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Turf Deli provides detailed form guides as well as light hearted articles of questionable sanity.

There are no claims of easy money, get rich quick schemes or selective memory when it comes to results.

What is provided is argumentative, critical and of course, extremely opinionated form analysis for the serious form students, broken up with witty banter galore for the casual Spring Carnival Punter.

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TURF DELI SPRING CAMPAIGN 2012
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Spring Campaign 2012 has commenced.

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UNREAL 150 YEARS OF THE MELBOURNE CUP
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Turf Deli is proud to be associated with 150 years of losing Caulfield Cup - Melbourne Cup doubles.


UNREAL 150 YEAR HISTORY OF MELBOURNE CUP
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#1 1930 - PHARLAP

PHARLAP wins the Melbourne Cup and becomes a national icon.

Unfortunately this was one of the last times that his hide, skeleton and heart were all in the one location, which dramatically cut short his racing career


GOLD GOLD GOLD
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Forget that artificial orange spray tan this spring, look like a million dollars with the all over, head to toe,  gold spray tan.

The ultimate in spring bling accessories.

Totally weather proof - protects against  sun, rain, tomato sauce and swooping magpies.

Also available in copper and bronze.


DON'T BE A LITTER BUG THIS SPRING
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MAKYBE DIVA - Three times Melbourne Cup winner, two times Australian Horse of the Year and Australia Racing Hall of Fame inductee says :

Please dispose of your rubbish thoughtfully.


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ADOPT A JOCKEY
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Come Spring time these cute little cuddly fellas are always so popular.

Everyone wants one or wants to look like one at the fancy dress Melbourne Cup BBQ.

Remember a jockey is not just for Spring Carnival.



At the end of every Cup Week unloved jockeys are often just left abandoned on the steps of the local TAB.

So think about adopting a jockey. They are available in a wide range of silks / colour schemes so they can make a great garden feature.


TURF DELI FAT FINGER BET OF THE WEEK
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We hear of Fat Finger errors in the stock market world, like when someone's typo makes a number a billion instead of a million.

In the weekly newsletter we place an imaginary exorbitant amount of money on a sure fire good thing. Cause why should stock traders have all the mis-keying Fat Finger Fun ?.

Current profit : +$116 million
(it's under the mattress)


WORSE LOGO EVER
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From the archives an old logo that was locked away, never to be seen as it was so very, very wrong.

Upon review, it is so very, very wrong that it is actually extremely funny.

Turf Deli is a serious form service.
We do not, repeat DO NOT, do children's parties.
(unless there are chocolate crackles)


SPRING CARNIVAL SNAPSHOT
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#1 - CAULFIELD : THE TVN BUNKER

TVN do a great job covering racing for serious punters.

After years of shivering out in the open during winter they now have their very own bunker adjacent to the Mounting Yard at Caulfield.

Which means if there is ever a nuclear armageddon we will still be able to hear them bleating on, non stop about the bloody Jockey Challenge.


LIMBO TRIPLE PLAY
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#1 2010 - Hung Parliament
#2 2010 - Drawn AFL Grand Final
#3 2010 - ???

Be prepared for a Triple Dead Heat in this year's Melbourne Cup as Australia proudly celebrates the International Year of Limbo.


SPRING CARNIVAL DISASTER BETTING MARKET
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$1.25 Insect Plague
$3.50 Train Break Down
$4.50 Flood
$4.75 Freak Ice Storm
$10 Dodgy Hot Dog
$25 Wardrobe Malfunction
$50 Misplacing winning quaddie ticket
$100 "Jetlagged" international celebrity


SPRING CARNIVAL DISASTER BETTING MARKET
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Our resident expert on natural disasters, Kevin the Locust, says there has been strong money for Plague this week and word around the track is the winter preparation has been solid and Plague is in for a big spring.

Turf Deli is offering a scrumptious pest proof hamper prize pack to the first person to turn up on course on Melbourne Cup Day - dressed as a giant locust. Hamper consists of a dozen cans of tinned hamburgers cause seriously not even locusts would eat that stuff.


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Recent Form Guides and Tips

17/11/2012 - Sandown - Sandown Classic 2012



This week's free form guide and tips for the Sandown Classic 17/11/2012


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10/11/2012 - Flemington - Stakes Day


We are left eating dust as PUISSANCE DE LUNE dances his way down the Flemington straight

Tips and betting portfolio bomb out at the end of a long week on the punt.


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08/11/2012 - Flemington - Oaks Day


It has been a tough week for punters, but we chalk up another profit with 2 x $20 quinellas and the best roughie of the day saluting

BEST ROUGH: Race 8: 6-GENERAL TRUCE 1st W=$16.30

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06/11/2012 - Flemington - The Melbourne Cup


The key to any Cup trifecta - make sure that your three horse box trifecta has numbers that add up !

14-11-3 for $45,000

Cup Day is always a dodgy betting day, but as we are totally dodgy we go OK

BEST EACH WAY: Race 6: 8-WALK WITH ATTITUDE 1st W=$6.50
BEST WIN: Race 8: 11-ECLAIR SURPRISE 1st W=$10.30

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03/11/2012 - Flemington - Derby Day


Pretty tough day for punters

But at least Nicole seemed to have a nice day out, which is all that matters surely?

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27/10/2012 - Moonee Valley - Cox Plate

Cox Plate Day is normally a day of short priced favourites and small fields. Where did they all go this year ?

The Betting Portfolio was spot on the money with the Best Bet winning, the Best Each Way running a place and the Best Rough putting in a great effort at $25 to be leading until the last 20M or so when he just got nabbed.

BEST BET: Race 9: 5-STAR OF GISELLE 1st W=$4.50
BEST ROUGH: Race 2: 7-GALBRAITH 3rd W=$25.80, P=$4.20


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20/10/2012 - Caulfield - Caulfield Cup


So frustratingly close all day - especially in the main race where we thought 15-ALCOPOP 2nd W=$13.30 was home when he kicked clear early in the straight. Two winners on top, five in the selections including

Race 4: 8-ALZORA 1st W=$21.70

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13/10/2012 - Caulfield - Caulfield Guineas


We finally found some form on Caulfield Guineas Day, 3 winners on top and six winners in the selections from nine races.

Our detailed form previews were pretty close to the mark, especially in the Toorak Handicap where we listed about a dozen reasons why we didn't like the short priced favourite MORE JOYOUS. Instead we pushed for those at the bottom of the weights, and top pick $20 chance 8-SPIRIT SONG almost pulled off a major coup when it hit the lead at about 100M from home.

BEST EACH WAY: Race 6: 8-SPIRIT SONG 2nd W=$19.80, P=$3.60
QUINELLA: Race 6: 8-SPIRIT SONG - 7-SOLZHENITSYN = $41.40

BEST ROUGH : Race 9: 14-SERENE STAR 1st W=$8.70


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Black Book - Updated 26/10/2012

Bottom Line
 

Cheap Laughs

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Moonee Valley Stars on the Big Screen

We delcare an undying love for the old school tote boards.
Those long, big and bulky monoliths, that hold your punting fate in their hands as you nervously wait for a number to flash up in a tight finish. Hang on - is that a 6 or an 8 ? A 4 maybe ?

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Kerry Packer's Sandown

Together Sandown and VFL Park formed the pride of 1960's construction, and prime examples of what you could do with an awful lot of concrete and a few pie warmers in empty paddocks in the South Eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

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Flemington Track Guide

Everything you need to know to survive Cup Week on course.

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150 Years of the Melbourne Cup - Part One

Over the next week the airwaves will be inundated with epic, sepia toned, historical flashbacks of the Cup Greats, voiced by over Australianised narrators to coincide with the 150th Melbourne Cup.

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150 Years of the Melbourne Cup - Part Two

The Cup changed forever in 1927 with the birth of a bouncy, eye browed baby boy named James Bartholomew Cummings. Disappointingly he failed to even have a Cup runner, yet alone win a Cup in his first year of life

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Jockey Adoption Program

Come Spring time these cute little cuddly fellas are always so popular. Everyone wants one or wants to look like one at the fancy dress Melbourne Cup BBQ. But you need to remember a jockey is not just for Spring Carnival.

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Ever Changing Names

This is the race that you will often hear trainers warmly refer to in interviews about their up and coming spring stars as "that Group 1 1400M race - whatever it is called this year".

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