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the independent review makes interesting reading. so,i thought i might put out my own findings ,based on their findings. It all started on a sunny waikato morning at the waikato stables of galloping and trotting trainer graeme rogerson. there rogie and his foreman, well the foreman seems to remain unidentified in the official report,but lets just say we will make up an alias,say j/s,not knowing what his name is. So there they were ,spotted leaning on a fence,sunlight glistening on their freshly polished foreheads.. then they got to talking. Rogie.. "i see that young guns trotting final will have a small field"...is our horse yeah nah going to qualify" j/s.. "yeah nah..doesn't qualify rogie.. yeah nah the horse doesnt qualify or yeah nah ,doesn't qualify." j/s..exactly rogie...no i meant is yeah nah going to qualify next week at the trials J?S ..what you want yeah nah to qualify rogie...didn't i just say that J/S yeah nah... rogie.. are you getting lippy with me son J/s...what Rogie...just get yeah nah qualified J/S o.k. boss muttering under his breath why would anyone call a horse yeah nah. and thats how it all started,just a simple misunderstanging over what the initial pause in the conversation about a horse with what turned out to be an appropriate name. Will we never know whether rogie was referring to a qualifying trial to be run the next week,like it apparently was entered for,or was it the young guns final. Well we will have to wait ill his memoirs are written. But we know the foreman took it to mean the young guns final. so j/s contacted the northern handicapper(N/H),who then called the national hrnz handicapper(hrnz /h) so this is possibly how the conversation went between the 2 handicappers n/h..i got a call from j/s and hes saying his boss wants his 2 year old yeah nah to qualify for the young guns hrnz/h.. but he doesn't n/h..but can you change it so he can hrnz/h.. well if i did that all hell would break loose,there would be calls for my head,claims of unfairness and corruption,it would set a terrible precedent....um...let me think about it....um hang on i will toss a coin heads we do,tails we do, n/h...did you say heads we do,tails we do, hrnz handicapper,yeah 50% chance. thats what i always do in these confusing type of situations. hrnz /h heads o.k. i will arrange it,but lets just keep it on the q/t as we don't want people knowing n/h..mums the word so they publish the changed conditions but tell no one Yet way down south,on a day when the horses can't be worked because of what they call just a light shower in invercargill.i.e. 24 hours of heavy rain,inside is a trainer called n/w and n/w is on the hrnz website and low and behold,he stumbles upon the new race conditions...n/w to his wife..look i can run our trotter in that big race at auckland worth $50,000../n/w wife,.what,how can they change that n/w well it is hrnz...wife..well,that explains that,but whats to stop them changing it back,...n/w rings the owner n/w..we off to auckland...owner..great..we could do with another holiday. i've only had 2 in the last 3 months,see you in auckland. little did they know that they had stumbled upon a wasps nest of controversy,as down in little old temuka a former member of a ranfurly shield winning team,a bear of a man,had been awoken from his hibernation in a cave out the back of the temuka hotel, after receiving a call from his trainer...the conversation ,i would guess,went something like this. m/jj...ross....r/m....hhhrrrr m/j ross,you would never guess what HRNZ have done r/m...hhrrr this better be good as i was in the deep sleep part of my hibernation m/j theyve changed the conditions of the race wev'e set your horse for to allow others who shouldn't be allowed to start in the auckland race,i mean wtf,how can they do that....r/m...wtf did you just say, m/j...i mean wtf r/m...wtf,those dirty f north islanders,they did the same when we played wellington. Grant battys not the handicapper is he,because if he is i'm going to f.. m/j ..,no its the christchurch handicapper who ok'd it,i mean wtf well i will have to end the story there as its getting a bit long for me,but the above sounds about what most likely happened to me -
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In the keynote address of The Jockey Club's Round Table Conference on Matters Pertaining to Racing, Everett R. Dobson, newly elected chair of The Jockey Club, discussed plans for the organization and The Jockey Club's ongoing plans to grow racing. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Racing has made strides in recent years in addressing the timing of its races in an effort to prevent events from going off at the same time but as any regular viewer of FanDuel TV knows, the split screen is still needed at times.View the full article -
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Go behind the scenes with Rusty Arnold trainees Echo Sound and Kilwin as they train for the Aug. 2 Test Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. Assistant trainer Lyndsay Delello introduces us to both fillies, Johnathan Monge takes them for a gallop.View the full article -
By Spatchcock · Posted
Right you are! I was confusing it with Grand Eagle, also previously owned by the Neills, wearing their colours, and trained by the Dunns. This makes the betting plunge more understandable.
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