[AusRace] 4 of the best - a system

Sun Jul 19 22:39:16 AEST 2020

It must be bloody frustrating not being able to read.
Don't reckon he'd last long these days, Tony.
The basis of racing seems to have changed. Fewer handicaps? Less older
horses going round for years on end.
Still, an interesting approach.

On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 19:04, Tony Moffat <tonymoffat at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> Scone R1 -2345 - Placed 3,4,5
> Scone R5- 2345 - Placed 3,6,10
> Scone R6 - 2345- Placed 1,3,12
> Scone R7 - 2356 - Placed 2,11,3
> Wodonga R5 -3456 - Placed 6,5,4
> Wodonga R6 - 2456 - Placed 1,4,11
> Wodonga R7 - 2456 - Placed 1,2,5
> Wodonga R8 - 2345- Placed 3,2,11
> Sun Coast R5 - 2345 - Placed 4,2,3
> Sun Coast R6 - 2345 - Placed 2,1,6 (Aziz Jamil Couer -golly!)
> Sun Coast R7 -2367 - Placed 8,2,10
> Sun Coast R8 - 2345 - Placed 2,7,22
> P Augusta R3 -2345 - Placed 3,1,7
> P Augusta R4 - 2567 - Placed 2,6,5
> P Augusta R5 - 4567 - Placed 11,6,4
> P Augusta R6 -2345 - Placed 6,4,10
> P Augusta R7 -2345 - Placed 4,2,7
> Paknham R8 -2345 - Placed 5,9,4
> Paknham R9 - 2468 - Placed 12,12,4
> Narrandera R3 - 2356 - Placed 1,2,3
> Narrandera R4 -2345 - Placed 8,11,10
> Narrandera R5 -2456 - Placed 8,7,5
> Narrandera R6 - 2345 - Placed 4,2,3
> Narrandera R7 - 2345 - Placed 5,7,10
> Narrandera R8 - 2345  Placed 4,3,5
> Hobart R1 -2345 - Placed 1,3,6
> Hobart R6 - 2345 - Placed 7,1,3
> Hobart R7 - 2345 - Placed 8,3,12
> Hobart R8 - 2356 - Placed 8,2,6
> Hobart R9 - 2345 - Placed 2,5,3
> Hobart R10 - 2345 - Placed 1,7,9
> Kalgoorlie R3 - 2345 - Placed 3,10,1
> Kalgoorlie R4 - 2345 - Placed 4,6,2
> Kalgoorlie R5 - 2345 - Placed5,6,7
> Kalgoorlie R6 - 2345 - Placed 11,3,4
> Kalgoorlie R7 - 2345 - Placed 3,1,4
> Kalgoorlie R8 - 2345 - Placed 2,4,5
>
> Winners ( Scone $4, $6.20, $4.70)
> (Wodonga $3.10, $2)
> (Sunny Coast $7, $10.40, $2)
> (P.A. $10.80, $1.90, $12.20)
> (Pakenham $5, $2.10)
> (Narrandera $16.40, $2.90, $18.20)
> (Hobart $7.10)
> (Kalgoorlie  $3, $4.30, $2.90, $3.10, $6.50)
> Out $148 In $135
>
> Another way
>
> cheers
>
> Tony
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> Subject: [AusRace] 4 of the best - a system
>
> Dickie was a brickie - except he wore coveralls (overalls to us) a white
> shirt and a tie, often a tweeded coat with a Saville Row label which he
> showed you if you asked, or challenged him about it. I never did, neither.
> That coat had pockets outside and inside, I saw them often when he folded
> his earnings, winked, tapped himself outside of the money holding pocket and
> marched off, I mean he held an imaginary cous cane (like British Generals
> had) and he marched off swinging the right arm out and up to the horizontal.
> If you had seen him you know whom I am writing about - although perhaps not
> the brickie bit.
>
> He was difficult to talk to, stand offish they said, cranky said someone,
> tapped said a few, f---ed in the head was a consensus uttered aloud and in
> his presence. I never said it, never saw it, and while it is true I didn't
> talk to him much, I listened more often, when he spoke in Kentish English,
> so free became fwee, and three became fwee too, but before the last, in that
> 8 minutes between settling and writing new business I could get a mug of tea
> finished, it was then about 50 minutes old at that point and really it was
> more of a smoke break, my Boss and my workmates had never smoked, and what I
> am trying to tell you is Dickie sat opposite me and he spoke and I listened.
> He asked and I spoke, generally about the workings of the stand, and it was
> then I learnt he couldn't read, he knew numbers alright but he never learnt
> to read. Pity. He did smoke though, mine, and he was a barrowman to three
> layers, taking the mud to them after mixing it, and keeping up the brick
> numbers, loading them 4 at a time on the horse near the bricklayer, at a
> little below hip height so that production went on all day, and they got
> paid on production, he didn't, he got a wage and worked like three men for
> that he said. He seemed to have built most of north eastern Melbourne. That
> barrow had a load of mud and 'on the plate' on the handle he carried 16
> bricks, 2 loads of 8 each to each man in turn, non-stop. He may have been in
> his 60's then.
>
> What Dickie did was back four in handicaps, numbers 2 3 4 5, or the first
> four if the toppie was scratched. His reasoning he said was the top weight
> was often an over the hill horse who got the number from past deeds, deeds
> from 4 or more years ago often, and now it was weighted out of contention. 2
> may be likewise but if it was less than 5 years, actually 5 or less, then it
> had earned its position off recent form, inside 12 months (he said 'Yar').
> Similarly the 3, 4, 5 numbers would have form commensurate with their
> standing, they had earned the right to be there, good form in recent times
> being the bench mark. There was an age clause although it seems he ignored
> that more often than using it, 5 years or less of course.
>
> He was always alone, always marching, truly, and if he was with you and
> another sat for a chat, off he went, military style as I have described
> leaving the new arrival perplexed until I explained it wasn't them, it's how
> Dickie was. He bet in quids, and called the bets as numbers. His quids were
> dollars of course, but you called it back to be sure, then you turned to
> read horse 2, horse three and the remaining so that the penciller Stewart
> didn't have to research too much (he would know them anyway). Lew rarely
> spoke, just wrote, and may have had the opinion of most about Dickie.
>
> Its how Dickie was, perhaps it's where he really wanted to be,
> militaristically inclined with that march of his, and that voice that a
> stage director would die for, even a whisper wasn't.
>
> His race day attire was what he wore at work, with gummies (wellington
> boots) - he cheated on the immigration form, he said, to get here, ticked a
> box or something when it inquired about your education level, and anyway the
> whole family came here and everybody went back, except him, the dog and the
> cat and he continued living in and paying the mortgage on the cottage/
> cottich.
>
> He might have been in front betting with us.
>
> Summary: In handicaps back 2,3,4,5 - end You could/can tiz it up with an age
> clause, a requirement of a win in the last 4 starts, senior rider - Dickie
> never did
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony
>
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