Jefferson

Are you on your "defend a pal  high horse" or do you truly believe what your saying?

Gonsta I am a bit cynical about charges being laid TODAY. One week short of Sound Proposition running third in the Derby and returning a positive to Cobalt. No doubt the RIU will be patting themselves on the back for bringing the charges within one year!

541, 640 and 309.... WOW.
 
Someones been a naughty little boy. With those high readings anything under 3 years for the both of them is a joke.

Finally been charged by RIU today....administering to three horses.

But if he has cheated, then surely we can't condone it?

A well deserved award but the timing is wrong. The cobalt situation should have been dealt with first. If in a worst case situation Lance is heavily penailised, then the press as they always do will hone in on it and then we will have headlines about the hall of shame.
 

The young talented trainers are showing up the middle aged and older trainers as well as the TAB with their uptake of technology, the obvious step to bring in the Generation X to the industry and funnily enough those of us older than Generation X appreciate the service as well.

Isn't that still the case in the English Derby? No geldings or fillies allowed? I've always wondered why fillies are allowed to start in the NZ and Australian Derbies but colt can't start in the Oaks. If they are going to allow fillies to start why give them a weight advantage  as well. It doesn't make sense

Don't worry about the Hoof. He's really quite good and will have his turn

Don't forget the Melbourne Cup scratching of Kiwi, Jimmy's book out later this year will cover that travisty. The He's Remarkable decision was fraud at best. Decisions like that need to go to a panel in say the UK where country of residence doesn't come in to it. He's Remarkable would be a Group 1 winner and may have stood for more money. Speaking of Saturday's decision, I don't care where interference happens, if it costs then overturn. However if there is no choice, because they slam the brakes on (which I would outlaw for safety reasons by the way), then no protest. If stewards think that in a split second going 40 kms an hour on 530 kgs of animal when you have to take evasion action, going in not out is logical (yeah right), then I would suggest we put stewards on a horse and see how good they are. Another bad decision Saturday.      

That's correct and just one of the reasons guys like Brent Wall and Andrew Castles (when he was Ellerslie) shouldn't be Jockeys Agents. 
If they worked for me they wouldn't be doing both jobs!

Phone them and ask them. That way you will get the honest truth, not some crazed keyboard tappers' perspectives.
 

Now have a look at the eyes, glassed over, far away look.......either out of it, or just confused........or a bit of both..........Key has a lot to answer for.

The current one is  acting like a dick trying to get M hoskings down to his farm. How about doing the  bloody job you are being payed for ! . The Mighty Mc Cullum has just retired from cricket has  a passion for racing come aboard son! 

Not as much as one former Chairman Lauchlan Kenneth Scobie Mackinnon whom the LKS Mackinnon Stakes is named after.
He owned a very good 2yo colt called Carradale who won the 2yo Easter Stakes and among the beaten brigade in eleventh place was a horse called Phar Lap who was having his third unplaced start.  MacKinnon of course had lofty thoughts for his colt as a 3yo especially in the Derbies.
However, Phar Lap, a gelding came out and won the 1929 AJC Derby with Carradale finishing second and then Phar Lap won the VRC Derby with Carradale again finishing second. LKS MacKinnon obviously wasn't too pleased and talk quickly moved about geldings being able to take on colts in Derbies. With LKS a leading advocate but commencing in 1931 geldings were banned from racing in the VRC Derby against the colts and this went on until 1956 when geldings were allowed to compete again.     
 
   
 

The TAB/Racing Board and the codes spend too much time re-inventing the wheel when they should just copy what has happened already overseas.
 
When it comes to technology that is certainly the case. The disaster that was Typhoon is a case in point. And the fact it then was a disaster means we are stuck with the current antiquated software for even longer.
When it comes to the mobile app or using a smartphone to access the tab website (or the touch site, or the mobile site - all of which have different quirks and presentations - wtf!) it is usually frustrating.
Can you do anything other than BOX trifectas and quinellas and first 4's on the app yet?
As Kakama says lots of it is very second hand compared to overseas operators.
Last of 40 - yeah I have clicked that "what is a % bet" button by mistake heaps of times - you are dead right it shows a lack of thought - or a  design by a computer person who has never placed a bet in their life.
Grrrrrrrr
 

Ummm Greg Purcell here Mr ummm Puha. I wonder if you could ummmm just fill me in as to where ummmm Gisborne is. Do they have an  ummmmm  international airport in case I want to fly out to a conference and what are the ummm pies like there? Thanks for the ummmm info but I need those things before I could even consider venturing to an ummmm place like ummmmm that.
 

I do feel a bit sorry for the trainer, she is giving the horse some good experience and probably getting the results she expected. In the long term it will prove worthwhile.
She could have stayed in NZ and won another four in a row, so good on her.
Its just that some some fairly inexperienced punters got far too excited with all the hype and got people's backs up a bit. Now of course we are getting the tall poppy syndrome kicking in as well with even less experienced punters.

Yes it is indeed sad how many are waiting to pounce the second it fails, post race experts always give me the shits.
Possibly posters who don't own horses themselves and have never been through the ups and downs of owning.

Looks like an adolescent... Still learning the game. Will get a nice race.

Went off in the gates and never settled in the run. He'll keep. Some can't seem to wait to get on here as soon as the race is finished to show their glee that he was beaten. Sad. 

No need to rubbish him. It was a nice enough run, its just that the class was better than he is used to. If he came back to NZ he would probably clean up. If he stays in Sydney he could well win a race. I have no doubt the trip will do him the world of good. Could well be the making of him.

This trip, regardless, will be good for him but I think if he doesn't run in three today he should be on the first plane home. Has had time to settle in so let's hope....

Have you watched the race or just going by what you read?
Palentino moved out to avoid a horse in front.  What was he supposed to do?  Clip heels and take a fall?  He didn't push Tivaci out to get a run in the final furlong.  Maybe as a steward you could argue that he should have gone inside only.  That's easy to say when you haven't been on a horse going over 30 miles per hour and another horse is coming back on you.
It wasn't halfway through the race.  The race was 1400 and it happened around 900 out.
I missed the win price I wanted, but had it and Chautauqua (great win at a good price) anchored in a quaddie. Didn't have the winner of the last leg.

Three of the worst decisions in Australia, all going against the Kiwi's.
Poetic Prince, The Jewel and He's Remarkable.