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28 Nov 17 07:26
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100% super fitness pulled off this great plunge. 1975

I had a handy greyhound that won his juvenile and grade 5 race, but was drawing bad boxes and getting into trouble the next 15 starts.

I took him to Sandown on Tuesday trial night over more distance, he won in 44.36 which at the time was about 6 lengths off

City invitation standard and good enough to win a grade 5 in the city but I down-graded for a bush plunge.

The dog had developed a liking for an outside draw and how could I get that wide box and have a good go at him?


I checked the racing calendar and a 640 handicap race at Wangaratta was coming up with the local champ off 1 metre, Box 1 and 6-7-8 boxes off ten metres.

Could the local champ give my dog 9 metres start and win, impossible plus I had my outside draw.


I then dropped his trials back to 6 x 300 metres to get more early speed in him, pumped up his blood count and had him 100% super fit.

My plunge was 4 weeks’ away and he was ready to win!

He drew draw box 7, great news.

With  15 bookies on course, 5 other mates went to the track and money in their pocket.

We did not talk to each other for the first 5 races nor did we form any sort of a group.

Pop wiped his forehead in the centre of the ring and that was the signal for each punter to keep hitting 3 bookies each,

plus the time was set to hit Olympic Park bookies at the exact second as much as we could at top odds.
We opened at 15/1 and finished at 7/4, with the average price was 8/1.

His second call to Olympic Park from Wangaratta was 15/1 into 7/4.


He jumps a length in front,  3 lengths in front around the first corner, 5 lengths in front up the back, 7 lengths in front turning for home and wins by 9-1/2 lengths.

The bookies had to borrow off the tote to pay me.

My reputation was getting shot to pieces. Hahahahaha

James

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By:
mouse muldoon
When: 28 Nov 17 08:06
Nothing better than a good bush plunge imo.
By:
GLASGOWCALLING
When: 28 Nov 17 11:38
thinly veiled " ive got more than 5 mates "  thread.
By:
brendrew
When: 28 Nov 17 14:32
is there not  a dog thread somewhere else?
By:
impossible123
When: 28 Nov 17 14:57
Stop being a spoilsport. It was a good story, and probably a thing in the past now given the reluctance of bookies to take bets these days.
By:
Virgin
When: 29 Nov 17 09:50
There's an after-timing thread on Ante Post Racing ....all kinds of 99.9% crazy over there ...maybe even 42 years

Virgin
By:
Rico-Dangleflaps
When: 29 Nov 24 12:27
wd Jimmy
By:
top2rated
When: 29 Nov 24 17:07
I realise this thread is from 2017 but I'm beginning to wonder if James (Jim) Conway is still with us.

The security certificate for his website, 28point8.com, expired a while ago and it looks like the 'Live Form' and 'Live Fitness' sections last activity was on 21/03/2021.

He's on https://x.com/fithorses but posts protected so no idea when he was last active there.

Hope he's OK over there in Melbourne.
By:
Rico-Dangleflaps
When: 29 Nov 24 18:19
jimmys now a transgender called Janine..now has a labia.
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