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Got any Turbos in your 'Top 20' Rex ? I must have miscalculated ..... 'cos I appear to have none. 🙂 I better go back and have a re-think. Naaagh ... I'm good ! 😊

Maybe we'll never know the plodder's true worth, cos he's always been my #1 selection each and every draft comp and therefore his value has never really been tested in the marketplace. Fair to say the plodder has been a stand-out in recent years, and well-known as very likely the most consistently successful Best Bet-taker in all comps. That has been pure gold for each team he has been in. Based on that, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the plodder go in 8, and that's ok ...I won't be at all offended, in case anyone thinks they might upset me by picking the plodder before I get the chance to call up his name. I would just say "that's racing ! you win some ..you lose some" 🙂

That's the official despatch for the media ...... and it sounds convincing enough to lure in the gullible and the naive ...... but the word around the traps is that in reality Ray doesn't see any Turbo having the necessary wherewithall to successfully carry the banner of #1 selection. So Ray will be looking to tried-and-proven Team Mighty Blues and Team Piko luminaries to slot in as the prestigious #1 Comp draftee ...... and who can blame Ray for that. He knows what's good for him ! 😁

oh, no .... not this again 😄.......weren't we into round 4 of the previous draft comp before Maxi finally sealed his team name on the books. Here's a thought for Maxi's team name ........ The Ditherers. No, no thanks necessary ...I'm always keen to help, you know that. 😊

hehe ...I think I got too smart and was misunderstood ..... I knew I had 2 early picks ..... I was throwing it out there to me not going to be considering the plodder until my round 27 pick was due ! ☺️

I hope Geoff's still there when I come in at No. 27 ! 🙂

Howie = team Yahabeebe, thanks PJ.

Excellent, PJ ....... just remember that Howie comes before Hesi. um .... well, Howie comes before Max, anyway. I think that was my point. But of course it's entirely in your imminently capable hands, PJ. Of course ! 😊

Just a quiet gallop for me today .... to top my preparation off nicely in readiness for being all guns-a-blazin' for Team Yahabeebe 's debut outing next Saturday in the big Summer Draft Comp. Today I'll be content to bury myself 5-deep along the rails and never look a chance at any stage. I'll beat a few home though ....racing royalty is looking a target well within my reach. 😉 Will be pencilling in names of possibilities for Team Yahabeebe depending on how people go today ...... I've currently got Geoff in my Top-20 possibilities and depending on how the chips fall in the draw next week Geoff could well get a run for the winning team. No promises. 🙂. These are them for me today :- R1) 5:12 R2) 1:4 1st Best Bet Race R3) 7:9 R4) 1:9 R5) 3:6 2nd Best Bet Race R6) 1:2 R7) 2:3 R8) 2:9 R9) 5:9 R10) 5:8 Many thanks for today's comp, PJ. Great to see so many new faces to debut in the Draft Comp starting next week ! Hopefully Team Yahabeebe won't bruise them too badly. 🙂 Good luck to all those good folks. Good luck today, folks.

Looking like we have many, many indians ...and not many chiefs ! Captains ....please arise and reveal yourselves ! 🙂

Yahabeebe had a catchy name but her rivals invariably found her hard to catch. The flying filly, who raced in the late 1950s, was trained at Ellerslie and excelled on her home track. Yahabeebe won nine feature races at Ellerslie including successive wins in the Railway Handicap, the premier open sprint staged on the course. She usually set the pace and earned a big following among the racing public while recording 13 wins and six seconds from 22 starts in New Zealand. Her other major wins at Ellerslie came in the Foal Stakes, Champagne Stakes and Royal Stakes as a two-year-old, and two wins apiece in the King’s Plate and the now discontinued Great Northern Challenge Stakes. The Royal Stakes is now a 2000m race for three-year-old fillies but in Yahabeebe’s era was open to two and three-year-olds and run over 1200m. Yahabeebe was first aimed at the Railway as a three-year-old but had to bypass the meeting through illness. She made amends by winning the Railway in the next two seasons, setting the pace both times. She broke the 1200m track record at Ellerslie when winning the 1957 Railway in 1:10.2 and a year later had to carry the equivalent of 60.5kg, from an outside barrier. Even her regular rider, Grenville Hughes, doubted that she could win and switched to another mount. Bill Smith replaced Hughes on the topweight and Yahabeebe quickly established a sizeable lead and was still a length and a half clear at the finish. It is one of the biggest weights carried to victory in the Railway and Yahabeebe was giving the runner-up 13.5kg. The top horses in that era were often set testing tasks and Yahabeebe, who had been freshened after a Sydney campaign in the spring, had three starts at the 1958-59 Christmas meeting, spread over just seven days. Three days after her Railway triumph, she stepped up to 2000m in the Clifford Plate. The task proved too much, and she was unplaced, though she had still started favourite. However, she bounced back in spectacular fashion over 1600m on New Year’s Day, beating the high-class three-year-olds Fountainhead and Up And Coming to record her second win in the weight-for-age King’s Plate. She had had her first start at 1600m in the King’s Plate a year earlier, winning by seven lengths in 1.25. She set a New Zealand record when winning the 1400m (seven furlong) North Island Challenge Stakes at Trentham and lowered the record again when recording her second win in the Great Northern Challenge Stakes. That record was still intact when New Zealand racing changed to metric distances in 1973. Yahabeebe made three trips to Australia but pined for home and never displayed her best across the Tasman. However, she still won an open sprint in Sydney, with 60.5kg, and was runner-up, under 57kg, in the 1958 Stradbroke Handicap in Brisbane and was placed in a Craven Plate. A daughter of the Epsom Derby winner Mid-day Sun, who stood in New Zealand late in his career, Yahabeebe was trained by Merv Ritchie and raced by Auckland businessman Lou Fisher, a brother of Ra Ora Stud founder Sir Woolf Fisher

Happy to go in as a Captain again, PJ. Team Yahabeebe, if that name is acceptable. Thanks.

Very well done, Blind Squirrel. Top performance ! I'm picking you'll be snapped up very early in the Draft draw coming up. Very well done also Ray & Gordy, 2nd & 3rd. Top stuff, guys. It's been easy to notice that Gordy has been a consistently top performer in PJ Comps these past 12 months. Many thanks again PJ for this very entertaining comp. It's been great that everyone gets to score points in every game they play.

Final day ...and I'm still in the hunt .... just ! 😃, Geoff's been doing really well ...so he'd be the better bet today.Many thanks for an excellent competition, PJ, sets us all up nicely for the forthcoming draft comp where I'll be fronting with team Yahabeebee. Today I'm going with :- R1) 1-2-3 R2) 1-4-7 R3) 1-3-4 R4) 1-2-3 Best Bet race R5) 3-7-8 R6) 2-8-9 Good luck today, folks.

I was one of many who had formed a semi-orderly queue yesterday to take on Geoff @ Ellerslie, what with his having had a total nearing $6000 scored against him the previous two comp days. Fortunately my name didn't come up, and just as well because after having given all the signs of being the comp 'bunny' Geoff indeed responded with a big total himself yesterday .... just as you'd expect a Mighty Blue to do on the hallowed home turf of Ellerslie. Well done, Geoff. Today weeze trek down south of the Bombay Hills to a place called Tau hera knee cow, where it's just as well the Lisa Latta barn is turning up em masse, cos otherwise the numbers would be very, very light. Looking very much like a day that will be Lincoln, or Platinum. These numbers have come up for me today, as I look to promote my overall position from the present 8th to ..... well, let's say ....... 1st ! 😁. Yep, that dial tone has a nice ring to it, we'll go with that. I notice that PJ and ilk have the vision that they'll come stomping in right over the top of my 8th in a desperate late charge ...but no, that's just silly talk 🙂 .....they'll remain esconsed back in the field around where racing royalty the king is. Without wishing to put the hoodoo on myself, I've been doing very, very well in the H-2-H clashes, and I think have been unbeaten the past 5 at least. Let's hope that my opponent today knows their role, and doesn't get airs above their station. I'll be watching closely. This is no time for another star to arise from the ashes. These are the 6 trifectas today :- R1) 3:6:7 Best Bet Race R2) 2:3:4 R3) 3:6:8 R4) 2:4:5 R5) 4:5:6 R6: 1:2:5 Many thanks, PJ. This Comp has been a great holiday season entertainment. Very much appreciated.

Wishing everyone a very Happy and prosperous New Year. 🍷 May the winners flow freely for you all this year 2022. 😉 These are the ones I'm going with today at Ellerslie :- R1) 3 : 5 : 6 R2) 4 : 8 : 9 Best Bet race R3) 1 : 6 : 8 R4) 1 :3 : 5 R5) 3 : 4 : 7 R6) 12 : 13 : 14 Many thanks, PJ.

I'll try these today :- 1) 2-6-7 2) 2-4-6 3) 1-6-9 Best Bet race 4) 1-2-7 5) 2-3-9 6) 1-9-13 Thanks, PJ. Good luck today, folks.

hmmm ... double-acceptors don't make it easy for someone working today and not replacing scratchings. I'll try these, anyway :- R1) 6-9-12 R2) 1-8-9 R3) 1-4-10 R4) 1-4-11 Best Bet Race R5) 1-3-7 R6) 2-3-6 Thanks, PJ. Good luck today, folks.

wow ...that was a bit of a surprise, Graeme, I've only just tuned in to the final race result. I thought you were off-and-gone early with me having so many unreplaced scratchings through the day. Tough luck Graeme .... could all change for you today. I hope so. Best of luck for the rest of the comp.

Well I only had the one runner in that one ....... but hey, it was a winning one runner ! 😃 Better than a whack around the ears.

1) 3-5-11 2) 4-8-9 3) 3-8-12 4) 1-3-5 Best Bet race 5) 1-2-3 6) 1-2-11 PJ, I won't be replacing scratchings on comp days that aren't public holidays or are the weekend. But that doesn't concern me, as it is not a team competition. Many thanks, and the very best of luck to everyone.

This oversight has been duly noted for when I'm doing my draftee order-of-merit for PJ's next comp. Traditionally, incompetence don't get people too high up my list, so someone better be hoping that blood-is-thicker-than-water, so to speak.

I was just gonna post a 3rd one for Geoff in each race, thinking he might beout for the day, but I see he's on to it, so let's forget my plan. Cheers.

Jafa journeys beyond the Bombay Hills to tackle the minefield that is South Island racing. Hoping for a bit of that legendary southern hospitality ...in the form of a few winners to go beside my name. 😉 Hopeful more than confident about sums me up today. I'm thinking these ...and am locking them in :- Comp R1 : 7-8-10 Comp R2 : 6 -7-10 Best Bet race Comp R3 : 1-2-4 Comp R4 : 1-5-8 Comp R5 : 1-3-4 Comp R6 : 3-8-15 Today's Mantra : " I must beat the king ...... I must beat the king ......I must beat the king ......... if I say it often enough it could happen. 🙂 . I think he's gone off the boil. 😁 Many thanks, PJ. Good luck, folks.

Asleep at the wheel ! Hoping Geoff's my H-2-H today. 😁