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By Chief Stipe · Posted
Actually I might have got my horses mixed up which is not surprising when a trotter is written about on the galloping forum. Durban Chief was bred amd raced by W. E. Craddock (Bill) of Westport. Bill was the Mayor of Westport, President of the Westport Trotting Cup and the longest serving councillor of the NZ Rugby Union. Bill often stayed at my childhood home when coming back from overseas Rugby Trips. One in particular was he returned from managing the All Blacks on tour in South Africa. He did have part ownership of Durban Chief. http://www.hof.co.nz/Timeline.asp?Case=6&ItemId=45&AlphaId=3&CategoryId=3 I'm now not sure what the famous horse I saw herding cattle on the road near Hari Hari was. I thought it might have been a famous West Coast owned thoroughbred named Dalray. He won the 1952 Melbourne Cup. He also won his maiden race at Westport. But it can't have been him because he went to stud in Australia unless he retired back in NZ. https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/23149 So the horse with a name that started with D escapes me at the moment. -
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Star sprinter bound for Group Two feature on March 30, while South African jockey ends mini-drought on Australian import.View the full article -
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Four-year-old series hopefuls land barnstorming victories on Sunday, but their low ratings could prove costly.View the full article -
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In a nail-biting finish to Sunday’s Listed Gingernuts Salver (2100m), the roar of adoring connections was heard in the Ellerslie grandstand when maiden galloper Mustang Morgan (NZ) (Preferment) was found victorious. Coming into Sunday’s feature, Mustang Morgan had been improving through the distances and finished third behind Bourbon Proof over a mile at Matamata last month, setting him up for the three-year-old staying contest. The Andrew Forsman-trained galloper started among the middle market at $10, while Te Akau’s pair of Class and Hakkinen were the favoured runners ahead of Golden Century. From a wide draw, Class went straight to the lead, while Mustang Morgan settled beautifully in the second half of the field for Warren Kennedy. After maintaining a strong tempo, the front-runners began to tire early in the run home, while Golden Century and Mustang Morgan came together up the centre, going head-to-head for the last 200m. Neither horse would let up in a head-bobbing finish, with Mustang Morgan lunging at the right time to edge out Golden Century by just a nose, with the late-charging Casemiro and Hakkinen only a long neck and a head further adrift. Mustang Morgan was bred by Rayner and Lynn Bonnington of Little River Thoroughbreds, who syndicated the gelding out to friends, many of which were on course to celebrate his success. “It was a great result and it was a race we’ve probably targeted for a little while, so they’ve got a good crew here today on course, they’ve flown from all over the place,” Forsman said. “Thankfully it worked out. “I didn’t know (if he had won), I was probably on a bad angle and thought it was very tight. I just hoped we got the bob in at the right time.” The Gingernuts Salver has acted as a launchpad in previous years for the $1.5 million Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m), a race Forsman hopes to target with the son of Preferment on March 8. “He’s certainly got the pedigree to do it and he keeps improving all the time, he’s got good size and scope about him so there’s no reason why he can’t continue to get better,” he said. “We may give him a little bit of a freshen up but there’s not too much time. We may go through a Waikato (Gr.2, 2000m) to Avondale Guineas (Gr.2, 2100m) type of path. We’ll just work out how many more runs he needs.” Kennedy, who completed a winning treble after picking up wins aboard Koheroa and Checkmate, praised the gelding’s efforts as a inexperienced galloper. “I went up to Ryan (Elliot, jockey of Golden Century) and thought I’d get past him and win it a bit more comfortably than that, but this horse didn’t really know what was expected of him when he got there,” he said. “He had to put up a really dogged fight and it was courageous from the horse that he rallied back to get the win. “It (the Derby) is possible, you never know how much they learn from their races and he’s still very immature. A tough race like the Derby could be a little bit of a stretch, but he’s got a long way to get to that race and he’ll have a couple more races before then. “He stayed really well and found the line pretty good.” Mustang Morgan is out of the Bonnington’s late broodmare Assertiveobsession. Herself unraced, the mare is a full-sister to Assertive Lad, a three-time Group One winner in Australia, and Assertive Lass, who also won a pair of Group Ones across the Tasman. The gelding has now collected $61,650 in stakes earnings with a win and two minor placings from five starts for the big ownership group. “I just brought a whole lot of mates together when the horse was a two-year-old, and this is such a great group of guys,” Raynor Bonnington said. “What a buzz.” “That (the Derby) is the goal. The boys have been dreaming, we have been for the last two weeks about this day. We’ve got guys from Wanaka, Dunedin and Wellington, all here today. “Warren loved the horse, he stayed on him again so it’s very cool.” View the full article -
Chairman of stewards for HRV said this "The film was quite evident that the foot did become detached from the sulky and there was contact with the horses hind leg on a couple of occasions. We also believe mr morans foot stayed in the vicinity of the horses legs." So basically the chairman of stewards has said they believed morans foot made contact at least twice. So the HRV stewards concluded that the driver,who drives in thousands of races,has the state of mind to do something different, from what he has instinctively done tens of thousands of times over the past couple of decades. This moran fella must be hell of a guy as ,as we saw with the nz whip rule here,most drivers do things instinctively when driving a horse out. And we are lead to believe that because he kept his foot down for over 50 metres,that the stewards believed he was making no effort to put it back in the footrest. Now i've seen hundreds of drivers drop their foot down,deliberate or not,but its quite hard to get the brain lined up with the body and put the foot back in the footrest straight away when driving a horse with the whip. People should try it on their seat holding their foot,backwards and up, like moran was. Instinctively putting your foot straight back would not happen,you would think it would take about 50m to register with the brain. Thats why you see nearly all drivers taking that long when it happens at any time of a race,let alone one where a driver is also using a whip. And the stewards believed that a good way for someone to allow their foot to make contact with their horses foot is to place ones foot back and up as moran did,not forward and down as would have worked better if that was the purpose. Going on that stewards post race comments,to disqualify that horse and punish punters and connections seemingly based on the above assumptions seems bizzare.
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