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  1. Anyone even contemplating turning down a $1m+ offer for a relatively untired horse needs only to be told one word;: Kinane.
  2. Apparently Te Aroha has been a great success.
  3. Yes, I remember it well. Quite a difference in size.
  4. Goes out $150 shot in NZ one start, wins a half million day race in Aussie next start. I must admit I wondered what on earth they were doing taking Antrim Coast to Aussie. Great ride.
  5. Goes out $150 shot in NZ one start, wins a half million day race in Aussie next start. I must admit I wondered what on earth they were doing taking Antrim Coast to Aussie. Great ride.
  6. Used to be some Auck Cup winners who got in with no weight as well. That used to be the trainer's art, now with set weights and penalties most don't seem to bother too much about that art.
  7. Only very tenuously related to the subject, but I have noticed that very few trainers seem to use the benchmark conditions of the current class system. If you put a 67 into a 65 benchmark race with a 4k claimer you can be incredibly well off at the weights, and gives a bit of scope to race over a preferred distance and in weaker company, yet seldom seems to be used.
  8. Oh Flashy, that's a bit harsh. I have a very similar name in each place. My memory would never cope with remembering multiple different names. Most of the people on these sites do mean well. The industry would be in bigger trouble if no one was interested enough to comment. There are some quite intelligent people that comment on here.
  9. Interestingly enough, in the days when I used to follow racing much more closely than I do these days, some of the worst jockeys were in the NI, often in the CD. I never really used to have any Southern jockeys on my "wouldn't touch with a barge pole" list. And the problem in the SI is not the jockeys as much as the shocking programming. That is why form can be inconsistent. And form is equally inconsistent in the CD where a horse can fail in an $18,500 race at New Plymouth and then come out and win a $40,000 at Trentham. And vice versa. That would seldom happen in Australia. Half the horses in any given race in the South aren't racing over the distance they would prefer or in their preferred class or after an ideal gap, but they have to take any opportunities available to them. If they wait for the perfect race coming up next week they have every chance of being balloted out. I feel quite sad when I see a typical $18,500 low key race in the south with 12 starters and six of the jockeys are from the NI, often the very top jockeys like Kennedy and Doyle. How on earth are southern jockeys to gain experience and skills if they can't even get a ride at a low key meeting? Some of them have to drive 6 hours to get two rides. It must be a pretty dispiriting occupation. And when they ride at certain tracks with about six people in attendance and no atmosphere they must wonder why they bother.
  10. Did McDonald have the choice between Storm Boy or Switzerland or was he always committed to the latter?
  11. Thank you for that. I assume everyone else knew that except me. Someone mentioned it as if it was common knowledge. Tricky for us small punters who are not in the inner circle.
  12. Jenni doesn't go too bad at Flemington.
  13. The barriers made no difference in the race in question. The mare was always going to go to the front and no one was going to argue with her, not even Buffalo River. Brightside was always going to settle back because that is his pattern. She was unbeatable on the day on a short straight track like Caulfield.