[AusRace] A few weeks in 1973 - Gala Supreme wins The Cup

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On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Tony Moffat <tonymoffat at bigpond.com> wrote:

> In 1973 it was virtually impossible to buy breakfast in Footscray. I was
> on a push bike, a girls green one, with those braided or knitted covers
> over the rear wheels so that a dress would not get enmeshed there, I had a
> plastic covered wire basket, there were white plastic feathers on the bar
> ends. I was cashed up, $1900 and instructions from Bron of where to go to
> get a feed, she was having anything bacon, twice. Impossible. I found a
> likely place, I did buy milk and cornflakes, and there was the possibility
> of a fry up, everything except the flame was present. The nice man said,
> mite, no. If it was tea time perhaps. Anyway I left the shop, with my
> papers, Goldtop and vittles’ to see a horse on the footpath further  up,
> eating from a rockery. Intriguing I thought so I went up towards it and it
> took off a few paces, had a nibble again, a second go, then went off at a
> hand canter up the wide footpath until it went from view due to the trees
> blocking that. I cycled homewards, I thought, and ended up outside Western
> Oval, I knew where I was now and home from there was easy. It seems horses
> are bettered catered for, breakfastwise, in Footscray, or had I strayed
> into Maidstone. The horse, of course, did not have to tussle with these
> queries, only that there seemed to be rockeries everywhere, a feature
> unobserved until now.
>
>
>
> It was Melbourne Cup Day and it was busy at 6.30am, sunny and it felt
> warm, in my jumper. Twice I passed horses, one being ridden and leading
> another, and the other ridden by a large man. I asked after the run away
> and it was known, it had been out and away, for several days, if it was the
> same, twice it had been hemmed in on a reserve near the river, it jumped in
> and swam to get away the first time, and ran across the timber bridge
> towards Flemington race course the second time. The chasers don’t have
> jurisdiction for the river, a sort of ‘you in Sherriff Buford Pettigate
> county now’ quote from a bad picture set in Mississippi, and of course,
> there was no person over there to receive it, so it may have rattled back
> over the timber bridge again, seeking rockery plants undoubtedly.
>
>
>
> Bronwyn was not going to the Cup, expletive deleted no way. I went alone,
> one of thousands. It is very atmospheric, often Melbourne shows are, footy,
> boxing, the visit by HM The Queen and there is an energy that is felt, a
> swelling noise as they come down the straight, in this case. The footy in
> Sydney is not so passionate, the result is, but the umpires seem to be the
> focus of attention, League, and in Union there is quietness until the full
> back gets involved. These are personal observations, tell us your own. The
> racing is different, they all ride in the Grandstand don’t they, my
> goodness. The pies are better, the seating too, there seems to be a group
> isolated somewhere up high and around a corner, the well to do or
> something, but they generate some noise themselves.
>
>
>
> I was going today to back Gala Supreme, it won but there were other races
> and a few good runner form lines in those. I back multiple runners, for a
> win or include them in a quinella, trios then trifectas were coming. The
> raw form calculations had Glengowan2, Swell Time2, Lord Ben2, Australasia
> 1*, Gala Supreme2, Daneson 2.
>
>
>
> My first bet, of the day, was $10 tote place for Lord Ben. I took it out
> of calculations straight away. It was 150/1 win so a $35 place dividend was
> hoped for, it ran about 8 lengths, 13th.
>
>
>
> Australasia had won the McKinnon on Saturday with 57.5 in slowish time and
> had 49.5. It was 9/1 when it won and 9/1 today. It’s price was moving, they
> were shopping it, it beat Glengowan, and I don’t know what happened in the
> Coongy, not many did know really as Lettsy got a 150/1 home, the run
> between it had won as well. Keep looking
>
> Glengowan had 56.5, an apprentice, wide, two miles, it was second to
> Australasia in the LKS McKinnon on Saturday at 3’s, it was 4th in the Cox
> Plate at 3’s, it won the Caulfield Stakes at 6/1. It was in the quinella,
> Master Harris knew what to do, the trainer had been unswervingly loyal. It
> had a lot going for it, price, form,
>
> Swell Time was second, beaten a head in the Cox Plate and the jockey
> swapped, it’s price was moving, they were shopping around a lot, it had won
> the Caulfield Cup remember,33/1  to 16/1.
>
> Daneson had won the Hotham Handicap on Saturday by 5 lengths in slowish
> time, 4 seconds outside the record, but it’s price there and it’s margin
> meant they were serious when they ran it.
>
> Gala Supreme was 2nd in the Caulfield Cup and won the Herbert Power like a
> favourite should, 1.5 lengths, with distance to the rest. Jockey Reys was
> often demonstrative and this time he was effervescent. I got the quinella
> without having a win bet and had backed it in a double to win the Cup,
> 175/1, I had 4 bets to total $40, had it into the Caulfield Cup too, 33/1.
> I backed it in quinellas which I won and had a $5 win bet on the tote, to
> show Stuart, a pro then, and to have it framed on the wall of my bar, if I
> ever got one.
>
> I backed Brugan for a place, it was 250/1 in the ring but 70/1 on the tote
> later, somebody liked it off course I guess, the Finger effect it was
> called. I included Red Hope in some quinellas.
>
>
>
> I got there, on course, through the turnstiles, just as the big horses
> were warming up near the hurdle start. The ring was quiet, there were two
> men wrestling in the cafeteria, over seats, dear me. I had a quinella
> Chendru-Wahinbee, and a $2 place on both. Chendru placed at $3.50($2), when
> $14.50($2) with the books. This might happen when Cummins horses run, and
> it needs to be researched, this was my thinking then.
>
>
>
> I stayed out of the Highweight, poor form, but there was Midnight Cowboy
> and Stuart took Workman and it won. I had a Chiko. The cafeteria was a
> crime scene now, there were flash bulbs flashing and blokes in handcuffs,
> and a semi-circle of lookers on.
>
>
>
> I stayed out of the next too, the 3rd,  although late I walked up the lawn
> amongst the crowd and meandered to have a look at the ring there, it was
> busy for this race, and Stuart saw me and nodded no, so we both stayed out.
> The Finger effect occurred, 3rd at 200/1, there was nothing to select it, a
> 7th the fortnight before, the winner was 2/9 (1.20) that race and Legal P
> was 66/1 pre race,50,25,15,25/1 in the fluctuations and paid 14/1 on the
> tote, that demonstrates interest, information not available but acted on,
> ridden by a no nonsense man then and another today, it was 40/1 on the tote
> and 10.50 place but 200/1, the Finger effect, you think.
>
>
>
> The 4th was easy, after the fact though, Love Life, Harry White, form
> factor 1- I had a place bet on Palace Angel, Bluey Lambie 50/1, 90/1 tote,
> $36 place, it was leading and lost, 2 lengths 7th they said. There was a
> Finger effect here too, Lahassa tied with Palace Angel in running, but no
> form and not touched otherwise. Love Life was 13/2 (5/1 tote). I had
> everything back and in the kick now.
>
>
>
> The Cup was next.
>
>
>
> Stuart backed Valiant Lodge in the next, it won, and I helped him put a
> fair bit on around the place, I think some would have taken the lot but Stu
> likes to bet in three bites, I got some on at 3’s and we both got the
> remainder at 9/4. He stood bolt upright when he realised he had missed a
> saver, well an interest, while talking and socialising he let Just Victor
> run against him, it was unplaced 21 lengths off, it was owned and trained
> next door to where he lives, it was 9 on the tote and 16 in the ring, he
> didn’t spend his money but he castigated himself for missing a loser it
> seems. Missing one doesn’t take you closer to a winner, does it, or is it
> only closer to the next bet? Very deep.
>
>
>
> Race 7 was a Highweight and there were a few form free runners. I backed
> Galdare, unplaced, with a different jockey, 62.5 kg. The previous run was
> the week before in the Craven A and off good form it ran third 1.5 lengths
> a second off the record in a field of 26, 26 down the straight, where do
> you look. That Craven A stakes was the last of the unlimited fields ever,
> although Stu says there was another soon afterwards, there you go. I got
> 40/1 in that race, $11 place, and this race I got 5/1 straight out. If I
> was chasing I would have stayed out of it, the ring is near the cafeteria,
> there were Chikos, and it was second from the top, try saying $10 each way
> Galdare while mincing a Chiko , without spraying.
>
>
>
> Race 8 I had place on Step Ahead, Rick McLeish, safe at  50/1 but $130+ on
> the tote, Here’s to You 7/1, and Bastille Beggar and Dayton in a quinella
> with Heres’ to You – came second, and I missed with the rest.
>
>
>
> It took an hour to get to the river, and 10 minutes further to get home.
> There had been an  enormous crowd waiting to get out and away and onto
> transport. It was a winning day as I wrote, there should be more.
>
>
>
> Stuart and I were going Thursday if it was fine, it was, and fast. Bron
> came with us, it’s just a stroll from her place to the course, you can hear
> the course caller some days.
>
>
>
> Stu got Count Cobbler in the first, as did I but took an interest in Jo
> Gar and Volga, one the favourite, very short in the end and the other 40/1.
>
> Stu said he had made his money and would watch on, or spend a $20 here and
> there if he felt like it. He felt like it because he had a place on
> Munastre in the next, won at  $9.90 place tote, but 100/1. I nearly,
> nearly, involved the Finger effect, form stream 2, 2nd.  We stayed out of
> the next for a cup of tea and a talk and a perv. And the next, Oaks,
> fillies, 2500, no.
>
>
>
> Race 6 was the Black and White Cup, it was led by Higgs on Burly at about
> 3/1 ON. Stu doesn’t do Higgins, he likes to look for value elsewhere and
> there may well be, given the betting popularity of his mounts. Stu found
> Tudor Peake earlier and had planned to be home by now, he wasn’t, he was
> betting on that, a sizeable plonk as they say, and I had a little for the
> same reason, and quinella with Sheltara and Burly so I had the favourite
> somehow. Tudor Peak did it for us, 25/1.
>
>
>
> Stu left and I had worked out on Race 7. I ignored Higgins, it works more
> often than it should and had a win bet on Bush Win 9/1, Lord Metric 12/1,
> and quinellas with these and Think Big, so I had Higgs I had the favourite,
> then I had a place bet on Overtone and Supers Pride. It reads as desperate
> don’t it. I wasn’t, each of those had good merit for inclusion. Bush Win
> won.
>
>
>
> I went home after that, while racing continued.
>
>
>
> I went on Saturday with Bronwyn. We had a meal, a walk through the stalls
> and around the back to the stables, where they were playing two up, really.
> I started in the 4th race and missed with Merry Heart, 2nd. Bron had
> Cobbermine, Jockey T Finger, unplaced 33/1, he’s gorgeous.
>
>
>
> Next, the George Adams, I had I’m Scarlet, Harry White 16/1, and Taj Rossi
> won 9/2 late, it was evens 5/2 on and off for a long while and money for
> All Shot and Portico caused its odds to lengthen.
>
>
>
> Race 6 a welter there were too many could be’s and we watched. F Reys
> again, 7 winners from 21 rides in the month I read.
>
>
>
> Race 7 CB Fisher Plate, this was Gala Supreme Plan B, it was scratched on
> the morning. I picked Igloo but it was too short and I couldn’t readily
> select a quinella partner. No bet. Bron was talking with our evening dinner
> date(s) and we left with them. It was a good night.
>
>
>
>   I didn’t have a bet in the last, I didn’t have a selection to go with
> Here’s to You either.
>
>
>
> I went to Sandown the next weekend for their Cup. I picked Gala Supreme
> and saved on it, and The Bite 8/1, and they ran 3rd and 2nd.
>
>
>
> Race 6 I backed Final Morn, and had a quinella with it and two others. Fail
>
>
>
> Race 7 I backed Here’s to You 5/1 and it went longer then started at 11/2,
> it won well, I had Lord Ego line for a place and a quinella, it came
> fourth. I was up on the day, fare, entry, Chiko,fare.
>
> I had Midnight Cowboy and Worple in a quinella, bewdy $45. Time to go.
>
>
>
> Next morning we went for breakfast in Footscray, that place she knows and
> told me about at the start, where I saw the runaway horse, where they have
> bacon, twice, look for the rockeries, near Western Oval.
>
>
>
> What I did then. It’s a bit more involved, because I make it, but I
> multiply the best two of the last three finishes, and rank the answers. So,
> in the George Adams Handicap 11 Taj Rossi was 411, multiply the best two of
> those 1*1= 1, do the same for 5 I’m Scarlet 512 = 1*2= 2. I do two other
> things, but those things are to the ranked runners and it just strengthens
> their reasons for involvement. Horses beyond 9/1 don’t win as they should,
> as their odds would have you believe, there are so many of them also,
> consider this point.  Too many possibilities, leave it.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> Tony
>
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