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09-19-2007, 01:23 AM
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Can't this year though, got an exam on Melbourne Cup morning.  
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09-19-2007, 01:26 AM
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09-19-2007, 08:20 AM
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I went last year.
Caulfield Cup day was better for me... Probably only because I backed Tawqeet at upwards of 20-1. Bought a car with the winnings. 1993 Daihatsu, what a piece of ****.
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09-20-2007, 07:15 AM
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It's possible that Aidan O'Brien will not be represented at all this year.
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09-20-2007, 07:36 AM
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a horse that I find interesting is Master O'Reilly, I saw him win in Felmington the day Marasco won the Makybe Diva Stakes (Sept 8th) and this guy came from dead last in a 17 run about 10 wide into the home stretch and won very very easily. I dont know how good the field was and what his plans are but I see he's listed and Ill have to keep an eye on him.
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09-20-2007, 09:02 AM
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It does seem like Aidan has decided against sending any horses over. Mighty couldn't win it if he started now. Purple Moon would have to be in with a massive chance on form.
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09-20-2007, 10:26 AM
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09-20-2007, 10:50 AM
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Mahler isn't going..... well that's what i heard last week. Scorpion is still a possible, but John magnier nominated both him and Yeats for France the other day. It doesn't look like they want to risk sending them over, and at the moment, who can really blame them.
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09-20-2007, 10:02 PM
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 * * * Racing Post... Mahler in frame for Melbourne bid by Tony O'Hehir MAHLER, runner-up to Lucarno in the Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster last Saturday, on Wednesday emerged as "a possible" for the Emirates Melbourne Cup in which the Ballydoyle colt has only 7st 12lb. Aidan O'Brien, who trains the Queen's Vase winner for Sue Magnier, Derrick Smith and Michael Tabor, said on Wednesday: "We still haven't decided whether we will be represented in the race this year but if we are it will be Scorpion and/or Mahler. “They both seem to be fine after their races at the weekend and a decision about Melbourne will be made in the next week or so." Scorpion finished runner-up to stablemate Yeats in the Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh on Saturday and O'Brien's comments on Wednesdy would appear to eliminate Yeats, who finished seventh in the big Flemington event last year, and Septimus, the Doncaster Cup winner, from this year's renewal on November 6. Whereas Septimus is 7-1 favourite with Paddy Power, they do no quote Mahler, who is a 50-1 shot with Bet365 and Stan James.
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09-21-2007, 06:53 AM
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 It does seem to me that Coolmore are really against sending horses to Australia at the moment.
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09-21-2007, 07:14 AM
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Believe that to your own pearl , Victoria is ei free & the melbourne cup is alot of money. But to the racing purest the race is a pile of crap!! , but as far as money goes would like it in my pocket.
Melbourne cup is a funny race its like a public way to spend money ,once a year people who dont know nothing about racing spend money on it, Damned if i know why except the sheep factor ie my mate spends money on this certain day so i must. !!! You can't get to see it unless your jammed in like a sardine but most real punters & race people stay away from it
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09-21-2007, 07:47 AM
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It's so bizarre how popular the Cup is, even here in NZ. I just can't understand why 20,000 people here in Auckland go to Ellerslie and watch a 2-mile handicap in another country on the big screen. On a Tuesday! I'll always believe that the Cox Plate is Australia's greatest race.
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10-30-2007, 03:02 PM
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It just gets worse for O'Brien.
From RP......... by Tony O'Hehir . RETIREMENT beckons for Scorpion after trainer Aidan O'Brien on Tuesday confirmed that the three-time Group 1 winner would miss the Emirates Melbourne Cup on Tuesday because of a suspected muscular injury picked up when he worked at Sandown racecourse on Monday. O'Brien flew into Melbourne early on Tuesday following a delayed flight from Los Angeles and after checking out Scorpion, as well as Mahler who will fly the flag for the Coolmore-Ballydoyle team in Tuesday's big race at Flemington, he spoke of the sadness and frustration brought by events at Monmouth Park and at Sandown in the preceding 48 hours. Facing the assembled media pack outside the quarantine yard at Sandown, O'Brien said: "Scorpion is very lame and the problem is in the stifle area of his off-hindleg. The x-rays are clear and no bones are broken, so it looks as if it is a ligament or muscle problem. "He suffered a hairline fracture to the pastern of the same leg two years ago. He recovered fully from that injury and this is a different problem. "The horse is going to be fine. We will see what the vets have to say, but I'd imagine he is probably going to be retired now. The plan had been to keep him in training next year but he is a special horse and now that this problem has cropped up the likelihood is that he won't run again." O'Brien was still in the US when his representative Andrew Murphy, who is on his second trip to Melbourne where he supervised Yeats' bid for last year's Melbourne Cup, phoned to alert him of Scorpion's situation. O'Brien said: "After the day we had at the Breeders' Cup I was prepared to believe anything. Andrew told me that Scorpion and Mahler had worked well but that when Scorpion cooled down it became obvious there was a problem. We can't be sure what happened, but the likelihood is that he tweaked something when he worked. "It is a pity as we thought he was the right type of horse for the race. Having learned from our experience with Yeats here last year, we believed Scorpion was a bit quicker horse at this stage of his career and that he might suit the race better." In all he won four races and £958,059 (€1,373,830) in win and place prize-money.
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09-21-2007, 01:25 AM
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$100 bucks on ............................ SIR RUPERT CLARKE STAKES 1400 FLASH TRICK UNDUE ANAMATO With MURTAJILL as back up for any withdrals, Hope that rain comes down tonight  With 2 Slabs bet on the Cats to win & the Storm im hoping not only to be Very rich after this weekend but also very Drunk 
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