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Turf Deli Racing News
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Unlucky In Love
Your TV screens are about to get smoking hot.
Breaking news this week, that following on from this season of The Bachelor, reality programming will go to a whole new level with an exciting new show named The Diva.
Whilst dating programs have always been focused on beautiful human boys and girls, and camera loving men and women, The Diva will be the first to break new ground into the realm of animal husbandry.
Follow the dating life of three times Melbourne Cup winner MAKYBE DIVA as she strives to find true love in the push, shove and mount world that is the mating season.
MAKYBE DIVA has been unlucky in love since retiring from her stellar racing career.
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Falling quickly for Irish backpacker GALILEO she quickly realised she was just another convenient pit stop for the ladies man and renown shuttle stallion. She quickly rebounded with the American sweet talker with the flashy name, FUSAICHI PEGASUS,
but that didn't last, and since then the tabloids have had a field day with her string of failed relationships with the likes of ENCOSTA DA LAGO, LOHNRO, and HIGH CHAPARRAL, though the later was dismissed as just a charity shag.
Following the standard formula for any dating show, The Diva, will take her group of prospective stallions out on group dates, with specially chosen lucky lads getting to progress to one on one activity dates such as sky diving, ten pin bowling and um,
horse riding (still working on that one).
At the end of each show, it is crunch time for the prospective suitors in The Stable Ceremony where The Diva has to choose which unsuspecting stallion to send onto the float and on his way home.
Will it be one stomp for Yes, or two stomps for No? Tune in and find out.
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Last Week's Results |
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Squeaky clean
The tips struggled a bit last week with just the one short priced winner on top and the odd winner lurking in the selections.
The top pick had a very frustrating run in Races 2 through 8, running 3rd, 2nd, 1st, 2nd, SCR, 3rd and 2nd and you just knew coming into the
last race that the Lay of the Day was likely to get up and bite hard - which it did. Funny how they always manage to get out from the inside at MV when you don't want them too, but when you are on them the gaps never open up.
Despite all that we managed to record a $36 profit in the Betting Portfolio with the Best Win bet getting up.
We were too clever by half, predicting that he would start too short (and we don't like backing short priced favourites), so we split the stake with the Turf Deli Wonder Bet in the trifecta, which we got,
and duly collected five times more than we would have for a straight out win bet. Total and utter smarty pants.
BEST WIN: Race 4: 4-WROTHAM HEATH 1st W=$2.70
TURF DELI WONDER BET:
Race 4: TRIFECTA: 4 / 6,7,11 / 1,6,7,11,12,13,14 x $5 = 27.77%
1st 4-WROTHAM HEATH W=$2.70 / 2nd 11-PURPLE TIGER W=$10.80 / 3rd 12-CLEAR DIRECTION W=$16.60
TRIFECTA = $254.30 = $70.60
The Betting Portfolio has managed a profit for the last three weeks in a row, which is always nice - and surprising at the same time.
2014 Spring Campaign: 4 weeks - 3 profits - 1 return - 0 wipe outs - Net: +$88.20
View last week's Dato Tan Stakes 2014 results.
Check our list of Horses To Follow (updated 10/09/2014)
See how the Betting Portfolio is going at the Bottom Line.
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This Week's Free Form Guide
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Flemington - Makybe Diva Stakes - 13th Sept 2014
TRACK: GOOD(3) - WEATHER: SUNNY - RAIL: TRUE
Follow the link for this week's form guide: Makybe Diva Stakes 2014
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Cleverly Disguised Ads
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FROM THE RACING ARCHIVES - MAKYBE DIVA TRIBUTE
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Every week this spring we will be delving into the climate controlled historical archives (also known as the garage) to pull out something that only exists in hard copy from the Racing Archives.
THIS WEEK: THE FORGOTTEN CUP
When racing historians talk about the great MAKYBE DIVA, they talk about her three Melbourne Cups. Or the casual stroll around Moonee Valley that earned her a Cox Plate.
But no-one ever mentions her Werribee Cup win in 2002.
Come on, it was only her sixth start!
And she had to carry, umm 51.5kgs.
And just look at the quality of the field she beat! How many of those horses now have statues of them gracing racecourses around Australia? Heaps surely?
OK maybe it is best forgotten.
But to paraphrase Lee Freedman's famous quote and apply it to this occasion, "go and find the youngest child on the course"
- and tell them they are far too young to be drinking...
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SPRING CARNIVAL SNAPSHOT
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#4 - FLEMINGTON : YOUNG MEMBERS
Up in the young members they are nice enough to get some lovely young men to sing the tote approximates for you.
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MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE
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- You may own a large jewel encrusted crown
- You may have your own horse drawn carriage and troupe to escort you
- You may own a really big palace centrally located close to transport and shops
but nothing, nothing beats the feeling of owning a winning racehorse.
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MATCH BET UP TO $150
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make the most of your punting dollar.
Including:
- matching the value of your first bet up to $150
- Top Tote Plus giving you the Best Price out of the three TABs or the Starting Price
- A pretty impressive YouTube channel
- Weekly special offers and money back specials.
- $100 for every friend your refer. And that is what friends are for - referral bonuses!
Click here to open a
Sportsbet account.
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BEST OF THE BEST ODDS
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BETFAIR now offers the Best of 5 - which doesn't mean you can
have 5 different goes at picking the winner - but rather means you get the best price of all three TABs, and the Starting Price and the Betfair Starting Price on every Melbourne Saturday spring meeting if you use the Betfair Tote product.
Plus you could always pick up better odds on the betting exchange.
For new customers if your first bet does not win, you can also get your money back up to $200.
That means you can have a no risk $200 ping at one at odds - and if you lose you get you money back.
Always read the Terms and Conditions on these offers - to make sure you make the most of them.
Click here to open a
BETFAIR account and take advantage of this offer.
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