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I do treasure your intellectual contributions Falcon. Keep up the good work.

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 🤣 

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 🤣 

Bloody good races those 2 last night, check em out - click link below, Race 6: Keayang Zahara, Race 7: Don Hugo, Leap To Fame, The Janitor(NZ)
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fields/race-fields/?mc=AP061225#APM06122505
Hey Janitor mate, The Janitor ran a bloody good race worked like a trooper stayed in it right to the end 🤗 The Race in Cambridge be just right for him....
 
Cheers Iraklis
 
 

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

That was my guess as the time dragged on with no photo, no call, no idea.
Either that or they'd sent the 35mm film down to the local Langwoods store on the 60 minute super-fast service 🤣

Speaking of Ikea, I hear a former CEO of Ikea was recently elected Prime Minister of Sweden - apparently she put her first cabinet together last week.

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

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. 

Do you like him in both threads equally? 🤣

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?

I haven't watched all of the races. I'm assuming it was working earlier? Law of averages says photo-finish equipment will always crap out at the least opportune moment. I think Confucius said something similar "Confucius say camera shit itself only on three-way G1 photo".  

I was going to post the same thing this morning - I was at Raglan and thought it could be a GEO blocking issue, but obviously more widespread 😀 

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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!!

No. From Temu

That was my guess as the time dragged on with no photo, no call, no idea.
Either that or they'd sent the 35mm film down to the local Langwoods store on the 60 minute super-fast service 🤣

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?

Will be the highest rating race in NZ this year and what a cracker it was. 

That was my guess as the time dragged on with no photo, no call, no idea.
Either that or they'd sent the 35mm film down to the local Langwoods store on the 60 minute super-fast service 🤣

That was my guess as the time dragged on with no photo, no call, no idea.
Either that or they'd sent the 35mm film down to the local Langwoods store on the 60 minute super-fast service 🤣

That was my guess as the time dragged on with no photo, no call, no idea.
Either that or they'd sent the 35mm film down to the local Langwoods store on the 60 minute super-fast service 🤣

I forgot about the Truck Racing. And the old B&H 500's etc. I only went to the Hamilton round once too. I was up in the corporate area with an ex's company when they had that huge first corner crash in the BNT V8's that took out half the field and a couple of them jumped the fence just about directly (not quite) below us. Then we all had to rush to find a TV to watch the replays 🤣
They've taken away my historic Ellerslie Hill. They've taken away my historic Pukekohe car race track. There's only Alexandra Park left to go, before I go 😢