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I offered to the club to buy new TVs myself for the Phar Lap room BEFORE the current "upgraded" ones went in..... as I was so sick of the old ones. The things are so cheap these days why wouldnt you go for size

two of them outside Riccarton when I arrived Saturday (admittedly a bit before first race). Took more restraint than I thought it would not to roll the window down and have a word....

He will be back, just tried a bit too hard too soon,It takes years to become a top trotting expert (or perhaps pain in the ass )like steve davis and mick Guerin. !! But pleased to see Sheldon easing back into camera shot.

A great day awaits for all. All stars looks like cup trifectr (spanky,fixer and Chaser) hope weather holds and not too many girls fall off high heels late in day for national tv benefit.!!

Chris like our best horses our best presenters are performing well overseas. Jane Ivil and your son Tom for example. Exemplifies the state of our industry.

Mark Claydon from Trackside Radio is the man! We need a few more like him!

A bit harsh Gazza. I think we should acknowledge Addington have done a great job to turn Cup day into the biggest race day event in NZ. Not a bad achievement given ChCh doesn’t have the population of Auckland and harness does not have the same number of participants as Gallops. Credit where it’s due.

Auckland Reactor for me. His chances, however will greatly depend on Lambs performance as starter

Baz - you are thinking too much - the handicap system is not based on 'thinking'

In the last at Te Aroha today. Drawn well and 3kgs off with Chelsea Burdan up.. Already had a nibble on FF at $71....

Kate is a good sort , any coverage for the industry is good coverage

Poor old Whale is only half the man he used to be!

Isnt that the nature of handicapping Blue? If the 20 m horse is two seconds superior to the front row and the 50 m 3 to the 20m youve got yourself a ‘competitive’ race taking as Nelli quite rightly pointed out field size,the stats on backmarkers in 2200m races a different kettle of fish but time parameters still most relevant

Just pace yourself this year Lappy

The heels and the knickers are ussually lost by cup time

Zelda says racing in grave danger if these peoples get their way, n0? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMkDvU3Pm5k 1 or two or maybe all of them flew over the cuckoos nest.........IMHO

Absolute total numptees bar the switched on interviewer playing them like an old fiddle .

I've been a passenger myself attending Ellerslie when they were protesting at the front gates ...however the driver took me through the Ellerslie back entrance for that reason!

From what I see (watching the clip, thanks for the link Baz) you people are damn hard to please!

Just realised that a maiden mare in my paddock has 2 lines of Tessa Gillian in her pedigree - via Testcase and Kreisler.

If racing is ever in grave danger of these fake news fuckin green party voting hippie sheep rooters with no facts or intelligence!...then the whole world is fucked!

1 or 2??? - I think you have grossly under-estimated.

Over qualified for Racing Ministers job - he can read and write

If you want to buy a filly/mare from the Tessa Gillian / Eight Carat family have a look at the latest Inglis online sale (finishes on Wednesday). Lot 49 is a Makfi 3yr old filly that traces to this family via Habibti. The filly was bred and sold by Pencarrow Stud for $180K to Darren Weir and after his problems has ended up with Ciaron Maher. It is now being sold after 1 minor win from 5 starts. Currently the bidding is at A$700 but this sale normally does not get going until the last 24 hrs just like Gavelhouse. But you never know, if you are interested you could get it cheap. There are a couple from the same family in the NZB Ready to Run sale.

BEING GROOMED FOR Minister of racing

There is only one lunatic here. It's the brainCNNwashed Ohokaman who believed the MSM on Russia Russia Russia (the walls are closing in) and now goes back for more when they tell him Impeachment Impeachment Impeachment (the walls are closing in) You are in for one gigantic fall again....how much punishment do you want? Watch what happens watch for the Barr press conference Is the Schiff/Brennan whistle blower Eric Ciaramello's name going to appear on the Fisa application to illegally spy on Trump? Meanwhile you wouldn't have seen the crowd at the NFL cheering for Trump....corrupt CNN would never do that MSM destroying themselves

Bryce’s best training win in NZ was the 1996 Maramarua Hunt Cup with Tui Town ridden by Eddie Lamb.

Yes his father Ian trained horses at Dargaville. Bryce trained and rode his jumpers from Paeroa before moving to Australia. Matthew Faber was apprenticed to him. Comes over to the later days of the Karaka sales sometimes.

Her backers will be travelling light after the race!

its pretty simple ,claydon is a knockabout bloke ,very well known and very knowledgable...the audience on tv and radio can tell straight away whether the host is legit or a tryhard...mark is one of the few who is genuine and not trying to suck up to others ,or trying to be everyones buddy......most of these on air tools seem to forget that the majority of the audience are racing people who know the business ,more than they do...yet they still talk rubbish or talk down to us.

Dargaville boy originally. Colorful past, good show rider, had jocks licence at one point and rode a few of his own hurdlers. By that pic he looks a lot like his Dad (Ian) as he gets older.

Yep I remember that The sandwich plate in the trainers room was empty so Bryce spoke to I think the club president of Pakenham?? to see if they could get the plate refilled , from what I can remember the Club President reacted rather negatively and told Bryce if he didn't like it take your horses and get out and Bryce said sweet az and did just that .

Harness can hire you Mick - he knows everything!

kate gourdie has extensive knowledge of what counts in racing e.g fashion in the feilds ,facinators,champagne lawn ,whips and spurs ,te akau...mind you chris ,the utterly inane things that come out of rodley's mouth when talking to your peers is on a par with miss gourdie ....mark claydon would do a good job ,but he aint as pretty as kate ..sorry claydo ...and you know what mark rozzo would also be a good choice ,but same as claydo .

After a decade as a member I didn't renew one yr. No email. No phone call. Started going to public stand. Same shit disinterested service. But at least it's mostly free. Apart from new yrs or boxing day...always empty. And the horses look the same.....

It helped race over 2 miles and tiny field. Would be different story if 2700m and big field of comparable top level trotters. Was great to have the 2 mile races The pacer results showed that some horses need distance to shine. Even though a small trot field, the "catch me if you can" tactics on Gershwin added excitement and set up the track record.

Still had to run 3250 metres

Temporale - track record! Off 50m blue.

standing at stud, aussie. so pos quite happy not starting.