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  • November 1, 2016 at 06:25 #1269899
    wit
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    video recording here – if at first you get an error message on screen, wait until a grey box named Standard pops up and click that:

    http://racing.hkjc.com/racing/video/play.asp?type=replay-full&date=20161101&no=s0103&lang=eng

    result and HK prices here:
    http://racing.hkjc.com/racing/overseas/english/results.aspx?para=/20161101/S1/3

    November 1, 2016 at 09:01 #1269935
    stilvi
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    mickeyjp wrote:

    So close for Tony martin. Great run by big orange but didn’t have the speed in the end. Bondi beach got too far back.

    Given all the talk I would hesitate to call five places worse than last year a great run. It looked a case of once he couldn’t get on the front end and dictate his own pace it was game over. Given he was settled just off the pace it was disappointing he couldn’t at least see his race out rather than falling in a heap. I suspect Sky Bet didn’t do that badly with their first six places as there were plenty of high profile failures down the track.

    November 1, 2016 at 09:55 #1269939
    Avatar photoSteeplechasing
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    Many thanks, wit. Tremendous finish

    November 1, 2016 at 10:17 #1269941
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    Fabulous finish it was – thanks Wit for posting.

    November 1, 2016 at 10:45 #1269942
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    Well done Joliff!! :good: :good:

    And all the HC backers soooo close!!

    Beautiful Romance and it was sods law I was on six places and it finishes seventh!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

    November 1, 2016 at 12:52 #1269949
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    Well done Joliff,

    Beautiful was miles back early Raymo, good performance though. Would of been great to nick a place @ 66’s

    Quite happy to get the place on HC in the end @25’s and down. Would of been my best win ever if he won. Off to Hong Kong now HC i gather ;-)

    November 1, 2016 at 17:43 #1269974
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    Nice one, Joliff – well done

    November 1, 2016 at 19:33 #1269989
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    A replay of last nights race. HC is drawn second from the outside.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqdxBs4JPEk

    November 2, 2016 at 21:42 #1270262
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    An absolutely fabulous finish to the world’s greatest 2-mile flat race. Two brave horses and two marvellous jockeys engaged in a ding-dong battle throughout the final 300 metres – nip and tuck, neck and neck, head to head, nose to nose.

    Very impressive riding from one of my two all-time favourite flat jockeys, Kerrin McEvoy, who never resorted to the whip in the final 100 metres but simply out-rode the ‘Magic Man’ with his hands and heels, nudging and propelling his mount forward. Even more impressive, perhaps, was the way Joao Moreira congratulated his rival the moment they crossed the line, after a protracted struggle. Such respect, chivalry and sporting comradeship! Smashing effort from both guys.

    Btw, the other great all-time favourite of mine is none other than the famed ‘Kentucky Kid’ himself. ;-)

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