Turffontein Saturday

pirates wrote: fish river sun and la roquette impressed in canter past

nice sw

mr hawaii wrote: AWAAFY - expect a first 2 finish - from the draw best to drop out and run on mid-outside - i have an itch that says Tammany Hall is also one with scope despite the weak maiden win

It had to be more than an itch, Mr Hawaai --- 2.5 Lengths behind let it flow, in a race that produced 5 winners and now 6.

bayern wrote:

mydada wrote: kilrain 98.41 was imressive lto Callan to make amends

I take it by "make amends" you referring to Mutawaary? If that horse was the right one in the previous race, he would have gone off closer to evens. The bigger stables, when they confident of their winning chances, they get stuck in.

When you look at Mutawaary's breeding, they obviously put him over the sprint distances based on the Australian side of the breeding, that didn't work out, so exercise the next best option - Zabeel, put him over further, what have we got to lose type thinking?

i think the misunderstanding came about in my use of the word amends as what i really meant was for Callan to make amends to my book

So with that out of the way im convinced a stable of that stature does not include the guesswork you suggest,and for me as an unexperienced reader of pedigree could easily tell that the horse is bred for distance.

His good performance in sprints was in spite of rather then suitability to his pedigree

For various reasons not every winner that comes out of a big yard or any yard gets punted as we saw Onamission win with odds above 8/1