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oh when I said "gunja" you thought "ganja"? Close but no cigar...Gunja (abrus precatorius) is part of the Ayurveda medical system with both contraceptive and Aphrodisiac properties! How good is that!!...highly toxic unless one knows wtf they're doing...also known as the Rosary pea So you can count your rosaries at the same time as the firnification (sp??) process...again...HOW GOOD?? Guilt...no guilt...guilt no...et el!

Nelson have been trying to get their winter dates back, HRNZ want to keep the 2 Friday night meetings, the other option I think they was mooted was a Tuesday Thursday meeting in May, never heard anything more about it.

Still doing the bizzo on the Gold Coast..never ages...talking up a storm..."we need a dictator like they have in China" Dags these businessmen... lets hope he's educated his children to love horses and the partying et el It doesn't bare thinking about having his family disperse his millions into super yachts like Government beneficiary recipient Grey Hart did...what a waste Such bad luck Lance O'Sullivan happened to sit next to Eric Watson on a plane convincing him to invest in thoroughbreds rather than Hart At least Gerry Only married twice...unlike his mate Singo who got hitched 7 times...then sold most of his bloodstock!  wtaf?? Good thing about Gerry as well, he allowed his Kiwi workers a better work/life balance of 10 days on 4 days off...thanks to Russell Warwick's idea that the old adage you're "in it for the love of the horse..not to have time off like normal workers' 86 is the new 70?

She was a bridesmaid on four occasions before she broke her maiden last out, and now Margarita Girl (Twirling Candy) has quickly left that behind her, collecting her first black-type of any kind in the GIII Las Flores Stakes at Santa Anita Park. Breaking well to watch the race unfold as Thermal (Nyquist) set the tempo, she enjoyed a rail trip behind that leader through an opening quarter in :21.74 and four furlongs in :44.11. No Bad Beats (Midnight Storm) took the race to the early leader coming off the bend, and struck the front as Margarita Girl began uncorking her rally via the overland route. That pair quickly pulled away from a closing Ooty (Arg) (Dabster) on the rail, and the eventual winner overhauled her challenger inside the final sixteenth to score. The final time was 1:09.19. Sales history: $130,000 Ylg '23 KEESEP; $575,000 2yo '24 OBSMAR. O-Rancho Temescal Thoroughbred Partners and Saints or Sinners; B-Paul Eggert & Karen Eggert (KY); T-Mark Glatt.   The post Twirling Candy’s Margarita Girl Steps Up in Class to Claim Las Flores at Santa Anita appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Making only this third career start in as many seasons to race, the impeccably-bred Rothko (Tapit–Covfefe, by Into Mischief) proved best as the heavy favorite to graduate in a one-mile maiden test at Fair Grounds on Sunday. The LNJ Foxwoods homebred was fourth in his career debut at Ellis Park in the summer of 2024 but wouldn't be seen again until the fall of his sophomore year, when he finished a solid second going 6 1/2 panels at Churchill Downs this past November. Sent off the hot 1-5 choice while trying a mile for the first time here, the 4-year-old settled just behind pacesetter Crazy Diamond (Omaha Beach), who carved out an opening quarter in :23.38. Overtaking the early leader heading into the far turn, Rothko shot clear turning for home and was not for catching as he crossed the wire 1 3/4 lengths ahead of Mingo (Candy Ride {Arg}) at the wire. The colt is out of dual champion Covfefe, who is also responsible for SW and GSP Ellen Jay (Constitution), $271,808. The dual Grade I winner and track record holder produced a filly by Gun Runner in 2024 followed by an Olympiad filly last season. Hailing from the family of GISWs Acoma and Arch, the 10-year-old mare was bred back to Not This Time. 6th-Fair Grounds, $54,000, Msw, 1-11, 4yo/up, 1m, 1:37.46, ft, 1 3/4 lengths. ROTHKO (c, 4, Tapit–Covfefe {Ch. Female Sprinter, Ch. 3-year-old Filly, MGISW, $1,110,025}, by Into Mischief) Lifetime Record: 3-1-1-0, $59,852. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. O/B-LNJ Foxwoods (KY); T-Brad H. Cox.   The post Champion Covfefe’s Rothko Earns Belated Graduation at the Fair Grounds appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

So after George Rooke's cheating in the Wakatoo Cup...3 over the limit...then went back to Coventry for a holiday over Xmas We had Aussie Angela Jones fined EXACTLY the same % for being 1 over ..3500!!!! if you please...with the 'amazingly brilliant RIB' commenting "we find this appropriate"..she'd be fair dinky dye SPEWING im picking How can it be "appropropriate" when she made a minor counting error (being a freshy) by one when the obvious cheaters like George (3 over) get the same % fine Not only that but the exalted RIB commented that 'due to the 2nd jockey also being over the limit we find no further penalty for George" What about the 3rd horse who was only a neck away and probably winning if it wasn't for the cheating? FFS Anyway onwards to yet another cheating black type jockey in Matt Cartwright when winning by a neck on SANTA CATALINA Fined 3800!!!! when also 1 over!  Actually 2 over...but long story short in NZTR/RIB's convoluted ideas re whip rules ok... if he'd struck 3 times in the last 100M not 4 he'd have paid ZILCH! How dumb and dumber are these 'integrity hogwarts' FFS?? here's the solution Adopt Frano Gallops whip rule...4 stikes only throughout the race...if a jockey cant count to 4...take the entire % riding fee out of their pockets...and the winning owners donate their winning difference to the rule abiding 2nd horse...it's just that simple or maybe just relegate to ENABLE the INTEGRITY of Black Type to remain??  even more simple    

Did moi's eyes deceive me or was the inside 4M off yesterday??  many winners down the outside On a G 4 as well...overwatered and/or overhyped that "it's an amazing track now"??

It's Wussell Warwick's narrative and guess what?? He sets the agenda...he's the BOSS...and fyi an excellent ex Am rider who knew not to strike his mounts on the noggin Besides...and repeato doso with you So called 'anti racers' are actually pro racing knowing how 'racing' per se has lost the hearts and minds of the hoi polloi Do you really think the industry will get that back by behaving with a 'rodeo anti woke' narrative as you've chosen?

A quartet of Breeders' Cup winners all recorded workouts Sunday at Santa Anita. GI Breeders' Cup F/M Sprint winner Splendora (Audible) and GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner Nysos (Nyquist) both worked for trainer Bob Baffert. Splendora drilled four furlongs in :49.00 (47/87) in her third work back since the Breeders' Cup. The 5-year-old is a candidate for the GII D. Wayne Lukas Stakes for fillies and mares going seven furlongs Feb. 7. Nysos, working for the first time since winning the Dec. 28 GII Laffit Pincay Jr. Stakes, went four furlongs in :48.20 (25/87). He is being pointed to the Feb. 14 G1 Saudi Cup. That race is also the target of his stablemate and Laffit Pincay runner-up Nevada Beach (Omaha Beach), who worked four furlongs in :49.00 (47/87) Sunday. Trainer John Sadler sent out GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Super Corredora (Gun Runner) and Full Serrano (Arg) (Full Mast) to work at Santa Anita Sunday. In her second work of the year, Super Corredora went five furlongs in a bullet :59.20 (1/50). S and she is slated to make her sophomore bow in the one-mile Las Virgenes Stakes, which was pushed back a week to Feb. 8 following the postponement of the Santa Ynez Stakes earlier in the meet. Full Serrano, the 2024 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner, worked six furlongs in 1:11.40 (1/2). Most recently fifth in the 2025 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, he is a candidate to run in either the Jan. 31 GII San Pasqual Stakes or in the GI Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park Jan. 24. Also on the work tab Sunday, the Baffert-trained Kristofferson (Nyquist) went four furlongs in a bullet :46.40 (1/87) in his first published work since September. The $1.15-million Keeneland September yearling was a debut winner at Del Mar in August and has been off since finishing sixth in the Oct. 4 GI American Pharoah Stakes. The post Breeders’ Cup Winners on Santa Anita Work Tab Sunday appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article