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Hi there 1. Otaki R2: 1-4 2. Otaki R5: 7-8 3. Te Rapa R3: 2-4 4. Te Rapa R5: 5-7 5. Randwick R2: 8-10 6. Randwick R8: 4-5 7. Randwick R10: 4-6 8. Caulfield R4: 4-10 9. Caulfield R5: 1-11 .. BB 10. Caulfield R6: 1-2 11. Caulfield R8: 2-8 12. Caulfield R9: 3-12 .. BB Cheers Team and All the best to our oppos! Let's go Blaird!

Marlene Todd what a wonderful lady she was, along with Margaret Bull They were such identities in NZ racing during the winter season. Good shout out BK

In saying that though, I think it was the knowledge and skill in knowing how to prepare a track that was not slippery, and was just a true winter track where they dug in and the top grass was worn and texturous. That does lend itself to prior workout wear and tear and perhaps the restrictions now on trackwork and training stables being located at tracks and where they run and where they can't run, can attribute to this. To give the grass the texture and wear needed horses used to be allowed to train on the course proper and also there was a rugged brush over. Maybe this just isn't done today.

I do remember Ohoka... I was the youth labour tramping back as my dad was Track Super then. Straw put down in the birdcage to give the horses some clean footing, and I guess it really was the time when mudlarks were mudlarks, like the wonderful Cuss.

Way to go Pondy! That's a divvy and a half

Always such an eloquent wordsmith Alf

Hi there 1. New Plymouth R5: The Rain 2. Eagle Farm R4: 4-11 3. Eagle Farm R6: 1-4 4. Eagle Farm R7: 2-12 5. Flemington R5: 5-6 .. BB 6. Flemington R8: 1-5 7. Rosehill R5: 4-7 8. Rosehill R6: 3-9 9. Rosehill R7: 7-10 10. Rosehill R8: 1-9 11. Rosehill R9: 4-8 .. BB 12. Rosehill R10: 11-17 Cheers muchly Team .. and all the best to our oppos. Let's go Blaird!!

Do you get all your information from the Heritage Foundation?

Howdy 1. Trentham R4: 4-5 2. Trentham R7: 2-6 3. Ruakaka R5: 3-9 4. Ruakaka R6: 7-12 5. Ruakaka R7: 5-8 6. Caulfield R5: 3-14 7. Caulfield R6: 11-15 8. Caulfield R7: 1-8 9. Caulfield R8: 2-5 10. Randwick R7: 2-5 11. Randwick R8: 3-8 .. BB 12. Randwick R9: 1-8 .. BB Ta muchly John

I agree, there are restrictions in any job, as there are in posting on a forum You can take the I will go all out and try to uncover some gritty things each week and end up doing very little and being sidelined, except for some cameo spots, or you can play by the rules and try to get what you can within those parameters... perhaps sometimes pushing the boundaries. He has the knowledge, that's for sure, if you doubt it, sit down with him for a couple of hours and talk racing. Let's see how it goes.

Yes please thank you tah!

Great character is so right watters - he knew anybody and everybody - Mum used to say that when at the races with Neville, you had to plan to be anywhere on the racecourse well in advance as Neville stopped every few seconds to talk to someone and shake their hand

Neville used to train for my Mum. Lovely man.

Well done Foxmerts! and good job to you Gee, you were holding the lead until the final turn. Thanks team for the comp

Cranky Harry is scratched. Replace with : Rosehill Race 4 Amberite (J) Thanks