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Speaker 1: Run today. All eyes on Flemington out of Melbourne, Melbourne

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Speaker 1: cap from the tab Matt Smith.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Well how are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Good? Must feel like Christmas for you guys.

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Speaker 2: Pretty much. Yes, the one gets get that the extra

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Speaker 2: fifteen percent excitement on a day like this. So yeah, now.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to it and not to be an early

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Speaker 1: down buzz. But what a shame to see that there's

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Speaker 1: no New Zealand trained horses in the race.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of varies from year to year. I

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Speaker 2: think last year we had three. In the year before

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Speaker 2: there were none, so it just all depends on how

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Speaker 2: horses are heading towards their campaigns and whether they can

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Speaker 2: make it. We had some that were in contention a

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks out but just said didn't quite make

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Speaker 2: the final cut of twenty four.

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Speaker 1: So where are the key we connections?

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Speaker 2: We've got? Of course, the great James McDonald knew well,

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Speaker 2: the world's best jockey. He's on number eight May who's

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Speaker 2: probably thereabout some of the markets a couple of place

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Speaker 2: in the last four or five starts.

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Speaker 1: He's tasted victory before, hasn't he very elegant?

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Speaker 2: Correct? Yeah? Twenty twenty one, and we've also got mcdee

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Speaker 2: or Michael D. Whereas the number seventeen he's on further

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Speaker 2: and Michael D I think grew up in the hawk's face.

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Speaker 2: So it's very much easier than bread and again.

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Speaker 1: Had success in the lights of the Caulfield Cup and

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Speaker 1: Victoria Derby. I think that that was a big occasion

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Speaker 1: on the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very much so, Yeah, I think Observer won the

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Speaker 2: Dabby is the favorite, which always means people's pockets are

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Speaker 2: folding into a.

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Speaker 1: Day like this, So who is the favorite, Not that

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Speaker 1: it really means anything because historically when it comes to

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Speaker 1: the office sweep steak, you almost don't want the favorite.

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Speaker 1: It never comes through.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look at yeah, the favorite doesn't necessarily have a

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Speaker 2: good run in this in this race, I guess that's

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Speaker 2: what happened at twenty four horses. But our Riffa is favorite.

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Speaker 2: The challenge of him is he's also number one in

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Speaker 2: the book, so he's going to carry the most weight,

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Speaker 2: which makes like a little bit difficult over much meters.

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Speaker 2: He's carrying fifty nine and the knee cheese top is

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Speaker 2: I think fifty seven, yeah, fifty seven CAGs, So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it just makes it just makes it a little bit

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Speaker 2: more of a test over the last couple hundred meters

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Speaker 2: where you know some of those horses that don't have

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Speaker 2: to carry as much, Yeah, maybe able to swoop late.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's looking pretty wide open of fear. I

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Speaker 2: think what four horses are all paying under ten dollars, So.

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Speaker 1: Let's hope it doesn't bog them down too much, or

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Speaker 1: hopefully we don't see things like we did from what

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Speaker 1: was it the never a Need story with the Quicksand

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Speaker 1: because I hear it's going to be a pretty softist track,

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Speaker 1: there's been a lot of rain that was.

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Speaker 2: A deep cut Luke. Yes, it looks like rain. I

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Speaker 2: think it's about fifty percent chance pretty much every hour

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Speaker 2: through for the whole day, so I would expect a

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Speaker 2: better rain. So that means you're probably gonna need to

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Speaker 2: look for horses that can handle all sorts of tracks,

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Speaker 2: you know, whether it's a good track or a soft

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Speaker 2: track or a heavy track. So I have found one

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Speaker 2: which could be a little bit of money, and it's

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Speaker 2: please got a heck of a name, Flattened the Curve.

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Speaker 2: It's by a German trained by a German. Man. Heink

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Speaker 2: grew and listened to the jockey's name thor Hammer Hansen.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't get you excited, but the thing about flat

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Speaker 2: and M curve has one on all three types of tracks,

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Speaker 2: so you know whether it's a nice firm track or

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Speaker 2: a track that's haven't had a bit of rain. So

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Speaker 2: that could be one of the better value