, you may as well simply treat them as scratchings.

In fact, I think you should just look at Filante's ratings and ignore my stupid selections altogether.

Today's Results

EAGLE FARM
R4-12 OH RAW OH RAW, 2 Snippety Snip, 7 King Latarmiss (12,2,7,1,3 $8.20,4) Q $18.20
R5-1 CELTIC TRIAL, 6 Drunken Joker, 4 Scenic Wells $5.70 (1,6,4,2,8) Q $13.40 T $76.40 F4 $185.00
R7-3 SIR SUCCESS, 7 Teldawn $5.50, 12 Mission Statement (3,7,12,6,1,8)
R8-9 KENTUCKY WILDCAT, 6 Garibaldi, 5 Key Of Gold (9,6,5,3,4,1)

RANDWICK
R2-8 SO SO, 2 Wombalano Belle, 6 Palatial $4.10 (8,2,6,1,3)
R6-5 VEREZA, 1 Reclaim, 3 Fiery Venture (5,1,3,4,9,14)
R7-3 COUNT LUSKIN
R8-6 LENO*, 1 Baghdad, 5 Viovode (6,1,5,7,2,3)

NEWCASTLE
R8-12 SUNSET BOULEVARD (12,3,10,9 $6.50) Q $13.80

CAULFIELD
R1-1 SECATEURS $1.70
R3-2 CONCEPTUAL $2.00
R5-1 BLUR, 2 Red Hannigan, 9 Tessuto (1,2,9,8,7,4)
R6-6 ARUNEE*, 4 Mr Magoo, 7 Cool Trent $4.40 (6,4,7,2,1) Q $12.00 T $156.20
R7-4 BUTTEN SHAW, 14 Polish Crown, 3 Show Barry (4,14,3,9,2,6)
R8-7 HIGH SHAKIRA, 3 Porto Douro $2.90, 2 Honest Politician (7,3,2,4,1) Q 22.80 T $98.70

GEELONG
R2-5 MADISON LANE

LAUNCESTON
R6-11 SPEECHMAKER, 2 Chardere, 1 Dream Quest (11,2,1,6 $9.80,13,16)
R9-1 BAY RITZ*, 10 Shimouse, 11 Springfield Man (1,10,11,2,3,7)

CHELTENHAM
R3-4 IMBRUGLIA, 1 Jillimarg, 6 Jolly Miller (4,1,6,5 $5.80,3) Q $8.30 T $61.70
R6-1 IKAROS, 4 Fiesta Boy, 10 Smooth Takeoff (1,4,10,6,2,17 $29.70) Q $221.10 T $4897.60
R8-1 ZAKURO $2.50, 4 Tiger Connected, 2 Cashkalani (1,4,2,3) Q $5.80

ASCOT
R3-1 WEST LOVE $1.40
R7-3 UNIVERSAL WARRIOR, 2 Constantinople, 15 Power Mak (3,2,15,10,1,11 $8.80) Q $13.30 T $239.90
R8-4 DESIGNER STAR, 5 King Wally, 7 Sooty The Sweep $6.20 (4,5,7,6,1,2) Q $9.30

Before you ask, no I didn't have that $4897 trifecta in Adelaide, which sort of accounts for my grumpy mood tonight. I did have the quinella though and a small bet on the winner.

All in all, a hard day for tipping winners, but you have to learn from your mistakes and after looking at a few things today, I think I've sorted out what I'm going to do in future.

Just checked my emails, and I realised that I'd had a couple of black-bookers sent to me which for some reason, I had completely forgotten about today. Yes, you guessed it. They both won. Cool Front ($7.50) in Sydney and Umaforce ($4) at Geelong.

Sounds like you had a few extra ones for the road after your dinner Sportznut!
You got a lot more losers to tip before you reach anywhere near my tally!

No, I was just in a grumpy mood Mo. I'm very sorry about that.

You see, apart from those 'best bets' all going down, I also missed out on a great trifecta which paid about $2500 for a 1/2 unit, simply because I didn't want to spend too much.

herein lies the rub sportznut.

to back short priced requires larger bets which doesnt leave a enough to spread around on the spec's or value bets.

the larger the bet the more likely to drift to the favorites due to a need for re assurance or justification.

keep up the good work. racing can be stressful if we over do it.
am giving it a rest now to new years day.

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