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its getting pretty hard to do that these days gammalite. if you look ,grazing in a paddock with no supervision seems to cost around $40 p.w. With supervision it can be over $70 p.w. in some places.So if you owned one of those good racehorses ,you could afford it,but if you had 4 that hadn't really paid their way but tried hard and had lovely natures then thats close to $200 a week, just to keep them in a paddock.99% of people just don't do that. then you have so many do gooders who have no idea. Just today,no bullshit,we were out feeding our old horses like we do everyday over winter and i had some woman come up to me and tell me she was disgusted that i never brushed them.Apparently she lives next door to someone who has a horse and brushes and rides it each day.so i should do the same with every horse we have. When i told her ,what the heck are you talking about,she said she would ring the spca. Our horses look fine,are fed everyday,but she wanted them brushed each day. Then she said they should be put down if i wasn't going to brush them like her neighbour does. Honestly you would not believe the number of people who poke their noses into what you do when you keep old horses .I've kept our old racehorses. Still have them.Once i had a call from an spca man who said he had a complaint someone who went to work each day,next to where 1 horse was paddocked,had never seen me feed that horse, Well he came and inspected it,like he had to,saw it was fine and i told him,well i work from 7am to 6p.m. so i feed it at night afer work. he just laughed,but i said its not really funny. Then i iused to every year,for 4 years when i was at another place,have a call from the same spca man as someone complained every year. He would ring up my mum,say,sorry to bother you but i've got another complaint and i know i will find nothing wrong,but i've got to come and have a look anyway. Then one day,he had arrived before i was able to get there and the caretaker told me when i arrived that the spca man had been trying to find out what it was that i had done to upset someone that they woulfd keep making false complaints about me. The caretaker told me,i tried to find out for you who the complainent was,but all the spca man would say,was its someone who you can see from here who obviously hates me.well i had no idea who he was talking about. Well i then complained to the spca man , who said he agreed,see if i can get the i.d. of the complainent released by the head man at the auckland spca. The auckland spca man said leave it with me. He never rung back so i rung him again and he said,yes,your right,there is someone making what the local spca said were maicious complaints every year,but unfortunately he couldn't release that persons details. Then the local spca man rung up and told me,hey this person is going to complain to hrnz now. So what happened. Someone from hrnz turns up when i wasn't there.So i ring that hrnz person up and say,who was it complaining and he said i can't tell you. Then i said well what did you find with the couple of horses i had there.He said nothing,they look fine,oh but what did you do with the horse in the paddock down there. I said,well you know the horses you said looked fine,well that is the horses that were in that paddock.He then commented Well you know the best thing to do is put a cover on your horse, thats what the spca said as well. And its true,you can have a perfectly healthy horse and people will complain and an unhealthy one with a cover,and people won't.I could also tell you the story about ,because we had a few horses,when it was published in the local paper that a racing person had a complaint laid with the spca that they were investigating. Well,blow me down,next thing its all over town that it was me and our horses. I just laughed it off as i'd dealt with all this type of crap before and knew it wasn't ours,they weren't even in the same province. but in the end i heard it that much that it did piss me off and i tracked down the person who started the rumours. Turned out to be someone i worked with who put 2 plus 2 and got 10. Idiot. Anyway,i knew who it was who was the subject of the article,it was a galloping person who would take in horses that no one wanted,trying to help them,but then got too many. She was having an affair,,as galloping people seem to a lot where i lived at the time,and the wife of the man she was having an affair with was out for revenge and went to the local paper. one thing i have learnt ,and it applies not just to keeping your old horses,but to everything. People who do something outside the norm are viewed as odd or unusual. its the way people think.they don't like seeing people do something outside the box,because it unsettles them for some reason. everyone has to make their own decision. No one should be telling me what i should do,just as i feel i have no rite to tell anyone else what to do. I can tell people what i would like to see happen,thats different from telling someone what to do. and then you add in all the half baked do gooders who have no idea what they are talking about around horse care. -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
By Michael Guerin As one door closes, another opens. That tells the tale of Cyclone Rebel, who caused a mammoth upset winning on debut at Alexandra Park on Friday night at $70 on the tote. The son of Bettors Delight had to be good too, overcoming a second line draw in the hands of Matty White to divebomb Andretti, whose drive from Andre Poutama to be trailing early from barrier eight deserved better. But the winner did what very few juveniles do, particularly in Woodlands Sires’ Stakes heats and trainer Tate Hopkins admits he was a touch surprised. “I have always liked him but you don’t really expect them to win like that on debut,” he told HRNZ. “When you see them draw the second line in a capacity field for a Sires’ Stakes heat, I’ll be honest I would have been happy to see him running on well for sixth or seventh.” Cyclone Rebel’s case was helped by a searing early speed as three of the favourites all got involved early but he still had to be excellent to win and he is bred to be good. He is the younger half brother to Cyclone Jordy (Art Major) who won the Young Guns Cardigan Bay Stakes at Alexandra Park last season before being sold for good money to West Australia where he has proven to be one of the best of his age. “At the time this horse was a yearling and the guys who own them, who have been great to deal with for a long time, decided if they were going to sell Jordy they wanted to keep this horse. “So a deal was done where Frank and Ann (Cooney) came in on this horses with the guys who bred him and they now all race him together. “But that meant he didn’t go through the sales so he isn’t Harness Millions eligible.” Hopkins of course worked for Frank Cooney for a long time and was then in training partnership with the popular horseman before Frank took a step back from the business after a race smash. Cyclone Rebel is the fourth foal of Cyclone Kate, who won 21 races here and in Australia for well-known owners Mark Lyon, former All Black Ant Strachan, trainer Gareth Dixon and the famous cricketing brothers Kyle and Heath Mills. “He is obviously very good and I suppose we have to start thinking about the Sires’ Stakes but I will need to give him a couple more starts first to see exactly where he is at,” says Hopkins, who is training 12 at the moment. While he came from a second line draw the night’s other big winners at Alexandra Park were all on the speed. Sooner The Bettor defied a weird odds drift to lead throughout in the main pace with Harrison Orange getting his timing spot on to beat Better Knuckle Up and Jeremiah, with a 26.8 second last 400m as they all prepare for the Spring Cup in a few weeks. Odds-on favourite Castana continued his great run of form after trailing for most of the main trot, things only getting a little tricky when Bolt For The Hill ran to the lead at the 400m but driver Taitlyn Hanara was able to get back to the passing lane to grab the win. And Shezsofast was able to use her speed to lead for most of her Dunstan Feeds Sires’ Stakes heat for the girls to post a 1:56.2 mile rate for the 1700m. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Excited by a rare opportunity to ride overseas, Jerry Chau Chun-lok has faith that Chancheng Glory and Self Improvement can handle Seoul’s unique sand track when the Hong Kong duo races in South Korea on Sunday. Chau will represent Hong Kong connections abroad for the second time after teaming up with Duke Wai to finish fifth in the Group One Al Quoz Sprint (1,200m) at Meydan in 2023. The 25-year-old, who started his career as an apprentice in Australia, cut short his summer holiday to put his...View the full article -
Southlands fine the way they are, the numbers will build up again up North would be fine too if they only raced once a week at present, sometimes the small fields are projecting some winners who probably might not be good enough normally, Harness don't need any extra meetings just utilize the ones they have better, just my thoughts -
xenon use has been alleged for a few years prior to the nz harness racing warning they were taking the allegations seriously. i think it was curious who posted on another topic a video of darren weir electric shocking his horses on a treadmill. How low does someone have to go to make money from racing. well coincidentally,Weir used those low oxygen tents didn't he. well do you think it was coincidence that it was eported racing analysts and sports scientists believed a ballarat trainer was using xenon in combination with low oxygen tents,where xenon gas replaced a % of oxygen as a way of increasing epo levels. of course,as you say ,all just suppositions ,like the racing analysts and sports scientists,what would they know. Just like the electric shocking at the time,all just guessing and like d weir,well he would never do anything like that to make his horses run faster. moral of the story, the truth may come out in the end.
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