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Having its first start right-handed, so who knows what might happen.

Back in Shatin on Sunday... riding Lucky Sweynesse in the Queens Silver Jubilee Cup G1 over 1400m worth HK$13M (9.05pm NZT). Replaces Zac Purton who obviously got the drag after it's last run...

Confirmed as being Jamie Kah

All.. except for me today. Pulled a rabbit out of the hat in the last race last week but couldn't do the same this week. Hope that was my major flop for the comp. Great head to head with Showgate for sure.

1. Ellerslie R5: 3, 7 2. Ellerslie R6: 5, 8 3. Ellerslie R7: 2, 7 4 Ellerslie R8: 2, 8 5. Ellerslie R9: 2, 14 6. Randwick R5: 3, 10 7. Randwick R6: 1, 6 8. Randwick R7: 7, 9 9. Randwick R8: 3, 4. BB 10. Flemington R7: 1, 4 11: Flemington R8: 1, 3 12. Flemington R9: 4, 14. BB Tough day today. Travelling lso trying to pick the winners and enter picks on the phone not easy..oh well. Thanks John and Leigh. Go Veandercross!!

yeah at the Opaki track...and for the "younger" ones on here Opaki is not a mis-spelling...

It was a really nice day here in the Bay, and then it clouded over pretty quickly and we had a really good downpour (out in Havelock North anyway) which lasted about 5 mins, its stopped now and the sun is trying to break thru again.

Just noticed that he's riding in Hong Kong today. Rode a winner earlier in the program but mainly over there to ride Romantic Warrior in the Hong Kong Gold Cup (9.05pm NZT)

Been busy today and not able to see any races or results. So came onto the site to see what happened today and scrolled thru SNM's results race by race and it was looking like a disastrous day for me... until I got to near the end and saw the comments posted like WOW Pondy etc etc. So excitely scolled down until I saw the result of the race. Never in doubt... ha ha.!!

1. Matamata R8: 3, 8 2. Otaki R7: 1, 3 3. Caulfield R3: 3, 6 BB 4. Caulfield R4: 4 5. Caulfield R5: 5, 8 6. Caulfield R6: 1, 7 7. Caulfield R8: 4, 8 8. Caulfield R9: 10, 13 BB 9. Rosehill R5: 7, 14 10. Rosehill R6: 6, 11 11. Rosehill R7: 6, 8 12. Rosehill R8: 2, 6 Tough match for Veandercross today up against McGinty.!! Thanks John and Scooby.

Anything can happen.. whoever rides Orchestral might go against its normal racing pattern and take it to the lead and then get caught late by Ascend the Throne... or some 100-1 shot.!!!

Yes correct Phil

I seem to remember Ciaron wasn't happy with J-Mac;s ride on Gold Trip in the Cup too.. Instead of racing mid-field he wanted it ridden a few pairs further back. Dropped out in the straight but was then found to be lame.

A number of Australia’s largest owners were in mourning on Monday following confirmation that champion mare Verry Elleegant had passed away when foaling in France. Verry Elleegant had been in Europe for about 18 months after travelling to France to be trained by Francis-Henri Graffard. After four winless runs, she was retired from racing with connections selecting the superstar stallion Sea The Stars as her first suitor. She has been due to foal in the first week of February. Verry Elleegant won 16 races, with 11 of them at group 1 level for earnings of nearly $15 million. She won the 2020 Caulfield Cup and the 2021 Melbourne Cup and was named the Australasian racehorse of the year for 2020/21. A 50 per cent share of Verry Elleegant was purchased in 2018 by a group of Australian owners that included Ozzie Kheir and Brae Sokolski. She was initially trained in Australia by Darren Weir for her first campaign with the mare being sent to Chris Waller following Weir's disqualification in early 2019. "It is incredibly sad that we pass on the news on behalf of the ownership group that Verry Elleegant has passed away due to complications giving birth to her foal," Waller said in a statement. "The news is just filtering through to stable staff now and other close connections who are coming to terms with the tragic news. She was in fantastic hands on a farm who did all they could for her, and we would like to thank them for their efforts which we will be forever grateful for. "We all saw the courage she had on the racetrack over many seasons, and she will never be forgotten by those close to her as well as the wider racing public who follower her careered and loved her so much."

1. Ellerslie R5: 7, 8 2. Ellerslie R6: 4, 15 3. Ellerslie R7: 9, 16 4. Flemington R2: 3, 4 5. Flemington R3: 5, 7 6. Flemington R5: 3, 7 7. Flemington R6: 7, 11 8. Flemington R7: 2, 7 9. Flemington R9: 11, 12 BB 10. Randwick R7: 4, 10 11. Randwick R8: 1, 7 12. Randwick R9: 5, 9 BB Fairly tough day, quite a few of the races I liked 3 or 4 but cutting down to 2 you know what's going to happen. Anyway, Good Luck to everyone. Thanks John and Leigh and here's hoping for Veandercross...

1. Te Rapa R4: 3, 5 BB 2. Te Rapa R6: 8, 9 3. Te Rapa R7: 2, 11 4. Te Rapa R8: 2, 3 BB 5. Randwick R2: 2, 7 6. Randwick R6: 3, 9 7. Randwick R7: 2, 5 8. Caulfield R4: 3, 4 9. Caulfield R6: 1, 3 10. Caulfield R7: 1, 2 11. Caulfield R8: 4, 15 12. Caulfield R9: 1, 6 Thanks John and Scooby... hard to find many roughies today but had a crack at a few. Was tempted to throw in Mazzolino in the Herbie Dyke at 61's but doesnt have much form on a Good track...

JMac no longer riding for the rest of the day now

1. Wingatui R5: 1, 4 2. Wingatui R7: 4, 11 BB 3. Wingatui R9: 1 4. New Plymouth R4: 5, 7 5. New Plymouth R6: 4, 16 6. New Plymouth R7: 11 BB 7. Rosehill R5: 3, 6 8. Rosehill R6: 2, 4 9. Rosehill R7: 2, 4 10. Rosehill R8: 2, 7 11. Caulfield R7: 5, 10 12. Caulfield R8: 1, 6 Not feeling too confident today...might have to take the underdog status.!! Good Luck to Team Veandercross.. Thanks John and Leigh

You spelt "shifty" wrong. It doesn't have an f in it but 2 t's instead. Ha ha.

1. Ellerslie R1: 2, 8 2. Ellerslie R2: 5, 7 3. Ellerslie R3: 3, 7 BB 4. Ellerslie R4: 2, 8 5. Ellerslie R5: 2, 7 BB 6. Ellerslie R6: 12, 15 7. Randwick R1: 2, 5 8. Randwick R2: 8, 13 9. Randwick R3: 15, 16 10. Randwick R7: 2, 6 11. The Valley R9: 2, 5 12. The Valley R10: 2, 7 Hard to see any roughies winning Ellerslie today but hoping so and Veandercross keeps up it's winning way. Thanks John and Leigh.

Never saw the race so just watched the replay on LoveRacing website.... definitely an interesting one. When he started to angle out, Brucey Lee also started to shift out (perhaps 1 to 1.5 horse widths) and not sure whether Inspired by Art over-reacted to that or whether Wiremu deliberately angled out so harshly... could have been a bit of both. Yes he will probably get a holiday but how long remains to be seen... He will argue "mitigating circumstances" for sure.

Soup Kitchen is John's charity. My charity is Corso.... cor so I am not so broke...

Lived in Wellington for 33 years and always went to Wellington Cup day... if I was still there I would not have paid $50 to get in. Went to Moonee Valley a while ago now and it was A$50 to get in... but it was Cox Plate day. A huge difference in many ways.

1. Trentham R4: 3, 4 2. Trentham R5: 5, 6 3. Trentham R8: 8, 13 4. Trentham R9: 4, 11 BB 5. Trentham R10: 2, 14 6. Gore R9: 1, 6 7. Rosehill R2: 1, 3 8. Rosehill R3: 3, 4 9. Rosehill R7: 2, 5 10. Flemington R7: 8, 9 11. Flemington R8: 9, 14 BB 12. Flemington R9: 10, 11 Thanks Leigh and John... and go Veandercross. Hope we don't do a Shane Dye.!!!

Ellerslie R1: 1, 2 Ellerslie R2: 5, 8 Ellerslie R3: 2, 5 Ellerslie R4: 3, 6 Ellerslie R5: 6, 9 Ellerslie R6: 7, 14 Thanks all. Going to be hard to make up good ground in the comp today with the small fields.