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Kylie, Stu and I are so excited our girl has won tonight a big thank you To Matty and Sarah

Very Proud to be a Dark Horse 1. 5,9 2. 1,6 3. 2,11 4. 8,10 5. 6,11 6. 4,12 BB 7. 4,13 8. 12,15 9. 3,12 10. 2,4 BB All the best The Rubiks & Klipity Klop, Lets Go Korio,Sarah,RosinaSkelly ...The Dark Horses are Go!! Big Thank You to Sir Peter.J. Cheers mate

What race is that in?

poundforpound keep taking your medication! Brian de Lore writes a racing column not a political column! If you had a weekly column in The Informant I would gladly pay $10 for it and give it to my local library to file in their Fantasy Section!

Happy to be in the final ? You betcha! Remember these ? ....... The Table after ROUND 6 1st 11 Five No Trumps* $7045.20 2nd 11 The Dark Horses* $6690.20 3rd 9 Mainly Dollarz* $6834.40 4th 9 Ad Augusta $6559.00 5th 9 The Royle Family $6152.00 6th 8 Betza Grand* $6656.20 7th 8 The Rubiks* $6285.60 8th 6 Lay Down Misere* $6280.60 The Table after ROUND 9 1st 18 The Dark Horses* $9680.60 2nd 17 The Royle Family $9295.00 3rd 16 Ad Augusta $9491.60 4th 15 Betza Grand $9187.60 5th 14 Mainly Dollarz $9705.20 6th 12 The Rubiks $9489.20 7th 11 Five No Trumps $8960.20 8th 9 Lay Down Misere $8823.00

All Stars all class with tri in Grp 1 fillies final and 2 other winners on the night. Cran on the other hand has no joy especially with the big shortner on the night in the last. What a tragedy beaten it was.

Boris loves betting on the Korean races he says there jockeys don’t have problems with there weight , ecspec ially the ones from North corea

And so it comes to this... the final roll of the dice. Unfortunately, of all weeks, I've had to pick pretty much blind. It's a method which went very badly a few weeks back, so advantage to Cubes. Now that I've deftly taken control of underdog status, here's some picks... R1 - 1,9 R2 - 1,6 R3 - 3,5 R4 - 2,7 BB R5 - 6,11 R6 - 2,5 R7 - 8,12 R8 - 1,3 R9 - 1,12 BB R10 - 3,13 Good luck to Cubes, thanks for administering the competition PJ, and c'mon the Dark Horses!

Chairman's Hdcp #2 Interlocuter Champagne Classic #4 Dynamited. Doomben 10000 #12 In Her Time Rough Habit #8 Dark Dream In a previous life once owned the winner of the Chairman's Hdcp. Good punting all

Congrats to the Boys Get Paid. The colours were worn for the first time today and Bilbao did the job for the boys by winning R3 at Ashburton today. BGP!!!

Jeepers. Lindsay/Warren really. It was done. There was a positive. Guilt was admitted. Penalty handed down. Penalty appealed. Appeal dismissed. Let it go!

Rosina 1 ~~ 1-3 [5] 2 ~~ 6-9 [3] ** 3 ~~ 1-2 [11] 4 ~~ 2-7 [10] 5 ~~ 2-12 [1] 6 ~~ 5-14 [2] 7 ~~ 1-4 [8] 8 ~~ 1-14 [4] 9 ~~ 1-12 [9] ** 10 ~~ 1-3 [8] Good Luck Hesi Good Luck Rubiks THE BEST OF LUCK DARK HORSES

Two years ago I emailed Dennis Ryan and said dont pussy foot around put your up price to $10.00. This is our unbiased NZ racing weekly source of news and accurate race fields. Such an amazing NZ publication.. Trainers/ Jockeys/ Sires / indexes. Mathew Francis as, the Informant's publisher wrote today the price would increase.to $8.50. Matt you should have rounded it up to a simple $10.00 . Rev Somervell

GRAND FINAL DRAW - Sat May 12 Races are: 1. Rotorua R1 - 11.10pm - Burton Construction 3YO - $25k, 1400m, 3yos SW+Ps 2. Rotorua R2 - 12.40pm - Taumarunui Cup 28 July 1560 - $30k, 1560m, R85 3. Rotorua R4 - 1.50pm - Van Dyks Furnishing 2200 - $22.5k, 2200m, R65 4. Rotorua R5 - 2.25pm - Campbell Infrastructure Rotorua Cup (Gr3) - $75k, 2200m, open hdcp 5. Doomben R4 - 3.10pm - Ascot Green Chairman's Hdcp (Gr3) - $125k, 2000m, qlty hdcp 6. Rotorua R7 - 3.38pm - ISCL Rotorua Stks (Gr3) - $70k, 1400m, fillies/mares WFA 7. Morphettville R4 - 4.36pm - UBET SA Sires' Produce Stks (Gr3) - $175k, 1400m, 2yos SWs 8. Doomben R7 - 5.10pm - Magic Millions The Roses (Gr2)- $175k, 2000m, 3yo fillies SWs 9. Doomben R8 - 5.50pm - Kirin Doomben 10,000 (Gr1) - $700k, 1200m, WFA 10. Morphettville R7 - 6.36pm - UBET South Australian Derby (Gr1) - $600k, 2500m, 3yos SWs THE RUBIKS vs THE DARK HORSES Kloppite (9/6-3394.20) v Moose (10/5-3766.60) Geoff (6/9-2933.20) v Korio (6/9-3164.20) Hesi (9/6-3310.40) v Rosina (7/8-2796.80) Cubes (6/9-3607.60) v Skelly (7/8-3080.40) Roland (8/7-4254.80) v Sarah (9/6-3675.40) The two Round-Robin encounters between the Finalists: ROUND 4 1 The Rubiks* (4th) $789.60 0 (x 2 Joker play) = 0 points 4 The Dark Horses (5th) $1574.00 4 points 108.00 Kloppite 381.00 Sarah 402.80 Cubes 388.20 Rosina 159.80 Hesi 338.60 Korio 46.00 Roland 261.80 Skelly 73.00 Geoff 204.40 Moose ROUND 8 0 THE RUBIKS (3rd) $576.60 0 points 5 THE DARK HORSES (1st) $1503.40 5 points 118.20 Kloppite 295.00 Sarah 137.00 Hesi 538.00 Korio 155.20 Cubes 344.00 Rosina 166.20 Geoff 213.40 Skelly 0.00 Roland 113.00 Moose So just one win for The Rubiks in 10 personal matches during the Round Robin. Quite a damning stat. Can the Cubemeister turn them around ??? THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (break-even score is $3960 after 15 matches) 4254.80 Roland (Rubiks) 3778.60 Redrum* (FNT) 3766.60 Moose (Dark Horses) 3763.80 Catalano (AAs) 3752.80 Graeme (Betza G) 3686.60 Jill* (Mainly $$) 3682.00 Pete* (Royle F) *14 matches only Good luck everyone

I think David works for NZ Thoroughbred looking after jockeys, hasn't been at All-Stars for a while.

Hi Scooby,I’ll go with Caulfield Race 6 number 3 Sun Quan.Thanks very much,and good luck to the other winners.

Huge effort by wee Krusty and Matt and Sarah.Congrats to Bro Bronson and Stu Dickinson.You have got a nice one there Bro! AC

race 1 - - - 1-5 race 2 - - - 6-7 race 3 - - -13-16 Best Bet Rotorua race 4 - - - 2-8 race 5 - - - 10-16 Best Bet Doomben race 6 - - - 3-10 race 7 - - - 11-15 race 8 - - - 7-16 race 9 - - - 1-2 race 10 - - - 1-11 Good luck Last40 and in particular us Dark Horses. Finding roughees has worked good for me ths comp so I'm not changing tak this late stage. As Sir C knows it takes just one.

Great post Bazach. 1. He would clearly have lost money. 2. Some of the studs are culling the "bottom quartile" but Dan is offering his entire crop.

R1: 5/8R2: 1/6R3: 1/2R4: 2/8R5: 6/11R6: 2/5 **R7: 4/8R8: 12/14R9: 1/12 **R10: 3/13 Good luck Mooseman. Thanks Peter. Just a point on Monday morning against Brighton (more likely three) and then on the glory in Kyiv. YNWA.

Hesi's selections: R1 1, 8 R2 6, 9 R3 1, 3 R4 7, 8 R5 1, 2 R6 2, 5 BB R7 1, 8 R8 5, 14 R9 1, 12 R10 1, 3 BB Good luck Rosina, a formidable opponent One last big effort Rubiks Thanks as always PJ ====================================================== LastOf40s hopefuls: R1: 1, 5 BB R2: 6, 7 R3: 9, 11 R4: 2, 8 R5: 2, 11 R6: 2, 5 R7: 1, 4 R8: 5, 14 R9: 1, 2 BB R10: 1, 10 Good luck Korio None of those roughies please. Thanks PJ for another few months of great entertainment. Geoff

Yeah fair enough...I was referring to the TAB policy of not allowing Oz residents access to the pdf files PJ was seeking Cheers Brian

It will happen straight away if Pam Schofield is granted a license, she also lives 110km away! A lot of questions will be asked by applicants that haven’t been granted licenses due to following correct processes if she can get one!!! Come on NZGRA, give this industry some credibility!

You need to lighten up a bit... I do understand the policy of the TAB but I was more stating how useless they are..... as everyone seems to be aware these days.... sorry if you took offence.

Here at Race Café we totally understand the general feeling in relation to your Super Comps Peter . The support from your Super Comps in the past with us has always been greatly appreciated. We acknowledge that it is an integral party part of everything which has made this site and the comps the success that they are today. In fact the two have grown exponentially over the past years. The competition has created fun and immense enjoyment for all those involved. We look forward to this relationship continuing to go from strength to strength in the future with our strong membership under-pinning its success and your continued enjoyment from it.

Rumour has it that Jason is waiting for a Marsh Trained Makfi filly to reappear on raceday after her Taupo trial win? Is this correct Ted ?

By the way lorna at cambridge still does it the right way under our rules..

Scooby ....If you understood the policy of the TAB....then perhaps you would understand PJ's predicament is in. Do your homework before making jokes

Leo the only stupid thing I do these days is read your missives from beginning to end! The bonus is that expands my vocabulary!

Log on to Racenet.com.au. I find their Free Tips section very good.They have steered me into some good Quaddies

I sent one lot - must be a better way for you other than receiving them three times via email. Are you not able to get them from the TAB site.

Not sure why he would asK NON RACING QUESTIONS...... it's a RACING PUBLICATION

Thanks to all 3 of you who responded. We are a good community here

That is almost certainly correct La Zip. It is also one reason we have more expensive building costs (only two major players), and more expensive food (again, only two major players). There are advantages to living in a beautiful country with a low population, but economies of scale isn't one of them!

Can somebody kindly email me the A4 colour pdf form guides for Rotorua, Morphettville and Doomben from the NZ TAB website to pjenkins@arrowfield.com.au ? Thanks in advance for any help you can give regarding this.

No doubt it has a part to play, but buyers would not be buying fillies that were 'no good' for that kind of money, they harbour serious racing ambitions and rightfully so. They have massive residual value but are being brought to be racehorses first and foremost and have every chance to be competitive in Group races at 1600m and further especially within their age group. There is no doubt the colts have performed better than the fillies (not disputing that, facts don't lie) but to say they are no good is very harsh when they are running at 9.7% stakes performers to runners. He just needs to get some photos on the wall instead of placings with the good Oaks/Group 3yo fillies he is producing (Milsean, Harlow Gold, Imperial Lass etc)

Okee dokee Maple will do woohoo!!! GO THE ROCKS!!!! Cheers Iraklis

now i dont think i said dennis trained a dog for you and first start for a trainer please google cawbourne bolt have you got a short memory

It’s all over,mamma knows best

Hi Blue, I am sure David Walsh works for the Allstars, so this might be the reasoning behind the dabble into thoroughbreds . Cheers. Robert.

I see Rogy as a galloping trainer who got into harness for a while, bought some expensive ones too and had some success but he's rather the exception than the rule. Big Bar had a horse or two a year or two ago but I don't think he ever had a winner. Todd hasn't done badly. Depends how far Mark P wants to take this and, as he stays with Rogy when in the north maybe it's tit for tat there. He does have a close relationship with Jim Gibbs but I really wouldn't like to see it come to Ruakaka. Or perhaps I should say, there are plenty of places I'd send a horse before trucking it north. No problem with a bit of variety though not many can do both well.

Yup and Irwin Berhns, not sure if Rob did too...... Cheers Iraklis

Wishing the very best of luck to 'The Rubiks' and 'The Dark Horses' in the Grand Final this Saturday. Given that 'The Rubiks' got up to beat my team last Saturday, and 'The Dark Horses' didn't get close, I'm picking 'The Rubiks' to take out the Championship Title. Given that my bro Geoff is a vital cog in 'The Rubiks' machine, I'm picking 'The Rubiks' to take out the Championship Title. If anyone in the Final is struggling to find something to pick in any race - - - Howie's tip is take number '6' - - - you'll get a nice return. And number '8' will win at least one race, maybe more. All the best, Finalists.

1. Rotorua R1 - 11.10pm - Burton Construction 3YO - $25k, 1400m, 3yos SW+Ps – 4,9 2. Rotorua R2 - 12.40pm - Taumarunui Cup 28 July 1560 - $30k, 1560m, R85 – 2,4 3. Rotorua R4 - 1.50pm - Van Dyks Furnishing 2200 - $22.5k, 2200m, R65 – 10,12 4. Rotorua R5 - 2.25pm - Campbell Infrastructure Rotorua Cup (Gr3) - $75k, 2200m, open hdcp – 5,11BB 5. Doomben R4 - 3.10pm - Ascot Green Chairman's Hdcp (Gr3) - $125k, 2000m, qlty hdcp – 8,15 6. Rotorua R7 - 3.38pm - ISCL Rotorua Stks (Gr3) - $70k, 1400m, fillies/mares WFA – 6,13 7. Morphettville R4 - 4.36pm - UBET SA Sires' Produce Stks (Gr3) - $175k, 1400m, 2yos SWs – 11,13 8. Doomben R7 - 5.10pm - Magic Millions The Roses (Gr2)- $175k, 2000m, 3yo fillies SWs – 9,17BB 9. Doomben R8 - 5.50pm - Kirin Doomben 10,000 (Gr1) - $700k, 1200m, WFA – 4,14 10. Morphettville R7 - 6.36pm - UBET South Australian Derby (Gr1) - $600k, 2500m, 3yos SWs – 5,16 Good luck Sarah and to team Rubiks and also the other finalists. Thanks Pete for another excellently run comp. As always fun and enjoyable.

Steve Paul , Concur. Good luck everyone. Have a fun and lucky day .

Good Luck to both teams, I shall be watching with keen interest. From a very jealous non-participant! Steve.

We do know all the facts Lindsay, unfortunately it has been extremely bad press for all the rule abiding people within the industry. Greyhound racing is in a very fragile position due to very few people who have let the rest down, the sooner these people are weeded out the better. Denis knew the risk he was taking when he took a trainers licence out in his own name, for his son to continue to train under because his son had had his revoked, this is fraudulent and deceptive - unfortunately the RIU dropped the ball not straightening this out earlier, if they had the whole industry wouldn’t be in front of the firing squad yet again.

How do you know?

Yes I am one of those female owners and he is going to be a good horse when he learns the game

I didn't realise so many of you Harness/Racing guys cared about the Nitball ! It's always the coaches fault. Sacking coaches hasn't helped the Auckland Blues ! Aussie won't be too happy either re their result . It was obvious this coach was wrong from the outset ,just like it was with NZ Cricket coach Mike Hesson ...maybe he's been lucky with the cattle he has !