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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk ZB.

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Speaker 2: So let's get her across the Tasman. Adam Peacock, one

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Speaker 2: of the hardest working men on that side of the Tasman,

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Speaker 2: or on any side of the Tasman, joins us. Now

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Speaker 2: what a week it's been for you? Are you still

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Speaker 2: in Victoria or not?

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Speaker 3: Yes, just getting ready for big champions Day? Here three

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Speaker 3: group ones over this part of the world, Piney, So

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Speaker 3: we was a little bit of a keyw interest as well.

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Speaker 3: I think Eleatric Star goes around in the sprint three

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Speaker 3: year old silly from over your part. So now it's

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Speaker 3: been a it's been a great week, and of course

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Speaker 3: are we claiming now let's she's been here for a while,

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Speaker 3: she had relaxing, but I think she's still got the

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Speaker 3: chase of the keyw accent winning the Cup early in

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Speaker 3: the week. So one of the best stories gone around

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Speaker 3: that is that's one hundred to one winner.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, brilliant. I mean, and I guess the major

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Speaker 2: storyline of Melbourne Cup week it's it's a it's a

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Speaker 2: huge week, isn't it. I you know, I don't want

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Speaker 2: to sort of you know, state obvious too much. But

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Speaker 2: it's a massive week of horse racing, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you say you've got eight Group one, the

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Speaker 3: three of which are today. They call it Champions Day.

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Speaker 3: They've done a really good job in recalibrating this day.

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Speaker 3: It used to be just a bit nondescript one group one.

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Speaker 3: Everyone's kind of drying out from the week, if you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean, because it is a big week

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Speaker 3: on the social front, it's got to be honest. Then

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Speaker 3: we're still drying out. But we've got this magnificent day.

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Speaker 3: There's got a peppinow step. But no, it's such a

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Speaker 3: good week and we've had good crowds and I think

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Speaker 3: the kind of a narrative around the Cup itself, Like

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Speaker 3: I think three four years ago they hired the charge,

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Speaker 3: been up to the Cup and horses were dying. The

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Speaker 3: Melbourne Cup wasn't a good look. But now the club

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Speaker 3: and Racing Victoria brought in these parameters where it's like

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Speaker 3: if your horse has got any hint of an issue,

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Speaker 3: it ain't running. Sorry, we can't deal with this. It's

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Speaker 3: not happening. So it's good that it's turbo charged. The

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Speaker 3: narrative around horse welfare and looking after horses and everything

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Speaker 3: like that. So hopefully that is part of the fabric

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Speaker 3: of pracing forever, because it hasn't always been. But now

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Speaker 3: they've done a great job. And the cup at one

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Speaker 3: hundred to one the other day, which my eight year

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Speaker 3: old daughter found the winner off somehow because she liked

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Speaker 3: the colors. There you go, that's racing the morning, you know,

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Speaker 3: the less you know, piney.

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Speaker 2: Did you take the tip from her?

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Speaker 3: Of course not. I did three days of I think

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Speaker 3: three days of form and looked at sexual times and

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Speaker 3: did that and the other. Of course not anyway. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: and my wife backed warp speed because as a as

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Speaker 3: a kid she was she was a good sprinter. So

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Speaker 3: that's out like there's no rhyme or reasons for this case. Anyway.

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Speaker 3: She said to me when I got home on Tuesday night,

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Speaker 3: she goes, Dad, I think I'm a bit magical because

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Speaker 3: she tipped one hundred and one winner one hundred to

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Speaker 3: one pop last year to finish third. So yeah, she

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Speaker 3: thinks she's pretty magical when it comes to the tips.

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Speaker 3: But I'll just restricted to one day, thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: That'll do no fair.

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Speaker 2: Enough I was going to say to say, what I'll

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Speaker 2: do is I'll bypass you completely now for my tips.

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Speaker 2: What I'll do is I'll get you just to check

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Speaker 2: with your daughter what she thinks, and you passed that

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Speaker 2: information back to me. I don't need your expertise anymore.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Neither Peak Got's tipping Conservice free to all,

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Speaker 3: or you can subscribe as well. Anyway, we'll see how

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Speaker 3: we go with it.

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Speaker 2: What are the crowds being, like, have been good crowds

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Speaker 2: turning out across the week?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they've got nearly ninety I think on Cupday eighteen

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Speaker 3: last Saturday to Derby Day. I think I'm not what's

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Speaker 3: sure they had on Oach Day it looked pretty sparse,

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Speaker 3: but probably still has forty fifty thousand in here and

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Speaker 3: I think we're hoping about sixty today. So yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: huge and the city is buzzing as well. And this

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Speaker 3: part of it, well, I keep on saying it every

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Speaker 3: time I come back to Melbourne. This part of we

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Speaker 3: all just copped it in COVID and it was really

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Speaker 3: everyone's morale was just on the floor. So now that

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Speaker 3: everything's back to normal ish, Yeah, it's great to see

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Speaker 3: this city come alive because it is magnificent sporting city

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Speaker 3: with all the facilities that they've got, and everyone gets

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Speaker 3: into this time especially it's all about AFL the winter months,

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Speaker 3: but then it's kind of diversifies this time of the

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Speaker 3: year and we've got the tennis coming around the corner

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Speaker 3: as well. So no, it's a great time.

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Speaker 2: Good Man, good Man. Just a couple of quick ones

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Speaker 2: before you go. Joseph is going to debut for the Wallabies.

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Speaker 2: The league convert much noise around about this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, huge, Like it's put the Wallabies on the back

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Speaker 3: page in the rugby league quarters. So yeah, it's a huge,

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Speaker 3: huge call. Though Joseph has come up with thirteen. Defensively,

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Speaker 3: se I mean, if he does anything that he did

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Speaker 3: in league, it's even it's even more strict as you

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Speaker 3: know piney in rugby union around the head, So defensively,

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Speaker 3: I'm just intrigue how he's going to handle it. But

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Speaker 3: throw him in. He's a really good kid, he's a

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Speaker 3: really impressive human being, so I don't think he'll be

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Speaker 3: overawed by it. It's just the little interest because he's

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Speaker 3: that he's going to have to learn on the run.

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Speaker 3: I mean, first up, in a game of Twickenham against England,

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Speaker 3: your first ever rugby match on the big stage, not

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Speaker 3: even like a club rugby game or for a state game.

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Speaker 3: It's it's a huge asp. So no, it's been the

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Speaker 3: big story over here, definitely, all right, even.

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Speaker 2: Bigger than Reygun.

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Speaker 3: Retire play good half mask in the dance community Bonnie

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Speaker 3: over here. Ah yeah, seriously, I'm a bit biased because

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Speaker 3: my daughters dance and I've seen the dance community and

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Speaker 3: what those people can do in their chosen craft. And

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Speaker 3: for that person to be able to get a start

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Speaker 3: an Olympics and do that too on the worst stage

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Speaker 3: just beggars belief. But anyway, hopefully she finds a successful

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Speaker 3: outcome for whatever she chooses in a chosen path in

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Speaker 3: life going on now, and I don't think she'll be

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Speaker 3: badly missed by the dance community in Australia.

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Speaker 2: Put that way, I think you've got to You've got

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Speaker 2: a future in diplomacy. Absolutely magnificent from you. I know

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Speaker 2: you've got a busy afternoon here, So thanks for bobbing

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Speaker 2: and as always, maybe will chat again next Saturday.

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Speaker 3: She's fine, every one mate.

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Speaker 2: You too much. Cheers out and pick up from the

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