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  1. You will never be able to please everyone!!!!!
  2. Dillion needs to retire! His passion for reporting racing is gone. Aidan Rodley as the editor of the Waikato Times is a great example of what should be expected by a Racing Editor (consistant,interesting,articles) and sadley Dillion struggles to do even 25% of what rodley consistanly produces each week I strongly think a paper like The Herald should print articles from The Informant website. They are interesting and show passion for racing. Dillion would make a good guest selector, Lets hope Michael Guerin takes over the reins.
  3. This post caught my interest so i search him on the internet and found this interesting blog,that has not been updated in some time but was dedicated to jockeys that had died and was inspired by Trevor Rowlands. This is his post from this linkhttp://nzjockeys.blogspot.co.nz/201 ... chive.html It all started on a foggy morning in the middle of a Waikato winter in 1975. Trevor Rowlands riding Grandeoso disappeared into a bank of fog while exercising his horse. It was the last time he was seen alive. He didn't return to the stables at Kaipaki, his horse had suffered a heart attack and both the horse and Trevor were found later that morning in a ditch beside the road when the fog eventually lifted. That one accident changed how I felt about horse racing for a long long time. I hated the fog, and it took 35 years before I put all the peices together and began to remember the person, and not the death. Trevor was 17 years old, and I was almost 16 when the accident happened, and talking to his friends in the last year or so, they have relished the chance to talk about him again. I set out to research my Family History, but after having lousey luck with my own family , I typed Trevors name into the Burial Locator, and up his info popped. I went to the cemetery and at the office I got the directions and then drove to the area they said he was buried in. (I am not a cemetery person, do not hang out in them as a habit, and don't like walking in them cos I feel like I'm stepping on someone when I pass by) Having said that, I did find his headstone, I actually walked past it, but out of the corner of my eye I saw the letters TREV - the rest of the name was hidden by lichen. I turned back and brushed off some of the growth and discovered his whole name in faded white paint on the polished granite headstone. I thought of all the things I wanted to say, but just sat there crying as I looked at his unkept headstone. It was like he'd been forgotten and that wasn't right. I returned the next day with bucket and brushes and cleaned it up so that it looked spick and span ... (it's amazing how fast you can scrub in a cemetery when you have too) and I go back each month and leave new flowers. But Trevor isn't there, it's just his bones, Trevor's spirit is around a lot and he knows he's not forgotten. I rang the NZ Thoroughbred Association and they sent me a list of 82 names of jockeys killed during their careers in NZ. Sadly Trevors name wasn't on the list as he died in an off-track accident. So I started hunting down the lost and forgotten jockeys. My blogs are going to be about what I've done, who I've found and how I feel about this journey. One day it would be great to put them in a book and use the proceeds to fund a museum dedicated to NZ racing. But till then ... I'm going to be a Jockey PI and leave no stone unturned in my search for their stories. I know this all started out from something sad, but what I've learned so far is that these men and women lived, and if they could tell us anything, it would be to grab each moment in our day and go for it ...... the number of jockeys/riders killed during their careers now stands at about 140. As I search some I've dropped off the list as they'd retired or had stopped before they passed on. Still it's sobering to think that 140 men and women have died so far.
  4. Platinum Princess - Fazza
  5. Cheers vanturk Were only new but were looking to improve it. So if you have any ideas or stories about horses or anything to do with the racing industry you want covered let us know. Info@iloveracing.co.nz or you can leave your thoughts on our facebook page
  6. Anabandana sells for $720,000New Zealand owned filly Anabandana has sold for $720,000 during the Super Select session of the Inglis Australian Easter Broodmare Sale today. The classy daughter of Anabaa was awarded New Zealand Champion Two-Year-Old for 2010/11 after brave wins in the Group I ARC Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Ellerslie, and Group I Manawatu Sires Produce Stakes (1400m) at Awapuni. As a three-year-old she struggled to recapture her champion two-year-old form, with her best performance being a second placing in the Group I NZ 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton, behind talented Te Akau colt Rock ‘N’ Pop. Anabandana earned $500,000 in 11 career starts. The purchaser was New South Wales blood stock agent James Bester who would have not only been attracted to Anabandana’s brilliant but short racing career, but also her close relation to King’s Rose and the Nureyev bloodline. iloveracing.co.nz
  7. Rip mate. I had only just visited him last friday. And he was looking good enjoying life. Good news tommy is ok
  8. Here is a challenge!!!! they will be a t TE RAPA racecourse at 10.30am on friday!!! how about some locals get down and surport them!!! by running and donating John Galvin will you be there? and other locals get down there and help out ill be there!!!
  9. An infection has ended Woorim’s Doncaster Handicap bid. Woorim returned to the Eagle Farm stable of Robert Heathcote on Monday following his failure in the George Ryder Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill on Saturday. “It’s not a serious infection but it’s enough to rule him out of the Doncaster,â€
  10. He is a good caller, and basically the best we have. maybe his work load is catching up with him (harness calling) quantity over quality. Because i have noticed last week many mistakes by him, and the terrible mistake of calling fluer de lune home first which for a moment had jockeys connections and the public convinced she had won (very poor). but the good thing about him is he would be the first to admit how wrong that was. lets hope hes not being over worked and that be bounces back for the big Group One this saturday when jimmy choux and veyron fight it out.
  11. Check out teakaustud.co.nz. They have a detailed media release explaining it all. It would be too hard to campaign a horse in aus full time on jason and staff.and to continue a full nz operation 100% Its an exciting move.and I bet he is not the last horse and trainer to make that decision with a top horse.
  12. Great move!! you just have to look at the increase in stakes that is about to happen in aus!!! look at rogerson/baker/te akau. all the main players in nz racing are setting up overseas. As an owner you would not want to be involved in any other stables. Change with the times,or be left behind
  13. Its a great days racing. im also looking forward to kings rose vs more joyous. Kings rose to beat the queen of sydey for me.
  14. his best distance is the 1400m, he has had alot of hoof issues during his racing career,which has caused him to be hard to follow. hes flying this season, could be the forgotten horse, dont worry about his last start at the valley as that night had a terrible leader biais and nothing made ground from the back.
  15. McDonald is in for a great day on saturday God the fields are amazing!!!! such quality horse flesh!!! Look out for woorim too, finally stepping up in distace