In Victoria, the Saturday meeting was Pakenham Cup Day, and that provides the topic for this week’s newsletter with research via Vince’s IVR platform. Why did only one leader win? And given the fence was poison – if you disagree/are sceptical a simple viewing of the stewards vision of each race will give you clarity. Pakenham Results […]

Last Saturday at Flemington was a great reminder of the “wisdom of crowds”. In a non racing fashion that term was brilliantly addressed by Dan Gardner and Phillip Tetlock in their sensational “Superforecasting” book. (And audio book!) Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction The best stuff I’ve heard on the topic was Sydney form analyst […]

This week’s newsletter theme is an apples to apples comparison of the Memsie Stakes and Rupert Clarke last Saturday via Vince Accardi’s dailysectionals.com.au IVR platform. (We “Sizzled” winner BEGOOD TOYA MOTHER back in April and have enjoyed documenting his journey to a Group 1 through the year.) Both 1400 Group 1’s at Caulfield and both […]

This is a character building caper and we were reminded of it on Saturday when GATTING clean bowled the high class Makybe Diva field. BOIL OVER AT FLEMINGTON Gatting defeats Mystic Journey to win the Makybe Diva Stakes. pic.twitter.com/yEaXO6uBpl — 7HorseRacing 🐎 (@7horseracing) September 14, 2019 (Despite the carnage in the big race, personally for […]