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    Dissident reacted to Breeder in Verry Elleegant - OZ jockey riding her in the Arc...   
    Looks like Mark Zara is being told what to say :  Mark Zahra said: “I think you’ve got to give her one more. You can’t get any guide on her today. If she goes to Ascot, you should know where you stand with her.”  ( Quote copied from a post on Thoroughbred Village)
    They should just complete the mission and have her served to Southern Hemisphere time by the sire they have hopefully already selected. 
    I think what has happened proves beyond doubt (if we needed more proof) how good Chris Waller is as a trainer and also how good his judgement is.
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    Dissident reacted to scooby3051 in Flood Trouble At Yulong Farm   
    Dan Nevill has described the harrowing scenes of a flood ravaged Yulong Stud, the hardest-hit by Victoria’s rain deluge and swollen rivers, as he and countless others raced to the aid of the stricken horses stranded in head-high water at the Nagambie farm early yesterday.  The Hollylodge Thoroughbreds principal, whose own property is close by at Avenel and has been affected by the rising water, said scores of people joined Yulong staff in risking their own lives to enter the floodwaters on foot and in boats in a bid to bring horses to safety.  Two Yulong-owned foals died in the natural disaster, while livestock was also lost on neighbouring flood-affected farms in the Goulburn Valley region, the state’s thoroughbred breeding heartland. Numerous other thoroughbred properties across North East and Central Victoria have been impacted, which many believe to be a oncein-200-year flood event.  Yulong’s chief operating officer Sam Fairgray issued a desperate plea for assistance at 7.30am via media and social media channels and in the ensuing three and a half hours people from around the Goulburn Valley region and further afar rallied to the cause, arriving with boats and horse floats. Yulong had moved horses to higher ground by about 8pm on Thursday evening but in the following ten to 12 hours the floodwater rose much higher than anyone could have predicted, according to Nevill. “I rang (Ben Gunn, Yulong Stud manager) this morning about 7.30 and they were all hysterical. Obviously, it was a lot worse than anyone expected and he said they needed help with boats, so I went home, got my staff and got my boat, went over there and got into it,” Nevill told ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday. “A lot of people put their lives at risk to save those horses. You get those people who think it’s for money or it’s for this and that, but it just shows how much people love these animals and they will do anything to save them. I am pretty emotional, I am really emotional, to tell you the truth. “Those horses were stuffed. There were dead foals when we were putting the boat in. It was very confronting, but everyone got in there, gritted their teeth, cut fences, swam horses and did anything they could.  It was a huge effort, absolutely huge.” Rescuers saved up to 50 horses who were in danger of drowning at Yulong, the Yuesheng Zhang-owned breeding empire which has quickly amassed arguably the biggest and best broodmare band in the country to support its stallion roster led by champion sire Written Tycoon (Iglesia). “We saved a horse who had broken away from the herd because they kept panicking and it took off. It got itself down and started swimming back towards the creek. It would have been a kilometre wide, the water. I’ve never seen anything like it,” Nevill said. “My mate and I just booted off in our boat and we were going across the water at full speed to get to it and there were fences underneath us and we didn’t hit one with the boat or the rudder or anything, that’s how deep it was.   “The horse we saved was stuck on top of the fence with an electric wire over the top of it pinning it down onto the fence and only its head hanging out. “We cut the fence, we cut the wire, got a headstall on it and dragged it; it wasn’t even swimming, we just dragged it with its head above the boat to the closest point where we could get it out and a couple of people ran down from the bank, cut a fence and it got out to land.” Equine veterinarians and stud staff from around the region also answered the call to assist Yulong’s resident vets and staff in the dramatic rescue operation.  Nevill said: “You couldn’t even imagine this happening. Honestly, I’ve lived up here for over 20 years. You see the creeks fill up and that, but because the Goulburn [River] was full and the Hughes Creek was running into the Goulburn, it was creating a dam wall. It was backfilling all the way through Yulong.   “We got all the horses out of the water by about 11 o’clock and then it was all people helping get them to the vet clinics.” In a statement released last night, Yulong thanked the local Nagambie, Seymour and surrounding communities and the thoroughbred industry network for their selfless help and support during the devastating floods. “After a very challenging 24 hours, we can now report that the staff, horses and livestock are safe and have been transported to higher ground,” the statement read.  “Sadly, two foals died in the flooding. However, this number may have been much higher without the prompt and courageous action from countless businesses and individuals. From trucks and boats to sandwiches to fuel everyone, the quick response and kind actions by so many in the local community has been incredible. “We are thankful to be involved in such a generous industry that rallies together in times of need.” Darley’s Northwood Park, which is located 25 kilometres south of Yulong Stud, has 150 horses on the property near Seymour which were moved to higher ground after about half of the 1,100-acre farm was inundated with flood water on Thursday. Some cows and calves on the farm, however, died when they were unable to escape the rapidly rising river.  “We’re not travelling too badly compared to others. We managed to get our yearlings up to high ground as the water was rising [on Thursday], so all the horses are on high ground and are safe enough,” Northwood Park stud manager James Manning said. “But the Goulburn River side of the farm is pretty much two-thirds under water.  The river’s spread like I’ve never seen it before.  “We’ve got a fair bit of a plateau above the billabongs where we moved them to, so our horses should be fine, and we’re luckier than some other farms on either side of the river but, unfortunately, it looks like we’ve lost some cattle, a handful of calves.” Gilgai Farm was also able to largely escape the damage after relocating stock before it was too late.  “A lot of the farms up here, they couldn’t get their stock out. There’s stock floating down the river. It’s serious. It’s seriously bad,” Gilgai Farm owner Rick Jamieson said. “We second-guessed them (the floods) a few days ago and lifted them (stock) up to higher ground.” Robert Crabtree’s Dorrington Farm, which is also located at Nagambie, described the Goulburn as a “raging river” rolling through paddocks and “taking everything in its path” but he and his staff had been able to move the stud’s 80 horses to safety. “It’s shocking, absolutely shocking.  The river’s rising at around 300 millimetres an hour,” Crabtree said at 11am yesterday. “It came up overnight. It’s a once-in-200-year event. It’s not a question of rain now, it’s about the river flow coming in. “We haven’t lost horses. We saved a lot of horses, but we’ve lost our water system. Everybody’s running around and doing the best we can.” Nearby, Swettenham Stud was able to move stock to higher ground, the farm escaping with only minor flood damage, while Leneva Park’s stallion operation at Seymour Park had taken precautionary measures ahead of the rising river levels by moving horses elsewhere.  The farm was still heavily impacted by the floodwaters. Russell and Caroline Osborne’s Riverbank Farm at Benalla was also impacted, with much of the property under water. The couple spent much of Thursday and early yesterday relocating 200 horses to higher ground. Yesterday afternoon, Riverbank reported all staff and horses were unscathed.  Further south, at Woodside Park Stud near Tylden, west of Melbourne, the Eddie Hirsch-owned property was split in half by a flooded creek. All horses and staff were in no danger. Three Bridges Thoroughbreds at Eddington in Central Victoria was also flooded after the Loddon River broke its banks for the second time in three weeks, which has prevented the Liston family from being able to leave the farm in recent days. Peter Liston said the flood was similar to the back-to-back events Three Bridges experienced in November 2010 and January 2011.  “We’ve got evacuation plans and flood plans. in place, so we’ve just got to wait now until the water goes down,” Liston said. “We’ve been locked in for the past few days, we couldn’t get out had we wanted to, which is an especially worrying time in the middle of the stud season with foaling and walk-ins and all the action that goes on. “The river actually splits the farm nearly in half and just at the moment we can’t get over to the other half but Toby’s wife and kids are monitoring the other side of the farm. There’s one paddock of horses for them to look after.”  Blue Gum Farm suffered damage to the property, which was recently purchased by Trilogy Racing’s Jason and Mel Stenning and Sean and Cathy Dingwall. “We’ve had a lot of rain and a lot of wind – there’ll be a lot of clean up, it’s head down and bum up and getting on top of it,” outgoing Blue Gum principal Philip Campbell told Racing.com. “I’m sure there’s others far worse off than us, but it’s been a pretty rough time.”
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    Dissident reacted to Pegasus 9 in Flood Trouble At Yulong Farm   
    They lost two foals, tragic. 😔
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    Dissident reacted to scooby3051 in Flood Trouble At Yulong Farm   
    Lets pray all the horses and especially the foals are all ok...some of the best bloodstock in Australia is at their farm.....
    Thoroughbred news

    Floodwaters at Yulong Stud. Picture: Patrick Murrell (@pamurrell)

    Yulong Stud and Gilgai Farm are battling rising floodwaters and threats to their horses after the state was lashed with significant rainfall and flooding.
     
    The situation at Yulong Stud in Mangalore, just South of Nagambie, is escalating, with boats needing to be called in to rescue a huge number of horses stranded in head-high floodwaters.
     
    At the home of Black Caviar, Gilgai Farm - just West of Nagambie, the situation is understood to also be dire with flood waters wreaking havoc.

    It comes as:
     
    The clean up begins for a number of farms in central Victoria who escaped major damage but suffered significant flooding;Race tracks including Seymour, Kyneton and Yarra Valley are closed due to flooding;There was no training at Seymour, Kyneton, Wangaratta and Swan Hill on Thursday morning;Car parks at Flemington are under water;Caulfield's Group 1 Cup meeting will go ahead;Saturday’s meeting at Wodonga has been abandoned due to surface water;Picnic racing at Alexandra has also been called off.
    Yulong's Sam Fairgray described the current situation as "pretty dire" at his property.
    Videos on social media have shown horses almost neck deep in water being saved by boats, while others have been led out of the flood by volunteers.
    "Water is still flowing back into the farm. It's halfway across the property," Fairgray told RSN927.
    "The water has never been this high before. It's horrendous.”
    At Three Bridges Thoroughbreds in Eddington, horses and staff are all safe, but a deluge of consistent rain has seen floodwaters inundate the large property with dams overflowing.
    “Thankfully we’ve been here for 17 years, and we sort of knew what might’ve been coming, whereas at some of those newer farms you just don’t know – so it’s just horrible,” General Manager Toby Liston said.
    “Our catchment is 180,000 megalitres, and we’re letting out 70,000 megalitres last night. It’s a bloody lot of water, we’re probably a kilometre across, there’s a kilometre of two-metre-deep water, there’s just so much water. We know how much work is coming with the clean-up.”
    Three Bridges Thoroughbreds on Friday morning.
    At Swettenham Stud in Nagambie, the focus of staff has shifted to helping those in need of urgent help after assuring all horses and staff were ok.
    “All horses are safe we’ve just got paddocks underwater; staff and horses are safe so that’s the main thing. We’re going to throw a few boats in and go and help the other guys out,” General Manager Sam Matthews said.
    “The way our farm is designed it’s on a steep gradient, so it actually hasn’t been too bad, the horses are hundreds of metres away from the water - we just want to make everyone else is ok.”
    A usually picturesque creek that divides Woodside Park Stud at Tylden is now an uncrossable river dividing the property in two sections, but thankfully all horses have been accounted for.
    “Look we’re not too bad, the creek runs through the middle here and it’s raging, it’s uncomfortable but we haven’t got paddocks underwater, the creek raging has cut us in half, so we’re stuck - it’s an issue but no mare’s stuck in water,” Manager Mark Dodemaide said.
    Woodside Park Stud on Friday morning 
    In Euroa, the team at Blue Gum Farm are already into clean-up mode after copping the full force of the wild front.
    “We’ve had a lot of rain and a lot of wind – there’ll be a lot of clean up, it’s head down and bum up and getting on top of it,” Principal Philip Campbell said.
    “I’m sure there’s others far worse off than us, but it’s been a pretty rough time.”
     
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    Dissident reacted to scooby3051 in GOOD LUCK JAMIE RICHARDS   
    Jamie has his first runners tomorrow night at happy Valley...good luck to him in his new career I hope he smashes it up there to show what a loss he is to New Zealand racing...and silence the knockers on sites elsewhere who suggested he won't make it up there...
    Expat Kiwi trainer Jamie Richards is set to have his first runners in Hong Kong at Happy Valley on Wednesday.
    “I’m looking forward to it – hopefully the horses can come out and run well, no doubt they’ll improve with the run a bit but they should run well,” Richards said. 
    Flying On The Turf will be Richards’ first runner in Hong Kong when he contests the second section of the Class 5 Island Handicap (1200m). Fortune Master and Rattan Kingdom also step out later on the card for the New Zealander. 
    Richards arrived in Hong Kong late last season to set up his stable after numerous years at the helm of Te Akau Racing in New Zealand, where he trained with remarkable success at home and across the Tasman in Australia. 
    The 33-year-old is synonymous with training exceptional talents such as Melody Belle, Probabeel, Te Akau Shark, Xtravagant, Gingernuts and Avantage. He was crowned New Zealand Champion Trainer four times (2015/16 [with Steven Autridge], 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22) and set single-season wins and prize money records in the process. 
    The winner of more than 50 Group Ones, Richards is aware of the challenges he faces in an entirely new environment – while lucrative – that is renowned for its unforgiving nature. 
    “It’s very different (here in Hong Kong), from a training perspective the heat and humidity play roles and from a handicap and acceptances point of view it’s very different too with trump cards, preferences and the like, so it’s taken a little bit of getting used to but we’ve got Jonesy as our assistant trainer and he has a good handle on all of that,” he said.
    “There’ll be plenty to learn over the next 12 months and couple of years but in time hopefully we can sort it all out.”
    Currently with 51 horses registered in his stable, Richards’ highest rated horse is Buddies who sits on a mark of 88 after transferring as a Group Three winner from the Tony Cruz yard. Palamos, whom Richards previously trained in New Zealand, is one of several four-year-olds in his care along with Starfire Gems, a 63-rated son of Japanese sire Maurice.  
    “It’s been plenty of different lunches and dinners with all of the owners and working that side of things out but I’m really pleased with the support that the owners have given us and now it’s time to do the job for them,” Richards said. 
    Rattan Kingdom gets blinkers applied for the first time as he looks to give Richards a memorable start to his career in Hong Kong when he contests section two of the Class 4 Wong Chuk Hang Handicap (1200m) at Happy Valley. 
    “He’s going well enough, he’s going to race with blinkers on for the first time to try and sharpen him up a little bit but he seems to be working well and eating well enough,” Richards said. 
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    Dissident reacted to Nerula in Buzz wire Challenge on NZTR site   
    You're onto it.  Every content providers worst nightmare is they wont be able to find enough copy to fill the space.  it's not nice.
    Where are you going to get stories from in this wet spring. DE isnt going to tell you his swimmers chances at Hastings. Matty about his rides lately. AWT trial stand outs? Nope its slow news time!
    Its a digital version of "pin the tail on the donkey" I didnt watch it through as I thought getting a bloke to do a task and answer questions at the same time is cruelty.
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    Dissident reacted to scooby3051 in RIP TAIKI   
    Just to update everyone as of Monday over $56,000 raised for Taiki's family...well done everyone so far who contributed.
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    Dissident reacted to Blue in Matt Cameron bad PR   
    Actually aec, it didn't just 'happen'. He caused it so is paying the price. He's not a kid. I'm sure a lot of us have over-indulged in booze on several occasions yet never stooped to that level and can't blame it on the booze. Sad, yes, but im not impressed. Just mho.
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    Dissident reacted to Ohokaman in RIP TAIKI   
    Lovely service for Taiki…well done to everyone involved. RIP Tiger…..😔🙏
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    Dissident reacted to scooby3051 in RIP TAIKI   
    Nice article on Taiki here worth a read.......
    https://asianracingreport.com/he-has-touched-the-hearts-of-everybody-here-fallen-jockey-taiki-yanagidas-legacy-lives-on/?fbclid=IwAR36ODoC_StajAgVWu32dT6XEv_dXlXP8Li8Xpe5Civ1GNmN3rTwCMTFePY
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    Dissident reacted to scooby3051 in RIP TAIKI   
    Livestream link for Taiki's Memorial service.
     
    https://loveracing.nz/News/37434/TaikiYanagidaMemorialServiceLivestream.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0A1YatbaHkfWCUr-0Igu6cGrbWhYoqekUe7yJUy6iYcPPhXXkoa4QBygc
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    Dissident reacted to scooby3051 in RIP TAIKI   
    Donations can be made to 01-0517-0063944-07 using the reference Taiki. I have corrected this as the press statement put out by NZTR had the wrong account details...they put it out as having 3 000's together when it should be only 00...correct details here now .
     
    01-0517-0063944-07...this is the correct one.reference Taiki
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    Dissident got a reaction from arjay in RIP TAIKI   
    Terrible news, so very sad to hear this. Thinking of his family and friends. 
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    Dissident got a reaction from meomy in RIP TAIKI   
    Terrible news, so very sad to hear this. Thinking of his family and friends. 
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    Dissident reacted to scooby3051 in RIP TAIKI   
    I have been asked to hold off at this stage...will let everyone know when the time is right...now lets just remember a fine young man that he was and send our best wishes to his nearest and dearest loved ones.
     
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    Dissident reacted to scooby3051 in RIP TAIKI   
    Yes I have asked about setting up a givealittle page for him will keep everyone posted.
     
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    Dissident reacted to scooby3051 in RIP TAIKI   
    Sad to hear of the passing of this fine young man way before his time after a fall last week at Cambridge.... Fly high Tiger gone way too soon thank you for the memories...Thoughts and prayers go out to his his Mum and sister here with him and to his manager and close friend Ted...and the greater racing industry family who are all no doubt hurting........RIP young man...soar with the angels.


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    Dissident reacted to JJ Flash in Another one bites the dust woodend beach   
    Dont think he was ever in charge of TAB. Definitely one of  CEO's John Allen's management team who can take a bow for donald ducking TAB , think Website etc, Both were ex NZ Post. If he was the best candidate for the job how bad were the rest?
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    Dissident reacted to Berri in Really interesting horse   
    Jump out at Hawera today....2yo by Tavistock out of a Hussonet daughter of Sunline. On the outside and ran 2nd
    Called Sun And Heir
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    Dissident got a reaction from JJ Flash in greyhound pay day ?   
    Could be something to do with odds of success purely for gambling purposes. I was told once by a savvy punter Aussie greyhounds are an easier way to try and turn a profit...good pools, and of course greyhounds have the smaller fields. Can't say it worked for me😂 but then personally I'd rather bet on gallops any day. 
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    Dissident reacted to Pegasus 9 in Nature Strip Simply Outstanding   
    Congratulations Nature Strip, J Mac and Chris Waller.  Brilliant display. 
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    Dissident reacted to Aaron Bidlake in NZTR increases stakes   
    And yet they continue to close the rural tracks  taking the  sport away from them. No new customer is going to get the 'bug' by watching races on TV let alone on there phone or computer.  Those that go to the party days like Welly,nz,auckland cup days barely watch a race that day let alone head to the TAB the following  Saturday for a bet. 
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    Dissident reacted to poundforpound in Saundry   
    He didn’t cause any controversy, a steady hand on the wheel, he was approachable and I always found him a fair & reasonable bloke to deal with
    I’d suggest he was quite an improvement on the bloke before him !!!
     
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    Dissident reacted to rdytdy in RIP Toby Autridge   
    Sad to hear of Toby Autridge's passing this morning. Super talented horseman and lovely human being. 
    Sincere condolences to family and friends. 
    RIP Toby 
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    Dissident reacted to Berri in RIP Toby Autridge   
    33 years ago today, an east coast bred horse called Tumblin Down won the Great Northern Steeplechase ridden by Toby Autridge. The story behind this magnificent steed is one that movies are made of. The baldy white faced horse, being now more than 16hh,  was bred on the east coast and was by a horse called Dodger (by the great jumping sire Kurdistan). Interestingly Dodger traced back to one of the first boat load of mares that were imported in the 1860's to NZ.
    Tumblin Down was a chestnut out of Maria Dallas (the singer had a hit song called Tumblin Down...hence the name). He was destined to become a war horse on type and ended up becoming a pig horse, where the hunters shot pigs and used horses to carry them out of the bush. Tumblin Down was doing this as a 2/3 year old. He was seconded to a movie set as an extra in a movie in the 1980's called Wild Horses (not the Kenny Rogers version). One of the lead actors liked Tumblin Down so much, he changed horses and rode him throughout the move.
    Sally House ended up with him and Paul Moroney and I ended up seeing him for the first time at the Te Rapa races in the middle of the winter, on a day where now-a-days they would have called the meeting off due to jockeys not having the skills or experience to ride in those conditions or health and safety. The thing that took us both was that in the pissing down rain, he tucked his head into the underarm of Sally, and where ever she went, his head remained there. It was a sight t see. It was a 1600m race and he came from last at the turn and chugged his way to third. We instantly thought Parliamentary Handicap and bought him for peanuts with two friends Connor Maloney and Craig Lindberg. Horse got a virus during the first year so we lost 6 months. Ended up turning him as a jumper. Problem was he wasn't a technically talented jumper (PC way of saying he couldn't jump well) and Graham Richardson fell off him at his first jumping race at Te Aroha (from memory). From that point on Toby Autridge rode him.
    Under Toby, Tumblin Down became first horse to have won the Great Northern and Pakuranga Hunt Cup in the same year. In the Northern he was spectacularly put through the wings during the last round, as Graham Lord, who had ridden for two rounds without irons  (iron had broken two rounds before), veered off to the right taking Tumblin Down with him. Lord fell off at that stage and how Tumblin Down didn't fall we will never understand, suffice to say it was a miraculous piece of riding by Toby....freakish in fact.  Tumblin Down went from 4th, 4 off them, to 10th losing 20- 30 lengths. With only a round to go we all thought it was over but Toby kept the game alive and somehow we found ourselves in 5th place at the bottom of the hill the last time but the leader, Vincere had got 20 lengths in front of the field. At the top of the Hill we got to 4th, turning for home he got to third, at the last fence 2nd and we won by a head. In that one ride Toby showed how much of an amasing horse person he was. Tumblin Down lived till he was 33 years old. The celebrations lasted a week as the Northern was worth $200,000 and we were all poor as paupers in our twenties.
    So 33 years ago, Toby rode like a demon to fulfil a dream we all had. This morning, unfortunately, Toby died. He was a good person and I shall remember him with much love and admiration.