Chief Stipe

@Thomass your screenshots are selectively timed to create a false narrative. That isn't free speech.

What a load of garbage. But I guess free speech allows free rein to post crap. To think some people miss you.

That's uncalled for. The forum system allows a few minutes after creating a post to go back and edit it. I use that function often to correct spelling mistakes or reword somethimg that when reread doesn't convey the meaning intended.

Perhaps we are over rating the oppositiom. Ohope Wins only really ran one decent sectional.

You just answered your own question.

Well he is still in his PJ's with one of those cricket umpire clickers counting strokes on his HD TV reviewing all the races this week. Been a big week so I guess he is behind.

Agree that she puts horses into a race. Sure it didn't work this time but the fact is her ride was very very untidy for some reason. I saw one of her winning rides today and I must say it was top class and very tidy.

Is that why she got a $3,500 fine for excessive use?

Good to see Jockeys putting their horses into the race rather than sitting back riding quiet. If the horse is good enough it has a better chance of winning than trying to run world class sectionals to make up lengths.

Yes no reason to suggest Mark Jones doesn't know what he is doing. Quite the opposite in fact when he predicted what she would do. I've actually found this is the case with a lot of those Peter Profit stories. But how fast is that Menangle Track?

Looks like Kinnaird is another cheap colt going places. Purchased for $340k at Karaka 2025 by Te Akau. Look at the breeding - NZ and OZ's best sires on both sides of the pedigree, his dam has already left an Australian Derby winner and his 3rd dam was the mighty Solveig.

Looks like Kinnaird is another cheap colt going places. Purchased for $340k at Karaka 2025 by Te Akau. Look at the breeding - NZ and OZ's best sires on both sides of the pedigree, his dam has already left an Australian Derby winner and his 3rd dam was the mighty Soveig.

The horses were tougher but I think there was more respect. Most licensees called the Stipes "Sir".

The "good old days" being better than today winds me up. I think part of the problem is we THINK things were better but the difference is we didn't have all this information (much of which is negative) at our finger tips. The number of races that were televised in the 70's and 80's was very small. We didn't even have videos! I remember replaying vinyl record replays of my Dad's horses winning at Addington and then we moved to cassette tapes. When dad was living in Nelson his horse Dunhill was racing in the Timaru Challenge stakes in the early 80's - he couldn't get 3ZB where he was which was the only radio station broadcasting the races. So he rang me in Christchurch and I went around to my Uncle's and we held the phone to the radio so he could hear the race! The grass tracks were as rough as guts. It took an age to queue to get a bet on. But it WAS easy to set a horse up for a big punt!

So says Mark Jones.