New Zealand Racing, 2010-11

[_ed_]

Good news about Leith:
http://www.thoroughbrednews.com.au/n....aspx?id=48303

[my miss storm cat]

Sounds terribly painful but yeah, he is lucky.

Glad to hear the latest.

Any news on Culminate, Juice or our good Sir?

[_ed_]

Culminate is now based in Australia. She's entered in the Cox Plate, but I think she's better at a mile so I hope they stick to races over that distance.

Juice and Sir Slick are both missing from the entries for all the big races this spring. I think Juice has been retired...not sure about Sir. But I think it's safe to say he's done enough!

[my miss storm cat]

Oh God I hope so!

... and Juice... you'd think there would have been a headline or something but I probably missed it.

Thanks, ed and very happy to know Culminate is still in training!

[_ed_]

Odds for the Mudgway (7 days to go!):

Mufhasa 7-2
Wall Street 4-1
Katie Lee 7-1
Keep The Peace 8-1
Vonusti 9-1
Pennachio 10-1
Run Like Al 11-1
Bulginbaah 11-1
The Hombre 12-1
Fritzy Boy 15-1
Firebolt 20-1
Vosne Romanee 20-1
My (Miss) Keepsake 20-1

And the rest are all at better than 20-1 (including G1 winners Jacowils, Veloce Bella and Eileen Dubh).

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by _ed_

Odds for the Mudgway (7 days to go!):

Mufhasa 7-2
Wall Street 4-1
Katie Lee 7-1
Keep The Peace 8-1
Vonusti 9-1
Pennachio 10-1
Run Like Al 11-1
Bulginbaah 11-1
The Hombre 12-1
Fritzy Boy 15-1
Firebolt 20-1
Vosne Romanee 20-1
My (Miss) Keepsake 20-1

And the rest are all at better than 20-1 (including G1 winners Jacowils, Veloce Bella and Eileen Dubh).

First of all, what???

Katie Lee at what?

Second thank you for the My (Miss) Keepsake.

3rd... What happened, ed? Why did they close down?

http://www.nzracingnews.co.nz/

[_ed_]

I never heard an explanation for why they closed. I guess they were losing money. It's a shame. It was a good site.

I can't really explain Katie Lee's odds. It might be the fact that she's never won the first race of a campaign - she was 2nd in her first race as a 2yo and 3rd in her first start at 3. Because of her Foxbridge Plate scratching, the Mudgway will be her first start as a 4yo. They might think she needs a race before she's back at her amazing best.

But she's also never run on a dry track in the first race of a campaign. I think if the track is dry on Saturday, her odds will be about half that.