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You do have to realise there are heaps of 3yos about in the north. You only have to look at this Sunday. Fields of 8,8 and 9 accepted in the three 3yo races. Probably 7 or so will go around in each, so more than enough to justify another $100,000 of industry money. Only four 3yo races scheduled for slot day, plus a WFA 2,000m for those who fancy a 2,000m race, and an open 1,200m for the sprinting 3yos. So only six opportunities for 3yos on the day. Should easily get 7 or 8 for each race. Probably a chance for some maidens to race for decent money as well. -
You don't really get the point Chief. In the SI the races aren't programmed in the first place. It is not a matter of boosting nominations.
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yeah , I'm for stands being banned altogether . the mobile gets them all away lovely. It's just too costly for the owner to not even be in the race from a stand. And Punters have Already' left the sport ' in droves and wouldn't touch them with any serious money. not worth the risk. Regan Todd doing well there with Sky Rocket too in race 8 . A very nice winner at $11.00 here. won well it's last start too. a Tenner ew keeps the wolves away for the weekend too lol. I hope he gives that Aldebaran Crystal trotter from r7 away to someone else though lol. 🤣 He should keep ALL his home Stalls/barns just with race winning prospects, as is a jolly good Trainer. Wonder if Robbie Close works with him at home ? -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
By Michael Guerin In the end of the final push to the top of millionaire’s mountain was an easy one. It was probably always going to be for Oscar Bonavena, who had panels on his rivals in the IRT Cambridge Flying Stakes Trot at Cambridge on Thursday night. The nine-year-old was able to pull back to second last and after moving mid-race ended up in the one-one. From there the question was how big the margin would be. The answer: five-and-a-quarter lengths as he raced into the millionaire’s club without breaking a sweat. It was win 30 from start 76 for $1,018,558 in stakes, edging him into that most elite of trotting clubs. But while the final step was easy the climb up that mountain was anything but. It all started so well. Oscar was an instant hit for first trainer Phil Williamson, before being purchased by US-based Kiwi trainer Chris Ryder and Mark Purdon. He even raced in the part-ownership of the late, great Roy Purdon for a while as Mark kept his legendary father involved in the industry. Oscar was excellent in a short three-year-old career and magnificent for much of his four-year-old career before a luckless Australian campaign and then soon after the niggles started. As they say, the faster you go the bigger the mess. And Oscar’s little legs went awfully fast. As issues came and went it affected Oscar’s manners to the stage as a six-year-old he won only one of his 13 starts. Her looked set to become a cautionary tale of what happens to good horses who can’t stay sound and happy. But two years ago things changed and the little horse who couldn’t became the little horse who could. Oscar went on a rampage in the second half of that season, winning the Dominion Trot on his way to becoming Trotter of the Year. Last year was trickier, with Just Believe coming from Australia to dominate our major trots but it is a measure of what a great little horse he is that Oscar came from behind the Victorian to beat him in the NZ Free-For-All on Show Day. Oscar is still Oscar though. Such imperious form still mixed with a gallop in the score up of the National Trot on New Year’s Eve before he made his way to that mountain top on Thursday night. Next stop will be Australia and an opportunity to turn the clock back five years to when he was the next kid on the block. He is no longer new, no kid. He is our latest trotting milllionaire. A horse who did it the hard way. A sprinting machine who has to turn warrior to get off the canvas more than once. Oscar has turned out to be the horse we all hoped he would be. It just took him longer to get there than we expected. Oscar Bonavena is the 12th Australasian-bred trotting millionaire. He joins : Lyell Creek with $2,961,137. Sundon’s Gift ($1,460,561) I Can Doosit ($1,445,774) Speeding Spur ($1,304,992) Take A Moment ($1,164,356) Stent ($1,156,750) One Over Kenny ($1,098,007) Keystone Del ($1,088,449) Tornado Valley ($1,031,977) Vulcan ($1,025,892) Oscar Bonavena ($1,018,558) Sundees Son ($1,010,667) View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young trained Emphasize (NZ) (Embellish) has rocketed into Gr.1 New Zealand Derby contention with an emphatic victory at Sale on Thursday. The lightly tried son of resident Cambridge Stud sire Embellish had finished a debut third on the course over 1400 metres prior to Christmas and he relished the next step up to 1717 metres, waltzing home by four lengths. Emphasize was forced to cover plenty of extra ground in his victory romp with a performance that now has him the $8 second favourite for the Derby. Rider Thomas Stockdale has been aboard the three-year-old in both of his outings and said the best has yet to come from the gelding, who carries the colours of OTI Racing. “He was ever so strong and will continue to improve.” Emphasize was caught four wide early after jumping from the outside gate before he slotted in one off close to the pace. He pulled out early to improve three wide and strode to the front halfway down the straight to thump his older rivals. “The tempo was okay before the leader backed off going to the 1000 metre mark and my bloke has such a big stride that I let him roll,” Sadler said. Bred by Yarrawonga Racing, Emphasize was bought out of Castle Hill Farm’s draft at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling Sale by Inglewood Stud for $5000. He was subsequently purchased for $75,000 by OTI, Busuttin Racing and Phill Cataldo Bloodstock at the Ready to Run Sale. Emphasize is a son of the Dane Shadow mare Dancing May, who also has a juvenile Embellish filly, and she is a sister to the Gr.1 South Australian Derby winner Shadows In The Sun. View the full article
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