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Tauhei Notts

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  1. Sometimes owners use irony when naming a horse. Like, years ago "Head On" was out of Arson. So when I first saw Pulchritudinous at her first start in September I thought she may have been out of "Wahinenui", but not so. It was "Showus".
  2. Velocious arrived at the track just 25 minutes before the start. I would be concerned if I had a 2 year old in a group one race with such an inadequate time to settle down after stepping off the float after what had been a torturous ride to the track. That filly could be something extra good. Possibly off topic, but those road works south of Hampton Downs on HIghway One caused delays that are unforgiveable in a first world country. Friends who went to Pink concert on Friday afternoon got similar delays. And after all those delays to watch the Warriors fade in the closing moments of their match; the road delays were sad but that result was terrible.
  3. Rdytdy, I should have remembered Stipulate. I saw him get beaten by Great Sensation on my first visit to Trentham. The top deck of the public stand that day was shoulder to shoulder punters. Nowadays it is closed. I think I heard that in The Cup they went the last 600 in 35 and change. A race time of 3m 24.38 suggests that My Maebelline Girl set up a gentle pace, for the field to finish so quickly. Particularly in a 3200 event. That being so one must extend hearty congratulations to Joe Doyle. An exceptionally canny ride by that man. We are still all learning about the new Ellerslie track, but Joe Doyle has learned a lot quicker than many others.
  4. Hopefully somebody will tell us. What was the last time a horse won both the N.Z. Cup and the Auckland Cup in the same season?
  5. Had I not been to see Orchestral at Ellerslie I would have been playing golf with a burgling MIDGET from Clark's Beach.
  6. Memories. Corroboree in 1972 was memorable. It was the day of my maiden century. The first time I made $100 on the punt on a raceday. I have seen most Derbies since then. Orchestral is one of the best. I am confident that she will do better in later life than Sherwood Forest, Crown Prosecutor, Coniston Bluebird and Cut The Cake.
  7. I see the cops had to shoot a man yesterday. Very sad. It happened in Matamata-Piako District. Then I read further and found, after some research, that it was at Manawaru. I asked a friend why the news media didn't put in Manawaru area. He explained that nobody has ever heard of Manawaru. Well, I am so old I remember a good extremely tough, pacer from Mid Canterbury named Manawaru. He got that name as the owner's brother had a dairy farm at Manawaru. So, some people have heard of Manawaru.
  8. Am I getting the wrong end of the stick? I had seen the huge improvement in stakes and bet a man $200 that the Book One median would rise at least 10%. After Day One I was laughing my tits off. Then Day Two, then Day Three. $200 down the gurgler. The breeding industry has had its bad days, but from what I've seen this week, contrary to all the great news I had seen in the past two months; I thought the sales would have gone a hell of a lot better. My $200 is peanuts to the vendors at Karaka. I wonder if that awful news about Ellerslie, with the mouth watering level of stakes, being close to being called off because of the slippery track; I wonder if that has had an awful impact on the later days of the sale, once the facts came out into the open.
  9. Book One medians. 2023 $130k. 2024 Day One $160k, Day Two $130k. Overall $145k.
  10. So Waisake's rider was dislodged. I thought the newspaper writer would have written about how sad Wellington's Rainbow Community was when they saw one of their ilk flat on his arse.
  11. NO tote windows on course? Use your cell phone! Any management consultant will tell you that on course tote windows are too expensive. Counting, handling, then reconciling cash is a hugely time consuming and expensive exercise now that the minimum wage has been pushed so high. BUT, if that management consultant had spent the past 60 years dealing with, chatting with and observing punters in many countries, as I have, then that management consultant would recognise the awful expense of tote windows is actually money very well spent. Tote windows are necessary for the impulse bettor who, with a bursting bladder says to a mate; "put that fifty on the 7 horse" as he dashes for the loo. Supermarkets recognise the impulse buyer with all that junk they have next to the checkout counters. The tote must also recognise that part of their market. A part of their market that if the transaction involves intricate manoevering of the fat fingers around a tiny keyboard, then the transaction will not go ahead. The Green Party member who wants to put $40 on Golly Gee because it is descended from that Melbourne Cup winner Light Fingers, will probably not have a TAB account.
  12. The rumour was heard at Walton golf yesterday. I thought it was hurtful and scurrilous, as golfers, like fishermen, talk a lot of shiite on a sunni day. Possibly I was wrong.
  13. Benjie was made a life member of the Matamata Racing Club. He had done a huge amount of good for that club.
  14. That Waitak; he reminded me of Mr Tiz in the Galaxy Stakes, the day I punted Festal.
  15. I saw something interesting at Matamata yesterday and am hoping that people more knowledgeable than me will comment upon it. Race 4 over 1400 metres. Double Vision, the odds on favourite, ridden by Michael McNab, drawn one. McNab dismounted in the stalls and sought a vet check on the horse. I cannot recall a senior rider dismounting like that so it must have been rather serious. The vet ruled the horse ok to start. He lead them up to the 450 metre peg at which stage the horse starting reaching for the fresh air pump. Would I be unfair to question that veterinarian's professional judgement?