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I'm not quite clear about your post on this. Did Dan conclude that the difference between whipped and not whipped was in fact significant, despite the study concluding it was not? -
The One and Only . the late great Mr Peter Wolfenden MBE. and yes wins with Cardy and Rondel . An Interdominion , National , and world Champion Hero , was Cardigan Bay . and still NZ's best ever ? Here's a story about him , some might know , but shows how LUCK is important with horse racing too. 1962 and Cardigan Bay having set the NZ record of 10 straight wins , including the NZ FFA and Auckland Cup , was set on the Long journey to Perth for the Interdominion. Too far for Wolfie to go while working his AKLD team , so the horses was untrusted to a good Sydney horseman in Bill Wilkins. Bill steered Cardigan Bay to impressive Heat wins for the first 2 rounds off his 12 yard handicap. But DISASter struck. A stupid Aus stable hand jogging him during the week before the 3rd round of heats got himself tipped out of the cart and Cardy bolted and fell heavily on cement 😭. dislocating a hip and gouging his legs. so badly , they were gunna shoot him . At the last minute a local trainer Ted Grieg said he would 'Suspend' Cardy in a stall for a month and nurse him to recovery. with the aide of his teen stable hand named Merv Butterworth !! the future owner of double NZ CUP winner Copy That . on ya Merv !! their efforts help Cardy to repair . after 4 months he went home to NZ. (footnote that Interdominion was clean swept by JAMES SCOTT (NSW) who ran track records and won all 3 Heats and Grand Final off the backmark of 24yards. so a very well deserved win anyway for trainer/driver Perc Hall) 1963 and Cardigan Bay Wolfie off the scene himself for 4 months after a savage kick to the face that needed surgery earlier in the year, but got Cardy back on track in the Spring and ran 5th to LORDSHIP in a soggy NZ Cup. Wolfie determined his star should avenge his Bad-Luck in Perth the year before and go to Adelaide for the Interdominion. This time he had to start off 24yards , through the heats and Final on a 550m circumference track. no mean feat. But Wolfie is a Gun and steers Cardy around the field to impressively win his First 2 rounds of heats. In the first heat Cardy had so narrowly dodged a 3 horse fall that his wheel had 8 broken spokes and broken stay. Wolfie had avoided tragedy by millimetres , and won the Heat with the badly buckled wheel in an amazing stroke of good fortune. BUT DISASter struck again. A huge crash in the 3rd round heat that Cardy couldn't dodge this time, saw Cardy belting around with a smashed Sulky and everyone held their breathe, knowing what happened in Perth the year before. Some spectators caught the champ though and as Wolfie assessed him soon after was delighted to find him virtually unscathed somehow. wow that must of been heart-stopping stuff for a moment. In the Grand Final , Disaster struck . 🙄 but this time 4 of his rivals were put out of the race in a huge crash. Wolfie missed it and had worked forward 3 wide earlier to get a sit near the leaders in his usual amazing driving ability, and in the home straight Wolfie Drove Extremely HArd for him, overhauled felow NZ er Waitaki Hanover ( Doody Townley) who had led them up in the Grand Final. Doody had won the South Australia Derby with his other horse (TACTILE) as well , to have a great carnival. So it was the UPS and the DOWNS for Wolfie and Cardy . But Champions ALways !!!! and they got the job done. Thanks for reading ! -
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Bigger fields better and the stats prove it. The meetings with the highest turnover are mostly grass tracks. Why? Harder to pick and you need to spend more money to cover the field with exotic bets and therefore the dividends are by default larger. More horses means possibly more moves in a race making them harder to predict. Most punters I know have a bet to make money not throw it away. Hard to make money if the dividends are prohibitive to actually giving you a chance to make a profit. Lower number of horses in a race = lower dividends. Simple math. That is why big fields on grass are all the rage in New Zealand. Everyone is trying to get a slice of those $20,000 first fours and $8000 trifectas. Not to mention the $20,000 quaddies. We don't want the $20 trifectas and $50 first fours the fields at Cambridge are going to throw up tonight. Why risk your money for no reward. Once again the stats will prove it. No one will bet at this meeting the turnover will be proof of that. -
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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Emily Murphy brings you Winter Weigh In, your place for Thoroughbred racing news, reviews and insights throughout the colder months. This week we wrap the action from a busy long weekend of domestic racing. Plus, Victorian commentator Matt Hills joins the show to talk about his upcoming trip to Trentham. Winter Weigh In, June 23 View the full article
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