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

Chestnut

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  1. You might also remember that Michael Guerin and Mike McRoberts co-hosted the evening in honour of David Ellis. Pretty hard to do that if you don't know anything about racing.
  2. At home on the farm with the horses ...
  3. Hi there 1. Ellerslie R5: 5-7 2. Ellerslie R6: 1-2 3. Ellerslie R7: 2-8 4. Ellerslie R8: 6-7 5. Ellerslie R9: 3-17 6. Randwick R5: 1-3 7. Randwick R6: 1-4 8. Randwick R7: 1-9 9. Randwick R8: 4-11 .. BB 10. Flemington R7: 7-9 11. Flemington R8: 1-15 12. Flemington R9: 10-12 .. BB Thanks John All the best to you Jackaroody! Let's go Team RH!!
  4. Beaut horse I remember his Auckland Cup win wonderful. . Not sure he won the Derby though, he might have placed ?
  5. Silent Achiever and Habibi winning it back to back for the fillies was great and that ability to handle the softer going came to the fore... and in such great company as Tidal Light and Popsy before them I'm by no means all out for gender equality.. I think it has to be earned to say you stand equal .. and in such wonderful tbred company and coming up trumps, sensational, they were all stellar efforts
  6. Altitude... so sad. My brother was working for Waikato Stud at the time and I remember his phone call to us following the race, absolutely devastated. Such a loss.
  7. I think you are right Lizmeister! As a first take on this, I would applaud many of them going it alone, being independent journalists that sell their stories to NZ and global channels, they just need themselves and a camera man and sound and they're away, because of their professional credibility globally (Mike Roberts did a lot of reporting in the Middle East) I think they could make a go of it because people would talk to them, they know them. Mike might be more in line with racing as he is a sports buff (he reminds me of Philip Leishman ) so may have the background, but I believe there is a real opportunity here for Racing and they need to snap them up, even if locking them in for independent research projects and presentation.
  8. ooh and happy birthday Gubeliini!!! and Pokemon!
  9. I've now read through all this thread and watched replays, and I'd put Craig Williams on my horses any day and in fact he's been on them and won for me. You don't know what the horse wanted to do, or wouldn't let him do, or how it was racing out there, how it felt under him, whether it was racing easily or struggling in stages. Every trainer can say yeah I want you to do this and that.. but every other trainer has told their Jockey what they want, the only thing they don't converse with is the horses, only the Jockey can try to do that. I have no time for Maher, he's a hot head when he doesn't get the results he wants and is fairly thankless when he does.. Eustace used to do that very well. Yes I think, as someone has said, he needs to front up to owners, but just because your horse has won so many starts, it doesn't mean it's unbeatable, and sooner or later, he or she will say I'm going to do this today because that's how I feel, I've got other horses in this race that are dominating me and horses can sort out a pecking order at the start pretty quickly, which horses do sense, and he wasn't dominant, he seemed to not race smoothly at all, and class took him a long way in the end, but again to win that race he'd have to have run the fastest 1400m of the day... I'm doubtful in how he looked when he was coming back to scale. I don't think he was happy horse on the day. Future starts we might see a different horse.
  10. I love Stubby Holder, Froggy Newitt and Sausage Rolls I think they are classic. Also David Peake used to be called The Peka back in the late 70's/early 80's and Bobby V we always referred to as Lil Peka
  11. It'll be next week Insider.. go all out single bets for the $20 Tuesday is your avatar's birthday, pokemon's birthday and my Birthday... as well as Gubellini's.... a very lucky week
  12. Hiyas 1. Matamata R8: 3-7 2. Otaki R7: 8-9 3. Caulfield R3: 2-5 4. Caulfield R4: 1-11 5. Caulfield R5: 9-10 6. Caulfield R6: 7-10 7. Caulfield R8: 4-6 8. Caulfield R9: 11-15 .. BB Go Lemmy!! 9. Rosehill R5: 3-10 10. Rosehill R6: 11-13 .. BB 11. Rosehill R7: 5-6 12. Rosehill R8: 1-2 Thanks John Let's go Rough Habitmeisters!
  13. It wouldn't have mattered and is all a storm in a tea cup. Maher should pull his head in. Makram was finishing too well and ran the fastest 1400m of the day on course.
  14. Hi there E5: 7-10 E6: 5-15 E7: 1-18 F2: 4-13 F3: 1-2 F5: 2-5 .. BB F6: 2-7 F7: 1-2 F9: 2 .. BB R7: 1 R8: 3-9 R9: 2-12 Thanks John Let's go Rough Habiteers
  15. Hi there TR4: 3-4 TR6: 7-9 TR7: 2-7 .. BB TR8: 11-12 Ra2: 6-8 Ra6: 2-6 Ra7: 4-6 Ca4: 1-4 Ca6: 1-4 Ca7: 1-7 Ca8: 4-15 .. BB Ca9: 1-7 Thanks John All the best to you Kloppite, and let's go Habituals
  16. Hi there W5: 8-12 W7: 2-7 W9: 2-9 NP4: 3-8 NP6: 1-16 NP7: 3-8 R5: 6-7 R6: 4-10 R7: 1-2 .. BB R8: 2-7 C7: 5-13 .. BB C8: 1-7 Thanks John All the best to you BK! ... let's go Rough Habitants!
  17. Absolutely agree. I can remember them running at Trentham and the mud was loose and horses were sinking into it. It was pointless tramping back as there was nothing to stamp back in and we just ended up getting our gumboots stuck.
  18. Hi there E1: 1-8 E2: 7-9 E3: 5-14 E4: 1-3 E5: 5-12 E6: 10-12 R1: 2-6 R2: 2-8 .. BB R3: 4-7 R7: 6-12 V9: 8-11 V10: 5-8 .. BB Thanks John All the best to you Gee! and let's go Rough Habitants!
  19. That's understandable and as per normal for a Strath track installation, but I thought we were looking at 2025 summer onwards planning?
  20. Isn't the point of having a Strathayr track, to provide a constant racing surface year round? If that's the case why isn't there more emphasis being placed on retaining racing interest over the winter months? This is all focussed on such a small period of time over a racing year. They won't be hosting jumping races at Ellerslie, not sure why, as they managed to do it for many successful years at Moonee Valley on the Strathayr, however I digress, so whilst they are splashing the cash around in the name of getting nz racing interest up, why don't they make is sustainable, and host some more 1800-2800 races with decent stakes, for the winter horses and stayers. It would allow the stayers to have a longer season after the cups, or start their campaigns earlier, whilst also hanging on to some of the fly by nighter racing enthusiasts that were snagged over Summer and it would also motivate owners, syndicates and breeders to re-look at winter/stayer breeding. It may also attract some of the Aussie horses, or Japanese and UK horses to stop off on their way to the Melbourne Carnival and be a bit of competition for, or a lead into, the Geelong Cup for example.
  21. I think something that the powers that be didn't figure into their calculations is that we currently have an aging population, that aging population were and are the backbone of New Zealand racing. By closing down so many of the tracks, they no longer take their children, and their grandchildren to local meetings, they don't want to go to some hyped up metro meeting with no seating, drunken teenagers, vacuous rooms, and they certainly don't want to go to a track where every room is some corporate event and the best rooms are taken and not left for members and regular patrons. The changing of betting to mainly online was also a disaster, phone betting was pretty much their way forward, not a lot of the aging population use laptops or computers, so again, tracks are taken away and if they aren't able to get to a local TAB that are also diminishing, what do they do? It's almost as if racing in New Zealand has ignored their majority market and the market that will bring future patrons to racing ie. their children, grandchildren. Why do you think rest homes etc. took off in the last 10 years... it's to meet a market.
  22. Hi all T4: 1-16 T5: 1-5 T8: 6-13 T9: 3-7 T10: 2-7 G9: 8-12 .. BB R2: 12-13 R3: 6-8 R7: 4-7 F7: 3-4 F8: 5-19 F9: 2-10 .. BB Thanks very much John Cheers Scooby, hope your girl runs safe and well for you all today! All the best to you FoxMerts and .... Let's go Rough Habitants!!
  23. Amazing isn't it, how events unfold, got injured so was withdrawn from the Trentham Yearling Sales and Haubie picked him up in a private sale I can remember when McGinty jumped a fence at Telfords to get closer to an old hack mare that was walking past on Ararino Street There was no doubt he liked the ladies