Schweppervescence Trophy (Flemington R4)

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Huxxsen's best distance is 200m.

Wasn't slow was it? Just even? and it's not run on at all.

Steels....The Hareeba was run at a tempo of 11.62s/200m (0.18s/200m faster than the track standard for that distance)......they went quite hard first half and set it up for Huxssen.

Today's race was run at a tempo of 11.91s/200m (0.15s/200m slower than standard)......the three 1400m races were run at almost the same tempo......

Ps: very useful info when laying horses...........

PPs: Huxssen ran the 2nd fastest Last600; 400; and 3rd fastest 200m of today,s race.........

Cheers TT, did you mean today race or today's races?

Today's race.......

Cheers, i actually must have stopped watching with 200 to go as i thought it finished 2nd last was only 4.5ls in the end

Huxssen was never going to get the same run today. Another great LAY of the day ;)

Argh sucked into the new cat of horse racing... never again

Im pretty sure HUXSSEN can win even off slow tempo's but I think he actually has a brilliant yet short sprint. If you watch his wins its when he is bottled up with cover then he works his way THROUGH the field then when he finally gets clear running 100m out he explodes. At Flemington you need to be able to sustain your finish and I think that hurts HUXSSEN.

I agree with Infidel, they need to find a few 200 metre races for Huxxssen, preferably ones where is matches up against a greyhound so the pace is on for him. His sprint is devastating...devastating to everyone who backs him.

Honestly guys, he's just not very good, I've never backed him and never will, his sprint is good but it lasts about 35 metres, he had absolutely no excuses in this race and just plodded away, Greg Miles called it early that he was just going and he was beaten a long way from the post.

he made ground (around 4-5l on the leaders from the 400m) but tempo was not that strong up front as evidenced by the fact 1st & 2nd in the run quinella'd the race (The Sires for the 2yo's was run half a sec. quicker for the 1st 800m). What was he doing 9l from the lead at the 400m in a small field ??? Thats what I want to know...... I've backed him in all his wins so I'm not complaining, especially after his last win when they put up 10's and I took him for a stack !! Mr Baritone came out of that race and ran 3rd @ Warwick Farm and Captain Coltish won this out of the same race so I'm not dropping off yet. He had legitimate excuses in all his runs last prep and won a good race 1st up this prep. I hope they ride him a little closer and maybe dodge Flemington.

It has since been found that Huxssen has a virus of some sort and he didn't eat up on Saturday night. Probably explains why his performance was a little lacklustre.....

It was more than a virus on saturday... it was just awful. It needs everything to go its way to win... literally everything!

Nudge one would say YUCK

music to my ears - here's hopin for 10's again

yeah, for the second time ever, Im going to agree with you surround

Over me 500s and I wouldn't back Huxxsen, Nudge is right. He needs EVERY little thing to go his way to win, most backmarkers need at least a little luck, he needs bucketloads.