RaceCafe..#1...Tipsters Thread.... Share Your Fancies For Fun...Lets See Who The Best Tipsters Here Are.

Mill Reef

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  1. No it's not a good sign. They only sold fairly at the sales. I hope for the good folk at Windsor Park that he fires up.
  2. I'm not really invested in the harness, so don't know either of those folk to look at them. Used to live at Alex Park in my teens, 20s and thirties. Lost the bug somewhere, somehow, more interested in the thoroughbreds these days.
  3. I must have been standing 50m away from you, I stood at the base of the old public stand. I thought the Purdon's team drove to win that final.
  4. Thats sad news, I'd missed his passing. I loved watching him drive, especially the champ Franco Ice
  5. The race is no longer scheduled correctly, just two weeks after the Railway and the prospect of an 8 hour float trip from Cambridge.
  6. Well done Dopey on another nice win. She looks to have strengthened and you should be in for a good prep.
  7. Wondering whether anyone can help. A one win Australian three year old gelding, rated 82, has been sold to HK. What class would he have to begin in please?
  8. Great tour over the weekend. I hadn't attended for a few years. The Chosen One stood out I thought. Has let down well and walked like he owned the joint.
  9. I'd find Street Cry blood. PI's too rich unfortunately and Telperion isn't commercial, I would use Shocking who has five stakes horses from O'Reilly mares.
  10. I think Proisir is excellent value. There are bit a handful of Australian sires that I'd consider as commercial or more, and they all pretty much stand for north of 150k Australian. Add in agistment etc. and there's not much change out of min 200k Kiwi. The pedigree duplications are interesting, some not necessarily proven, but all sufficiently deep enough to not ne a negative. I see Per Incanto has another SW as a broodmare sire, he's up to greater then 10% SWR.
  11. Hasn't she made strides the last few years. She doesn't get given the blue bloods either. Good hard working horseman with obviously a good deal of skill.
  12. 25 NZ purchases, quite a lift on recent numbers from the sale.
  13. Not an easy game buying weanlings but Adrian Clarke's record is outstanding.
  14. Frosty Lane to get it done. Don Corleone and Little Brose toughest.
  15. He should be well patronised. I can't see too much first season competition this year with the economy the way it is. I imagine they can't stand him for less than 12k given what they're likely to have paid for him. Love the pedigree and obviously blessed with a stack of ability. You would have liked to see him race on. Both Satono and Staphanos were consistent and had long racing careers.
  16. His Karaka offerings this year were much to a type, strong shouldered, good forearm and hindquarter. You may want to consider a mare who has a bit of leg. Ifraajj is looking like he will establish a male line and Wyndspelle also has a nice female pedigree. Pity we lost him to Victoria.
  17. Remarkably Espiona is O'Reilly's 22nd individual Group 1 winner as a broodmare sire. For good measure the runner-up in the Coolmore is also out of an O'Reilly mare. O'Reilly was an outstanding stallion full stop but perhaps his greatest influence has been as a broodmare stallion. Grunt and Brutal may have something to say about that.
  18. Thanks Breeder. I guess competition drives a lot of that. Something we don't have unfortunately.
  19. PP had a wonderful turn of foot and stacks of courage. I would like his sire to have done a bit more, although the Kodiac line is strong.
  20. Correction: DL is her fifth dam and WTA carries a double of Eight Carat through Commands. Just to run salt into the wound..
  21. I was only arguing the toss with a friend at Karaka this week that the Eight Carat family was still the pre eminent stud book family in NZ. Very Elleegant aside I thought it had been a bit too quiet of late for mine. Then today Wrote to Arotaki wins a Group 3 in Melbourne. Her third dam is Diamond Lover. This game has a great habit of making fools of us
  22. Probably time for NZB to condense the sale into 2 days and look at a bonus race restricted to Book 2 graduates. Sale needs a shot in the arm.
  23. I put the extra wide tyres on the 4 wheel drive and ventured out yesterday - I must say parking up on the grass in the torrential rain I would have taken 2's on that I would need to be towed out when leaving. Perhaps it was tears crying for Sir Patrick but Steve Davis appealed to the heavens and thankfully it stopped. The weather was probably the catalyst but it was quieter than I'd anticipated. The word was that quite a few Australian buyers were turned around on Saturday morning with the Auckland Airport closure. Personally I found the catalogue light female wise. It's a shame because our sires are really firing but a lack of reinvestment in female families is starting to hurt. I get it, our vendors have needed the cashflow and some very valuable fillies have been sold as yearlings. Also the rise of syndicates means that a lot of the fillies who race well here are now cashed up on the GC or at the Chairmans.