Baz (NZ) 1,719 Report post Posted May 24, 2019 come in pogo (aus) ???https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/racing/112972736/phil-gould-sick-as-racehorse-coowner-is-arrested-over-cocaine-importation Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogo(aus) 827 Report post Posted May 24, 2019 geez mate im reluctant to take an aspro when i get a headache, this stuff is crazy, nothing ceases to amaze these days. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memphis2 1,078 Report post Posted May 24, 2019 What a prick. Everyone thinks he’s a hero. Got all these great horses. Own horse complex. Throws his weight around. Big wheel in social circles But it seems all he is is a drug peddler. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobysnacks 386 Report post Posted May 24, 2019 How did Flowers say he made his money? Baggage handlers don't get millions so what else did he do? Besides peddle drugs. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slam dunk 1,317 Report post Posted May 24, 2019 2 hours ago, NextPlease said: How did Flowers say he made his money? Baggage handlers don't get millions so what else did he do? Besides peddle drugs. From an NZ racing angle this could call into question the judgement and business acumen of John Messara. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegasus 9 511 Report post Posted May 24, 2019 Surely Kate and Sally haven’t checked their facts in their Stuff article ‘ $1.2million for The colt I am Invincible’. Lazy. Baz (NZ) 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slam dunk 1,317 Report post Posted May 24, 2019 1 hour ago, poundforpound said: Bit of a rough call.....that logic means Alan Jones, John Singleton, Gus Gould & various other high profile people in syndicates with him are guilty..... I don't think that but some could reach that conclusion. If any high profile racing identity could have had an inkling its probably Gerald Ryan. THe strange part is that in April it was reported that a syndicate was being investigated for importing the stuff from South Africa. Can't see that Flowers would not lie low if he was involved. Perhaps he has been set up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pole 53 Report post Posted May 24, 2019 18 hours ago, Memphis2 said: What a prick. Everyone thinks he’s a hero. Got all these great horses. Own horse complex. Throws his weight around. Big wheel in social circles But it seems all he is is a drug peddler. Just another dreamer.Yes a prick. A crash and burn situation hurting a few people on the journey. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littletramp 381 Report post Posted May 25, 2019 The only surprise surely must be how long Damion took to be picked up! The worst kept secret over many years & loving all the faux surprise from anyone interviewed about the arrest. Memphis2 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Rum 1,833 Report post Posted May 25, 2019 1 hour ago, Littletramp said: The only surprise surely must be how long Damion took to be picked up! The worst kept secret over many years & loving all the faux surprise from anyone interviewed about the arrest. They have no choice but to put on an Oscar performance IF they knew or had an idea. There nout so blind as folk when the money flowing their way . Memphis2 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanthegreat 1,123 Report post Posted May 25, 2019 Now he has some real Baggage to handle. Patiti and Insider 1 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
slam dunk 1,317 Report post Posted May 25, 2019 I find this particularly interesting considering it came after Flower had sold stallion shares in Snitzel. Obviously he wasn't operating the "import" business then but I guess had a horror run on the punt. Must have been agonizing seeing Snitzel succeed at stud while broke therefore the motivation for the "importing business". However, by 2012 Flower was dead broke and renting a modest two bedroom flat in Chipping Norton. In April that year he was bankrupted by his father Geoffrey who had lent him money which he did not repay. Another person pursuing him was onetime Melbourne bookmaker Simon Beasley. But within two years Mr Flower’s fortunes had improved remarkably. In March 2014 he repaid the $100,000 plus interest that he owed his father and a handful of other creditors and his bankruptcy was annulled. In August that same year he paid almost $1.3 million for a house at Broadbeach on the Gold Coast. The purchase was made through his company, Jadeskye Enterprises, which he named after his daughters. In February 2015, Jadeskye paid $4.5 million for a rural property in Clarendon, not far from the Hawkesbury racetrack. Since then Mr Flower, 47, spared no expense on turning the property into Platinum Park, his thoroughbred stables and training facilities. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Bukowski 408 Report post Posted May 25, 2019 Jadeskye have runners in NZ don't they ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobysnacks 386 Report post Posted May 25, 2019 No one thought to ask how he suddenly became rich? I wonder if his family gave him a weekly punting allowance? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trump 2,741 Report post Posted May 25, 2019 So why don’t they put more resources into investigating motorcycle gangs? Everybody knows who distributes P in NZ so why don’t they close them down? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arjay 447 Report post Posted May 27, 2019 His mate at the airport has been found to have 8 million bucks at a storage facility, but wait, aussies pay them monthly a living wage. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...