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    • What I like about your response Doomed is that the reader can feel the passion, understand the logic and importantly you do not stoop to making disparaging comments about previous posters. Well done and no if you have experience behind you there is not a prerequisite that unless you have achieved at the highest levels you are unqualified to comment. Most top coaches are/were not that good at the game they coach 
    • So only those who have trained a Group 1 winner are entitled to an opinion? You will be quite happy with the way Racing is going at the moment then as it seems to be those Group 1 types that are calling the shots?  Millions poured into stakes, but fields down in both quality and quantity. Turnovers down. Attendances down. Several major tracks closed for "maintenance". Racemeetings abandoned on a regular basis part way through the card. Not enough usable tracks left to conduct grass track trials meetings. $50m spent on three white elephants. NZTR so incompetent they are now bypassed by a betting agency when it comes to decision making. A couple of NZ Group 1 winners unable to keep up in an Aussie race that isn't even a Group 1 race. The Group 1 types don't seem to be going too well so far. Perhaps the grass roots types might have something to offer after-all.
    • Group 1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) runner-up Antrim Coast will contest the Group 2 Alister Clark (2040m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday. Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images) He beat all but glamour filly Orchestral in the Group 1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) at Ellerslie earlier this month and now Antrim Coast will be given his chance to test his talent across the Tasman. Bred by The Oaks Stud, the son of Roc De Cambes races in the blue and white silks of farm principal Dick Karreman, for whom he has been a standout in his three-year-old year. Under the care of Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh, Antrim Coast has won two of his seven starts this term and secured black-type with his Derby performance. The Oaks Stud General Manager Rick Williams was rapt with his second placed run in the Ellerslie Classic and said that gave the Cambridge-based team the confidence to press on for an Australian campaign. “It (NZ Derby) was a really honestly run race,” Williams said. “We all knew the filly (Orchestral) was better than the rest of us, but I was so pleased that he found the line well. I think ultimately he will be a two-mile horse. “He has bounced through the Derby. We gave him a week off at the farm and he put on so much weight, he certainly hasn’t come to the end of his campaign – he is made of steel this horse.” Antrim Coast will fly to Melbourne this week ahead of making his Australian debut at Moonee Valley on Saturday in the Group 2 Alister Clark (2040m), with his performance dictating the remainder of his Australian campaign. “Saturday will work out how we plan his races from now on and whether we go to South Australia or Queensland. We will get a line on where he sits in the pecking order over there,” Williams said. “Subject to his run on Saturday, we will find a couple of races for him. He is a horse that can handle Heavy tracks right through to Good tracks.” Antrim Coast has been one of a number of quality three-year-olds to carry Karreman’s colours this season, however, a number of them have had their season curtailed by inury. Burn To Shine struck early in spring, winning first-up at Te Rapa before finishing runner-up in the Listed El Roca – Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m) and third in the Group 2 Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m), before trekking south to Riccarton where he won the Group 3 War Decree Stakes (1600m). He was freshened following his ninth placed run in the Group 1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m), but has returned to the paddock after injuring a tendon following his placing over 1400m at Te Rapa last month. “Burn To Shine is out with a tendon injury, so we have had a bit of bad luck with horses getting different injuries and having to be turned out,” said Williams, with $350,000 Karapiro Classic (1600m) placegetter Vera Rose having faced a similar fate. “She (Vera Rose) has got a bit of a knee issue that needs sorted. It is not major but it her three-year-old year is over, but they will all be back.” Fellow The Oaks Stud homebred Harlow Rocks is also enjoying some well-earned time in the paddock, with her three-year-old campaign coming to a close following her 12th placed run in the Group 1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) at Trentham last Saturday. She had been in pleasing form prior to her Oaks assignment, having finished runner-up to Group One winner Molly Bloom in the Group 2 David and Karyn Ellis Fillies Classic (2000m) at Te Rapa last month before finishing fourth in the postponed Group 2 Lowland Stakes (2100m) at Taupo. “She has come through the Oaks well but she will be turned out for a spell now,” Williams said. “I am not sure a mile and a half is her trip, but we got there and had to run. I think she is a 2000m horse if you take a line on Molly Bloom being the only one to beat her at Te Rapa. “It was a funny race at Taupo, and everything got a bit mucked up with the Lowland Stakes being postponed and it didn’t suit the horse she was and the prep she had. In saying that, Chad Ormsby’s horse (Pulchritudinous) won despite that, but I think they are two different horses – one is an out-and-out stayer and the other is a more brilliant horse.” Meanwhile, The Oaks Stud’s exciting juvenile Savaglee will head to Trentham next month to tackle the Group 1 Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m), the first bonus race for next year’s inaugural $3.5 million The NZB Kiwi (1500m). “Savaglee seems to be much better left-handed, he is unbeaten left-handed,” Williams said. “He has bounced through Auckland. Both of his runs there have been slightly below par. He will go onto the Sires’ at Trentham and we think he is crying out for 1400m. “He has given us every indication that he is a horse that wants to go there and will go better over the extra 200m. “He seems to be getting better and better throughout his two-year-old year.” Horse racing news View the full article
    • A trip to Sydney could be on the cards for promising stayer Trust In You. Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images) A likely trip across the Tasman is looming for promising stayer Trust In You. The five-year-old son of Sweynesse put himself on the map over the Christmas Carnival when winning the Stayers Championship Final (2400m) at Pukekohe on Boxing Day before returning to the South Auckland track on New Year’s Day where he was victorious in the Group 3 Queen Elzabeth II Cup (2400m). He was then sixth when fresh-up in the Group 2 Avondale Cup (2400m) at Ellerslie in February, and readied for the Group 2 Auckland Cup (3200m) with a runner-up performance in the Nathans Memorial (2200m) a week prior. Trainers Grant Cooksley and Bruce Wallace were pleased with his sixth placing in the Auckland Cup and are looking at heading to Sydney with their charge with an eye towards next month’s Group 1 Sydney Cup (3200m) at Randwick. “He has come through the Auckland Cup well,” Cooksley said. “It was a good run, he just got pushed back a bit at the 800m and made up good ground and went a very good race. “He had a few days out after the Cup and has done a bit of work in the last week and he is doing well. We will just see how he is doing next week before we decide on Australia. “If he goes over to Australia, it will be for the Sydney Cup and he may run a week prior in the Chairman’s (Group 2, 2600m). “It will be a nice race for him, Randwick is a fair bit different than what Ellerslie is. At Ellerslie, you have to be on the pace at the moment, but at Randwick you can come from anywhere.” A trip to Australia could also be on the cards for Group Three winner Sacred Satono, with Cooksley eyeing the Queensland Winter Carnival with the son of Satono Aladdin. “Sacred Satono may have a run on the 20th next month at Ellerslie and may then head to Brisbane for the Stradbroke (Group 1, 1400m), but we will just see how he comes up,” Cooksley said. Meanwhile, the stable’s evergreen galloper Gino Severini has been retired following his last placed run in the $350,000 Rangitoto Classic (1600m) at Ellerslie earlier this month. The globetrotting gelding commenced his career in his native Ireland where he won the Madrid Handicap (1400m). He then had three unplaced runs in Hong Kong before joining Bruce Wallace’s Byerley Park barn where he has prepared the now 10-year-old initially in partnership with Allan Peard prior to Cooksley joining the business. In all, the son of Fastnet Rock won eight and placed in 20 of his 68 career starts and earned more than $500,000 in prizemoney. His highlights include victories in the Group 2 Tauranga Stakes (1600m), Group 2 Japan Trophy (1600m), and Group 3 Eagle Technology Stakes (1600m), while he also placed in the Group 1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m), Group 3 Balmerino Stakes (2050m), Group 3 J Swap Sprint (1400m), and was twice placed in the Japan Trophy. “He did well and gave his best every time he went out there. He was a good horse,” Cooksley said. “He won a couple of weight-for-age races at Tauranga and he was always thereabouts in Group One races.” Horse racing news View the full article
    • I quoted Kelvin's comments on another thread and when I went to find his comments I thought they looked different to what I had read a few hours earlier.
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