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What an exciting final between Bonecrusher and Veandercross .  It could have fallen either way right up until the last race and a 3-2 final score does t really project just how close the struggle was.  It has been great being a member of Team Bonecrusher for nearly 3 months!  'Thanks again to Scooby and John for putting on the competition.  It always amazes me how quickly the results are churned out so  John must be a very clever guy to construct such an efficient spreadsheet.

Bonecrusher was an extremely-cheap unfashionably-bred racehorse that nobody else wanted to buy. He did okay 
Team Bonecrusher were a bunch of ragtag tipsters nobody else wanted to team up with. Thrown together by SNM, they did okay too 

Pondy a head short of victory in the end . Right down to the Wire in the Grand Final. Congrats to the victor's !! 
Also , on behalf of Team Rough Habit , congrats to the Very Speedy IMPERATRIZ team taking the 'Say No More Four's Plate 'today . A nice Best bet to Jack to finish it off in style. Well done mate. Great final to you and O'man , Peter RS and that dusty #48 too. 
Thank you very much John for your sterling effort there 'manning the Boards' , Scooby, and also to my fab  star Rough Habit Team enjoying plenty of solid gallops against star opponents each week for a bit of fun.  
 

6 million at Avondale and we are talking Turkey.  People involved in these processes like being paid huge sums and many are clipping the ticket, you can't beat Country Clubs and people with a passion
2024....everyone wants the Bling
 
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Its doing what its designed to do but it has been the hardness thats been the issue to date previously...not its ability to handle rain...it was running straight through it too quickly before...but hey its good its doing well today...horses dont normally pull up sore and jarred up on rain affected tracks.

I thought the track was fantastic considering the rain that they have had , ran 1.09.68 , that is  a great time .
Hopefully it holds up for the whole day .

Big race day , 3 black type races , if there's any issues with the track will they just continue ? OR , abandon and look completely stupid .
I hope the track holds up but it's bloody sad that everyone is sitting wondering what is going to happen , after $55mil has been spent making it state of the art .

Soft 5 on Raceday morning - does this mean we are past the foreseeable future and are now back in the dark ages again? 😎

R1.  Ellerslie R6               2, 7
R2. Ellerslie R7                2, 5
R3. Randwick R2             3, 7
R4. Randwick R3             2, 3
R5. Randwick R4             1, 4
R6.  Randwick R5            1, 3
R7.  Randwick R6            12, 13
R8. Randwick R7              7         BEST BET 
R9.  Randwick R8             8         BEST BET
R10. Mornington R6         8, 9
R11.  Mornington R8        7, 10 
R12. Mornington R9         2, 5
Well who knows how today will go. Did my selections 2 days ago but decided this morning I didn't like some of them so much anymore.Only one forced change through a scratching, but changed both of my Best Bets to other races, and put a second runner in with my original solo bets. I don't normally do things like that, prefer to go with my first thought, so hope it doesn't come back to bite me on the butt on the biggest day of all 🤣
The best of luck to my team mates, Foxmerts, Pete and Stoyd in their individual H2H's today, and may TEAM BONECRUSHER DO THE BUSINESS ONE MORE TIME. 
Huge thanks to Scooby for the platform to run these comps and the prize funds he outs up, and to SNM for all of his work on scoring. It makes Saturday afternoons compulsory viewing on the small screen more than the big screen actually showing the racing. And most of all everybody; HAVE FUN!!!

Thanks John . best of Luck to your team in the Grand Final. 🏆  Here's some Roughies Habits for a crack at the B Final. The 'dust' will be flying lol. 
Best of luck to Jack and his Team . Go 'Roughie' ya good thing lol .
 
1.  Ellerslie R6/   2 - 12
2. Ellerslie R7/   7 - 10
3. Randwick R2/   3 - 10
4. Randwick R3/   3 - 12
5. Randwick R4/   3 - 4
6.  Randwick R5/   2 - 3
7.  Randwick R6/   6 - 12  BB
8. Randwick R7/    2 - 7
9.  Randwick R8/ 9 - 12  BB    it's a great day in Southport today 
10. Mornington R6/   8 - 10
11.  Mornington R8/  8 - 10
12. Mornington R9/   2 - 5

Great horse but I’d have Sunline ahead. 2 Cox Plates 2 Donnie’s. 
Caulfield Guineas probably his best win or Aus Cup. 

Dick St quite appropriate 3mates. 

The vet that exmained Imperatriz advised against racing her again , when a vet says it it's not advisable to race her again, it means that the Horse can't race again. And, the Horse should be retired.  Vets know what they are talking about, they're the ones that went to university and srudied to become vets.  Would you prefer to see her race on and break down, and having to be put down?  Also, Opie himself said that he'd hoped that Imperatriz would give him his 100th Group 1!!!!!!

Memo Paul Wilcox: The Ellerslie Bowling Club is at 20 Kalmia St. The nearest golf course to Ellerslie is 2km away- the Remuera Golf Club at 120 Abotts Way. Incidentally Kalmia was a handy mare by Golden Plume trained at Hawera by Herb Bergerson. She won 6 races from her 13 starts. Des Harris and Jim Walker won twice on her and Gary Bergerson and Gus Clutterbuck once each.

Dick St quite appropriate 3mates. 

Te Awamutu which is purely a trials track at the moment and has been having a "renovation", isn't ready to hold the designated trials next week , pushed back one week , and a set of trials at the Cambridge Synthetic have been put in their place . 
They are a bit slow , they haven't worked out yet that the majority don't want to trial on the synthetic , especially their babies , so now owners have to wait another week to trial and hopefully get to the races and hopefully before they strike a heavy track .
And what is the problem with Te Awamutu that one more week will resolve ? At least tell us , it's all Chinese whispers and it's getting f@#ken boring .
I'm so over this crap , I have 3 horses at the moment but have made the decision they are my last here , things like the this and Ellerslie just reaffirm my decision . 

Cup Day Tradition - ROOTED
World Famous Jumps race over the HILL - ROOTED
General state of Racing - ROOTED
$55m Track - NOT ROOTED (apparently)
Seems the Muppets can root everything except what they needed to ....
Apparently this shot is from the meeting when they decided to send the Track developers home early

   

Foxton should be in play to, Central Districts struggling for surfaces as well, it’s going to be a long winter…..

Absolutely loved this! Not sure if it got any mainstream News coverage but it should have.
Interesting all the comments around poor judgement from other riders.
This was a 'freak' effort so pretty hard to point blame at the other riders in my opinion.
Let's face it - we are all talking about it because of it's abnormality. 99 times out of 100 such a lead results in the horse walking over the line, so for POJ to maintain the strong gallop to the line was incredible.
The only ride I would comment on is the brilliance of Declan Bates - in this instance his nickname 'Master' is fitting, rather than the funny connotations of it.
Seemed to let her do her own thing, gave her a little rest before the rise and then they were history.
One thing I do wonder is he she had wobbled up the straight, and finished out of the money, if Maher would have had a 'face like a half sucked Throatie' like he did with the Jimmysastar ride 🤔
One of the great G1 wins of all time and we should celebrate the positive side of it 👍
 
 

Its being reported now one of the victims was John Singletons daughter just 25 years old with her whole life ahead of her...such a senseless crime and a beautiful life senselessly cut short... A great racing man and thoughts and prayers go out to his family at this sad sad time. RIP Dawn.

Brilliant. Win by Pride of Jenni. Just too good. Funny how folk have to find  a fall guy for the rest of them. 

Brilliant. Win by Pride of Jenni. Just too good. Funny how folk have to find  a fall guy for the rest of them. 

Yes too good Veandercross. Good Whanganui stock. Well done today Pogo and Say No. 
Good tipping over the journey Little Tramp. And 3 mates bobbing up now and again(pun). Excellent team mates so we will regroup in the future. 
Thanks John for the operation and Scooby for running the site. 
Good luck next week in the final V tho Bonecrusher was my fav horse. 
Cheers 

In the comp I've been taking Autumn Angel as a single-pick BB every start,  and this week she bags a big one at reasonable odds and it wasn't a comp race