2006 Melbourne

Spring Carnival

Delta Blues wins Melbourne Cup

7th November 2006

Delta Blues today held off compatriot Pop Rock to win the Melbourne Cup.

Japan took out the Quinella both horses trained by the same trainer.

Darren Oliver held aloft the winning Japanese jockey's hand at the end of the race and had nothing but praise for Delta Blues.

Punter's ladder

points scored as follows:-
First Four 100pts
Quadrella 50pts
Daily Double 20pts
Trifecta 10pts
Quinella 4pts

Win 3pts

2nd 2pts

3rd 1pt

Rob
Winners 6
Second 1
Third 1
Quinella 1
(total pts 25)

Paul
Winners 4
Second 1
Third 2
(total pts 16)
Saturday 4th November 2006
Paul 3rd and 2nd
Rob 2nd
Saturday 21st October 2006
Paul place bet only for day
Saturday 14th October 2006
Rob picked 1 winner
Paul picked 1 winner
Saturday 7th October 2006 Flemington
Rob picks 1 winner 1 Quinella

Paul nothing
Sphenophyta new Caulfield Cup favourite
07/10/2006 7:25 PM
By Mark Ryan
The Lee Freedman-trained Sphenophyta has replaced Zipping as favourite for the Caulfield Cup following his Turnbull Stakes victory.
Sphenophyta came in from $7 to $4 while the Lloyd Williams-owned Zipping also firmed from $6 to $5 following his eye-catching fifth from a wide barrier in the Turnbull.
Freedman now has three of the top four horses in Caulfield Cup betting with Serenade Rose, equal third in the Turnbull, and Our Smoking Joe, runner-up, both firming as well.
Serenade Rose is in from $9 to $7 while Our Smoking Joe firmed from $11 to $9.
The John Hawkes-trained Headturner (sixth in the Turnbull) and Railings (eighth) are both at $10.
That pair head Melbourne Cup betting at $7 ahead of the David Hayes-trained import Tawqeet who was the big firmer from $13 in to $8 after his impressive victory in the Metropolitan Handicap (2400m) at Randwick.
Tawqeet also firmed markedly in the Caulfield Cup from $26 to $13.
Racing To Win firmed from $4.60 to $3.60 after his Epsom Hcp (1600m) victory at Randwick and is regarded as clearly the main danger to $2.60 favourite El Segundo.
Latest Caulfield Cup betting from Michael Eskander:-
$4 Sphenophyta
$5 Zipping
$7 Serenade Rose
$9 Our Smoking Joe
$10 Headturner, Railings
$13 Tawqeet