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Belinda

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  1. The earliest woman driver in the North Island that I recall was Nola Agnew and that was well before ladies were licensed. She worked for Bob Barry at Ardmore and if my memory serves me right she drove, possibly Miles Gentry, in a time trial at Alexandra Park in an attempt to be the first woman in Australasia to better 2 minutes. I stand to be corrected on this but it's how I remember it

  2. On ‎10‎/‎14‎/‎2018 at 9:10 PM, Berri said:

    That field in the Air New Zealand Stakes....WOW!!! that's what it used to be like. That's when real horses raced here and were competitive when they raced i n Australia. Brings back memories.....I'm showing my age. Where do you get the footage from?

    Awesome to watch again. And how good was she going on the home turn in the Air NZ Stakes. She was cantering.

  3. 2 minutes ago, Taku Umanga said:

    Rubbish - if those two drivers were on favored runners and conspired to make sure those runners did not finish in the first three it would be easier for a trifecta punter to get a healthy dividend by excluding them if that punter was "in the know".

    Surely you understand that fixing a race needn't mean winning that race?

    Well at Blenheim one of those favourites named in the race fixing, won the race. So?

  4. The one thing I do wonder about, how can you have race fixing involving only 2 drivers in the race? What about all the other starters? There is no guarantee that one of them isn't going to come along and win. It seems rather odd to me. Race fixing presumes that most of the drivers would be in on it. Otherwise it's nearly as much a gamble as betting on a straight race anyway.

  5. And there maybe a perfectly good reason for the difference in weights but how is it decided? I am thinking of the weights for the Winter Cup. Two mares, on the same rating,, same number of wins, similar stake earnings although the higher weighted one of the two has won about 30k less and is one year younger (6 as opposed to 7).

  6. Iraklis, I get frequent notifications on my facebook page from a group that tries to save standardbreds from being slaughtered. NZ horses often pop among the ones they are trying to raise funds for. In fact it was nice to read recently that a horse from NZ's original owner paid the money to save him.

  7. And you know what happens to most ex racing standardbreds in the USA when they finish racing?They either end up being a buggy horse for the Amish and are worked hard and then go as live meat export to japan or they go straight to Japan :(. 

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