Blackbookers
Cullens Count
Harbhajan
Rock The Pocket
Its A Hoot
Magnificantcamelot
Teejay Fella
Cosmic Under Fire
Run of the Night
Teejay Fella, did it at both ends and apart from the horse who had the cold sit on him all the way nothing else could go with him late. Will definitely win better races this time in
Drive of the Night
Nathan Ford (Brian Buster Brown), there weren't too many contenders this week and Nathan came awfully close to winning last week and his drive in the first just showed how much he has matured. When all others kept taking off before acceptances, he kept his head and not surprisingly won easily.
Driver Votes
N Ford 3
G Rattray 2
Scott Ford 1
Slaughter of the Night
Danny Malone (Ultimate Heir), its hard to believe he drove it worse this week than last week when a nominee for this award. At least the stewards agreed with me this week and gave him time. Driving a $101 pop forward from barrier 7 in a 34.7 lead time is bad enough but to then persist to try and get the death for a further 400 metres is just plain unacceptable. I also struggle to comprehend why he keeps driving the horse forward from bad gates - sure it led once when in against a very slow front line but handed up anyway so why use the horse up.
Plenty of other nominations here:
All the drivers in race 4, letting the leader run a 37.6 lead time then a 70.6 opening half is insane but even that wasn't the worst part of it. To then let the leader run 31.5 down the back is almost incompetent
Ken Austin (Dreamon Donny), another driver to drive a $101 pop as if it was Halwes
Alex Ashwood (Still Royal), got beaten for speed by the fav in run to the first corner then inexplicably came off the pegs to sit outside the favourite and finished tailed off last
Simon Ford (Angus Macgregor), hard to believe they wanted to keep the front on the despised outsider especially when the speed was on. It was a simple decision to anybody watching - hand up and be a great chance of running a place or keep the front and run near last. No need to say what option was taken
