High Sparrow

Thanks so much for the interesting comp Liz. Gee, thinking caps on...
Lot 14: Diamonds Galore.
Lot 74: Fatal Attraction.
Lot 138: Indecision.
Lot 155: Justlikeyasister.  

Can I protest ? Joan knows that  I can find them 25% of the time and I feel like I'm being exploited

What a great finish Foxmerts, Montydrum and Black Kirrama put up in the end. I thought you had timed your run to a nicety Rev but maybe one short? Real class the three of them.  Thanks to the sponsor(s) and to Scooby and Say No More for keeping these comps ticking along - and this one was for a great cause. Well done to all involved. 
Kind regards and good punting in 2024 to all.

What a great finish Foxmerts, Montydrum and Black Kirrama put up in the end. I thought you had timed your run to a nicety Rev but maybe one short? Real class the three of them.  Thanks to the sponsor(s) and to Scooby and Say No More for keeping these comps ticking along - and this one was for a great cause. Well done to all involved. 
Kind regards and good punting in 2024 to all.

What a great finish Foxmerts, Montydrum and Black Kirrama put up in the end. I thought you had timed your run to a nicety Rev but maybe one short? Real class the three of them.  Thanks to the sponsor(s) and to Scooby and Say No More for keeping these comps ticking along - and this one was for a great cause. Well done to all involved. 
Kind regards and good punting in 2024 to all.

What a great finish Foxmerts, Montydrum and Black Kirrama put up in the end. I thought you had timed your run to a nicety Rev but maybe one short? Real class the three of them.  Thanks to the sponsor(s) and to Scooby and Say No More for keeping these comps ticking along - and this one was for a great cause. Well done to all involved. 
Kind regards and good punting in 2024 to all.

What a great finish Foxmerts, Montydrum and Black Kirrama put up in the end. I thought you had timed your run to a nicety Rev but maybe one short? Real class the three of them.  Thanks to the sponsor(s) and to Scooby and Say No More for keeping these comps ticking along - and this one was for a great cause. Well done to all involved. 
Kind regards and good punting in 2024 to all.

What a great finish Foxmerts, Montydrum and Black Kirrama put up in the end. I thought you had timed your run to a nicety Rev but maybe one short? Real class the three of them.  Thanks to the sponsor(s) and to Scooby and Say No More for keeping these comps ticking along - and this one was for a great cause. Well done to all involved. 
Kind regards and good punting in 2024 to all.

Thanks to Liz and Joan for the comp. Thanks again to Scooby and John for all your hard work. 
Trentham R1: 7, 8
Trentham R2: 4, 5
Trentham R3: 10, 11
Trentham R4: 1, 4
Trentham R5: 10, 11
Trentham R6: 8, 10
Trentham R7: 1, 14
Trentham R8: 1, 8
Trentham R9: 9, 10

With the quality racing on the first day of Trentham: Telegraph G1 $450K,  Levin Stakes G1 $500K,  Trentham Stakes G3,  Anniversay Hcp G3,  WellWellesly Stakes LR etc and the opening day of the new course at Ellerslie on Sunday, I am sponsoring a quick fire competition over the two days.
1st Prize $200 to bet with. Win or Win and Place. The winnings to go to the Huntington's Association 2nd Prize $100 to bet with. Win or Win and Place. The winnings to to to the Huntington's Association All you have to do is pick two horses in each race each day.
$10.00 E/W will be invested on each. 
Keeping it simple, there will be no Joker or quinellas.
Trentham have 9 races scheduled and Ellerslie 6, making for a total spend of $600.00
As a further incentive, for every person who wins more than $600.00, I will donate an extra $10 to the association. Say No More [John] will put up the Entry Thread on Wednesday, when the fields come out.
Good luck all.
Liz
P.S. The prize money is coming from our winning bet from the Pairs Competition [2/3 Joan and me, 1/3 Scooby]
 

Wow, wow and wow. Genius riding by Warren Kennedy. Six wins and a fourth from seven rides including the Railway so far, and we aren't finished the day yet.  The patience he showed on Waitak was a mercurial piece of riding. Always great to see fine horseman get the rewards they deserve for their craft. Warren reminds me in many ways of the late, great Bob Skelton, for those of you old enough to remember him that is.
Happy New Year people.  Thanks to Scooby, Say No More, and Ponderosa for your wonderful work during 2023 - and to others who contributed to the comps in one way or another.
 
Kind regards. HS.

Wow, wow and wow. Genius riding by Warren Kennedy. Six wins and a fourth from seven rides including the Railway so far, and we aren't finished the day yet.  The patience he showed on Waitak was a mercurial piece of riding. Always great to see fine horseman get the rewards they deserve for their craft. Warren reminds me in many ways of the late, great Bob Skelton, for those of you old enough to remember him that is.
Happy New Year people.  Thanks to Scooby, Say No More, and Ponderosa for your wonderful work during 2023 - and to others who contributed to the comps in one way or another.
 
Kind regards. HS.

Wow, wow and wow. Genius riding by Warren Kennedy. Six wins and a fourth from seven rides including the Railway so far, and we aren't finished the day yet.  The patience he showed on Waitak was a mercurial piece of riding. Always great to see fine horseman get the rewards they deserve for their craft. Warren reminds me in many ways of the late, great Bob Skelton, for those of you old enough to remember him that is.
Happy New Year people.  Thanks to Scooby, Say No More, and Ponderosa for your wonderful work during 2023 - and to others who contributed to the comps in one way or another.
 
Kind regards. HS.

The Wizard of Waz has more than made up for the wins he missed out on while he was suspended,  however,the other jockeys might be wishing that he was still suspended.

Habana wins too. Make that seven! Brilliance personified that man.

Wow, wow and wow. Genius riding by Warren Kennedy. Six wins and a fourth from seven rides including the Railway so far, and we aren't finished the day yet.  The patience he showed on Waitak was a mercurial piece of riding. Always great to see fine horseman get the rewards they deserve for their craft. Warren reminds me in many ways of the late, great Bob Skelton, for those of you old enough to remember him that is.
Happy New Year people.  Thanks to Scooby, Say No More, and Ponderosa for your wonderful work during 2023 - and to others who contributed to the comps in one way or another.
 
Kind regards. HS.

Wow, wow and wow. Genius riding by Warren Kennedy. Six wins and a fourth from seven rides including the Railway so far, and we aren't finished the day yet.  The patience he showed on Waitak was a mercurial piece of riding. Always great to see fine horseman get the rewards they deserve for their craft. Warren reminds me in many ways of the late, great Bob Skelton, for those of you old enough to remember him that is.
Happy New Year people.  Thanks to Scooby, Say No More, and Ponderosa for your wonderful work during 2023 - and to others who contributed to the comps in one way or another.
 
Kind regards. HS.

Wow, wow and wow. Genius riding by Warren Kennedy. Six wins and a fourth from seven rides including the Railway so far, and we aren't finished the day yet.  The patience he showed on Waitak was a mercurial piece of riding. Always great to see fine horseman get the rewards they deserve for their craft. Warren reminds me in many ways of the late, great Bob Skelton, for those of you old enough to remember him that is.
Happy New Year people.  Thanks to Scooby, Say No More, and Ponderosa for your wonderful work during 2023 - and to others who contributed to the comps in one way or another.
 
Kind regards. HS.

Wow, wow and wow. Genius riding by Warren Kennedy. Six wins and a fourth from seven rides including the Railway so far, and we aren't finished the day yet.  The patience he showed on Waitak was a mercurial piece of riding. Always great to see fine horseman get the rewards they deserve for their craft. Warren reminds me in many ways of the late, great Bob Skelton, for those of you old enough to remember him that is.
Happy New Year people.  Thanks to Scooby, Say No More, and Ponderosa for your wonderful work during 2023 - and to others who contributed to the comps in one way or another.
 
Kind regards. HS.

I remember when I first met Tony. He came into the judge's box at Hutt Park one night (Bob Fannin was the judge and I was his assistant) and said that if we saw someone standing on the roof outside the judge's box then not to be alarmed because the club had given him permission to practice his commentating (tape recorder around his neck) out there.  I think Alan Bright was the official commentator that night. Later on he would come back in between races and play the call back on his tape deck. I saw him many times at race meetings in the interim and of course, the rest, as they say, is history. Peter Kelly was my favourite commentator of all of them, but Tony was right up there in that vein. All the best to him for the future. I used to commentate at trials and it is a far harder gig than the public could ever imagine (especially when Peter Scaife turned up with four horses all wearing the same colours and all with red caps on, the day I got an 11th hour call-up to commentate at a Wairarapa HRC meeting at Opaki after the official commentator called in sick! That's the stuff of nightmares. 

I remember when I first met Tony. He came into the judge's box at Hutt Park one night (Bob Fannin was the judge and I was his assistant) and said that if we saw someone standing on the roof outside the judge's box then not to be alarmed because the club had given him permission to practice his commentating (tape recorder around his neck) out there.  I think Alan Bright was the official commentator that night. Later on he would come back in between races and play the call back on his tape deck. I saw him many times at race meetings in the interim and of course, the rest, as they say, is history. Peter Kelly was my favourite commentator of all of them, but Tony was right up there in that vein. All the best to him for the future. I used to commentate at trials and it is a far harder gig than the public could ever imagine (especially when Peter Scaife turned up with four horses all wearing the same colours and all with red caps on, the day I got an 11th hour call-up to commentate at a Wairarapa HRC meeting at Opaki after the official commentator called in sick! That's the stuff of nightmares. 

I remember when I first met Tony. He came into the judge's box at Hutt Park one night (Bob Fannin was the judge and I was his assistant) and said that if we saw someone standing on the roof outside the judge's box then not to be alarmed because the club had given him permission to practice his commentating (tape recorder around his neck) out there.  I think Alan Bright was the official commentator that night. Later on he would come back in between races and play the call back on his tape deck. I saw him many times at race meetings in the interim and of course, the rest, as they say, is history. Peter Kelly was my favourite commentator of all of them, but Tony was right up there in that vein. All the best to him for the future. I used to commentate at trials and it is a far harder gig than the public could ever imagine (especially when Peter Scaife turned up with four horses all wearing the same colours and all with red caps on, the day I got an 11th hour call-up to commentate at a Wairarapa HRC meeting at Opaki after the official commentator called in sick! That's the stuff of nightmares. 

I remember when I first met Tony. He came into the judge's box at Hutt Park one night (Bob Fannin was the judge and I was his assistant) and said that if we saw someone standing on the roof outside the judge's box then not to be alarmed because the club had given him permission to practice his commentating (tape recorder around his neck) out there.  I think Alan Bright was the official commentator that night. Later on he would come back in between races and play the call back on his tape deck. I saw him many times at race meetings in the interim and of course, the rest, as they say, is history. Peter Kelly was my favourite commentator of all of them, but Tony was right up there in that vein. All the best to him for the future. I used to commentate at trials and it is a far harder gig than the public could ever imagine (especially when Peter Scaife turned up with four horses all wearing the same colours and all with red caps on, the day I got an 11th hour call-up to commentate at a Wairarapa HRC meeting at Opaki after the official commentator called in sick! That's the stuff of nightmares. 

I remember when I first met Tony. He came into the judge's box at Hutt Park one night (Bob Fannin was the judge and I was his assistant) and said that if we saw someone standing on the roof outside the judge's box then not to be alarmed because the club had given him permission to practice his commentating (tape recorder around his neck) out there.  I think Alan Bright was the official commentator that night. Later on he would come back in between races and play the call back on his tape deck. I saw him many times at race meetings in the interim and of course, the rest, as they say, is history. Peter Kelly was my favourite commentator of all of them, but Tony was right up there in that vein. All the best to him for the future. I used to commentate at trials and it is a far harder gig than the public could ever imagine (especially when Peter Scaife turned up with four horses all wearing the same colours and all with red caps on, the day I got an 11th hour call-up to commentate at a Wairarapa HRC meeting at Opaki after the official commentator called in sick! That's the stuff of nightmares. 

I remember when I first met Tony. He came into the judge's box at Hutt Park one night (Bob Fannin was the judge and I was his assistant) and said that if we saw someone standing on the roof outside the judge's box then not to be alarmed because the club had given him permission to practice his commentating (tape recorder around his neck) out there.  I think Alan Bright was the official commentator that night. Later on he would come back in between races and play the call back on his tape deck. I saw him many times at race meetings in the interim and of course, the rest, as they say, is history. Peter Kelly was my favourite commentator of all of them, but Tony was right up there in that vein. All the best to him for the future. I used to commentate at trials and it is a far harder gig than the public could ever imagine (especially when Peter Scaife turned up with four horses all wearing the same colours and all with red caps on, the day I got an 11th hour call-up to commentate at a Wairarapa HRC meeting at Opaki after the official commentator called in sick! That's the stuff of nightmares.