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I know a few years back, the sulkies needed a warrant of fitness, not sure wether it was every year, or 2 years, maybe it doesn't apply thes day, if it still applies, someone has got it wrong.

I suspect @Newmarket the issue I experienced is related to the same issue you and your friends experienced last week. A network issue. Picked up some good data to send to ENTAIN.

Two lengthy online chats with ENTAIN support and no fix. Lucky in the end so I saved $2 and ENTAIN lost some profit.

Was it actually or did they mathematically calculate it? What is the average length of a horse that they use?

3 maybe 4 of those that are classified as injured won't be back. At least one has retired. LOL and you wonder why they don't count ALL the whip strikes or are harsher on other misdemeanours!

Old? It was verified in that race wasn't it? Canheroc was beaten 7.4l and 1.2 secs. Doubt that had much to do with the 6kg weight difference though.

Has anyone else had trouble getting the Sunday Surge offer of $4 on Dealt With (Currently at $2.30)? They must be banning $1 each way punters!

19 Suspended Riders: 13 Injured Riders: (no Jack Taplin on list) Tina Comignaghi| From the close of racing Saturday 13 December to the conclusion of racing Sunday 21 December (Suspended @ Invercargill R9 13/12) Rohan Mudhoo| From the close of racing Sunday 14 December to the conclusion of racing Sunday 21 December (Suspended @ Invercargill R9 13/12) Lee Callaway| From the close of racing Saturday 13 December to the conclusion of racing Sunday 21 December (Suspended @ Invercargill R8 13/12) Mereana Hudson| From the close of racing Saturday 20 December to the conclusion of racing Tuesday 30 December (Suspended @ Invercargill R5 13/12) Liam Kauri | From the close of racing Saturday 20 December to the conclusion of racing Sunday 28 December (Suspended @ Invercargill R5 13/12) Kylie Williams | From the close of racing Saturday 13 December to the conclusion of racing Sunday 21 December (Suspended @ Invercargill R4 13/12) Akshay Balloo | From the close of racing Saturday 13 December to the conclusion of racing Sunday 21 December (Suspended @ Riccarton Synthetic R7 05/12) Opie Bosson | From the close of racing Saturday 13 December to the conclusion of racing Sunday 21 December (Suspended @ Te Rapa R1 13/12) George Rooke | From the close of racing Friday 19 December to the conclusion of racing Tuesday 6 Janurary (Suspended @ Ellerslie R4 11/12 & Te Rapa R8 13/12) Madan Singh | From the close of racing Wednesday 10 December to the conclusion of racing Friday 19 December (Suspended @ Trentham R3 06/12) Masa Hashizume | From the close of racing Sunday 14 December to the conclusion of racing Wednesday 24 December (Suspended @ Trentham R1 06/12) Chris Dell | From the close of racing Saturday 6 December to the conclusion of racing Wednesday 17 December (Suspended @ Trentham R1 06/12) Tayla Mitchell | From the close of racing Saturday 13 December to the conclusion of racing Wednesday 24 December (Suspended @ Pukekohe R3 06/12) Brandon May | From the close of racing Saturday 6 December to the conclusion of racing Sunday 21 December (Suspended @ Cromwell 30/11) Kendra Bakker | From the close of racing Monday 8 December to the conclusion of racing Sunday 14 December (Suspended @ Cromwell 30/11) Vinnie Colgan | From the close of racing Sunday 7 December until the conclusion of racing on Wednesday 17 December (Supended @ Levin RC @ Otaki 30/11) Sam Collett | From the close of racing Sunday 30 November to the conclusion of racing Wednesday 17 December (Suspended @ Pukekohe R2 22/11) Corentin Berge | From the close of racing Saturday 22 November to the conclusion of racing Saturday 20 December (Suspended @ Rotorua R6 16/11) Hayley Hassman | From the close of racing Saturday 13 December up to and including racing on Wednesday 24 December (Suspended @ Racing Rotorua R4 5/11) Injured Riders: Donovan Cooper | Out until further notice from 30 November Bailey Rogerson | Out until further notice from 17 November Kavish Chowdoory | Out until further notice from 3 November Sam Spratt | Out until further notice from 4 October Bridget Grylls | Out until further notice from 27 September Dean Parker | Out until further notice from 19 September Michael McNab | Out until further notice from 9 September Ace Lawson-Carroll | Out until further notice from 26 July Sam Wynne | Out until further notice from 12 July Tegan Newman | Out until further notice from 1 May Lily Sutherland | Out until further notice from 15 April Lisa Allpress | Out until further notice from 18 January Matthew Cropp | Out until further notice

Blah blah blah. The old 1 second equals 6 length theory.... What about the theory that it is harder to carry 59kg over 2400m than over 1400m? Oh great form guru - how many Caulfield Cups have been won quicker than the Waikato Cup was run yesterday? They ran 2:35.8 for the Pakenham Cup yesterday over 2500m. S 'N' S would have won it by 18 lengths! If you don't think the performance yesterday was a top one then keep looking for excuses for your betting strategies!

Coming off a fourth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1), Litmus Test defeated stablemates Blacksmith and Provenance in the Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) for a Bob Baffert-trained trifecta.View the full article

Thats over 7 1/2 Lengths Does 6kgs = 7 1/2? #yeana

WTAF?? Which has been LOCKED and I can no longer comment!! Absolutely zero confusion here...both horse welfare/punter is interconnected obviously The irony is NZTR (who bend over backwards to EXCLUDE whip violations in their photographs) have posted a classic FLANK shot of Rooke doing what rooks do.. all the wayyy down the straight...doubly CHEATING https://loveracing.nz/News/51347/SharpNSmarttakesWaikatoCupinthrillingfinish.aspx

hasn't been working for me for over an hour at the moment.Often the way on sundays.

Haras Rio Iguassu's 5-year-old Obataye surged past five rivals in the final furlong to capture the 1 1/2-mile Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini Internacional (G1) Dec. 13 at Hipodromo de San Isidro, earning a spot in the 2026 Breeders' Cup Turf (G1T).View the full article

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Please expand on that??? I thought the guy was a saint!

I see Punters.com described it as "cheeky" noting we only got the front on camera view of the next 1200m start.

Even with the favorite winning the GII Los Alamitos Futurity as 3-5 choice Litmus Test (c, 2, Nyquist–Study Hard, by Malibu Moon) led home a Bob Baffert one-two-three, the race wasn't without drama as Ackowledgemeplz (Bucchero) lugged out badly early, hurting the chances of both American King (American Phaorah) and Captivator (Charlatan) as he pushed those two extremely wide. There's a good chance Baffert–who has absolutely dominated this race with 14 previous victories–would have won anyway, but it made his path a little easier as his trainee Provenance (Into Mischief) showed the way through :23.26 and :46.67 fractions. Litmus Test, who had been stalking, wore down his stablemate and held off a closing Blacksmith (Liam's Map) by a length. The triumvirate was a good six lengths or more clear of the fourth-place finisher. With the Los Alamitos victory, Litmus Test earned 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby. He broke his maiden on debut at Del Mar in August, added a third behind champion-elect Ted Noffey (Into Mischief) in the GI Breeders' Futurity, and was last seen finishing fourth in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile behind that same rival. Sales History: $875,000 Ylg '24 FTSAUG. O-SF Racing LLC, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Stonestreet Stables, Diane Bashor, Determined Stables, Golconda Stable, Waves Edge Capital LLC and Catherine Donovan; B-Machmer Hall; T-Bob Baffert; J-Juan Hernandez. LITMUS TEST ($3.20) passed today in the $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) at @losalracing. The Nyquist (@DarleyAmerica) colt is trained by @BobBaffert. @JJHernandezS19 was up! He gains 10 points in this @spendthriftfarm Road to the @KentuckyDerby. pic.twitter.com/gmPuJmpygT — FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) December 14, 2025 The post Nyquist’s Litmus Test Leads Home Baffert Trifecta in Los Al Futurity appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The Bob Hess Jr.-trained Roll On Big Joe caps a cross-country season with a Ring The Bell Stakes win Dec. 13 at Oaklawn Park.View the full article

Kevin Doyle's Layabout took the lead late and held off a rally by Tiz Dashing to win the $125,000 Tropical Park Derby at Gulfstream Park Dec. 13.View the full article

Yes some of the Anti comes from the tall poppy slayers and much from a reaction to Rogie's personality. Every horse Rogie has that wins he says "I really think this horse is going places and is a potential champion"! A great salesman. Unfortunately in recent years the stables strike rate has dropped a lot. I was in the winners bar post race celebrating a win at Te Aroha. Rogie had run second. The race was in memory of some recently departed committee members of the Club. Rogie had come in to pass on his respects to family and friends. When he left I made a light hearted comment about how every horse Rogie has is going to be a champion. Boy did I get a passionate lecture on Rogie's virtues! Not long after that I saw a Trackside interview of George Simon in which he made special mention of Rogie. The story about when George started out and only had a pair of toy binoculars. Rogie was heading to Hong Kong for racing and asked George what he needed. George said a better pair of binoc's. Rogie asked him what is the best that you can get? A couple of weeks later when Rogie got back from HK he handed George a pair of the best binoculars money could buy. Since then I've heard a lot of very similar stories. But congratulations on getting S 'N' S back to somewhere near his best. Funny the same day my friend was standing next to Frank Ritchie in the birdcage chatting as their horses paraded in the bird cage. I said to her did she know who she was talking to? I said the champion trainer of Bonecrusher. Frank replied that champion horses make champion trainers not the other way round. Which is true but few of the armchair experts realise how hard it is to keep a horse racing at the elite level for long. More often than not something goes wrong and it takes a lot of work to bring them back. Congratulations to Team Rogerson for doing that with Sharp 'N' Smart. Easy to give up, rest on past acheivements and not persevere but by all accounts the horse still loves to race and that is what he was bred to do.

Kendra Bakker is apprenticed to one of the very best riders we have seen down South, so will be getting the best of mentoring. Our apprentices are also overseen by Jason Laking who was a rare talent in the saddle and does an awesome job with them.

Perhaps the two best horses ever trained in Hong Kong will headline what promises to be an action-packed Longines Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) at Sha Tin on Sunday. The highest-earning racehorse of all time with north of HK$217 million to his name, Romantic Warrior will attempt to win an unprecedented fourth consecutive Group One Hong Kong Cup (2,000m). Victory in the first seven-runner Cup since 2007 would make Romantic Warrior the only four-time HKIR winner and the market suggests only...View the full article

THOOZA (W Kennedy) - Had to be steadied to avoid the heels of SHE’S A DEALER which shifted in when not fully clear passing the 1200 metres. S McNab was advised to exercise care in similar circumstances. Raced keenly for a distance passing the 1000 metres. Held up for a distance passing the 400 metres. McNab got a mention but in my opinion for the wrong reason. He was lucky the horse he crossed and which had to pull up was ridden by a senior Jockey - Warren Kennedy. Thooza ran home strongly for second. I guess those that backed the favourite ridden by McNab would be happy with the ride.

In my opinion the Stipes were asleep at Te Rapa as well. As an aside I note that Oatham and Neal weren't working at either location. Look at Race 9 at Te Rapa - shouldn't Sam McNab have got a decent slap for putting the anchors on the way he did on She's A Dealer? Was very close to carnage behind him. If there isn't there should be a rule against doing it. I guess on a positive side some of the Jockeys behind decided to go around to the front and put some pace into the race.