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The Sports Desk / Re: Melbourne Cup
Last post by Gointocarlton -
PS I normally go for Jockeys, J Mac or Zahra will win it. Then there's trainers, I can guarantee you Gai wont wont win it, Waller or McEvoy.

For someone who doesn't know the back of a horse from the front you seem pretty familiar with those that train them.
I suspect you know a little more than you're letting on. ;)  :D  :D
Seriously Lods, I dont. I remember the jockeys and trainers names and know which are the good ones. As for the horses, it staggers me how punters remember them, know their form etc. I listen to SEN on the weekends and enjoy when they cover the racing. I like David Taggart as a radio personality, very funny man and knows his crap. How on earth they seem to know every horse in the country (and abroad) is beyond comprehension for me. They showed this thing of the coverage how every ten years something special happens, 10 years ago Michelle Payne became the first woman to win a MC, I thought how good would be for Jamie to with the CC and MC double. As for punting, I bet on things extremely rarely.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Melbourne Cup
Last post by Gointocarlton -
PS I normally go for Jockeys, J Mac or Zahra will win it. Then there's trainers, I can guarantee you Gai wont wont win it, Waller or McEvoy.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Melbourne Cup
Last post by Lods -
My father-in-law raced horses and was a pretty avid punter.
He'd sit at the breakfast table with the form and pick out a horse he thought would win, and then drive 100k to the track so he could see it and place a bet with the bookies
100k just for one bet.

He never bet on the Melbourne Cup. ;)
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The Sports Desk / Re: Melbourne Cup
Last post by kruddler -
Never laid a bet on the cup and dont intend to start. Havent watched the race for as long as i can remember, Pagan was probably coach at the time.

I don't bet on basically anything, but horses would be way down the list.
Cards and games of chance are easier to calculate the odds and generally are immune to cheating.
Horses have too many human variables and each of them can influence the outcome to benefit themselves.
Pass
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The Sports Desk / Re: Melbourne Cup
Last post by Thryleon -
I stopped an annual bet on the Melbourne cup many years ago now.

Good luck to all punters but I always win on cup day by not betting.   I get the public holiday that gamblers pay for.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by Lods -
He essentially has control of the three branches of government at the moment.
Legislative, Executive and Judicial.
There are no checks and balances on him and he pretty much can do what he wants.
The mid-terms are still a year away so that situation isn't going to change in the short term.
He may even accelerate some of his more outlandish ideas ahead of those elections.

The problem is that the opposition is about as effective as the LNP at the moment. and there are no guarantees the numbers in the House and Senate will change enough to curtail him.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Last post by Baggers -
Taco says “Some of the highest quality 24 Karat Gold used in the Oval Office and Cabinet Room of the White House. Foreign Leaders, and everyone else, ‘freak out’ when they see the quality and beauty. Best Oval Office ever, in terms of success and look!!!”

And for once, he’s right; foreign leaders, and everyone else, freaks out when they see what the deranged property developer has done to what used to be a dignified, tastefully decorated, people’s building.  It’s now as trashy as anything else Taco’s grubby, grasping, grifter’s fingers have touched.

Apart from concreting the Rose Garden and demolishing the East Wing, without appropriate permits, funding approvals and tendering, Taco has just had a classic 1950s art-deco toilet transformed into trailer-trash kitsch.

Imagine if our Governor-General unilaterally tried to turn Yarralumla into a down-market, cheap, poor taste version of the Spearmint Rhino 🙄

How surprising that the orange one would be attracted to the gaudy and ostentatious. :o
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The Sports Desk / Melbourne Cup
Last post by Lods -
Pick a horse...any horse ;)

I've spent the last two weeks analysing the field and running the data.
I've ended up with the following

3 Arapaho
6 Presage Nocturne
9 Absurde

Which is actually 369 my old house number.
(it's a lottery) :D  :D