RaceCafe..#1...Tipsters Thread.... Share Your Fancies For Fun...Lets See Who The Best Tipsters Here Are.
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Putting me on the spot there Lloyd. I'm a relative newcomer. Moved to Waipu in '89 and only had my first trotter in '93 but here's a few off the top of my head. Others can add to it I'm sure.

Doug Jessup

Naylor

Peter Lynch

Laurie Turner

Peter Oldham

JB Gardner

Les & Alan Pyers

Jim Watson

Frank Campbell

Jim Price

Don Dwyer

Shane Hayes

Neil Brady

Sue Martin

The saddlery guy whose name escapes me.

A schoolteacher who tried to resurrect Rain Again after Neil Brady won nine in a row with him.

Murray Child has worked a few too but not licensed.

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Ok Blue

The saddlery guy was Keith Antony

Also up there was 

Bob Jellick

Gary Peterson

Tom Hackett

Wally Sherry

Logan Sherwin

Paul Johnson

Dan Fox

Bill Frearson

and Ian Martin did a stint up there too I'm sure.

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13 hours ago, Blue said:

Putting me on the spot there Lloyd. I'm a relative newcomer. Moved to Waipu in '89 and only had my first trotter in '93 but here's a few off the top of my head. Others can add to it I'm sure.

Doug Jessup

Naylor

Peter Lynch

Laurie Turner

Peter Oldham

JB Gardner

Les & Alan Pyers

Jim Watson

Frank Campbell

Jim Price

Don Dwyer

Shane Hayes

Neil Brady

Sue Martin

The saddlery guy whose name escapes me.

A schoolteacher who tried to resurrect Rain Again after Neil Brady won nine in a row with him.

Murray Child has worked a few too but not licensed.

Dave Jessup

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On 2/6/2018 at 7:21 AM, eljay said:

Ok Blue

The saddlery guy was Keith Antony

Also up there was 

Bob Jellick

Gary Peterson

Tom Hackett

Wally Sherry

Logan Sherwin

Paul Johnson

Dan Fox

Bill Frearson

and Ian Martin did a stint up there too I'm sure.

Yes Ian Martin trained up there before moving to Stratford.

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Gubes, do you have any record of any harness trainers using the Whangarei track when it was at Kensington Park? Most trotters/pacers seem to have been basically farm trained before the AW track was built at Ruakaka around 82.Some handy horses came out of the north though including Chequer Board, several of Brady/Martins including Franco Ice and Rain Again who won them in a row culminating in the Messenger for Brian & Beryl Madsen of Ruawai, and Lord Vader for Shane Hayes who, like Franco Ice but for being skittled at the start would probably have won an Auckland Cup.

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Blue I don’t think any trotters were trained at Kensington Park. The only one I can think of would have been Don McLaughlin who lived in Whangarei and bred a few before moving to Tirau and then concentrating more on gallopers. Tangiteroria was a bit of a hub for Standardbreds in those days. Dave Jessop trained Chequer Board there and stood stallions like Crimson Star and Silver Wings.

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