I had my money on Tommy Danzigger on the 7th and Romancin Traveller, the DQ’ed horse in the 8th–watch out for this three-year-old when he gets a few more races under his belt–so I’d rather focus on my otherwise pleasant Easter Friday with friends at Silks, Hastings clubhouse restaurant, where we had the view of the race from the window and our monitor.

And no, we are not talking about an order of Depends adult size diapers for the lucky 20 who get to defend the honour of this frantic city heading into the next possible elimination game against the hated Hawks

Hastings Park had their first stakes race on Friday, the George Royal. Noosa Beach, an invader from Seattle, briefly stalked the front-running Sassou before leading the field to the finish line in 1:16. He won by a comfortable length over Senor Rojo.