DON'T BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE? WELL WHAT ABOUT TRACK BIAS?How You Feel About Track Bias? It seems to me that there are some things you can have opinions about, and that there are other things which are cut and dried. Let's have a look at Rosehill on Saturday.If you weren't running 1-2-3 on the turn, or at least just after the horses straightened, you might as well have stayed at home. The two inside lanes were the only game in town.Of course, as always, the trick was to calculate which horses

DON'T BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE? WELL WHAT ABOUT TRACK BIAS?

How You Feel About Track Bias?

It seems to me that there are some things you can have opinions about, and that there are other things which are cut and dried.
Let's have a look at Rosehill on Saturday.
If you weren't running 1-2-3 on the turn, or at least just after the horses straightened, you might as well have stayed at home. The two inside lanes were the only game in town.
Of course, as always, the trick was to calculate which horses were going to find those favourable spots.


What were the rewards?

Eight from eight.
Old Spinney found his way through in the opening race, and finally broke his duck at Rosehill.
Then Brilliant Light destroyed his opposition in the second race, finding a remarkable gap on the inside as they turned.
Strike One ambled along in front, smoking his pipe, and just kept going.
Montana Flyer showed guts and clung to the lead on the rails. She looked like going down, but that was the place to be.
Chance Bye made a bit of a joke of the two-year-olds pitted against her. In retrospect, the price was one of the early Christmas gifts of 2010.
Monton got the right break. The runner-up, Shoot Out? Well, let's put this so I know you'll understand what I'm saying: he should have shot it in, but nothing won from way out there.
Winter King won again, a course and distance winner within seven days at double-figure odds (and exactly where he sat last week, and he held on again, just like that).
And then Sophistication stole the final race with a wonderfully-judged inside burst to save the bacon of all the favourite-backers.


More convinced than you were?

Think back to the last running of the Golden Slipper, and the ride of pure genius to get Phelan Ready through on the inside.
The name of the game on this track is so often "faith and patience".

Believe.