Lloyd Vivian

Thanks Baz - loved La Mer's Air NZ win! What a phenomenal finish!!

1] Bonecrusher
2] McGinty
3] Kiwi
4] Horlicks
5] Beechcraft
 
An amazing decade....

So interested to see the figure for Prized. [being President and Chairman of the Fan Club!!] I think he will be real good broodmare sire and from limited numbers has produced some top horses already.

I know this too well Swoopa! My feet are cemented firmly on the ground! Just like fireworks... up in smoke !

This was me today......

This will be me raceday.....

Hey Leo those grey hairs must look impressive on the floor of a Rodney Wayne establishment! All jokes aside what a wonderfully genuine mare Consensus is.

I believe PoundForPound would call us Nillers!   Which has to be better than losers?

Don't come the delicate snowflake shit.Why not chose the optimist tag? Truth be known we are ALL losers for being ensnared by an activity where your funds ultimately only head one way so lighten up.

Tha'ts the problem with forums and texts.Its impossible to gauge the sentiment that is involved with a particular posting.
People get it all wrong then it turns into a bun fight.
When you are actually talking to someone it's obvious.

And my tongue-in-cheek posting obviously by-passed the cranium of a few as I was suggesting a meeting as I will be scouting for a horse myself!

Prince Of Brooklyn x Southern Raider filly (three and half weeks old)

On that basis alone she had no show

It isn't Auckland. You can win the Telegraph from out there. She wasn't good enough. The trackside presenters talked her up as a certainty, so they obviously weren't worried about the barrier draw.

I hope the handicapper rates him as highly as those that selected horses for last years sprinter/miler HOTY awards

No show
Ferrando 16
Sensei 17

Congrats Team Pitmans .... Outstanding effort !!
 
 

Here's a challenge.. just give it a rest.. just focus on racing and not on what other websites are doing.. because I can't be bothered with this crap anymore.. people will go wherever they want to go but if you want to make people avoid reading posts and taking part in a forum, using it to abuse another or continuously go on about another racing site, is a good way to piss people off and push them the other way.
Is everyone's life so bad that the only enjoyment they can get is putting down other people so they feel worse than you do?   I'd hope not, and worse if you get enjoyment from doing it for no other reason than abusing someone else.
 
 

Shauni was very lucky not to have been more seriously injured. He has however got a broken nose as a result but should be back at the track on Wednesday...tough these Jocks!

It’s a bit like comparing Phar Lap with Winx. What’s the point? Steve Davis is the best of his time - period. The best of them today, no comparison. 

The Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale 2019 after two days has been extraordinary.
Their  Live Coverage web site is Yearling focused, with huge screen back ground footage of the yearling in its own environment.
The video footage of the lot  in the ring focuses on the horse.
It may encourage off site bidders.
NOT on who is  bidding.
I truly appreciate  Dave Ellis's sponsorship  of the last 6 years of the Karaka Sales  on line coverage.
Will our  Karaka yearling Sales next month  2019   match the investment into a vibrant Australian Racing environment ?
2018 was a record sale  per Average sale  For Gerry and GCMM  and god knows what percentage increase
will happen this year 2019.
Steve Davis has  unique auctioneering  skills
.He has  the lowest" pass in rate "of any Thoroughbred   auctioneer  since 2014.
Those stats are for Karaka, Gold Coast, South Africa.
His voice modulation and pitch , verbal frequency, bullshit and knowledge and sheer charisma 
 
My vote for the best Auctioneer  we have ever  had.
Steve Davis
Peter Kelly, Jo Walls ,Rev Somervell 
Stu Hale rated 2233rd in Australasia.
Rate your auctioneers here on this post .
 
Rev
 
 

High Sparrow Prise De Fer was on one rein in the last 100m of the race. Very difficult for Opie to straighten him up. However the wider issue for me is that any other rider would have been either fined or suspended. We need a Messara type report into the RIU and the JCA. Yet again we see an A Lister like Opie get the velvet glove treatment from these bodies while for lack of a better term B Listers like Trudy Thornton and Bridget Grylls get the iron fist treatment. I have no beef with Opie. I consider him to be the best rider in NZ. However it is high time that the RIU and the JCA treated every licence holder equally.

Had to chuckle at Waddell's comment that Melody Belle " couldn't handle the existing track conditions".....
Translation - she couldn't run 1.06.8 that the winner did.....

Aren't the South Islanders having a day out today...!!
Pitman quinella Race 2, nearly tore off R4, then 1st, 3rd and 4th in the Telegraph...

Congrats to Team Pitman and what a great way to start 2019 after the year Michael has last year. Congrats from everyone here at Racecafe.

Breeder
Yes we got a nice big colt

One of the better two year olds in Europe this year.  No ' sex balancing ' going on here