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There are things you immediately notice about Josh Hazlewood, like the fact that he is nearly two metres tall, or that he is a damn fine bowler in all formats. Then there are things you dont see unless you look for them, like the fact that he is the only member of Australias team without a Twitter account. Such a detail may seem irrelevant; to Hazlewood, irrelevant would be wasting time on social media when theres a job to be done.And what a job he does. Two years ago this week, Hazlewood made his Test debut at the Gabba and began with a five-wicket bag. No Australian has taken more Test wickets during that time than Hazlewoods 94 at 25.61, and of all comers only R Ashwin and Stuart Broad have bettered his tally. He is fifth on the ICCs Test bowling rankings, higher than either Mitchell Starc or Nathan Lyon have ever risen in their careers.Yet for all his success, Hazlewood is not viewed in the rock-star way of Starc, who bowls the wow balls that swing in and rattle stumps, set bails flying and commentators screaming. But Hazlewoods value is clear to Australias team management, hence his place in the team leadership group alongside Starc and David Warner, the trio who - along with input from captain Steven Smith - imposed a fine on Glenn Maxwell during the recent ODI series.Over the last six to twelve months Ive found that Ive sort of been the mainstay, I guess, in the team and there have been faces coming in and out, Hazlewood said at the Gabba on Tuesday, in the lead-up to the first Test against Pakistan. You just take that senior role upon yourself and Im really enjoying it at the moment.Were the guys who have been there for the last few years in the Test matches. Were the core of the group I think at the moment, and especially with Davey there as well, the vice-captain, hes a great leader among the group as well. To have a couple of bowlers in there is also good. It remains unusual for pacemen to be made captain at the elite levels of Australian cricket, but neither is the lazy stereotype of the dumb fast bowler often heard these days. In the recent Tests against South Africa, Hazlewood gave a fine demonstration in fast-bowing smarts by dismissing Hashim Amla, one of world crickets best batsmen, in every innings.I had a little chat to him after the series was finished as well, just about different things hed worked on to try and counteract, but obviously didnt work, Hazlewood said. Hes one person who does watch a lot of footage and you could see the changes there in that last Test that he made, just dragged a bit wider and same result.I could just see that he changed, he set up a little bit differently. He was getting further across outside off, wanting me to follow him and target the stumps a bit more and then hes a class player off his pads. I just took it a little bit wider and took the stumps out of the equation. He probably could have left a lot more, which he did do early on, but then he started playing a couple through impatience, I guess, and I got the result.If you can outdo Amla on patience, you deserve all the credit in the world. Hazlewood believes a similar approach will serve him well against Pakistans batsmen in this series. Although he is yet to play a Test against Pakistan and is not the kind of bowler to study hours of batting footage, Hazlewood is confident he will quickly discover what works.I take a lot from the first couple of balls I bowl to each batsman, Hazlewood said. I see a lot more in those couple of balls than watching footage.That is the mark of a natural. Elite sports best performers are those who combine quick assessment of an opponents weaknesses with the skills to exploit them. Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath were masters of observing and setting up a batsman. Hazlewood has often been compared to McGrath, another tall bowler from country New South Wales with a metronomic ability to wear batsmen down.McGrath reached the 100-wicket milestone in his 23rd Test at the age of 26; should Hazlewood get there at the Gabba this week, he will do so in his 24th Test, three weeks shy of his 26th birthday. Since his debut at this ground in 2014, Hazlewood has missed only one Test, the final match of the 2015 Ashes at The Oval. His durability is impressive at a time when Australia struggle to keep fast men fit.And whereas 46.5% of Starcs wickets have been bowled or lbw, a sign of how much he attacks the stumps, Hazlewoods figure is 32.9%. McGraths, by comparison, was 33.5%. Hazlewood, like McGrath, is content to plug away at the top of off and wait for an edge.We have our bowlers meetings and 99% of the time it comes back to bowling the top of off with the occasional bouncer, Hazlewood said. Theres probably one player in each team where thats not plan A, but often the case is it comes back to that.Still, it takes patience for a fast bowler to avoid frustration and stick to such a plan. Patience and the ability to block out distractions. Hazlewood possesses those traits in abundance. They have served him well in two years as a Test cricketer. There is every reason to think they will do so for another decade.Performance, intelligence, patience, focus and fitness - Hazlewood ticks more boxes than a market researcher. No wonder this team views him as a leader. Adidas Continental 80 Dames . The 27-year-old Scrivens will be joining his third NHL club since signing with the Toronto Maple Leafs as a free agent in 2010. 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While the three-year-olds were the headline acts in Sydney, Makybe Diva Stakes Day at Flemington saw the older horses continue to shape the picture towards the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups and the Cox Plate.Palentino was an impressive winner of the $500,000 Group I Makybe Diva Stakes -- renamed in 2006 to honour the three-time Melbourne Cup-winning mare. The $8.50 UBET second favourite defeated the $2.10 favourite Black Heart Bart, and the pair provided trainer Darren Weir with a Group I quinella.Palentinos victory showed just how good form at Flemington can keep delivering. After winning the Group I Australian Guineas, also over 1600 metres, at the same track in March, the wider open spaces of the bigger course had Palentino feeling at home once again.Faatinah, meanwhile, was an impressive winner of the Group II Bobbie Lewis Quality (1200m).Described by David Hayes as a fraction allergic to work, the four-year-old gelding has his co-trainer aspiring to take him to Dubai for feature races in March. More immediately, having finished 2.7 lengths behind Black Heart Bart in the Group I The Goodwood (1200m) in Adelaide in March, Faatinah may have further strong winning prospects as the Melbourne Spring Carnival rolls on.Headline ActDarren Weir has more than a hundred horses in work at any one time, but you just cant go too far wrong following him.The decision to run Palentino at Flemington on Saturday rather than taking another similar option at Caulfield saw just how slickly the Weir team operates, with assistant trainer Jerome Hunter reminding Weir of the horses strong Flemington credentials earlier this week and hence influenced the decision to take on the WFA contest.Despite Palentinos penchant for headquarters, UBET rate him a $16 chance for the Cox Plate at Moonee Valley and that may provide some value for each-way punters.Apart from training the Makybe Diva Stakes quinella, Weir notched a double with Royal Rapture winning the final event to take the lightly raced seven-year-olds record to four wins from six outings.Talking PointsMelbourne 3yos v Sydney 3yosAlways a topic of hot conversation, particularly in stoking the major city rivalry.But it is very clear that the Sydney-based class of 2016/17 are superior to their southern peers.Astern was a most impressive winner of the Group I Golden Rose (1400m) at Rosehill, as tipped by Scott Heinrich in the ESPN Weekend Preview, with Omei Sword and Impending filling the minor placings.Back at Flemington, the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Detective won the Listed Starlight Express Room Stakes (1400m) but post-race Peter noted that he didnt think that Detective was up to winning a race like the Caulfield Guineas next month.This all points to a Sydney domination of the Caulfield Guineas (8 October) and Thousand Guineas (15 October), with Astern holding favouritism with UBET at $4.40 for the earlier race, and Omei Sword at $3.60 for the latter.Is Black Heart Bart a miler?Despite not winning, there was little to suggest that he isnt capable of being successful at a mile or further. The Weir stable have Cox Plate-aspirations for their two-time Group I winner who is currently at $21 with UBET for the Moonee Valley feature.Although beaten by one length by Palentino, the three-length margin to the majority of the field would give punters some confidence -- but maybe little consolation -- that Bart was just beaten by a better horse on the day at a track less suitable.Blackheart Bart will head to Caulfield on Sep. 24 for the Group I Underwood Stakes over 1800 metres, which will give everyone a much better indication of his ability to reach the longer trips -- and at a course where he has already been successful.ddddddddddddEyecatchersPrince of Penzance: After the 2016 Emirates Melbourne Cup we all may well be saying how did he go around at 150-1 last year, and you could still get $31 (UBET) in September?.He just continues to be a surprise packet without winning. He looked very well in the mounting yard at Flemington, as he did at Caulfield before the Memsie Stakes, and ran accordingly into sixth placing at $81 -- less than three lengths behind Palentino.Darren Weir described Harry Coffeys ride as a learning experience and suggested that a more uninhibited course through the field could have been taken, but the trainer was happy with his run nonetheless.Manageress: The impressive return of this four-year-old mare has been well documented after surgery to remove bone chips from a knee immediately after her second placing to Lucia Valentina at Flemington in November 2015.Similarly with Bon Aurum, who won the Listed The Sofitel (1400m); trainer Ciaron Maher noted that he underwent a similar operation during last season, which bodes well for others in that situation in their recovery.Manageress third placing in the Group II Lets Elope Stakes (1400m) continued her very good form at this track.BlackbookersThrossell: Each time he steps out he looks like a Derby contender. While the 1400 metres of the Starlight Express Room Stakes was well short of the 2500 metres Flemington classic distance, Throssels third placing here suggested he was well on track for the 29 October feature.He Or She: Jockey Craig Williams said he loved the way he kept finding as the former Perth galloper finished off well into third placing in the Makybe Diva Stakes. This may well be the characteristic youll be looking for as the distances step up.Hi World: Jockey Dwayne Dunn suggested a step-up to a race over mile would suit this horse next time. There is a win in this one somewhere but he is very hard to catch.FlopsXtravagant: After crossing the Tasman with great expectations following a Group I victory in New Zealand in February, Xtravagant was very disappointing in the Australian Guineas at Flemington a month later.Going into the Bobbie Lewis Quality first-up, it was hoped he would return to his previously impressive self. He didnt, running much like the Lay of the Day that Scott Heinrich suggested in his weekend racing preview on Friday.Stewards failed to find any medical abnormalities, but co-trainer Stephen Autridge suggested that Xtravagant may be a better horse when racing around a turn rather than down the straight six course at Flemington. Either way, punters will be very wary of this Kiwi invader in future.Defcon: Starting at $3.10 in the Group II Danehill Stakes (1200m), despite Scott Heinrich suggesting he was under the odds at $4, this Snowden-trained three-year-old was well expected to follow up on his victory at Caulfield a fortnight earlier. Unplaced here, vets found that Defcon had pulled-up lame in the near foreleg.Seaburge: Despite competing in a very open race, Seaburge may have been disappointing for punters who backed him as second-favourite at $7 with UBET. There were excuses, though, as the colt was held up in running for 300 metres from the beginning of the long Flemington straight. Once finding a gap, it was all too late to figure in the finish. ' ' '