One of the excellent facets of the RWWA website (http://www.rwwa.com.au/cris) is that the formguide is already sitting there for you as early as Wednesday morning for the forthcoming Saturday Perth meetings. Admittedly the final fields are not available but for time strapped desperadoes like me it is just dandy having the opportunity to apply some early form work. After I downloaded the weights section, which provides quite a bit of information itself, for this weekend I decided there were four
One of the excellent facets of the RWWA website (http://www.rwwa.com.au/cris) is that the formguide is already sitting there for you as early as Wednesday morning for the forthcoming Saturday Perth meetings. Admittedly the final fields are not available but for time strapped desperadoes like me it is just dandy having the opportunity to apply some early form work. After I downloaded the weights section, which provides quite a bit of information itself, for this weekend I decided there were four races worthy of consideration: the two 74-86 events and the two open company races.
I quickly dismissed the 1600m 74-86 race as it is cluttered with horses that constantly struggle to reproduce promising runs bar Ma Chienne who was slaughtered last weekend by Pillow Time ,when odds on. The other 74-86 was far more promising with Pillow Time, Shock Value and Mega Steel standing out as main chances with consideration needed for Grey Monarch, Broome Time and Galladora who are really struggling to put two runs together. I have had enough of Hide The Loot who has been beaten at 5/1 or less in his last four runs.
The 2000m Open handicap is typical of some of these events in Perth with a mixture of older horses just plodding around each week and some lesser lights from the country trying to win a city race. The favourite will be Cohort who has started $3.60 or less in his last four runs for 4 placings. Is this the same Cohort who won 6 from 9 in one campaign starting in April, 2008? No, leave me out of this race. That leaves the 1400m Open and after some fairly easy eliminations I have Star Laser, Comic Hero, Reflective Star and Foxy Boy as clearly the top four considerations. The form lines for Capuchin show 2 runs in his last two campaigns, Raw Metal with 1 win from his last 24 starts, Casper Cowboy with 1 win at 1200m but 6 wins at 1000m having his first 1400m run and Proart seemingly not finishing his races off. Of the four I might be a fraction harsh on Proart but he beat Hide The Loot home when second to Shock Value and that HTL is just competing in his races.
So, here I am on Wednesday afternoon just waiting to see what the final declarations will be for just one race in Perth, with all the preliminary hard yards already done.
As a matter of fact I have also been to the Australian Racing Board site and after some adjudication I have three races in Sydney, two at Moonee Valley, two in Queensland and one on Sunday lined up for some serious work on Thursday afternoon when the final fields are published.