Since we changed back to the specials as requested by subscribers, we haven’t missed a beat. Yesterday we got one out of one. The Extra also won but clearly the Specials are the way to go if you want the highest possible strike rate. Our Daily Featuren Race missed and there were no Best Bets. HEY ! Isn’t the new Newcastle track playing well. Members called to confirm that yesterday was a Good Track and it was. It drains extremely well, being a similar base as Moonee Valley where Heavy tracks are extremely rare. Yesterdays meeting was the NSW Metro meeting. Today Townsville is a soft 5 and looking for an upgrade with 34c. Gosford is soft and the threat of imminent rain, we still have the lights on here at 8.30 a.m., and Warnambool is soft 7 and staying that way. Today will be a chalenge with Townsville being the most bettable tracvk then later Pinjarra should be okay and Pakenham tonight is currently soft5 but we have had some good resulst there lately. This morning I am putting up Randwick and Bendigo which is the city meeting this week. Randwick is soft5 this morning but 30mm is forecast tonight. If Randwick is worse than soft5 Saturday we will substitute Morphettvile again for Highstrikers. Today sees the kick of the jumps season with three of the first four races at Warnambool being jumps. Bring it on!