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13th August 2013, 06:38 AM

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Off topic, but I don't like Guiness at all, my poor old Dad was horrified.
Stouts are far too "thick" for my tastes.
And whiskey can't be tolerated by me, there was an incident when I turned 21 and I poisoned myself on whiskey. To this day, 30 years later, even the smell of it makes me ill.
I am an ale and cider bloke these days, although contrary to my breeding, don't drink that often!

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13th August 2013, 11:51 PM

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Took a walk around Caulfield racecourse today in wild and blustery conditions.
The track looks in perfect order for Saturday.
Was a great joy when I walked past Peter Moody's and Ross MacDonald's stables and they were taking a few horses out for an afternoon excercise.
Moody has quite some complex now

Pity I couldn't recognise the horses by name, as there was a fairly young grey horse that caught my eye immediately.

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14th August 2013, 12:31 AM

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Altius is nominated for two races at Rosehill on Saturday.
The worse he goes, the better value he'll be to send a mare to.
I do hope he can win for his owners, must be extremely disappointing for them.
In my humble opinion, i'd be putting him over jumps in training, to try and get him to learn to stretch out more, but then again they probably can't risk further injury.

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14th August 2013, 10:32 PM

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Adding Martinvast to the stable after today's performance.

Altius running in race 5 Rosehill Saturday.

Octavia running in race 8 Caulfield Saturday.
Photon Willie running in race 4 Rosehill Saturday.

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16th August 2013, 05:12 PM

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Update from Chris Waller:
Photon Willie
"1500 for him is going to be a test. He doesn't do a lot to help himself yet he's got all the ability in the world, so we've seen what he can do, first up this preparation he ran an eyecatching race and second up, it was a very slowly run race on a day you couldn't make up ground. He's ready to run over 1500 now.
If he puts his mind on the job. he'll blow this field away, but it's a big if."

Altius
"He can win too. Bit short (1200m). He's going good and he was a bit keen in that first up run as well."

The confidence between the two can be seen reading between the lines.

Info courtesy Chris Waller

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16th August 2013, 05:23 PM

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Mmmmm- I agree here on photon willy, looking at his last couple , looks like he needs galloping room, hopefully the jock can get him in the running line and then peels before anything behind comes around, if the horse is right and the tempo right he could probably travel 3 deep the trip and win. Surely Waller wouldn't place him here if he didn't think he could get the trip. I have him on top and hope he runs to potential.

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16th August 2013, 05:26 PM

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Altius’ name comes from the Olympic motto ‘citius, altius, fortius – which in Latin translates to faster, higher, stronger.

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16th August 2013, 05:35 PM

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Yes, I think looking at videos of Willie, he can make up a tremendous amount of ground due to his stride, but he's pretty green in running, e's at Rosehill and he runs to his stable in the straight there. That would be my major concern tomorrow.

Altius can win Saturday, but he's not consistent enough.
Because of his stride he can't sustain speed because he expends too much energy. He has talent, but is lower grade talent. I doubt he'll ever win more than one black type race. If eerything goes his way and he gets a split at the right time, he'll poke his nose through, but he doesn't have a good stride at all.
He also had throat surgery and has recovered from that to get his breathing right, but I think they need to improve his stride.
Mostly they have it or they don't, but one can improve it a bit with patient training.

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16th August 2013, 06:34 PM

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Agree re PW, Altius has always promised, and a wonderfully bred horse. Velrosso is weighted to win this event, but altius has that 2nd up form that is almost close enough to ridiculous not to have something on him. Probably wont get a better chance with Nash up.

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16th August 2013, 07:53 PM

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They actually switched races to engage Nash, because the owners have a long association with Nash.

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