Berri

re Dartmouth.....pretty tricky if you can't get mares in foal. Also let's be clear...Dartmouth was top class on his day. When he won the Harwicke, he rolled Highland Reel who won the King George and Queen Elizabeth at his next start. We of course remember Highland Reel in Aussie because he ran 3rd to Winx in the Cox Plate before winning the Hong Kong Cup at his next start. Got to remember that this bloke is by (Sea the Stars....sire of World champions)...what I would call nearly an immortal stallion out of a Dubawi sister to a 120 rated horse who's dam is by Galileo from a seriously good family. On pedigree could go anywhere. Pedigree interesting because Sea the Star and Galileo are of course related. https://www.stallionguide.com/stallions/dartmouth/pedigree/

Desert Hero by Sea the Stars

Channel 2.....missed that one but I'd posted before I saw that. Went to channel 2 but at that time nothing on that channel. Probably too impatient

Wanted to see the first race at Rotorua this morning...a jumping race. No Trackside coverage....WTF is happening in Wellington? This is serious stuff

Hated the ground. Once his head was let go, he floundered. He'll keep. Needed to start him. Thought the winner would win.

I think you should be having a very close look at the other Sharrock horse in the same race at the same time.

Racing on Friday at Otaki in Race 1. Not sure if he can beat the other Sharrock runner because she's sharper than him but an interesting place to start off

Both our TVs in Matamata and Auckland show no programing available in Trackside 1. Trackside 2 works

Come on guys, from where he found himself in the running, he was tag teamed. The pace of the race couldn't see him doing anything else and in his yester-year Stradivarius would have mowed them down. Yep, he had to extradite himself out of a hole, but then he just didn't quite show that dash that he has in the past. That is all i think Frankie was saying.

Come on now....don't you get it....many are using chemicals....it's part of life Do you think it's OK to tranquilise your horses (2yo especially and colts) in order to work them in training? So this filly has won a maiden and a novice. Not even at a good track but what a beauty. Someone should buy this for the Everest. Data to come Not sure if you remember but I labelled a horse called Flightline as being the best horse on the planet. Fair to say he had won the Malibu at that stage. Wondered where he had gotten to and he surfaced last week in the Metropolitan (Gp1) in the States over 1600 in 1.33 and change, through the 1200m in 1.08. Bugger me. He's the horse in the green and white that walks out of the gate at the start. Behind him were a Breeders Cup winner and a Jockey Club Stakes winner. Now I'd love to see Baaeed and him race against each other. I think they are as good as each other https://www.americasbestracing.net/the-sport/2022-flightline-romps-met-mile-headline-results-belmont-stakes-undercard Baaeed in the Blue and white stripes with the blue and white striped hat

How good a sprinter is this one https://www.racingpost.com/results/5/bath/2022-06-11/812552#

I’m aware that these ratings are domestic and have used them as the yardstick for what our best are. Although some of our very best are rated 115-120, there simply aren’t enough of them to fulfill the obligation. Same for the lesser ranked black type races. The main crux of this is what next? We aren’t replenishing the brood stock with competitive genetics and the numbers are down while our neighbours up up skilling. Means the rating gap will only be exacerbated further. It is time to panic.

Precious Sea by Sea The Stars... This time in France https://www.france-galop.com/fr/cheval/ejRYVndhY1pqQlVwZDg2RE0xazN2UT09

People There is a serious consideration that will probably come to haunt us vigilantly... There has been an International Federation of Horseracing Authorities providing direction and comment in respect of black type racing. I have provided all and sundry on this site some time ago, the obligations that all racing nations signed up to the Pattern Committee have, in respect of the thresholds to maintain the ratings for races, in order to be able to call certain races black type races. If you have a conversation with Louis Romanet, who was the head of this organisation, he would tell you that to maintain a certain status of black type race, you have to have a specific number of horses racing against each other, who have been rated at a level commensurate to the status of that black type race. To attain or maintain a Group One status, the average rating for the first four finishers in the race must be 115 or higher over a three-year period. So check this out...not sure where Rock "n Horse is... Means all of our group Ones are gone To attain or maintain a Group Two status, the average rating for the first four finishers in the race must be 108 or higher over a three-year period. Oh Dear....no Group 2's To attain or maintain a Group Three status, the average rating for the first four finishers in the race must be 102 or higher over a three-year period. Oh Dear....sprinters have to be racing against the stayers and 13 horses have to race 15 times in the season against each other 50% of the listed Stakes races gone.... These rating standards for other black type races is on a collision course with the quality and quantity of horses able to race in NZ's black type races. If this continues on its current path, then many of these races' statuses will have to change. This means that what ever the distributions, there may not be the races to make these distributions to. The underlying issue is of course the quantity and quality of the foals that we produce in the next three years, because we all know that we are about to see the drops in quality foal numbers and mares bred. We have been experiencing this for some time. If we don't have either quantity and quality, there is no way that our black type races with stack up under the regulations.. I seriously don't understand why the bureaucracy isn't panicking...

What ever the outcome, the Oaks was a great race to watch. The outside of the Epsom track is not the best place to be as the camber is slightly different than in the middle. That camber sorts them out. Both are very good fillies and I'd love to own either. An interesting thing to note was after the finishing post. Looked liked Emily Upjohn threw a hissy fit. I thought the third horse in the Derby was seriously unlucky. He's obviously very talented and is a sensational type for a Frankel. Frankels can be a bit of everything...all shapes and sizes, but this bloke is a real boy. If I had to go home with one of them, he's be it. French Derby winner obviously has wheels. A very un assuming horse, very weak as a yearling, not really much about him but obviously very athletic. Love Modern Times as he had to go about things the hard way after drawing wide. Love to see him back at 1600m. We need to get a bit more Dubawi blood here. Can't understand why no one has gone hard in for Space Blues. A sensational galloper with a good pedigree. I suppose that his slightly benched knees has something to do with that but any horse that can be a group winner at 2, winner of 11 from 18 culminating with a win in the Breeders Cup mile, you'd squint your eyes a bit and forgive.

Hmmm...try this Issue 5 - May 2022.pdf

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A few cracking photos given to me by Paul .... That's Toby going "Oh Shit" on Tumblin Down (white face) just before he's taken through the wings with a round to go Those are four very young (and not fat) looking owners after the win. Interestingly the chickie babe (Brenda Collins) and I shared our birthdays on the same day (the 5th June), Mike's was a day later and Paul's a day after that. As a bit of fun story, we were all up in the president's lounge (free drinks) and once we had won, we all clambered into the lift. Lift got stuck between the 2nd and third floors (as in stopped completely) and we couldn't get out. All the celebrations were going on as we extradited ourselves out of the lift. What a day. Toby and Tumble.....we'll never forget

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33 years ago today, an east coast bred horse called Tumblin Down won the Great Northern Steeplechase ridden by Toby Autridge. The story behind this magnificent steed is one that movies are made of. The baldy white faced horse, being now more than 16hh, was bred on the east coast and was by a horse called Dodger (by the great jumping sire Kurdistan). Interestingly Dodger traced back to one of the first boat load of mares that were imported in the 1860's to NZ. Tumblin Down was a chestnut out of Maria Dallas (the singer had a hit song called Tumblin Down...hence the name). He was destined to become a war horse on type and ended up becoming a pig horse, where the hunters shot pigs and used horses to carry them out of the bush. Tumblin Down was doing this as a 2/3 year old. He was seconded to a movie set as an extra in a movie in the 1980's called Wild Horses (not the Kenny Rogers version). One of the lead actors liked Tumblin Down so much, he changed horses and rode him throughout the move. Sally House ended up with him and Paul Moroney and I ended up seeing him for the first time at the Te Rapa races in the middle of the winter, on a day where now-a-days they would have called the meeting off due to jockeys not having the skills or experience to ride in those conditions or health and safety. The thing that took us both was that in the pissing down rain, he tucked his head into the underarm of Sally, and where ever she went, his head remained there. It was a sight t see. It was a 1600m race and he came from last at the turn and chugged his way to third. We instantly thought Parliamentary Handicap and bought him for peanuts with two friends Connor Maloney and Craig Lindberg. Horse got a virus during the first year so we lost 6 months. Ended up turning him as a jumper. Problem was he wasn't a technically talented jumper (PC way of saying he couldn't jump well) and Graham Richardson fell off him at his first jumping race at Te Aroha (from memory). From that point on Toby Autridge rode him. Under Toby, Tumblin Down became first horse to have won the Great Northern and Pakuranga Hunt Cup in the same year. In the Northern he was spectacularly put through the wings during the last round, as Graham Lord, who had ridden for two rounds without irons (iron had broken two rounds before), veered off to the right taking Tumblin Down with him. Lord fell off at that stage and how Tumblin Down didn't fall we will never understand, suffice to say it was a miraculous piece of riding by Toby....freakish in fact. Tumblin Down went from 4th, 4 off them, to 10th losing 20- 30 lengths. With only a round to go we all thought it was over but Toby kept the game alive and somehow we found ourselves in 5th place at the bottom of the hill the last time but the leader, Vincere had got 20 lengths in front of the field. At the top of the Hill we got to 4th, turning for home he got to third, at the last fence 2nd and we won by a head. In that one ride Toby showed how much of an amasing horse person he was. Tumblin Down lived till he was 33 years old. The celebrations lasted a week as the Northern was worth $200,000 and we were all poor as paupers in our twenties. So 33 years ago, Toby rode like a demon to fulfil a dream we all had. This morning, unfortunately, Toby died. He was a good person and I shall remember him with much love and admiration.

Go to NZTR site to look at Bendemerry, Race 3 at Waverley. NZTR site has this as his price Then I go to the NZTAB site and this is what I see Why can' they synchronise this offering. Misleading.....

A great way to look at the Oaks