The Mark Johnston Turf Thread 2017...

Cheers virgin

PJ Macdonald teaming up with MJ after jacking in his first job to Ann Duffield is one to note this season imo



gl striding'

Yep, i am on both  as well , MJs stats at Berveley are very good.

Cheers all and gl those that are playing today.

I'm very wary at this stage of the season with the yard's runners but Beverley often bucks plenty of trends with MJ and he's sent out 17 winners from 41 in these 3yo hcps in their first run of their 3yo turf campaign at the track since BFSP.

I thought election day would be a fair bit shorter than 7/1 on here but there are some doubts with it possibly with trip and ground and the race looks competitive for the grade. With regards the trip, firstly there would be few runners that look potentially progressive in this age group that MJ would send to this track that failed for stamina. The sire indexes don't jump out for 10f but the percentages are actually slightly better for 10-12f then less than 12f which surprised me a bit. The horse showed plenty of resolution on bad ground at Hamilton the back end of the 2yo campaign over 8 1/2f and I'd be surprised if this 10f round here was the cause for defeat. The ground has turned faster recently and though it's not been encountered since the debut, fast going round here has further enhanced this trainers already exceptional record in this sort of race.When looking at how many last time out winners MJ's runners were coming up against in this sample of runners at the track he's pitched in 4 runners in races with 4 lto winners (including his) and come out successful on 3 occasions, generally the level of competitiveness has not seemed the slightest issue.

The blues master is obviously in the same group and It will be no surprise at all if it wins again but I'm pretty sure over the season I'm not going to be ahead at this sort of price/profile of runner so will let this one through, obviously hope it does the business for those on and with doubles.

4:00 Beverley Election Day: current price 8.0

GL with the thread this year Stride

The Bev overall stats don't look that inspiring
But your mining down is often tiptop

Might be a bit early for it
Maybe June

striding, I've kept records for MJ at Beverley from 2010 onwards.

He does particularly well in 3yo H/C's as you've mentioned.

I look forward to reading this topic.

Good luck

The more the merrier STATS

Ashleigh, yes it is very strange to see Joe there not riding these 2yo's and I would have been perplexed had PJ not won on these horses already, it is a worry because joe and MJ are as you say mustard at farming this type of race and interestingly Joe is up on one of Bethell's in the blues master race (a few MJ favs have been turned over at track when Joe been on outside mounts but nowhere near enough evidence to be a huge concern)

I've got a feeling the late betting will say a lot in the 4:00, I don't mind drifters in a lot of circumstances but in this sort of race/grade round here I'd hope for a bit of support rather than it being adrift come race time from the top 3 in mkt.

Gelding & the ground for Blues ?

Does seem odd Fanning not riding for his masters one
Lucky rabbits foot for Mac ?

apologies forgot to take the size down



Not at Beverley

Bets	Wins	Win%	P/L(SP)	Places	Place%	Races	Race%	P/L(BF)	ROI(L)	ROI(BF Plc)	Lay(Plc)	ROI(L Plc)	MxOdd	AvgOddBF	BF A/E	BF chi	BFExpWins	AvgBFWinOdd
245	27	11.02	-107.95	63	25.71	223	12.11	-103.23	2.84	-29.16	56.83	8.35	41	13.4	0.85	0.86	31.88	5.47

at Beverley

Bets	Wins	Win%	P/L(SP)	Places	Place%	Races	Race%	P/L(BF)	ROI(L)	ROI(BF Plc)	Lay(Plc)	ROI(L Plc)	MxOdd	AvgOddBF	BF A/E	BF chi	BFExpWins	AvgBFWinOdd
41	17	41.46	38.79	21	51.22	38	44.74	45.72	-18.06	29.28	-14.69	-18.3	17	7.83	2.13	12.58	8	5.43

No complaints Delta winner different gravy today, 2nd but well beat.

the blues master looking a fair price now

Hit 1.9 in running

3.5 now the blues master, be rude not to have a bit more on

got some 3.7

surprised they ran that big filly over 5f, 6f on stiff track= winner...

No winners though I really liked Noble Manners, but chance had gone with the bad start and ran pretty green. Unusual for MJ. Hopefully with the experience it will come good.

johnston not had a 2 year old winner crazy betting them at min !

Hope Joe doesn't make a monkey of us

keep emm coming

Only good thing, put it in @ BSP 3.1 to equate to 2-1 after commission returned 3.05, so bet wasn't taken. Amazing how windy the layers are day after day.