Rembetica – Blackbooked Country Runner
One thing the TopPunter team loves to do is follow a runner, and we’ve had success with our blackbooked horses, including ROBERTS ROAD, OUR VEGAS DREAM and KASABIAN the standout after his stunning wins.
The key to being successful in following a horse is picking up when it offers good odds on a suited distance, track and weight carried. Not every horse you’ll follow will be a HOT DANISH or SHOCKING and your knowledge of local tracks comes in handy.
One horse we’ve followed for a while is REMBETICA. We’ve been able to follow his progress around as a bit of an iron horse, running in just about every Newcastle and Hunter region race over 2000m. We’ve had plenty of success in being able to carefully punt on him when he is set for track conditions and weight carried and we have had some healthy place prices and a win. One of our best results was a strong second on Cameron Handicap day at Newcastle with Stathi Katsidis on board giving him a decent run down the long straight suiting the fast finish and he bolted through to claim good place odds at $4.10 on the tote and just miss for a $18 win.
We had a chat to Rembetica’s trainer, Ms Dianne Lumsden about her thoughts on the horse. Diane, who is based in Broadmeadow, was kind enough to answer a few questions for us and we like to share the love and include the info for our followers.
Dianne let us know that she intended to leave him in the paddock for a good spell after the race at Newcastle as she’d given him a tough task of a number of runs. However, after about a month being spelled he was really starting to kick up and get a bit frisky indicating he was ready for work. Rembetica is about 3 or 4 weeks into around the 6-7 weeks work she intends to give him before putting him back into a race. Dianne said she’s likely to start him at the 1400m or so just to check that he is ready before going out beyond the mile. One key factor for Dianne is getting a jockey on board who will race him as she intends to give him every chance of flying home and converting the podium finishes to a winners trophy or two.
All the best to Dianne and the connections, and if we think he’s worth the odds we’ll be looking at an each way here or there. Good punting!
-TopPunter team-
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