Mortlake men’s gift

A look at the 120 marks for the Mortlake gift this week, similar entries at Cobden.

John evans / Smokie for the weekend

A few incorrect marks, not a great start 🤨

Aside from that I can’t look past Patrick Martin here, he’s your winner.

Long May We Play wrote:A few incorrect marks, not a great start 🤨

Aside from that I can’t look past Patrick Martin here, he’s your winner.

There's a well established modus operandi for certain stables whose only intention at Cobden & Mortlake is to accumulate ticks.
No intention of winning anything until they've exhausted the tick lifts before winning a bonus race, generally something of value like Rye, Wangaratta or Ballarat.
My guess, about 25 to 30% of the field are in this category.
You should check out the stables that do not play games, your winner will come from there.

Mark Withheld wrote:

Long May We Play wrote:A few incorrect marks, not a great start 🤨

Aside from that I can’t look past Patrick Martin here, he’s your winner.

There's a well established modus operandi for certain stables whose only intention at Cobden & Mortlake is to accumulate ticks.
No intention of winning anything until they've exhausted the tick lifts before winning a bonus race, generally something of value like Rye, Wangaratta or Ballarat.
My guess, about 25 to 30% of the field are in this category.
You should check out the stables that do not play games, your winner will come from there.

Well established certain stables aka team fielder, pod squad , speed clinic , Ireland squad.

Is that about accurate?

Sharman and Thomas fighting it out here!

Can’t believe we’re seeing the return of Tom Pellow!

Could’ve easily avoided the sport after Stawell, good to see he’s moved past it, making the trek out to Cobden, and ready to give it another crack again.

He’s my pick for the weekend, what a story that’ll be

Dwight K Schrute
Dunder Mifflin Scranton

Runners who have elected to only run at Cobden and not made the list above.

Christopher Valcanis 5.00 m
Willem Wallace 5.00 m
Noah Nakagawa 5.25 m
Asthika (ASH) Koswattage 5.50 m
Dylan McGann 6.25 m
Matt Standfield 6.75 m
Callum James 9.25 m
Corey Williams 9.50 m
Cam Dunbar 11.75 m
Jonathon Rogers 12.75 m

Wow we

Protected species getting protected yet again!

Ireland was originally 1.5m now 3m, endale 3m now 3.5m, Lacey 4.25m, now 5.25m. Wish I was making this up.

Let’s just call the VAL a government controlled service.
Anyone who doesn’t see any issues with the above is kidding themselves

This isn’t Harry Potter about “He who shall not be named”

Woodchopper, do you just make comments without checking facts?

Those athletes mentioned were allocated the wrong starting handicaps according to the rules. It happens. But they have been corrected now. Would you prefer the handicapper leave them on the incorrect marks?

I belong to none of those groups, but I am glad they have been fixed. Every athletes marks should be handicapped by the same rules. No matter which squad you come from.

Why do you look at the two of my marks and assume 1.5m the correct one? Clearly unsure of the rules or have a broken calculator

As Tim said, they have been corrected so everyone is handicapped within the rules. That hardly makes any of us a ‘protected species’

Yaba Daba Do wrote:Why do you look at the two of my marks and assume 1.5m the correct one? Clearly unsure of the rules or have a broken calculator

As Tim said, they have been corrected so everyone is handicapped within the rules. That hardly makes any of us a ‘protected species’

Mate, you were the runner-up and won the rye gift ($6K prize). You’ve got a 2m pull based on your winning rye mark, but they need to adjust you from that mark, not your inflated bonus mark from Stawell.

Is that not protected?

Pellow receives 2.5m.

Don’t just name races without identifying the allocated pull for that race. 5m at Rye, 1.25m pull for that win. Brings me back to 3.75m, plus an extra 0.75m for Stawell runner up.
I’m not making this up, written in the actual rules.

Here we gooooo lets launch into it, your final is
Moschou
Bennett
Anderson
Watson
Hoffman
Martin
Perry
Sharma

As of this evening it looks like these are the only adjustments on the VAL website (so far).

Jake Ireland 1.5m now 3m
Endale Mekonnen 3m now 3.5m
Jack Lacey 4.25m now 5.25m
Hugh Hoffman 7.75m now 8.5m
Corey Baker (SA) 8m now 8.75m

All of these seem to be fair adjustments. Lacey shouldn’t be asking for anything after his wins last season. But if the re-handicap is based on the rules then so be it.

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