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

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    meomy reacted to Insider in Meomy   
    Regular poster Meomy hasn't posted since October!
    I have always enjoyed what he has had to say.
    Is there anyone out there in Race Cafe Land who knows him and update us?
    Hopefully he is OK.
    Cheers
    Liz
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    meomy got a reaction from We're Doomed in Dennis family   
    If any of the Dennis Family are reading this and may not be aware Papers Past NZ archives have your families wonderful contributions to Racing tucked away in it.
     
     The family deserve to recieve Kings Anniversary / New Years honours so to those who read this, follow up and put in nominations whilst we can.
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    meomy got a reaction from Ned Kelly in Dennis family   
    If any of the Dennis Family are reading this and may not be aware Papers Past NZ archives have your families wonderful contributions to Racing tucked away in it.
     
     The family deserve to recieve Kings Anniversary / New Years honours so to those who read this, follow up and put in nominations whilst we can.
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    meomy reacted to Ned Kelly in Dennis family   
    Good to see Robert Dennis has returned home and will be training a small team again, glad that such a good young trainer hasn’t been lost from the game 
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    meomy reacted to Roger Sugrue in John Shannon   
    Just browsing the Woodville fields and shocked to see a race named the John Shannon Memorial
    and checking the Tararua Funeral notices I see he passed away a week or so ago
    John ( L J Shannon) has been a Racecafe participant for 25 plus years........I'm sure I noticed  he put some picks in 2 or 3 weeks ago
    Bred and raced many horses.....a dyed in the wool passionate  Woodville man......I would guess 30 odd years on their Committee, may have been President not sure
    Recent memories of John was that he was in charge of Parking, watching ( and betting  up ) on his phone......and about 3 pm he'd be heading to the Presidents Room for a well deserved beer
    a true blue Heartland racing man
    RIP John
     
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    meomy got a reaction from Blaird in No Melbourne Cup parade this year   
    Hangover from Dirty Daniel Andrews Governance, he called off the Commonwealth Games and has f***** up Victoria.
    Did you see Police in UK arrested all animal activists who had planned to disrupt a Racing Carnival there a month or two back?
     
    @Blaird
    @arjay
    @Pakaraka Star
    @stodge, do you recall which Racecourse/ Carnival that was?
    It was great proactive work by Police to stop their anti social behaviour, Victorian and New Zealand Police, and anywhere else these activists are planning disruptions should be stopped immediately in their tracks as they are endangering those trying to go about and earn a living
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    meomy got a reaction from Pak Star in No Melbourne Cup parade this year   
    Hangover from Dirty Daniel Andrews Governance, he called off the Commonwealth Games and has f***** up Victoria.
    Did you see Police in UK arrested all animal activists who had planned to disrupt a Racing Carnival there a month or two back?
     
    @Blaird
    @arjay
    @Pakaraka Star
    @stodge, do you recall which Racecourse/ Carnival that was?
    It was great proactive work by Police to stop their anti social behaviour, Victorian and New Zealand Police, and anywhere else these activists are planning disruptions should be stopped immediately in their tracks as they are endangering those trying to go about and earn a living
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    meomy got a reaction from Gruff in No Melbourne Cup parade this year   
    Hangover from Dirty Daniel Andrews Governance, he called off the Commonwealth Games and has f***** up Victoria.
    Did you see Police in UK arrested all animal activists who had planned to disrupt a Racing Carnival there a month or two back?
     
    @Blaird
    @arjay
    @Pakaraka Star
    @stodge, do you recall which Racecourse/ Carnival that was?
    It was great proactive work by Police to stop their anti social behaviour, Victorian and New Zealand Police, and anywhere else these activists are planning disruptions should be stopped immediately in their tracks as they are endangering those trying to go about and earn a living
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    meomy reacted to Historian in Wanted to buy: old Friday Flashs/Turf Digests etc   
    PM sent
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    meomy reacted to end of era in Wanted to buy: old Friday Flashs/Turf Digests etc   
    We have boxes of old Best Bets & Tuef Digests is there anyone wanting these historic items ?
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    meomy reacted to Historian in Wanted to buy: old Friday Flashs/Turf Digests etc   
    It's surprising how many people have kept hold/inherited/collected these types of books from 1900-1960... if you look on Trade Me there are some really interesting ones on there regularly... especially harness racing from Addington.
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    meomy reacted to Historian in Wanted to buy: old Friday Flashs/Turf Digests etc   
    Hi Pilli. Sold! I sent you a private message.
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    meomy reacted to blab in Wanted to buy: old Friday Flashs/Turf Digests etc   
    Interesting topic - I have some old Best Bets dated 1945. Also numerous  racecards/ booklets for both Racing & Trotting, one of the booklets is for the Waikato Hunt Inc race meeting on Labour Day 1938 (53rd annual race meeting)  held at the Cambridge Trotting Course.
    Would be interesting to see what else is out there?
     

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    meomy reacted to pilli in Wanted to buy: old Friday Flashs/Turf Digests etc   
    Hi Historian.
    I have some FRIDAY FLASH editions for sale.
    From 3 March 1995 to 13 June 1997.Very good condition (kept flat).
    $25 for 117 copies.
    Pickup Auckland CBD.
    Cheers,Pilli.
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    meomy got a reaction from Alf Riston in Graham and Subbie together forever...Awesome story.   
    Great story and delighted to have attended the Melbourne Cup in 1992.
    From recall the weather was a bit wet, but hey great day all around.
    There's a good reason to keep those old VHS videos and old style Electronics that are becoming as scarce as hen's teeth from such great Raceday's.
     
    Out of interest, what happened to all the Roses that used to grace New Zealand Racecourses?
    We are failing here folks compared to the 16,500 rose bushes at Flemington, anyone know how many are gracing Ellerslie?
    Trentham/ Riccarton? etc?
    Who authorized the removal of our Flowers?
    It's time Racing CEO's got their act together and rectified the removal of them, because Racecourse are Public Gardens for all of Society and Betterment of all out the people of New Zealand.
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    meomy reacted to scooby3051 in Graham and Subbie together forever...Awesome story.   
    Graham and Subbie: Gone but now eternally together
    The newly placed Flemington memorial for Subzero and Graham Salisbury   By Bruce Clark 
    07:00am • 10 October 2023  5 Comments Loathe to start with a cliche but sometimes you can get blown away at the racetrack.
    Imperatriz twice at The Valley already this spring, waiting to see that she can do it big time, that's Amelia's Jewel at Caulfield this Saturday.
    And of course, Gold Trip hacking up en route to The Cups at Flemington on Saturday.
    If you are going to do it, Flemington is a pretty good place to shine.
    While it reeks of ghosts past and those well remembered, Carbine's stall, statues of Phar Lap to greet you, Makybe Diva for a photo-op, Bart's been on the move but is rightly still there, it's sheer size and vista is a stage befitting new heroes.
    But such horses can go as quickly as they come.
    So let me take you back to Flemington on the Friday before Turnbull Day, the weather, well let's just suggest it was a little subzero.
    Befittingly grey, a wind powerful enough to blow froth in your latte without assistance, but with a sense of rightful, if overdue reverence.
    It is the unveiling, finally by the Victoria Racing Club, which has a habit of stoic true custodians of what matters in the game, of the (Graham) Salisbury Subzero Memorial Rose Garden.
     
    It's been three years since Salisbury, a Clerk Of The Course at Flemington for almost 50 years, passed away, just some two months before his mate, the universally loved 1992 Melbourne Cup winner Subzero.
    Covid-19 had denied them a more defining send-off.
    Until Friday.
    And perhaps there was no-one more relieved than Graham's widow, Anita, who had kept the ashes of both in their family bedroom at Heathcote, until they were interned "together forever" in their rightful home, the Flemington turf.
    A special Subzero Rose has been commissioned and now joins the 16,500 rose bushes that Mick Ryan looks after at Flemington, somehow teasing them to bloom before Derby week, as he has been doing for 30 years.
    But this rose, bred, yes, they breed them, by Kim Cyrus — he's done an Ian Thorpe, a Sir Cliff Richard, a Sir Donald Bradman, a Michaelangelo, but Ryan who knows a thing about flowers obviously, reckons the Subbie brilliant white with fragrant scent, will be not just much loved, like his namesake, but a top seller.
     
    So why is this important? Well, there has never been a duo who have done more for racing in the community over such a period than Salisbury and Subbie.
    Everyone has got a Subbie story, but there would never be one without the other. Yes, we all know he won The Cup in ‘92 (they had to let the internationals in a year later to upstage him), even though he was bought to win a Magic Millions (for $100,000).
    Salisbury bought him for $1, vowed to make him "the people's horse", and leading in 17 Cup winners after him was only an entree to the "work" he did from schools to aged care homes, from corporate events to pubs and hospices.
    So not even the offer of six figures plus in cash and a brash new Mercedes from an Arab Sheikh on an invited trip to appear at a function on a stage in Dubai, yes Dubai, could you think of any other horse that popular, could shake their lifelong bond.

    Graham Salisbury with his best mate.
    There have been countless or better thoroughbreds on the track, but as Richard Freedman, one-time trainer of Subbie, and nominated him, the horse, for Australian Of The Year, called him our greatest thoroughbred, for the longevity of his presence in public alongside Graham.
    Even today, Subbie's Facebook page has global fans buy merchandise of all opportunities, it was only a few years back, a fan in Scotland requested and got some hair from his tail.
    There have been songs written about him, children's books penned, number plates, tattoos, countless pieces of artwork commissioned or just impressioned, a statue in Adelaide (but not Melbourne, and why not despite petitions), his name on races at Flemington and the Gold Coast, a strappers award, and even a Riding For The Disabled Arena, courtesy of the VRC.
    He was box office Subbie, Hugh Jackman and Kylie Minogue were fans, he opened Olivia Newton John's Cancer Clinic in Melbourne, with ONJ, supermodels, Kylie Bax has ridden him, Jennifer Hawkins with him.

    Jennifer Hawkins with Subzero. Picture: Supplied.
    He ate Melbourne socialite Lillian Franks' hat and got away with it, met with then Prime Minister John Howard, who was impressed with a little trick Graham taught him and ran via Governor-General of the Day at that's year's Cup, basically suggesting the PM should meet this talking horse.
    Many have seen it, when a host or Graham asks Subbie a question, a few banal ones with no response, until "have you got a girlfriend Subbie?" is proposed and it never got boring and always a roaring laugh or giggle when Subbie vigorously nodded yes to Salisbury's tricked and tickling urging.
    When Subbie was sick, seriously ill and needed a special product from America that was on the banned importation list, it was straight to then PM Kevin Rudd for assistance with such baffling red tape and Patty "Rice Patty" McPeak's "Super Flex" was flown into Australia to cure some crippling arthritis with Rice Patty herself tagging along for the brilliant PR ride.
    But it was the countless trips to visit kids and the elderly that was so natural for Graham and Subbie but that so endeared the pair to all who couldn't have cared less he won a Cup or any race, but that the horse was such a gentle giant with an innate ability to read the room, any room.

    Kylie Bax riding Subzero. Picture: Supplied.
    At schools, kids dressed as racegoers from years gone by and made scrapbooks as part of school projects, in the care homes, eyes lit up as the mundane of days ticking slowly away were brightened by a horse, they might have remembered via a betting ticket or television, or just a friendly pet they could touch for a few minutes in some awe.
    Every trip was meticulously planned in advance by Graham with the horse's welfare coming first. The float played country and western music, his soft fluffy toy, a sheep, always in his eyeline.
    There were those visits to The Emerald Hotel and numerous other pubs around the country, Crown Casino, he wasn't a high roller, but a regular in the Palladium, not so that Mahogany Room.
    But if there was one place that my memory of Graham and Subbie eternally remains is the Very Special Kids hospice in Hawthorn, a place we visited on numerous occasions as part of our charity work with Pinchapoo, and to raise funds for the centre, that does incredible work with end-of-life care for kids.
    Graham was an old school man, tough as bird poo on the car roof if you like (to paraphrase H G Nelson) – but that hospice got him, yet Subbie would seemingly know exactly what to do without a hint as he walked in the doors and found those kids in beds and somehow a nuzzle here and a pat there, made a harrowing day seem so special.
    Like Freya, a young girl. Graham tells the story of how Subbie – "he just knew" – went to her.
    The next day she was gone, her parents wrote a letter a week later thanking Graham for the last and lasting memory that Subbie gave their daughter. He never forgot it or forgave himself for not knowing he could have taken Subbie to her funeral.

    Graham Salisbury and Subzero in 1994. Picture: John Hart
    Now Graham and Subbie have gone but thankfully remain eternally together at Flemington. When you go Cup Week, make a little pilgrimage down to the rose garden and say hello or thanks or – as is the modern world, scan the QR code on the plaque to remember their work.
    As Graham once said – "there will be a lot of horses who do things just like him in the future, but there will never be one who does things as good as him."
    There was only one Subbie, one Graham. Racing, and the VRC, at Flemington, now has given them a fitting forever home.
     
     
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    meomy got a reaction from Gruff in Avondale   
    And how will it work with Horses Racing if proposed Oceanic Healthcare Retirement Village goes ahead, do people think how animals react around construction site noises?
     It's a mess now at Ellerslie and a disgrace.
    Shame on those who instigated the chopping down of Protected Historic Precinct trees that came from the likes of Mitchelson & Graham & others who ensured all the people had a Pleasant Place for  the betterment of Society.
     
    Too bad those trees on the hill were cut down when Birds are nesting in Spring time  and had their homes and babies taken.
     
    Perhaps those who did this will one day have their families and enjoyment taken away.
    Those  who live in Auckland know a number of Apartment complexes are been halted bc of the current financial frighin mess NZ is in and those who have paid in advance are been refunded.
     
     
     
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    meomy reacted to john legend in Attachments to HRNZ new Building.   
    Already I have seen comments from harness racing  (maybe clarified) that A club wanted to race on a certain track but HRNZ needed to check with Entain. also they wanted to get more races at certain times to suit them ?  How much control/influence do they have. What is the deal. For the relative large funds invested have we got any control left ? Would appreciate clarification  ? or do they have all the strings... (appreciate the funding but at what cost .... )    ?????????(maybe TAB/Entain names are 1 and the same )
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    meomy reacted to Shad in Chippys tested positive   
    What do they say about those that live by the sword, not one ounce of sympathy from this corner, saved it all for the vax injured and those that lost there jobs, but according to him they had a choice.
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    meomy got a reaction from Baz (NZ) in Wanted to buy: old Friday Flashs/Turf Digests etc   
    @Historian we should all be banding together and ensure all these Horse  Racing Publications are included in Department of Internal Affairs Archives, namely Papers Past NZ in there own category.
     
     
    Perhaps it's timely we all pushed DIA to include them.
    It was a legal requirement to retain a copy of each NZ publication, e.g magazines, newspapers, etc as part of our heritage.
     
    Maybe contact them and ask who would have them.
     
    Those of you who have family & friends wanting to contribute positively to the publication online of these back dated publications, may like to put their hand up and help.
     
    Plenty of people have lost jobs in the last nearly 3 yrs and ensuring our Horse Racing publications are Archived with respect and in an orderly manner perhaps could be done by those with a genuine interest in the industry.
     
    Best
     
     
     
     
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    meomy got a reaction from Gruff in Wanted to buy: old Friday Flashs/Turf Digests etc   
    @Historian we should all be banding together and ensure all these Horse  Racing Publications are included in Department of Internal Affairs Archives, namely Papers Past NZ in there own category.
     
     
    Perhaps it's timely we all pushed DIA to include them.
    It was a legal requirement to retain a copy of each NZ publication, e.g magazines, newspapers, etc as part of our heritage.
     
    Maybe contact them and ask who would have them.
     
    Those of you who have family & friends wanting to contribute positively to the publication online of these back dated publications, may like to put their hand up and help.
     
    Plenty of people have lost jobs in the last nearly 3 yrs and ensuring our Horse Racing publications are Archived with respect and in an orderly manner perhaps could be done by those with a genuine interest in the industry.
     
    Best
     
     
     
     
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    meomy reacted to nomates in Allen Hits Back at Damning Deloitte Report   
    He was one of many that sold the industry down the river , but was the one who made the most glaring waste of industry funds , all because he never had a coloring book as a child , so he spent the last of the industries reserves paying someone millions to put the TAB site in color . 
    He is the last in a long line of non racing people that live in infamy for having spent a fortune of industry money to achieve nothing . Because that is exactly what we have , nothing .
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    meomy reacted to Hi Ho Silver in important announcement at 1 today   
    The better solution?  We don't know what other options were available.
    What's stupid?  For starters:-
    - bad press re previous Entain business deals
    - if this is such a good deal why are the details secret?
    - no different to the previous big promises with inflated returns (that never eventuated)
    - a 25 year term
    - no or minimal due diligence
    - who will hold Entain accountable?
    - we will not be told details of the deal until after 1 June when the agreement is in place
    - read Leggy's legitimately published figures compared to what we have been fed
    - lost pokie revenue which funds a massive amount of entities will now come from where?
    - where will Entain magic up the projected extra wagering?
    - the Act has been changed to accommodate this online betting regime but how does this effect online gambling outside of what the TAB do?
    - effectively this deal means money going offshore as the partner is an overseas company
    - the eSports gaming threat to racing and fixing Entain brings
    - how do you think Geoblocking will be achieved?
    - how long will a few million dollars last in the first few years?
    - what overheads have been factored in?
    - what contingencies apply?
    - the Act was changed to allow an overseas entity to operate a "monopoly", was competition considered?
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    meomy reacted to Leggy in important announcement at 1 today   
    Last years annual report said $150m. Quite a difference.