chiknsmack

I think you've stumbled upon the truth. Miss Jools doesn't work for the TAB, she works for NZTR. To your "full renovation" point, I take what they're doing at Awapuni (starting from scratch, adding sand to the soil to improve drainage, installing new drainage and irrigation) to be a full renovation. Washing a house doesn't count as a renovation, nor does mowing a track and cleaning up debris.

Wasn't there talk of building a new track a wee way south-west of town? Rather than a full reno of the turf at the present site why not sell the current track for houses (it's already surrounded by them) and build new? Bonus points if you design a track with a decent start point for the 1600m.

The parents are the first remove, so it'd be 3m x 4m Danehill and 4f x 4m Sadler's Wells. Because in both cases the double is within the first four removes, I'd call it inbreeding rather than linebreeding. In other animals that might not be close enough to be considered inbreeding, but in horses it is IMO.

Setting up a "small operation" at Byerley Park once Singapore shuts down in October. "I don't plan to be a big time trainer, we will train a few, trade a few and race a few and look to re-engage with the many loyal clients we have had from the past".

https://cdn.prism.horse/media/86a686a81f00400b80574d1c7f295883.mp4

Not the strongest vote of confidence from Coolmore. Here's hoping he proves them wrong.

It'd be handy if you told us when in the show this was. Or better yet, post a video which starts at the correct point like the person directly above you was kind enough to do. (Or best, notice your post was surplus to requirements this time and not bother.)

Gold Fever and Milunka are obvious tangerine picks, along with the Te Akau horse I came close to buying a share in (Naadirah; she sold out very quickly). But let's go shopping in Book 2 instead. Lot 731: Flippity Lass Lot 1029: Venetian Raider Lot 1033: Vinavion (passed in, hopefully nominated anyway) Lot 1111: Classy Fashion

This is what @Hi Ho Silver was talk about wrt "Filming 2 jockeys in a 4 or 5 horse trial talking the track up".

Te Akau will probably have half a dozen runners as per usual, and two of those Te Akau horses that Scooby found (not the one by Md'O) are ones I really liked as ones for the race. I think you'd better start saving your $4 a week just in case on those two.

Come on now, Kylie-Ann. Only one person got Jayne's nayme wrong in the whole thread.

Super Seth with two first crop winners before Christmas, who then ran 2nd & 4th in the Wakefield. He came back in the autumn to beat Melody Belle in the Futurity, so in his career he beat more than just Alligator Blood and some dross. 35k is probably overs, but Waikato Stud and overs are synonyms to me as far as advertised stud fees go. And if they did pay ~$15m (which is entirely plausible given the stallion market nowadays) then they need that sort of fee for the deal to make sense. I like him and there's every chance he can make 35k look cheap in the future. And for the good of the industry we need people with the balls to have a crack with quality stallion prospects, so I won't be knocking anyone for spending big piles of their own money on horses they think can improve the breed in NZ.

Put me down as another who really liked 214, though her produce record is a bit of a worry.

Palmerston or Palmerston North? It's a decent commute to the CD from the former.

I think he'd weigh up the risk and reward of riding and make his decision from there. One horse slips on a Wednesday at Kenso? Let's go home. Four horses slip on Karaka Millions night? "I'm on one of the faves in the $1.5m last race and might not be available to ride if it's postponed, so the show must go on". Should the jockeys be the ones making the decision? On the one hand they're the ones risking their lives, on the other hand they're not the only ones potentially negatively affected by their decision. The "rule" everywhere else seems to be if any horse slips for any reason the meeting is abandoned, but that wasn't the case at Ellerslie for whatever reason (jockeys blinded by dollar signs, administrators not wanting to lose face, stipes not having the balls to say "I don't want jail time after the Worksafe investigation into the preventable death that may happen if we keep going on this ice rink").

Is he still standing in the NH or have Windsor Park bought him? He's not at Coolmore anymore.

There's a TAB/Ladbrokes video of Bosson and Weatherley riding around the track and they mention that the final corner is better than it used to be. Though they were riding close to the fence. Surely they haven't built the turn like a road with a crown in the middle; positive camber close to the fence and negative camber out wide. ATR usually have in-depth sectionals on their website shortly after each race. But nothing from yesterday at all. https://www.aucklandracing.co.nz/racing-information/sectional-times/

You could argue the highest rated horse on international ratings each year is the world champion. You could further argue that there's a world champion sprinter, miler, middle-distance, stayer, 2yo, 3yo, mare, and so on. I haven't seen the quote and don't know if he named names, but So You Think stands out off the top of my head. They claim on their website that Might And Power was "World Champion Stayer"; wikipedia says he was named as such but doesn't say who named him that. Was Beauty Flash "World Champion Miler" the year he was Hong Kong Champion Miler?

His ride in the first was similar; the horse laying in away from the whip wasn't his fault and he corrected that quickly enough, but before that when he was getting to the outside. It's aggressive riding and not a lot of checking his wing mirrors. In both cases his horse was going much better than those around him, but a bit more care wouldn't go astray. I agree entirely.

He only rode seven of the sixteen tested (44%), so chances are that he DID still ride seven winners that day. Though he did ride the only one tested from Race 7, a race someone mentioned above. Given Scooby seems to know a bit about it but is calling for strong punishment while not trying to dampen speculation, it's probably not his tangerine friends (which is a relief personally; I have a piece of one of the Te Akau runners tested).

Would you have gone to Trentham if it was free entry if you showed your Phoenix ticket? I don't know how good the public transport links are to Trentham but if you could take public transport to the races, get in for free, then have buses put on specifically to take people to the Phoenix game, would that have been a goer? There are also the obvious things to do if you're going to charge $50 at the gate (food/drink/betting vouchers, get your $50 back if you hand in $X of losing bet tickets) as mentioned.

Ellerslie R1: 1 7 Ellerslie R2: 2 5 Ellerslie R3: 3 8 Ellerslie R4: 6 3 Ellerslie R5: 4 9 Ellerslie R6: 4 8