Melbourne Cup Results 2014

2014 Melbourne Cup Results

Melbourne Cup Results

So there you have it, all the placings for the 2014 Melbourne Cup results. Do you remember my post on Tips for Picking The Winning Melbourne Cup Horse? I mentioned in that post how favourites rarely win and in the following post I didn’t take the advice and picked both Admire Rakti and Fawkner. Both were favourites and both failed to win the race, Fawkner coming tenth and Admire Rakti last. In admire Rakti’s defence, the poor horse wasn’t at his best. So, as it turns out that was another losing bet for me.

The Melbourne Cup The Race That Killed Admire Rakti

Unfortunately for the owners of the winner, Protectionist, are pretty well in the limelight as everyone focuses on the death of Admire Rakti. According to news.com.au….

“The diagnosis is that the horse died of acute heart failure as a result of ventricular fibrillation probably, which is a disorganised heart rhythm which happens very, very rarely in human athletes and in horses and is a consequence of the athletic heart and the rapid heart rate during racing,” Dr Stewart said on SEN Radio.

“It is very rare but it does occur.

“It’s a disruption of the normal electrical conduction through the heart and there can be various sets of circumstances that might set it off. Athletes are probably more prone to the syndrome especially those with large hearts and a big capacity to raise the heart rate … throwing it into this abnormal rhythm and the heart is unable to supply enough blood for the body.”

While sad it isn’t anyones fault. It certainly should not be used as an excuse to stop horse racing as is being suggested by many horse lovers.

it’s a shame that they had to air the demise of Admire Rakti as he died in his stall. That certainly did not help the situation.

This years Melbourne Cup results in the death of another horse, Araldo, who was spooked by a child waving an Australian flag. Araldo kicked out at a fence fracturing a pastern bone in the horse’s leg. Owners decided to euthanise the horse as the only humane thing to do. Once again a freak accident and no reason to ban horse racing in Australia.

Should Horses Be Whipped In Races?

Whipping a horse to make it run faster is not something that I can agree with. As far as I’m concerned whips should not be used in any horse race. That would be like running behind a someone in a race with a whip in and effort to get them to run faster. It’s simply unthinkable and in my opinion the it’s no different in horse races.

What is worse that the whip though is the anti rearing bit. Unfortunately most punters and race goes do not realise that these bits cause the horse more distress than the whips do. The reason they’re oblivious to it is because unlike the whips which are very visible in the race the rearing bits are not. I found this interesting article on The Use Of The Anti Rearing Bit.

If we’re to be truly kind to our horses then perhaps we should stop inflicting pain on them. What do you think?

 

Cox Plate Race Results

cox plate race results

Did you place a bet on this year’s Cox Plate. I did. I even wrote about it in my last post. No bullshit, I really though that Criterion had a chance of winning it. Unfortunately he didn’t. Damn donkey didn’t even get a place. At least if it placed anything up to 4th place I would have gotten my money back. That;s because of the money back special that Sportsbet was offering. Oh well let’s have a look at the Cox Plate race results shall we.

Cox Plate Race Results 2014

Place

#

Horse

Trainer

Jockey

1

11

ADELAIDE 

Aidan O’Brien

Ryan Moore

2

2

FAWKNER

Robert Hickmott

Nicholas Hall

3

9

SILENT ACHIEVER

Roger James

Nash Rawiller

4

3

SIDE GLANCE

Andrew Balding

James Spencer

5

5

FORETELLER

Chris Waller

Tommy Berry

6

4

HAPPY TRAILS

Paul Beshara

Damien Oliver

7

8

CRITERION 

David Payne

James McDonald

8

13

SWEYNESSE

John O’Shea

Chad Schofield

9

6

THE CLEANER

Mick Burles

Steven Arnold

10

14

WANDJINA

Gai Waterhouse

Dean Yendall

11

1

SACRED FALLS 

Chris Waller

Zac Purton

12

10

ROYAL DESCENT

Chris Waller

Glen Boss

13

12

ALMALAD

Gai Waterhouse

Craig Newitt

FF

7

GUEST OF HONOUR 

Marco Botti

Craig Williams

Yep, as you can see from the race results above my horse, Criterion, came 7th. Oh well, I suppose that’s better than coming last.

What pisses me off is that I had this gut feeling when I saw that Adelaide was running. Maybe it has something to do that I live near Adelaide. Maybe Lady Luck was trying to tell me something but I just wasn’t receptive enough to her whispering in my ear,  :hey_you:

As a consolation it was sort of cool to know that the favourite, Fawkner, didn’t win eaither.

So, now that we have the Cox Plate race results out of the way I really would love to know how you went. Did you manage to pick the winner? If so what made you pick Adelaide?

Adelaide United vs Melbourne Victory Update

I don’t usually watch A League soccer but I did watch the Adelaide United vs Melbourne Victory game last Friday Night. This is most unusual for me and the only reason I did watch it is because I placed some bets on the game. You can see how I placed those bets in my Australian A League Betting post.

What can I say, that bet was a total bust! Almost like that game. Shit, the only thing that made that game interesting and worth watching was the fact that I placed those bets on it. If I hadn’t placed those bets I doubt very much that I would have watched the whole thing.

Even so I found Adelaide United efforts most frustrating. Not that I know that much about soccer but I felt that Adelaide United was the better side. They seemed to control the ball better and had more shots at goals than Melbourne Victory did. The fact that they missed it so often I found to be extremely frustrating.

When they did finally score that goal in the dying minutes of the game I thought I had a winning bet for sure. All they had to do was to make sure Melbourne Victory did not score a goal. They’d done that for some 85 or so minutes so I thought they could do it for a few minutes more. Unfortunately it was not to be as Ben Khalfallah scored the equaliser ruining all of Sergio Cirio’s efforts for scoring what could have been the winning goal.

Adelaide United draw

The Guardian had an interesting update of the game. Not too much to say I suppose, especially considering it was such a lack lustre game.

All in all though, boring as the game was, I have to say that Adelaide did very well not to get their arses kicked. Apparently, according to some soccer enthusiasts I spoke to, they expected Melbourne Victory to have a resounding win. If you look at it that way a draw isn’t all that bad. Except for the fact that it cost me a bet that is.  :tongue_out: