Jape 344 Report post Posted March 25, 2020 That was a superlative effort from Ozzie the other Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jape 344 Report post Posted March 25, 2020 I am unsure what has happened here. I was trying to set up a New Topic on the greyhounds in Caliente, Mexico. Anyway it appears that all races are over 546 yards; there are 7 runners, two divvies, quinellas and trifectas. Just 14 minutes between races, I think, but that seems flexible! There were two meetings today. The first a matinee, that is morning. 10 races. Then a new code for the 2nd 10 later on. (Shades of Addington on Tuesdays back in the day, although they were 20 races straight from memory. Numbers 1 and 3 rugs correspond to ours but none of the rest. I have watched only 2 races but they did seem very competitive and the minor placings especially changed late after the 500 yards point. When you open up on the Racing section on the TAB website look to the far left. Click on Watch 3 under he Trackside heading. And there it is. Click on Full Screen if you prefer the big picture. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOM 1,017 Report post Posted March 26, 2020 Sounds a bit like NZ in the old days Jape. There was a good horse racing in NZ called Caliente. Can't remember if it was a galloper or Ben Hur though Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohokaman 5,759 Report post Posted March 26, 2020 1 hour ago, GOM said: Sounds a bit like NZ in the old days Jape. There was a good horse racing in NZ called Caliente. Can't remember if it was a galloper or Ben Hur though Agua Caliente GOM....pretty good pacer trained by the Wolfendens. GOM 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jape 344 Report post Posted March 27, 2020 Agua Caliente. Forever famous for being the last race that Phar Lap won. The Agua Caliente Handicap in Tijuana, Mexicd. Phar Lap died a few weeks later in mysterious circumstances. GOM 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rouseabout 59 Report post Posted March 27, 2020 Aqua Caliente The horse is very much alive on the farm, Waiuku way. They tell me quite sprightly for 26 years of age Cheers Ray Adcock Ohokaman and GOM 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOM 1,017 Report post Posted March 27, 2020 Sounds a bit like you Ray yorky 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jape 344 Report post Posted March 27, 2020 Ha ha. Nice one, GOM Best wishes, Ray. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOM 1,017 Report post Posted March 30, 2020 Jape, you had a Caliente in your domain, bitch by Farloe Melody from Froth trained by Dereck Copeland. Good race dog and left a few group winners from several litters she had down there. I am sure you must have called her in the placings many times. By the way it was not my memory that discovered this. Brian rang and said he thought Dereck had raced a dog called Caliente at the same stage he raced Individualist down there. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jape 344 Report post Posted March 31, 2020 No, I don't think so re the judge's placings, although I certainly do remember Froth, Caliente and a number of others that Derek Copland had. In the very early days at QEII, it seemed to be a case of "Who's judging the next race? Better hurry up". It would be one of the Committee members I believe. I took my turn when I became a Committee member in 1995, having been an assistant steward before that. Initially, the racing at QEII was perhaps not far removed from the racing at the Marshland Domain but gradually, with an increasing number of totalisator race meeting dates, a more professional approach developed. So, when the CGRC went to Addington in 1997, the Club appointed the harness racing judge, Ernie Fuchs, as its greyhound judge. When Ernie died from cancer in 2003 I took over., having been his assistant for a few years, sharing that with Mike Cross Froth certainly was a very good bitch and I well remember her winning the 1993 edition of the Canterbury Futurity at QEII for Derek and part-owner Barry Moran, a well-known hotelier and greyhound enthusiast. By Worth Doing, Froth was whelped in July 1990 and she left Caliente, 8 wins, to Farloe Melody in 1995. GOM 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...