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Turf Deli Racing News
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A Tragic Day
It was a tragic day on Tuesday with the sad passing of two Melbourne Cup runners ADMIRE RAKTI and ARALDO in two separate incidents.
We pass our condolences onto their owners, trainers, strappers and connections who cared for their horses and are obviously devestated at their loss.
The racing industry and punters around Australia mourn with you.
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Missed a newsletter?
Spend a productive afternoon at work browsing through years and years of old content in our newsletter archive.
Plus fifteen years worth of feature race previews in our form guide archive.
Relive the form analysis of feature races past.
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Make The Most Of Your Punting Dollar
If you are planning to have a bet over Cup Week, there is no need to stick to the boring old TAB. Have a look at the offers that are around and make the most of your punting dollar
Sportsbet are offering:
Matching the value of your first bet up to $150
- New accounts only (ACT, QLD, TAS, NT only)
Top Tote Plus
- best price out of the three TABs and Starting Price so you are always going to get better odds.
Weekly money refunds
- this week money back if your horse runs 2nd in Race 4.
Doubles and Multiples
- use the magical powers of multiplication to try and snare a big return for a small outlay for a bit of fun
Power Prices
- better odds between Saturday 10am and
11am. We do much of our punting shopping in bulk through this offer.
The weekly money refund specials are especially good, it means you can just back a horse straight out to win and go for glory, with an insurance return if it gets beaten and runs a place.
Click here to open a Sportsbet account.
Betfair are offering:
Up to $200 refund if your first bet loses
- For new accounts only. This means if you spot something during Cup Week, you can have a serious ping on it and if you bomb out,
then get your money back and go back to your normal betting stake.
So pick something at odds and just go for a big collect. State restrictions apply on this offer.
Great chance for a big win though.
$150 per friend
- refer a friend, spend $150, they get $150, you get $150. Everyone happy.
Best Of Five
- best odds out of the TABs, Starting Price and Betfair Starting Price meaning you don't need
to worry about messing around chasing the best odds.
Click here to open a Betfair account.
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Last Week's Results |
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Clean Sweep
It was a clean sweep this spring for the international horses in all three feature races, with the Caulfield Cup going to the Japanese, the Cox Plate going to ADELAIDE (trying to make it sound Australian), and the Melbourne Cup going to Germany.
That is one impressive feat and makes betting on the spring features such hard work for punters. Let alone dodgy tipping services.
In what could be another very impressive feat, so far this week the horse we have written off as the One To Risk in our feature race previews has won BOTH the Derby and the Melbourne Cup. How embarrassment.
We are on track for an unprecedented clean sweep of potting the chances of the winners of all four feature races!
Thus, we are determined to take on the favourites in the Oaks and Stakes, as it would be incredibly funny if we could snare all four races.
Cup Day is always a pretty tough day on the punt and there were plenty of ridiculous dividends as always.
We got off to our good start with our top pick and Best Each Way Bet: Race 2: 5-PRECIOUS GEM 1st W=$5.70, but struggled to get runs on the board after that. The Betting Portfolio got back about half of its money but has racked up a few losses in a row now
so the healthy profit we were showing earlier in the year is slowly being eaten away.
2014 Spring Campaign: 15 weeks - 6 profits - 8 returns - 1 wipe out. Net: +$155.55
View last week's Melbourne Cup 2014 results.
View last week's Derby Day 2014 results.
See how the tips and Betting Portfolio are going at the Bottom Line.
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This Week's Free Form Guide
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Flemington - Oaks Day - 6th Nov 2014
TRACK: GOOD(3) - WEATHER: SUNNY - RAIL: OUT 6M
Follow the link for this week's form guide: Oaks Day 2014
Stakes Day form guide will be out late afternoon on Friday.
Can't open the link ?
If Turf Deli is blocked at your work, you can receive this week's form guide in a text email, via auto response by sending an email to text@turfdeli.com.au once you receive this email.
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Cleverly Disguised Ads
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PUNTING TERMINOLOGY
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Betting terminology for those once a year Cup Week punters.
#1 - THE QUINELLA
A quinella is the first and second horse in any order.
Pronounced QUIN-EL-A
It is a Super Bet - not a Super Food
Don't get the two mixed up. Quinellas are only tasty when you get an outsider in the finish.
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GOLD GOLD GOLD
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Forget that streaky, artificial orange spray tan this spring and 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.
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
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Help your weanlings grow up to be strong sprinter-milers with Black Caviar endorsed black caviar.
Yummy. The kids will be screaming.... for more?
The breakfast of champions - and pre dinner party snack of the social elite.
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FLEMINGTON TRACK GUIDE
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If you are heading out to races during Cup Week check out our Flemington Track Guide.
Handy hints with associated nonsense about where to meet, where to hang out and how to avoid the queues on course.
Getting There
-The train is the only way to go - don't even think about driving. Trains leave Flinders St and Southern Cross every few minutes during Cup week and will take you straight there.
Enjoy the scenic ride as you go through the Flemington industrial estate and past the large pie in the sky in the
Showgrounds. Remember to touch on and that you need to pre-book tickets during Cup
Week as there are no tickets for sale on the gate
The Bart Statue
- We are pretty sure, that if you read the fine print on your entry ticket, you will find that
it is actually one of the compulsory Terms and Condition of entry to get your photo taken with the Bart
Cummings statue.
Wander past at any time during Cup Week and you will find madly grinning punters posing with Bart for a photo opportunity.
Toilets:
- It always pays to know where the sturdy, spacious permanent toilet blocks are. If you go out the back of the course, towards the main car park, past the book makers ring, just near the Flemington Heritage centre there is a major, solid, permanent and very under utilised toilet block.
No frustrating lines for the ladies in their race day finest.
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THE DIVA
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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, The Diva will be the first to break new ground into the realm of animal husbandry.
Follow the dating life of three times Oaks Day 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.
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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