Dubai Carnival Contest V

[The Bart]

Hey Brock!!!! GREAT CALL on Cityscape!!!!!!!!!!!!! You did a GREAT JOB running the contest this year!!!!! Hopefully next year a lot more people will get in!!

[brockguy]

Thanks Lads - just heading home from Dubai now but looks as if the Bart has secured an easy victory - ill have the official scores in a day or two! For anyone even half interested in going over to Dubai for the races, I fully recommend it :-) its such a great event - its a bit like royal ascot but with better looking women :-)

[NoChanceToDance]

Originally Posted by brockguy

Thanks Lads - just heading home from Dubai now but looks as if the Bart has secured an easy victory - ill have the official scores in a day or two! For anyone even half interested in going over to Dubai for the races, I fully recommend it :-) its such a great event - its a bit like royal ascot but with better looking women :-)

I didn't know you were there mate. Would have been good to catch up for a drink. I agree, a great evening. It's a shame the event was marred by the loss of two horses.

How good were the fireworks!

I aim to get back there next year, and stay for a bit longer. Flying from and back to Oz in four days is hitting me quite hard now.

Many thanks for running the comp again, I couldn't contribute anywhere near a much as I would have liked this year, and after a few weeks out I decided to call it a day.

[brockguy]

Originally Posted by NoChanceToDance

I didn't know you were there mate. Would have been good to catch up for a drink. I agree, a great evening. It's a shame the event was marred by the loss of two horses.

How good were the fireworks!

I aim to get back there next year, and stay for a bit longer. Flying from and back to Oz in four days is hitting me quite hard now.

Many thanks for running the comp again, I couldn't contribute anywhere near a much as I would have liked this year, and after a few weeks out I decided to call it a day.

Oh God man, yeah would have been nice to meet up - I pretty much spent the night drinking in the Irish village, gave a few people Krypton Factor and Cityscape and then people started thinking I was some sort of racing genius and wanted me to pose with them in pictures etc.. I should be down in Australia later on this year if you are still there..

[brockguy]

FINAL DUBAI CARNIVAL CONTEST V SCORES:

Well done to The Bart who had all but wrapped up the prize early on and cruised to the win - he consistently picked some very very juicy winners week in week out. Fantastic congratulations on a great performance and you were one of two (with Linny) who had the big winner Monterosso in their first two picks.. Send me on a PM and I will send you on a nice (small!) prize.

As ever the results are available here and let me know of any scoring issues: http://www.racingpost.com/horses2/re...012-03-31#1231


Rank Player This Week Running Total
1 The Bart 516.25 11,039.09
2 jaripeo 1,210.99 7,574.88
3 PatCummings 2,530.64 7,100.42
4 brockguy 2,160.00 6,475.55
5 Arletta 1,040.99 6,326.18
6 Linny 1,690.64 5,939.59
7 mclem0822 1,069.09 5,720.08
8 clyde 1,080.00 3,992.55
9 ryonker1 0 3,581.21
10 gamblin4ever 1,521.55 3,465.35
11 my miss storm cat 0.00 1,861.30
12 Roc525 0.00 910.55
13 NoChanceToDance 0.00 759.40
14 joeyp 0 0

As ever, it was a pleasure to do this contest this year (even though I had a little less time to do everything). We are lucky to have a passionate, dedicated following of Dubai racing followers here and hopefully with this contest (going strong for 5 years now!) people have become a little more interested in it. We have some fantastic handicappers on here and have a great resource in Pat Cummings as well who is doing such sterling work for the racing in Dubai..

If anyone has any comments or suggestions on the contest format etc, just let me know and we can see what we can do..

[NoChanceToDance]

Originally Posted by brockguy

Oh God man, yeah would have been nice to meet up - I pretty much spent the night drinking in the Irish village, gave a few people Krypton Factor and Cityscape and then people started thinking I was some sort of racing genius and wanted me to pose with them in pictures etc.. I should be down in Australia later on this year if you are still there..

I didn't even hear of the Irish Village. Sounds like fun though, and after those two you would have been considered the messiah! I couldn't have had Krypton Facor on my mind if I'm honest - I guess that's racing. Great Fawzi Nass and his small team!

Be sure to let me know if and when you come down here mate. I'm here full time now. I'll be back in England for the horses in training sale at the end of Oct and then straight onto the Breeders Cup, but I'll be back on the morning on the Melbourne Cup and I'll probably head straight to Flemington (if I'm still awake after the flight!)

[brockguy]

Originally Posted by The Bart

Hey Brock!!!! GREAT CALL on Cityscape!!!!!!!!!!!!! You did a GREAT JOB running the contest this year!!!!! Hopefully next year a lot more people will get in!!

THanks man and congrats (see above ) Cityscape winning made my night, was a terrific performance and turned me into a mini celeb for the night

[PatCummings]

Sorry we didn't connect, Kev - was supremely busy. Still can't believe Ortensia was 6-1 in UK, higher on some books I think too...oh well. Thanks for running the show.

[mclem0822]

Congrats Bart, great job!

[my miss storm cat]

Congrats, Bart, and to everyone who finished at the top!

(... and thank you, Brock)!

[jaripeo]

WAS FUN.....
NEXT YEAR,
NOS VEMOS.