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Obviously Laver's driver been reading your posts ! A great Carnival for Northern horses and in particular Northern Owners . Harness in North maybe struggling , but it obvious that many Northern Owners with well bred horses prefer to race their horses in the South , not only at Cup week but permanently. After today results definitely North 1 South 0. Unsure where Sundees Sun's owners reside but it was brilliant, so would not surprise me if they North as well ,that horse so good. Well done Ray Green , well done Mango.......great drivers Nat R , Mark Purdon and Southern men Dunn and Orange and some good moments for deep South horsepeople too !

Go boy. Go boy... gee woo hoo, woo woo, did you see that! Thumped 'em. Sundee's Son you beauty. What a horse; he could gone another round. Incredible time. He's the best since Icandoosit and he can probably improve! Sundee's Son go boy....

WOW. Free for al it was. Wow, wow... wham what a war. All credit to Laver and G O'Reilly once again made to do all the work to benefit others (his day will come). South Cast Ardern tough, tough run... he was on his knees and somehow Natalie got more from him he stagged up from the canvas and drew away.... That's why she is the best...

It is generally known that Cubes is an absolutely useless punter and basically just about always loses money at the track And The Cubemeister was generally useless in the recent Spring Comp and let the team ...Black Caviar down.....Sorry Team Cubes thinks he got 1 quinella in a 10 week quinella tipping comp And The Cubinator did not really want to go on Wednesday @ Riccarton and was put in some bubble by the birdcage and everyone at the table beside Cubes had a mask but they were the only people and we were about 1 foot away so no-one seems to know what social distancing is and so etc And Cubes , who does not consider himself to be a boasty type , out of nowhere , had one of those days .....and we've to Riccarton maybe 200 times....ChelseaCol help me out there.... And the teller @ the TAB booth thingy did not have enough mullah for Cubes ""So I took that all I could get" like Bachman Turner Overdrive used to say so we had to have some dosh deposited into the online account and then we got a text or something saying the account was temp suspended because the TAB thought Cubes was a professional gambler or something which is about as far from reality as anything And Cubes whom hadn't studied the form or anything nailed 5 quinellas in a row And Cubes is looking forward to Saturday

I see that trotter Mataderos has the same cross. Has two strains of Globe Derby, a strain of Steinway (direct sireline of Globe Derby) . And being from a trotting bred stallion has several Volomite roots (which includes a line through Sampson Hanover which gave us the line to In The Pocket).

Seeing the FFA and Dominion today, both were spectacular performances and it gives us confidence that harness racing is bloody awesome at the moment, despite what the doom and gloomers may want to say about the current state of affairs. Spectacular two days of racing, shame the usual crowds couldn't be in attendance. Sundees Son was nothing short of sensational. Star.

Thick as pig shit……you’ve just confirmed it……

All Stars all day

Been a few years since the Pitman team failed to deliver a winner on day one of Cup week, so 2nd day they should be back to status quo. The first 3-4 races look tough to pick for my eye, like Zoltan for a rough place chance in the Couplands.

Could I please have EW on Riccarton Race 4, No 8 Fonts d'Algar. Just whatever amount I Have just split it 50/50. Thanks.. Day off today, watching the grandson at cricket

fields are very even today any all the main venues which made it impossible , but after a collect for race café

Addington doesn't have much "big money" racing these days. All you fair weather sailors just look at the fields a few weeks back. 12 months to go before the next cup - will be boring for you guys. I'm picking within 3 months most of the horses in your favourite barn will be over in Aussie - and with no Inters here - never to return. At least there will be no "money back" hot shots. The good old 13 horse maiden fields return.

Based on your history of picks in the comp I was expecting to see $400 EW on a $20 shot. I notice the TAB shows its now raining down there so hope it doesnt get too bad by 4.30pm as its best form seems to be on Easy tracks although it has won in Soft. Good Luck

His drive was not too shabby on Laver in the Cup also, having too move three times to stay handy. Laver was brave given what he did as asked of .

Addington 'big money' racing is so much more exciting than Alexandra Park 'big money' racing. And that's not a new thing. South Coast Arden's and Sundees Son's wins today were amazing. I remember watching Sundees Son racing in his first campaign or two, and thinking "man, if he ever learns to trot the entire race distance he could be anything". But he has exceeded that. He is everything!! Gave all of the young pretenders an absolute shellacking today. And we know they are good. Just not good enough yet. I'm not sure whether SCA fought back for Nat, or whether Self Assured just came to the end of it 100 out?.

I hope, when you finally get the jab, they jab it into your frontal lobe. It can't, and won't, do any harm. The second one, fo you, into the buttocks is recommended.

Yup, they wanna run for Nat that's why I love the AllStars, my Bad Bone will keep, but congrats Mangos & Nat, the Free For All and the Cup come to Pukekohe yusssss!!!! Cheers Iraklis

Oh gawd, I gots the nerves, I'll just have a slurp or 2 or 3 purely to calm the nerves.... oh he tried but it wasn't to be, next year, yep next year.....congrats Mangos, and Nat too much you guys awesome Cheers Iraklis

Yeh I saw that, he is fricken awesome if I do say so myself hehehe bein an Northerner an all dont tell TonyH.... Cheers Iraklis

They won't want to hold another race meeting in Auckland anytime soon...there will be no riders left available!

And to be fair to Cubes he asked Decahedron what his lucky number was and it is 4 and Mrs Cubes who has sadly passed away had a lucky number of 7 and Cubes likes a Hickman runner and The Cubemeister asked Prism whom to back but Cubes got the silent treatment 'çause he does not like the horseracingness ( the middle child of 2 and his lucky number is 29 and that's not very helpful anyway) so Cubes thought Opie is quite a good jockey and ...... By the way........why do men need a mask to go to the portaloo and females don't ? Probably why Cubes doesn't do too well in tipping comps

Bachman turner overdrive was also known to utter the maxim " let it roll"

He can't even be deemed a fruit loop. That'd be an insult to all genuine fruit loops. 6xes is just beyond all descriptions and reasoning.

Cubes you of al peeps should know about AML which is probably what TAB was on about. Nonetheless congrats on your collects as you surely deserved every one of them

Cubes, shall I send you Shaun Henry’s tips for Cup Day ??

Good point

Herewith the pedigree of Akaitorino Musume Group 1 winner # 53 for Deep Impact. She has balanced linebreeding to Craig an Eran, St Germans, Herodias, Bull Lea, and Artists Proof. Loves Only You has just won the Breeders Cup Fillies & Mare Turf (pedigree above) Coincidentally (or not) she also has balanced linebreeding to Craig an Eran, St Germans, Herodias, Bull Lea, and Artists Proof.

Horse moved in front of him, pure bad luck. The horse wasn't going good enough to win anyhow. The day was a success and served a purpose. 87 horses in the northern racing finally got a day out where their trainers could attend.

With a dry autumn up here, officials at Cheltenham have had to water to keep the ground just on the slow side of Good for the three day November meeting which starts tomorrow. The problem s trainers with real soft or heavy ground performers aren't prepared to risk them on watered good ground at this time of year. The result is a 4000m novice chase which will be a match. Seven go in the Grade 2 Ballymore Novices Hurdle over 4200m. Favourite is GELINO BELLO who hosed up at Aintree and could be anything but the Irish, buoyed by their demolition job at the Festival in March, are bringing a strong party. OFF YOUR ROCCO and BLAZING KHAL represent Gordon Elliott (now back training) and Charles Byrnes. The former is possibly better suited to quicker ground. Nine go in Saturday's Grade 2 for the 3-y-o hurdlers over 3200m. This is very early in the campaign for these babies but the conditions they face here may not be too far removed from what they will encounter in March next year. Paul Nicholls has the favourite in MAGISTRATO who ran second at Auteuil back in April (the French send their 3-y-o over obstacles much earlier than the British or Irish), was bought and came over to the Nicholls year and absolutely bolted up at Chepstow. That looked full of promise. Only four go in the 3200m Novice chase. CAPTAIN TOM CAT jumped superbly to beat MICK PASTOR at Wincanton last Saturday but both have it to do against THIRD TIME LUCKI who jumped superbly on his chase debut over course and distance at the last meeting and boasts solid Grade 1 hurdling form. Meanwhile, the winter flat season gets into gear with a decent card at Lingfield - you don't often see 120 rated horses on the Polytrack but PYLEDRIVER goes in the 2000m Churchill Stakes, the first step on the road to the Winter Derby next year. He's been absent since winning the Coronation Cup at Epsom but that was over 2400m and I just wonder if it will all happen a bit quick round here at this trip. FELIX was second in this year's Winter Derby and ran a blinder when third to LORD NORTH in the Dubai Turf. FOX TAL has mixed it with the likes of HUKUM and TEONA this season but again the trip might be a problem.

Last Saturday saw the second day of the Breeders Cup meeting at Del Mar, on the southern Californian coast just north of San Diego. A glorious afternoon (lucky barstewards) and a huge card of races. Indeed, so many I'm splitting the review in two and concentrating for now on the first five events starting with the two turf races. The Turf Sprint over 1000m looked a tough one for the Europeans with a turn and firm ground to add to the superior early speed of the Americans. Wesley Ward was once again well represented with the race favourite GOLDEN PAL who had two British raiders, GLASS SLIPPERS and EMARAATY ANA on his inside. Breeders Cup Turf Sprint: GOLDEN PAL ran 55.22 seconds for the 1000m which is pretty impressive and he blew this field away with a lightning fast start. LIEUTENANT DAN threatened in the home straight but the latter is more a 1200m horse and the winner was away and gone. EMARAATY ANA, who's a Group 1 winner in the UK, couldn't live with GOLDEN PAL and ended up fourth. The Abbaye winner A CASE OF YOU was fifth while GLASS SLIPPERS ran eighth in what would turn out to be her final race and this Group 1 winning mare is likely to be a popular broodmare. The winner was in a different class but I'm not sure connections have it right with a plan to come to Ascot next year. He couldn't last out the 1000m at York in the Nunthorpe which is as flat as it gets - Ascot is a lot stiffer. Unfortunately, the Al Quoz Sprint is now over 1200m - the Meydan 1000m might work but that's also a straight track. It's likely with another year on his back he'll strengthen physically and that must be what connections are expecting. The second is decent and the first two were well ahead. The Europeans have enjoyed a lot of success in the Filly & Mare Turf down the years with the likes of Midway Lady and last year AUDARYA defied an outside draw to win over 1800m at Keeneland. Del Mar's configuration meant the trip went up to 2100m which might have suited both her and LOVE = the two had fought out an epic duel in the Prince of Wales over 2000m at Ascot in June. I think that race bottomed both fillies if I'm being honest. WAR LIKE GODDESS looked the best of the locals while the Japanese had a serious contender in LOVES ONLY YOU who was beaten less than a length behind MISHRIFF ad CHRONO GENESIS in the Sheema Classic. Breeders Cup Filly & Mare Turf: An inaugural Japanese Breeders Cup winner brought the Californian house down with wild scenes in the unsaddling enclosure. To be honest, that Sheema Classic form against two of the best 2000m colts in the world read very well and we knew she went on the ground from her form in both Japan and Hong Kong. We've seen in recent times Japanese racing improve to be one of the world leaders - the likes of DEIRDRE and LYS GRACIEUX have won Group 1 races in Europe and Australia and an Arc win will happen sooner or later. It looked unpromising on the home turn as WAR LIKE GODDESS swept by but the favourite had to do a lot of running from a wide position to get competitive and that did for her in the final 100m. MY SISTER NAT ran a huge race at a big price while LOVE again looked as though she had done enough and I just wonder if that will be the last we see of her on the racecourse. Of the other Europeans, AUDARYA had a wretched run round the final turn being checked at least twice. She ran home for fifth but in truth would probably only have got fourth. ROUGIR and ACANELLA finished seventh and ninth with QUEEN SUPREME last. I hope we'll see LOVES ONLY YOU in Meydan and perhaps we'll get a rematch with MISHRIFF. The three Dirt races each had an odds-on favourite but only one obliged. In the Filly & Mare Sprint, GAMINE was expected to jump and dominate but she was pestered for the lead by second favourite BELLA SOFIA and they cut each other's throats leaving CE CE, who needs every inch of the 1400m, to sweep home for the upset. The performance of the early part of the evening came from LIFE IS GOOD in the Dirt Mile who made every yard to win by five and a half lengths. Back in the spring, after slamming future Kentucky Derby winner MEDINA SPIRIT eight lengths in the San Felipe, LIFE IS GOOD was favourite for the Derby but he had a setback and was off for the better part of six months. His return started with a narrow defeat to JACKIE'S WARRIOR over 1400m but his last two wins back at a mile have been impressive. As you might expect, connections are keen to make up for lost time but deciding to swerve the Classic this year might turn out to have been very wise. The plans now are the Pegasus, the Saudi Cup and the Dubai World Cup and to win all three would net somewhere around USD 40 million for connections. That's a tall order but he's not had the long season others will have had so it's a challenge and presumably after a summer break the Classic next year would be the swansong. He would likely have to take on MISHRIFF in Riyadh and that's going to be one to savour through the winter. His conqueror at Saratoga, JACKIE'S WARRIOR, was expected to bolt up in the Sprint over 1200m but while he broke well, it wasn't the best judged race by Joel Rosario. They went 21.88 seconds for the first 400m which is incredibly fast and that turned out to be the undoing of JACKIE'S WARRIOR who weakened tamely in the final 200m. DR SCHIVEL, the second favourite, travelled into the race well but he too was undone by the early speed and was on fumes in the final 50m allowing ALOHA WEST to come from well back to snatch the race on the wire. Kudos to Jose Ortiz who rode a very cool race on this still relatively inexperienced type.

Well Shad both our runners are in again, but I will not follow Zoltan this time. Your Madam Ssquoia, well what can I say a 10 year old mare, on paper one would say no, but it's not a great field, and there is an even spread about the race. Going for Monderani, but waiting to see if bookies let the odds go out a bit, thought he would be at 20s, along with madam S. 2yo feature, 5 runners, bloody hell for 60k, think the odd trainer about might be kicking themselves, and no Tangerine? Pitman team not doing it so far, well not like past years, and really can't see that changing a lot. Big even fields, think the middle of the track will again be the place to be.

Andrew calders ride on Kate velour was probably one of the worst you would see shame he’s such a good rider too

"interesting" days racing. Having to restrict field sizes due to the number of available jockeys is kind of funny. Especially when many of the jockeys were seemingly out of retirement. Some very strange rides indeed, and did every race have a horse which missed the start ? Quite how the favs came home to that extent is a bit mystifying - it was kind of fun to watch though

As you say, she was a very expensive yearling - by Frankel out of a Dubai Destination mare called Fleche D'Or making her a half sister to Golden Horn, the champion of 2015 who won the Derby Eclipse, Irish Champion and the Arc and ended with a rating of 130 which is seriously good. To be fair, he's been the best of her progeny - the full brother to PRINCESSE D'OR raced as a juvenile last season. He is DHABABI and ran three times ending up third in a Group 3 at Newmarket. The trouble is, he's not been seen as a 3-y-o - I wonder if he will turn up at Meydan this winter. Anyway, it was far from an auspicious start for PRINCESSE D'OR who trailed home tenth of twelve beaten 15 lengths. Yes, she was very green but she was being ridden after 600m and looked a bit slow. They'll be desperate for some black type for her to give her some paddock value but on this evidence it won't be easy,

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100 1 would label it a "false flag". But then he's an utter mental case as well.

I don’t follow anyone, following anyone particularly false gods is for the weak, the uneducated and those who are unable to think for themselves, there are hundreds of false gods out there so what makes you think your imaginary friend is the one. Your condescending tone and your talking down to everyone that doesn’t think like you is hardly very Christian is it, but I suppose it’s like everything you cloak yourself with hippocritical and full of shit.

6xes, wtf are you on! Pull your head in. Whats the reason you're not getting vaxed? Oh, your freedom of choice aye - Are you A-arrogant, B-selfish, C-dumb D- all of the above?

A final thanks to Scooby, Pondy and substitute scorer John (saved me from the task ), for a fantastic job putting this together. As mentioned, I think this was a great tonic in lockdown and has rekindled my interest in the site so job well done guys. Congratulations to the Sunline Team and the Top 3 individual place getters. Some pretty solid form by all 3, and I come away happy to have secured a Top 10 at least, but somewhat lucky to hang on with after freefalling down the leaderboard on the last day. Despite erratic behavior and a tongue tie on for the last race causing him to be scratched at the barrier, Gruff still managed to hold second which was a fair result in the end. Not sure if anyone has heard from him since? Hopefully he has returned home safely from rumored Surfing Trip and gets to go around again. Maybe a small spell, being gelded and trialing to the satisfaction of the Chief Stipe before next acceptances can be taken though? Take care all, and hopefully we are headed to an 'almost normal' Christmas. Cheers, Phil

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