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Ironically JL, Rarely see a good horse with such a name.

The operative term is " those WERE the days" Unfortunately those days are long gone, so many things have changed both within and without racing and new days are going to have to be created for the game to survive.

I always had a chuckle at the name of the trotter Be not afraid (because the next line in that hymn is "I go before you always". They kept the theme with Come follow me (and I will lead the way).

when will he be thrown out from what I read and hear from everyone the guy is a heartless monster does not deserve to be in the industry at all FULL STOP!!!

I always thought Sell A Bit was well named as she was out of a mare called No more nookie

Therehave been many crazy names granted for horses and greyhounds. many a bit lurid and some stupid and even some tongue twisters to catch out commentators .some come to mind Blabs (for a very large trotter) . , Mynanasgotnoteeth,mysistersapoledancer ? and even the dog chitinatin !. A new one heard in Aus recently Shaginthedragin ! The naming approvers should perhaps look a bit closer at times because a horse or dog could race for some years.Any good ones?

Hi Tim,  I watched the race online. I was a co owner of Bettor Joy here in NZ.  Didn’t really want to sell her but the top  mares here mostly have to run against the boys and it makes it very hard.   If they ran regular mares races here it would be great and more of them would stay here which would boost breeding industry also.   Mind you it would deplete the mares for the Matchmaker series.                                       As for Dexter,  we miss him here, please send him back.

Dexter just won the last two races I didn't bet but the late double paid $185 and change for a $1

Had a look on the site and could only find the previous weeks episode.  Will try looking again

Lot of them race at Yonkers.   Dexter is back at the Big M now. He just ran second in race 10. Yonkers is in NY and Meadowlands in NJ but just across the river so it's a hop, skip and a jump.  He's been winning a bunch of races.  I have been on this other message board (Horseplop.com) where you will find the worst posters in the world. They attacked me when I said Dexter is a world class driver three months ago and now the fuckers are hiding as he is proving himself to be very good here. Took awhile to adjust.,  They go hard early in these miles and I have always criticized our guys back home there for not going hard all the way. You would see some amazing times there like at Ashburton where I am originally from.

Access to hardship grants hits record high by Christie    This is the year of delivery for Jacinda Ardern’s government. So far, it hasn’t gone particularly well. First, they decided to stop publishing the number of houses built by Kiwibuild… mainly because it was becoming comical. Then the census became a total farce, which means that regional decisions and boundary changes will be made in the dark, if they are made at all. Capital gains tax has been dropped like a hot brick, without even offering the public a softened version of the TWG’s report, ostensibly because Winston was not having a bar of it. Now Jacinda’s other priority, the reason she came into politics in the first place, is reaching new heights for all the wrong reasons. Jacinda always said she wanted to fix child poverty. There is no such thing as child poverty, of course – children live in families, and the number of hardship grants to families has reached new highs in recent months. quote. Over $100 million was paid out in hardship grants in the last 3 months of 2018. That is a huge amount of money given to people already struggling. The reasons are obvious, of course. Mostly, it comes down to housing. If the government had actually developed a proper housing programme, including the building of adequate numbers of state houses, the chronic housing shortage would be starting to ease by now. They needed a proper plan, including making significant changes to the Resource Management Act, which they would probably never have got past their Green friends. Instead, they just yelled at National from the other side of the house and made grandiose promises they had no idea of how they were going to keep. One thing should have been clear to them, but wasn’t: if building 100,000 homes was as easy as they said it was going to be, National would have already done it. quote. One thing is for sure. The child poverty situation is not being improved at the moment. Things appear to be worsening for families at the bottom of the heap. Housing has become so expensive that it is taking up most of their incomes just to put a roof over their heads. While I was not happy in any way to see a Labour-led government, I did think that they would at least try to do something for families on low incomes. Things have become considerably worse for such families since this government came into power. As we head into winter, more and more families will find themselves sleeping in cars, as the reality of rents and house prices continues to bite. We won’t hear about it of course – we only hear about this when National is in power. Nevertheless, Labour came into government on the back of an ambitious programme of tax reform, building 100,000 houses and solving child poverty, but they didn’t have a clue how they were actually going to do any of it. Now, halfway through their term, the truth is out there. This government is an abysmal failure. And it is failing children in low income families most of all.

SO, I just watched the replay and Bettor Joy ran a hell of a race. Getting that far back is the kiss of death.  Shartin is the best female over here but IMO Bettor Joy draws beside her, she beats her. In fact next time they race together, I think she beats Shartin.

Thanks for the link good to see Kiwi Breds going well in the States....

Fair enough but suggest you watch Box Seat and actually hear what he said and then read my initial post again .  Rusty's post  has backed me up re how it could be interpreted badly. Good win by their young trotter last night and even better seeing Ben hand up, it was the winning of the race given the runs of the other placegetter especially the 4th horse

Dexter drove Bettor Joy.   God I hate Yonkers, as I hate half mile tracks.    Replays below, Race 9 is what you need   https://www.empirecitycasino.com/racing/live-video/

Shartin and Better Joy friken rule! had to laugh Tetrick called her a 'tough SOB' ah dude she's a Kiwibred hulloooo   Cheers Iraklis

You might be right, but as you know, I'm inclined to make a fuss about these kind of things, especially if it turns out they are unlawful, even though I'm no longer a licence-holder. And to hell with the donuts and cream buns. Sorry about the reference to "bottoms". You didn't really need to pick up on that. It appears from the application form for NZTA membership that the $180 annual fee must be paid to NZTR. The above decision appears to say that under the Racing Act, NZTR can not collect fees on behalf of such associations, certainly not mandatorily (sorry, that might not be a word but you get what I mean).

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