Mark Casey OAM

After a big off-season, Deer Park is ready to let its bowls do the talking in the Bowls Victoria weekend pennant premier division. tinyurl.com/27tvhdss ✍️@taramurray339

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🏇 WFA Performance Ratings ⏱️⚖️📊 – Top 5 Winners from Moonee Valley & Rosehill 🌍 Beiwacht – 108 The Golden Rose gave us something extraordinary. Beiwacht’s 108 was a genuine world-class performance. Scintillating sustained pace, with every cross-check you want to use; the clock itself, comparisons to other 1400m races on the day, and the spread of margins behind backed up by ratings of those horses, all supporting Beiwacht’s figure. It’s rare to see numbers of this calibre. Can he repeat it? Time will tell. What I do know is that every elite horse has an “oh wow” performance, the moment they shift in our minds from “above average” to “potentially elite.” That doesn’t mean they reproduce it every start (Nature Strip is the perfect example), but it proves they have the talent to reach those heights. Saturday might have been Beiwacht’s moment. It came at the right age, in the right race, and is not something to dismiss lightly. Whether he reproduces it or not remains to be seen, but on the day, we have to call it what it was: world-class. 💎 Charm Stone - 104 (G1 Manikato Stakes) She resumed with a huge new 104 peak in the Manikato, improving from her previous best of 99.7, when she won the G1 Sangster in Adelaide earlier this year, also first-up. With numerous 1200m references to compare on the night, and a clear 2+ length margin in two in-form horses, Baraqiel and Magic Time, there's no denying the quality of her performance. ⭐️ Pride Of Jenni – 102 (G2 Feehan) Pride Of Jenni’s Feehan Stakes win was fascinating not just for the figure, a strong 102, but for how differently she went about it. Known for her “catch me if you can” style, this time she was rated in one of the most controlled front-running tempos of her career. Through the first 800m, she rated -2.3L versus the TopRate standard, the second slowest tempo she’s ever run in 31 starts when leading at that point. To put it in perspective, her median speed to the 800m when leading has been +6.4L. That means she went 8.7L slower than the midpoint of her full range of leading splits. While the overall rating sits just below her best 103-104 range over the last 12 months, it showed another layer to her profile, which may, in fact, help her go deeper into the spring.

Through & through. He's all ours. Bontempelli has signed on for another 4 years 🐶 🔗 bit.ly/3IFvxX9