chiknsmack
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On 2/14/2024 at 8:38 PM, Blue said:
I wonder if there'll be any room for Donna Logan in the equation.
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".
- Zak Hussai, Blue and Insider
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16 hours ago, rdytdy said:
Still yet to see a speed map that had him leading.
Did you see Ciaron Maher's face following the race? Would have loved to have heard the conversation between Ciaron and Craig Williams following the race.
https://cdn.prism.horse/media/86a686a81f00400b80574d1c7f295883.mp4
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9 hours ago, MissJools said:
It was mentioned on Weigh In yesterday, and there was also an interview with her co-trainer Robert Wellwood.
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.)
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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
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13 hours ago, Aaron The Anchor said:
I didn't think they talked the track up.
This is what @Hi Ho Silver was talk about wrt "Filming 2 jockeys in a 4 or 5 horse trial talking the track up".
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11 minutes ago, Gruff said:
Scoobs, your a top bloke and generous to boot, but if any of these make it I will put in 100 as well to the victor
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.
- Gruff and Black Kirrama
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4 hours ago, KellyAnne said:
Interesting thread but (at the risk of being pilloried for pedantry) could we at least spell Jayne’s name correctly? Some seemed to slip into “Jane” surely she’s been around long enough to get it right?
Like others I am hoping we will benefit from her experience in some way. The combo of Jayne & Brad is a great “get” for the CD!Come on now, Kylie-Ann. Only one person got Jayne's nayme wrong in the whole thread.
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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.
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6 hours ago, Zak Hussai said:
Brad Taylor the racing manager for Freedman Racing is departing to return home to NZ to become general manager of the Awapuni and Trentham Race Clubs. Brad will commence the new role in March and will be based out of Palmerston with Jayne Ivil and their young family.
Palmerston or Palmerston North? It's a decent commute to the CD from the former.
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28 minutes ago, PeteL said:
Do you think a jockey the calibre of James McDonald would allow himself to be bullied into riding on an unsafe track?
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").
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19 hours ago, crustyngrizzly said:
Early days yet but imo the progeny of Circus Maximus haven't been in demand as much as i thought they might be.Could all change.
Is he still standing in the NH or have Windsor Park bought him? He's not at Coolmore anymore.
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9 hours ago, Mattski said:
Is the corner banked at all? Those other Strathayr surfaces like The Valley look better banked giving the horses from the back half a better chance. I hate to say this but last night reminded me of Ruakaka.
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.
34 minutes ago, Gruff said:The 600 sectionals tell another Story, the beaten brigade didn't have times to compete, the best run from a backmarker all day we saw run 3rd in the last but needed to run that section as quick as Legarto to do so. We need to see ALL relevant sections ( particularly interested in the last 400m ).but shouldnt this be expected anyway at the Headquarters of NZ Racing? Sub standard
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/
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13 hours ago, Memphis3 said:
I see the guy from Windsor Park stud saying 3 World Champions had started their lives at his stud. What qualifies a horse as a world champion? Something like Equinox springs to mind. Frankel Winx.
Usually a world champion comes through a World Series.
Tough to have a World Series for racing though. So how does a horse go from champion to world champion?
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?
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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.
26 minutes ago, scooby3051 said:Give the kid a break, sure he caused interference but he is not Robinson Crusoe in that department...he has improved so much and is a bloody good rider...he will get time for sure I would think.
I agree entirely.
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3 hours ago, Winner69 said:
If disqualified chances are that Kennedy didn’t ride 7 winners that day
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).
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3 minutes ago, Palliser said:
Agree with your second paragraph, but not the first. Football is the most popular sport in the world by the length of the straight, and there was close to 10,000 at the Phoenix game. So you need to think big picture about what else is going on. I attended the Phoenix game in preference, was tempted to go to races ONLY because it was Tony's last day, but that was the only temptation sadly. Don't worry Entain will fix everything
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.
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Ellerslie R1: 1 7
Ellerslie R2: 2 5
Ellerslie R3: 3 8
Ellerslie R4: 6 3
Ellerslie R5: 4 9
Ellerslie R6: 4 8
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Trentham R1: 3 8
Trentham R2: 2 4
Trentham R3: 2 3
Trentham R4: 3 4
Trentham R5: 2 6
Trentham R6: 6 7
Trentham R7: 3 12
Trentham R8: 6 11
Trentham R9: 3 8
Thanks.
Education please
in Thoroughbred Breeding
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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.