Charlie Bukowski

Never in my life I have seen a more pathetic display of prelims than the 1st at Ellerslie !! Yeh, looking up horses dates as they run away from you , whoever came up with that idea needs castrating , without anaesthetic , what an absolute waste of time , very very disappointing

In fact in reflection , It may well have been Mdn winner to C5 then to C4 through to C1 being Open Class ..... One way or the other I like it !

Maidens = no wins C1 1 win C2 2 wins C3 3 wins C4 4 wins C5 5 & 5+ wins Seemed a pretty simple method back in the 80s 90s ?? Maybe a bit of greyhound tweaking as such , miss 5x in that grade go back a grade , just an idea , thought it worked pretty straight forward back then ....

R1 - 1 9 11 4 R2 - 12 7 2 11 R3 - 1 3 7 4 R4 - 4 3 11 13 R5 - 9 2 6 11 R6 - 3 9 4 2 R7 - 10 12 4 9 R8 - 11 12 5 4 R9 - 8 10 5 7 R10 - 7 3 13 6 R11 - 5 16 15 2 R12 - 10 6 4 3 Thanks for the comp and good luck all

Off to a great start , trainer of R1#1 ???

Guerin and O'Connor ??

Getting back on subject , any owners happy about 300 missing races coming up this season , 1500 cheques going begging , I know I'm not f**n happy , once again who's taken rita to task. They seem to be puffing their chest out and patting themselves on the head

next thing you know, sherwin will be calling the greys

Where's open and transparent Saundry to come on here and explain a valid query ?? Bet he would have absolutely no idea

Didn't the winner carry 54 ?

Was it declared a no race ?

$330,000 per week

So this it what interests me, Did I hear ,see, read somewhere, are the horses who missed out on a start at Puke guaranteed a start next time , Te Rapa I take it ? If so , won't this be an inferior class of horse who couldn't make the cut getting 1st dibs at Te Rapa , at the expense of a lot of the Te Akau/BakerPorsman/Marsh runners ?

Interesting to see how Vela is going to tackle the Karaka $1,000,000 stake There will be a big fanfare around they've done an amazing job to come up with 100k for the Group 1s Oh did we mention the 7k minimun stake , just for now of course......

Time to move on ,been there for years , need the young bloods george simon and aaron white, the way of the future, can't wait to thurs and sun , bring it on