Moe Cup

The original plan had been for Meg and I to go to the gym then home. I would shower dress and come up to Yallourn North about 12.30 p.m. to pick up Meg and Simon.

The first tning that disrupted this plan was Sooka. He bacame sick over the week end and Meg took him to the vet. The vet rang early Thursady morning and said he could go home at 5 p.m. Thursday so Meg and Simon needed to take their car to go and pick up the cat.

Then I get a phone call at 9.25 a.m. when Meg was suppose to be picking me up between 9.15 and 9.30 a.m to say she had run out of petrol but would ring me when she was leaving and met me there.

So I went to the warehouse to see about buying the shelving units, I wanted for my study, and was kept waiting by the assistant for over twenty minutes while he checked if they had them. Me rang and said she was at gym and had TEXTED me when she had left home. Unfortunately my texting alert is not as loud as my ringing alert and I did not hear it. So as the assistant was not back I left adn went to the gym.

She had started witout me and it was now 10 a.m. so by the time I got to the shop, picked up Cliff's bets got home showered and dressed and had a bite to eat it was 12.30 p.m.

I couldn't find most of my make up and believe that Kirsten had been playing with it.

I jumped into the car and took of. It was not till I was leaving Morwell that I realised I'd left my hat behind. One of three days in the year I get to wear one and I missed it!

From Morwell to The Moe race course turnoff near McDonald's, Moe I was passed by three cars and a bike, not bad considering I did a steady 110 kms all the way, after all it is a 110 km zone. I passed two cars and a ute.

I had hoped to be there before the start of the second race. But by the time I parked and walked the kilometer to the course I got there just as they started. The horse I wanted to have a bet on placed "Abitofun" I decided I would go and place all the bets and then find a seat in the stands. It was while standing at the betting windows I realised that the newspaper Cliff had given me was no longer in my bag. I had taken it out while eating brunch and picking out my bets. I had put the pen and my glasses back in the bag but couldn't find the paper. (When I got home it was still on the bed!)

So I found the seat in the stands and rang Meg. I asked her to get the paper as it was $5 for a racing book. I had budgeted $12 for the entry and $5 for the racing book as that had been the price in 2004, but the entry fee had risen to $20, $17 with concession, so I had no money for the race book.

They did not arrive till after the third race which turned out to be okay as the horse I had wanted to back in that race didn't place.

I went and had all my bets and rang Cliff to get his AGAIN.

I was pleased to see some things had changed re fashion on the field but disappointed that they had not changed enough.

A good change was that there is now a section for men. Meg said they had it last year too. But like the women's fashion the winner was wearing black. Not a bad colour for a funeral, wedding or church but as I have said over and over NOT a spring carnival colour. Now the young man in the ornage suit had the right idea! and he was a big boy too!

We have just had winter, beak, black and grey days, brown, white days. Spring is about yellows, greens, orange, reds, COLOUR.

There were 14 women in the final and this year unlike the 8 years I have come from 1997 till 2004 there were only 50% of the finalists in drab clothes, instead of the 85-95%. Also there was ONE older lady who was also more than a pencil thin woman. One improvement was that there is a section for hat now as well as fashion on the field, but I think there should be three prizes (AT LEAST) for each section. I also believe there should be fashion on the field for over 50's and a section for under 50's instead of lumpng everyone together. Of the finalists even the older lady would have been mid 40's, and there were many older ladies, walking around, dressed better than the finalists on the dias.

In Race 4 I bet on "Taxicab." "Zunia" won, "Taxicab" came second, "Spectrum Blitz" came third and fourth was "Attadblue.'

In Race 5 I bet on "Jest for Fun." "Fabric of Dreams" won, "Kelthrope" came second, "Dismissal' came third and "Jest for Fun" ran fourth.

In Race 6 I bet on "Flou Shot." "Devil's Nite" won, "Flou Shot' came second, "We Wonder" came third and "Odd Angry Shot" came fourth. Cliff likes the double letters and bet on "Cape Clinton" "Sailor Salute" and "Mighty Milo." He did not see "We Wonder"!!

On the Moe cup I put a dollar each way on "Heavenly Run" and "Irish Noble" and did no good as "Captious" won "Hoaks" came second, "Roanoke" came third and fourth was "Stamen."

Janette Chipperfield came and sat in front of me at about the start of the fifth race so we had a talk and I got her phone number again. She said that she had seen Kath at the Pool Competition Awards Night, and asked her to say hi to me and to give her a ring, of course I had not got the message. She said that she had not got the note I had left in her letter box about three months ago. She said she and Fred had gone to England about that time for a couple of months.

By the time I caught up with Meg said good bye collected my bets drove home it was 5.30 p.m. when I walked in the door. I had lost $5.50 in bets so it wasn't too bad.

On the way home I passed two cars and a ute (Different ones from those on the way!) but was only passed by one car. Again I did a steady 110 but the car that passed me was flying he must have being going close to 150kms.

A full day to be sure.