Idolmite

More "no IQ" than "low IQ" I think. Would suit FF down to the ground.

Busan, my favourite. Did they race tonight? I try not to miss them

Looking at the amount of crap in the thread, l think the cows have already been home and departed again

Enough already. I'm here to adjudicate. You should both shut up for 72 hours!!!

Race Cafe vs Rebel Cafe

It was a brilliant drive alright.

Looking ahead, The Janitor vs Kingman could be mouth watering on a regular basis as the others drop away a little.

Yes, hopefully GOT THE CHOCOLATES and MARKETPLACE can reverse some of those trends. I agree the trotters are a bit more surprising. Outside of the freakish JUST BELIEVE you'd think we'd do okay, but the Aussies are queuing up there too. And they didn't even need KEYANG ZAHARA. I see SWAYZEE is still in for the Auckland Cup, but really only has REPUBLICAN PARTY to beat. Such a shame MILLWOOD NIKE never made it back. Don't know about changing the rules of any of the races. Personally l love seeing them over here, but if l owned or trained a half decent pacer or trotter l might feel a little hard done by recently

I would imagine for The Race we'll see LEAP TO FAME, KINGMAN, DON HUGO and THE JANITOR all turn up. Hoping so anyway.

We've just had Kingman over here showing everybody how it's done at Addington (2 wins from 2 starts), after two years of Swayzee (2 from 2). Leap to Fame has had three races in NZ for two 1sts and a 2nd (to Kingman). And tonight we finally saw LTF knocked off at home, Albion Park, but WHAT A RACE. Don Hugo, from a better draw a nose ahead of LTF with the new kid on the block The Janitor a head away third in the middle of the other two. And Keeyang Zahara on the undercard. So other than The Janitor (although did he begin his racing career here?) we've seen all of the rest over here, so we're seeing the best, but how do we beat them?

Do you like him in both threads equally?

They ran a pretty effective public transport campaign too, buses and trains both busy. Plus opening at 11am first day helped too l think. I pass it regularly between home and hospital, so have seen it go from the buildings that were previously on the site, to nothing, to this gigantic blue building. It's pretty impressive from the outside. I've got two trips that way over the next two weeks, so hopefully the novelty will have worn off. With all of the roadworks around Pakuranga these days even an IKEA detour is fraught with potential delays. I'll go take a look inside next year. And try the meatballs. I certainly don't need any furniture!!

If they'd purchased a IKEA flat back they'd still be trying to put it together. The judge AND the stewards.

I guess they didn't want to call 1st (assuming, like most, we thought Provence had won) but still not have an answer on 2nd and 3rd?

I think she was bumped a little in the straight, but she was never going to beat the first three regardless. I thought left handed, dry track, home run. But she never looked like it really.