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I looked at this thread because I thought it was about Cindy

Another of Racings stalwarts to depart, a very good family with some very good harness successes. First time I ever went to a harness meeting, (Forbury Park) I fell in love with a lil "Black man" with a huge heart, it didn't stop there, his dad Johnny Globe & son Lords also became favourites but Lordship always held my heart the most. The only 1 to come close was at Cambridge at his 1st race, my heart pounded like no other since Lordy & I couldn't believe the beauty b4 me, just as Lordy had done for me, Il Vicolo was the 2nd. The Nyhan's lived down the road in Templeton from where I eventually worked many years later.

Great Video....Lordship one of my favourites. Surprised there hasn't been more written about Denis Nyhan. Associated with 2 great horses.....Lordship and Robalan. Lordship won some 45 races over 8 full seasons of racing ,winning most of NZ's top races ,then went on to a prolific Stud career. Plus the name Nyhan ,one of NZ's top Harness families.

Where are you,should be doing more, you're the best judge there is on all codes.

The Utter Destruction of the Myth That ‘They Are Us’ It Is Simply Not True That This Ideology Is Not Supported Here by Anyone or Any Community. By CS On Friday 3 September 2021 New Zealand changed forever and joined the rest of the world in being a country that has suffered an Islamic terrorist attack. An attack by ISIS sympathiser Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen, that in this instance was entirely preventable. What has happened is what we have always said would happen…that an Islamic terrorist with evil intent would at the very least obtain a knife and would run amok. And run amok is the correct term in the true sense of the words. The woke Wombles always said that the Muslims here in New Zealand were different. That it would never happen. That it was Islamophobia to even suggest that it would. And in the wake of another awful terrorist act by another foreign terrorist, we were told that ‘They Are Us’. Sadly, we were right and they were wrong. Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen The Connection to Islam It is undeniable that there is a connection to Islam despite the Prime Minister’s frankly naive and illogical claim that “… it was carried out by an individual, not a faith, not a culture, not an ethnicity, but an individual person who was gripped by ideology that is not supported here by anyone or any community.” That deliberate falsehood was designed by the Prime Minister to hide the obvious links to radical Islam. To say there is no link to Islam belies the fact that the first letter in the acronym ISIS actually stands for Islamic, and belies the fact that this Islamic terrorist was bailed by a weak-kneed judge to a mosque. Try getting yourself bailed to the local Presbyterian church and see how you get on with that in the court system. It also belies the fact that this Islamic terrorist, whilst fervently stabbing his victims was shouting a peculiarly unique to Islam phrase ‘Allahu Akbar’. So in stark contrast to the specious claims of the Prime Minister, there are in fact very strong links to a culture and religion that is implacably opposed to the ideals of our Western democracy, and that is Islam. Bureaucratic Failures The liberal-minded that infest the bureaucracy of this country have let us all down. This Islamic terrorist arrived in New Zealand in 2011, and two years later sought asylum as a refugee making all sorts of claims about his safety if he returned to Sri Lanka. However, despite his claims to the contrary, this Islamic terrorist went back to Sri Lanka in 2016. In 2018 when his refugee status looked set to be revoked, Samsudeen protested that decision, saying: These statements are entirely false and an obvious deception. For a start, the Tamil Tigers were not Muslim; they had a secular nationalist ideology. It is simply not possible for a Muslim to have operated inside of the LTTE. On top of that deception, the Tamil Tigers were effectively defunct by 2011 – when he came to New Zealand – having been comprehensively defeated in 2009. Tamils are also almost exclusively Hindu, with a smattering of Christians. He made all those false claims despite the undeniable fact that he had indeed returned there in 2016, and obviously was not detained, mistreated, tortured or killed. This man should have been deported a long time ago. Refugees and asylum seekers who can return to their home country should no longer have the protection refugee status of the State. They should be deemed safe, and if they want to return to NZ after the visit, apply for a visa like anyone else. Law Changes? The Prime Minister’s media mouthpieces and indeed the Prime Minister herself, in seeking to minimise her own inaction in dealing with this Islamic terrorist, quickly ran up the flag pole that all this happened because “successive governments” had failed to correct the Helen Clark government’s poor law-making in 2002. The NZ Herald also specifically tried to sheet home the blame to Judith Collins, along with numerous Labour activists. But when asked by media directly if the law changes currently languishing in a select committee would have prevented this tragedy she was at pains to point out that any such claims were ‘purely speculative’. It was a rehearsed line and one she repeated so often it became laughable. The claims also rather ignore history. Back in 2013 when Judith Collins was supposed to have made changes, New Zealand was in the grip of the left-wing in this nation casting shade on John Key‘s government for strengthening existing surveillance laws to assist in the fight against terrorism. This was also when Labour, Nicky Hagar and David Fisher were pushing the agenda of Kim Dotcom and accusing John Key’s Government of increased spying and surveillance. Indeed in 2015 Andrew Little even accused John Key of scaremongering about the risk of Islamic terrorists in New Zealand: That article has not aged well for Andrew Little, especially as one of those people on that list at the time has now committed a terror attack on New Zealand soil. Scaremongering or prudence? You can be the judge of that. Failure of the Chief Censor and the Judiciary Apparently, the Police tried to hold the Islamic terrorist on possession of offensive material, including videos of decapitation, setting people on fire and ISIS training videos, but the censor’s office said that those could not be deemed objectionable. Say what? Brutally killing people is not offensive enough? What then would be offensive? Then you have several judges who have let this Islamic terrorist loose on society. Two weak judges stand out, Justice Edwin Wylie and Justice Sally Fitzgerald. Justice Edwin Wylie is of course the judge who made such a complete hash of the John Banks case that Banks was ultimately vindicated in the Court of Appeal. Justice Edwin Wylie Justice Sally Fitzgerald Justice Sally Fitzgerald is the last judge to have dealings with the Islamic terrorist, and she didn’t cover herself with glory. She stated the following: So this judge took the easiest option and one that meant he was not required to wear an ankle bracelet to track his movements, despite Police assurances that this Islamic terrorist was a clear and present danger to the community, and then she bailed him to the community, indeed to a mosque! Justice Matthew Downs Only Justice Matthew Downs seems to have done his job and actually highlighted the legal issues in relation to this Islamic terrorist. You have to ask then what, precisely, did David Parker or the Solicitor-General or the Law Commission do about this? Because it looks like they did absolutely nothing. All this drama is because of the soft, weak, be kind, woke politicians, judges, officials and human rights activists. They have completely stuffed up. This now brings us to Prime Ministerial responsibility. Jacinda Ardern Prime Ministerial Responsibility The Prime Minister was very quick to jump at the publicity opportunity that followed in the wake of the Christchurch terror attack by a foreign terrorist. She was also very quick and aided by the liberal media to blame so-called white supremacists for the terror attack. She has continued those lines of attacks to this day, as have the media. On top of that her rapid demonisation of innocent firearms owners casts a shameful shadow over her premiership. Unlike with the Christchurch atrocity, she has gone out of her way to not blame the Muslim community, or indeed their ideology despite the clear links: in fact, links far clearer than the tenuous claims that there were white supremacists lurking in our society just waiting to commit heinous crimes, despite the fact that Brenton Tarrant was actually an Australian. I have no doubt in my mind that when Jacinda Ardern was informed of the supermarket terror attack and who was involved that the colour would have drained from her already sallow complexion. She knew that she wouldn’t be able to sweep this under the table as a mad nutter, although she is heroically trying to by calling him a lone wolf. She knew this wouldn’t fly because she was briefed as recently as 9 August 2021 about the specifics of this particular Islamic terrorist. She also knew that if she had been briefed by the intelligence agencies then the leader of the opposition would also have been briefed. So she couldn’t hide from that. That is why she called it a terrorist attack from the get-go. She had to and she knew that no amount of spin could hide that fact. But she has also admitted to at least five briefings including to cabinet about this individual Islamic terrorist. In fact, she claims that this Islamic terrorist was known to her. In the wake of the Christchurch terror attack, Jacinda Ardern personally said that our authorities should stop spending so much time surveilling Islamic terrorism because it was white supremacists who were the real problem. She directed the intelligence agencies to change their settings and focus on white supremacists. Her flunkies in the media have also done the same, most notably Patrick Gower who is now beclowned as a result. While he was assiduously pursuing white supremacists he missed the Islamic terrorist lurking right under his nose. I repeat, Jacinda Ardern essentially made sure that surveillance of this Islamic terrorist and others, reportedly more than 50 of them, was reduced. Then there are her contortions over the naming of terrorists. She said in the wake of Christchurch that we won’t name terrorists so they don’t become martyrs. How strange then that the Prime Minister rapidly moved to make sure that this Islamic terrorist’s name suppression is lifted so that she and the media can then name him. The Prime Minister has already suggested it is “speculative” to suggest her pedestrian law changes in regards to terrorism suppression would have made any difference. Indeed, that stands in stark contrast to her rapid demonisation of law-abiding firearms owners and rushed legislation rammed through parliament with scant public scrutiny, to change our firearms laws. Ironically those changes were to close a loophole that she herself created the year prior to the Christchurch massacre that made it easier for Brenton Tarrant to obtain his firearms. But, strangely, she can’t seem to pass laws like the Australians famously have to deport those of their criminal underclass who also happen to not be Australian citizens. Such a change makes much more sense than her illogical firearms law changes. How many foreign criminals could we send home if such a law had already been implemented? It would be supremely ironic if she now moves to implement such a law given her propensity to cast shade on the Australians for similar laws. Jacinda Ardern also says that she is extremely frustrated with how long it was taking to deport the terrorist and that she was personally involved. This is the same person who demanded that the ISIS bride must come to New Zealand because it is her home and then berated Scott Morrison for revoking her citizenship. Ardern also demanded that Australia give her the Manus Island rejects because it wasn’t fair that they be kept effectively stateless. And now she expects us to believe that her “personal involvement” in this latest case was to revoke the Islamic terrorist’s visa? I believe that when the full facts of this case emerge we are going to find that the Prime Minister was deeply involved in this case, but not in the way she wishes us to believe. That is why I believe she will resist any wide-ranging inquiries because she knows she is going to be found wanting. The Prime Minister is desperately trying to spin that her government was moving as fast as it possibly could in passing laws that may have prevented this attack. That’s why the spin argues that to suggest such law changes would have helped is “purely speculative”. But her government’s use of urgency in parliament will expose that lie. Indeed, Newsroom wrote an article in February of this year about the government’s excessive use of urgency. The Prime Minister can’t claim to have moved as fast as possible on legislation when they have used urgency to give businesses support in the event of a longer lockdown, fix a loophole exposing NZ’s carbon market to major manipulation, introduced the wrong piece of legislation and then passed it within hours, accidentally bringing into law a multi-billion dollar loan scheme and abrogated local body democracy with the Local Electoral (Maori Wards and Maori Constituencies) Amendment Bill. The 52nd Parliament under a Labour-led coalition (2017-2020) passed 18 motions of urgency, none of which were amendments to our terror laws. On top of that, the Attorney General was notified of the need for an urgent law change in 2018 by Justice Matthew Downs. The Government has continued to use urgency for a plethora of other issues but for some reason, preventing Islamic terrorists like Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen wasn’t high on their priority list. The Prime Minister cannot run and hide from her personal responsibility in this terror attack. She has admitted this terrorist was known to her. We know that his specific case has been highlighted by Police, intelligence agencies, and a single judge, that cabinet has considered this Islamic terrorist’s case on at least two separate occasions, and that the Prime Minister has been briefed as many as five times including a recent briefing on 9 August. This is on her. The buck stops at the top even if she doesn’t want that to be the case. I can tell you one thing, you won’t see this Prime Minister rushing out of her way to dress up like Cheryl West and claiming that Westies are Us. Image/ Pixy What is undeniable though is that the myth that “They Are Us” is well and truly busted. They never were us, and they never will be. There are 50 others out there just like Ahamed the Dead Terrorist. What we want, and indeed should demand to know, is what is the Prime Minister going to do about that. Jacinda Ardern must admit her role in this shambles, and if an inquiry shows clear failures from her government then she must resign. What will be interesting is hearing what Winston Peters has to say about all of this.

I also know Maurice quite well. A good guy and all power to him. Thanks for highlighting this Scoobs.

If you read the article properly he is in Remission so not sure what you are on about. Also, what cure for Covid was found in "under a month" ? I'm sure the vaccination, if thats what you are on about, took a lot longer than "under a month" to develop.

He is with his loved one his wife is helping him every step of the way...he has decided to try to help others by spreading the word...by being selfless not selfish...I think he is doing a bloody good thing...but hey we are all entitled to our opinions.

Did you see this one absolutely spank those maidens last week in the first in the big smoke at Cambridge. She reminded me of Armistace Lad breaking his maiden at Cambridge many moons ago. Keep an eye on her, she could have the ability of Cheese and Kisses or Chipolati (excuse the spelling if wrong) if they can keep on top of her manners IMHO and pay a good dividend at Alex Park in a few starts time.

Don't get me started -

Thanks mate.you made my day...year actually. Sadly im well lost and not wanted. Didn't play the right tune. But still battling away in the shadows. Keep up your good work it doesn't go un noticed.

I now see Dave McCarthy has written a nice tribute to DD Nyhan on Facebook. And yes ,he notes Denis's wife a good horsewoman from the top stable of trotters......Doyle family.

The bottom line is - no freedom until we get 70-80 % vaxxed. On that basis I got vaxxed. It looks like the government will get the number going by the bookings made. But not enough vaxx, so they have slowed down to 50% capacity. This mob couldnt organise a dog fight - and they are spontaneous! I imagine the county will open up when a magic vaxx number is reached and the un-vaxxed can take their chances. Deaths in Aus of sub oldies from the covid nearly all the unvaxxed. I think under 21 females should not be vaxxed. Surely there are drugs to treat the young cohort.

The days of waiting for the end of the week so you could pick up a Friday Flash on the way home from school are way gone.

I thought you were trying to find out who was leaking stuff to Press or saving MK. That would have kept you busy

Not really racing but he is a good mate and a huge racing fan and owner breeder...taking on a huge walk for a great cause...good to see him get some publicity too. https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/126288272/taranaki-prostate-cancer-survivor-undertaking-massive-uk-trek-to-raise-awareness

Well, it’s apparent that nothing has changed in the 3+ years since I last bothered posting anything on here: a mildly critical statement of the obvious from a moderately disinterested outsider is met with a barrage of ad hominin insults, as if these were somehow a substitute for rational thinking. No consideration of the possibility that some of the Inca charges may actually be well-founded (as recent history strongly suggests), no acceptance that proving these charges is likely to be very difficult in a tight-knit industry (think Kahui family), and certainly no consideration of the fact that harness (and racing in general) has a major image problem not because of Inca but because of the behaviour of industry participants. All the resulting wagon-circling is just confirmation of my fundamental point: that the failure of Inca is not a vindication and claiming that it is is simple denial. The truth is painful, but keeping one’s head in the sand eventually hurts even more. So goodbye again. Hopefully, there’ll still be something to return to in another 3 years.

As Mr Rogers might have once opined, I'll count my money when the weekend racing dealing's done. For now, a quick look ahead to the Doncaster Leger Festival which kicks off on Wednesday. The ground is currently Good to Firm and with the weather set fair, quick ground will be the order of th day certainly for the start of the meeting. The opening day card is, in truth, unremarkable - there's a Group 3 and the Leger Legends race where ex-jockeys come out of retirement to ride handicappers up the straight. Thursday sees the quality rise noticeably with two Group 2 races for the fillies and mares. The May Hill is for the juveniles over 1600m. INSPIRAL, trained by the Gosdens, is 8/13 and she's looked very good in her two wins so far especially last time at Sandown where she galloped strongly up the hill to win over 1400m. Despite being by Frankel out of a Selkirk mare, she seems very happy on quick ground. The Kempton maiden winner SPEAK is in the "could be anything" file while Joseph O'Brien has entered four, the best of which looks to be ALBULA who was runner up in the Group 3 Flame of Tara last time. The Park Hill is known as the Fillies' St Leger - SAVE A FOREST was a long way behind SNOWFALL at Epsom but that's no disgrace and she returned with a nice win in Listed company last time and holds YESYES on that but both may struggle against FREE WIND, who won the Minerve at Deauville last time and for whom the extra 400m looks ideal. Friday has two very different Group 2 races - the Flying Childers over 1000m for the speedy juveniles and the Doncaster Cup over 3600m for the stayers. ARMOR was an emphatic winner of the Flying Childers and was arguably a shade unlucky when fourth in the Morny last time. The Cup features the usual suspects among the stayers and STRADIVARIUS raised the roof at York with his battling win over SPANISH MISSION but with the latter heading for Melbourne and TRUESHAN unlikely to run if the ground stays quick, we could be looking at PRINCESS ZOE as the main rival to STRADIVARIUS. Let's be fair - she beat STRADIVARIUS in the Gold Cup and while you could argue that wasn't Mr Dettori's best ride, we know she stays, as the euphemism has it, longer than the mother-in-law. If the Doncaster Cup were over 4000m rather than 3600m, I'd fancy her more but she ran really well at Ascot and 6/1 isn't a bad price each way. Last time of course she came off second best to TWILIGHT PAYMENT in the Irish Leger Trial at The Curragh. This was a notable return to form for the 2020 Melbourne Cup winner who had been fairly moderate (and especially so in the Gold Cup) since winning that little race in Flemington last November. I can't have RODRIGO DIAZ but BARON SAMEDI is more interesting - his fifth in the Grand Prix de Saint Cloud reads well in the context of this race - he's won at 3200m and could be the joker in the pack. Saturday is Leger day but we also have the Group 2 Champagne and the Group 2 Park - both over 1400m. The point about next Saturday is Doncaster isn't really the main meeting - that honour goes to Leopardstown and the first day of Irish Champions Weekend - much more about that to follow.

RIP DD Nyhan. Of course he became very prominent in harness in the family business ,his parents owning Champion horse and sire Johnny Globe. As a young driver he became the regular pilot of Lordship and in 1962 won the NZ Cup when that horse just 4 yr old. At the time it was rumoured Lordship was going to be scratched cos of the very wet conditions. Lordship had a great career on the track ,often having to start off long marks. In 1966 the pair won their second NZ Cup...from memory another wet track. Denis was associated with a number of good horses as a driver and then as a trainer in own right and was always a stand out dresser. I think Van Glory was another of his horses ,around the time of Robalan and he often drove good trotters . In latter years he mainly kept his hand in with trotters.

Kiwi - what a legend. I am honoured to be in a team alongside Nerula, Romantic Miss, Mooseman and Wallywong. Cheers tony

Hi Scooby - It has been a long time. I received an email about this a while back. I was in the Losers Get Laid Competition many years ago. I am wondering if I could be added to the competition Cheers

I can still see Him running into it at the Clock Tower :). I feel honoured to be a part of the Kiwi Line Up.

And Kiwi is getting a statue too

I have followed this site since it started and watch it deteriorate from an interesting and generally humourous place to seeing a litany of rubbish spewing out from many mouths who think they are tough NZ males. I don’t agree much with pound for pound but at least he fronts up. For 60 years I have watched the industry slowly decline to the sick state it is in now. If it was not for lady jockeys and Asian apprentices there would be one meeting a week. Continually criticising Labour at present does not explain the decline over the last 50 years when National was in power for the majority of those years. I get that many of you don’t like Labour but some of the vile comments are disgusting. What some of you would call vigorous debate is crap coming from anonymous key board warriors who talk tough without any accountability. Like so many in my age group you continue to ignore science, deny climate change, complain about attempts to mitigate racial and economic inequality etc etc. Face facts : You are not as important as you think and your power is continuing to diminish as evidenced by the last election. In signing off I recognise that I written this anonymously too but I can’t be bothered with the inevitable backlash.

Garry, Good on you for voicing your thoughts. You sound a bit frustrated realizing that others do not agree with your personal views/opinions, and in many ways they may differ by many degrees from what you consider normal and proper thinking. In the past, especially in a small country like NZ where communities were strong influences, we all had some say in how things were done - that is now being closed down by central govt mandates along with importation of people with different cultures/values and also commercial interests/corruption that was not as obvious in the past. The other aspect is that Social media has probably made you more aware that others may hold radically different views from you - they have always had different views it is just that you were unaware of those people before you entered the world of facebook/twitter/online forums etc. Check out the late 1960's TV series (17 episodes) called "The Prisoner" and you may relate to this feeling of being trapped in a crazy world without any control. When asked about what the biggest threat to society is, Patrick McGoohan the creator and main character of the series said simply "Progress". You may find the source of your frustration within his prescient reply, spoken in the 1960's. Life is changing too fast for all of us. Sorry if the comments sound like preaching, just trying to give you a different perspective to help with obtaining peace of mind.

Honoured you follow our races Menangle.........from out in the bush I assume. Some very good Aussie owners in Harness here ...they like the place ! Our horses still do all right in Aussie , our sports people doing very well . We even ranked higher in World Cricket now...you used to send your B team to play us......we generally whip you in most endeavours. Our politicians seem more honest , less noxious weeds and poison spiders and snakes. Less weather extremes....better potatoes and apples ! Pleased to have you as our neighbours . I'm quite happy with our commentators thanks , they get less practice than yours and recently I met a young Aussie over here learning the 'trade'. He seemed happy with NZ.