Cardigan Bay.

[Value Bell 290]

[meomy 1,069]

Fabulous horse and still have some Postage stamps with the Great Cardigan Bay on.

We need to have those fabulous artworks returned to our postage stamps instead of the blobs that appear on them these days.

[Value Bell 290]

Envelope.

[Iraklis 2,403]

Mightyest, of the mighty, greatest of the great......Cardigan Bay. Say no more....

 

Cheers Iraklis

[meomy 1,069]

12 hours ago, Value Bell said:

Envelope.

Fabulous to see these First Day covers, now let's hold all those CEO and board members who have screwed over our traditional Postal Service's over .

Oh that's right we can find John Allen easily enough, along with the current board.

Then there's the plonkers at USP who took control with daft delivery of mail using drones that pushed there own Agenda and which NZ Post foolishly used to change what was working in NZ.

 

To hell with QR Codes that are being pushed in the background by the Czech owner of UK Post to 

[john legend 787]

Cardigan Bay the greatest of them all; What did ATC do dig him up and get rid.... What a disgrace.... Did it help ATC with a few extra carparks > No only destroyed any semblance of goodwill they may have had left !

[Idolmite 3,501]

21 hours ago, meomy said:

Fabulous horse and still have some Postage stamps with the Great Cardigan Bay on.

We need to have those fabulous artworks returned to our postage stamps instead of the blobs that appear on them these days.

What's a postage stamp?

[kilcoyne 217]

1 hour ago, Idolmite said:

What's a postage stamp?

About $2.30 each. Had to get a book of 10 of them to send grandson his birthday pressie in Perth. Cost $23.00 for them at NZ Post in Christchurch

[michael dore 27]

I recall as a child being taken to see Cardigan Bay (at Winton?) as he did a farewell tour to NZ after returning from USA.  My favourite Cardigan Bay trivia is that Robin Dundee finished 2nd to him in the 1963 NZ Cup (she was also 2nd in two other Cups), she too travelled to the USA and again finished second to him in his final race - the day he won his millionth dollar.  However 1969 exchange rates were such that Cardigan Bay had amassed US$1m but only around NZ$880k - how the world has changed.

[Charlie E 790]

Driven by the Master PT

[Value Bell 290]

Did Ken Balloch drive Cardy in his early days down south?

[Barry Lichter 183]

HI Value Bell. I can't find any evidence of that. Cardy's trainer Davey Todd drove him down south. You might be thinking of another of Todd's horses Holy Hal, who was driven in later starts by Balloch. Incidentally, when Holy Hal went to stud, one of the mares he served was Cardy's dam, Colwyn Bay.

[mikenz 1,282]

10 hours ago, Value Bell said:

Did Ken Balloch drive Cardy in his early days down south?

A Townley, maybe.

[meomy 1,069]

12 hours ago, Value Bell said:

Did Ken Balloch drive Cardy in his early days down south?

@Value Bell

A scan using key words Ken Balloch and that of K.Balloch  as an "Exact search" and "All these words" of Papers Past NZ archives shows him as having driven the horse "Conway Bay" in Invercargill in 1966.

 

 

 

Is Conway Bay perhaps the horse you were trying to recall?

Balloch was also the name of a horse who contributed to breeding in NZ

 

Those archives are worthwhile delving into as are accurate historical archives.

Do remember to also look under other "headings" in PPNZ as there's Racing Publications in Periodicals and Journals/ Magazines 

 

 

[meomy 1,069]

On 4/13/2025 at 1:25 PM, Idolmite said:

What's a postage stamp?

Be careful, "Stamp" the horse might come back to appear at the Gates when you die and Stamp on your foot with it's hoof 

[Deep Sooth 99]

Driven by Davey Todd on this day.

[mikenz 1,282]

I may have been thinking of Young Quinn.

[Spikecity 1,037]

4 hours ago, mikenz said:

I may have been thinking of Young Quinn.

Greasy Bob drove Young Quinn as a 2 year old and early 3 year old