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ChrisB 
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Ok. So i grew up loving the Melbourne Cup but in recent years I've completely gone off it. Too many Internationals, lining up form etc etc.
So my 5 favorite races that i look forward to, in order, are as follows; Cox Plate Doncaster VRC Sprint Queen Elizabeth Newmarket. Yours? No right or wrong here, just opinion! |
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Tlazolteotl
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Depends entirely on who is in the race.
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ChrisB
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Of course that increases or decreases the appeal.
The question is on a yearly basis disregarding individual cases of star horses |
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Good thread. Hope there's plenty of responses.
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Cox Plate
Golden Slipper All Star Mile
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ChrisB
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Posted: 12 Mar 2019 at 6:11pm |
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All Star Mile?
Surely taking the piss....ha |
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furious
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The golden slipper. As a child it was my birthday treat. A great day and race.
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It says favorite.
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ChrisB
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That's interesting as I've never been that interested in the Slipper. But with those memories no wonder is a special race to you. That's what i was looking for. |
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Melbourne Cup
Caulfield Cup Doncaster Handicap Newmarket Handicap TJ Smith Stakes The Spring Stake Newcastle. |
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reductio ad absurdum
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Breeders Plate
Gimcrack Stk. G. Slipper Epsom AJC Derby Doncaster. Love em all , can't split fwiw. 
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Yeah i probably forgot the Caulfield Cup a little.
Always a great race |
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Just to be different
 1. Grand Annual at the Bool / May Carnival 2. Swan Hill carnival in June 3. Oakbank at Easter 4. Casterton Cup Day 5. Dederang Picnics |
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Karl and Susan Kennedy are my heroes
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Never been to zny but I'm sure great days! Down here in Tassie the Hobart Cup (where i am) is pretty ordinary but the Launnie Cup is a great festival day. |
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Caulfield Cup
Melbourne Cup Doncaster Golden Slipper |
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1. Grand Annual Steeplechase - Warrnambool 5500m
Just love going on that 7 minute journey in the ultimate test of horse & rider. 2. Melbourne Cup - Flemington 3200m Still love the race & it’s iconic status. But I agree that is losing its lustre with the field being contaminated with too many o/s trained runners. 3. Great Eastern Steeple - Oakbank 4950m For the same reasons as the GA Steeple 4. Any Steeplechase at Casterton - 3800m Live hedges, open paddocks, and as Rick McIntosh says ‘where the Glenelg meets the Wannon’. 5. VRC Hotham Hcp - Flemington 2500m Ok, a bit of a weird one. But I’ve always loved the theatre that this creates being the last desperate throw of the dice to qualify for the Melb Cup. |
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Grand Annual at Warrnambool
Caulfield Guineas Doncaster |
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It made me giggle that the top 4 are G1 Handicaps  Top 5 are all amongst my favourites as well, alongside the Cox Plate and Oakleigh Plate, probably the Stradbroke as well as a Queenslander. |
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ANY open grade or black type Races to 2040M .
All Open 2 Y/O & 3 Y/O races to 1600m F & M races to 1600m |
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Doncaster
Cox Plate (most interesting of the big spring 3 for me now since it has strong local chances) Tancred (sure it's not the race it once was, but I still love the 2400m WFA concept) Cantala Stakes (bit like the doncaster, big field and lots of chances)
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djebel
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They are simply handicaps. |
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reductio ad absurdum
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1. Cox Plate - WFA Championship
2. Golden Slipper - Always a great race 3. The Everest - Highest quality sprint each year 4. JJ Atkins - Usually the best reference as to which two year olds will be top three year olds.
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Tlazolteotl
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The melbourne cup has jumped the shark as far as I'm concerned.
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
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Such is our want,.....long live the OZ tradition.
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Well that saved a lot of typing.............or none at all
they're the exact 3 I had in mind but was too lazy to write in any detail, thanks LH  |
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Wisdom has been chasing me but I've always outrun it!
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My favourite race is the Coonabarabran Cup . ( Thats where I met my OH over 25 years ago
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animals before people.
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Blue Diamond Stks
Caulfield Guineas Lightning Stks Newmarket Hcp The Cup Cox Plate (Sorry about the Victorian focus)
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The Cups Cox Plate Newmarket Goodwood Doncaster Tancred |
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Yes I love the Tancred also. Really miss it now it's not of Golden Slipper Day.
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Yeah having gun sprinters back for the Lightning, after quiet months beforehand, is something i look forward to as well. |
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