Chief Stipe

Another AUD$36k in the kitty! AUD$90k in 3 starts.

Check the sectionals and revise your opinion.

Ran home in 33.1 for the 600m. Two sub 11 sectionals. Damask Rose ran the last 600m quicker than the Grp 1 All Star Mile. They ran home in 1.7 seconds slower and none of them broke 11 seconds.

Yeah when it got to $6 I took it just as I said I would. Just before I heard the commentators say that she had drifted because the pattern of racing today would suit her! Top effort when you look at the run. I can hear the knockers knocking but she will win a decent race. If I was an owner of the horse I'd be happy. The residual value keeps getting better.

I said she shied and offered some possible reasons. You made a statement which first said she WAS flanked (evidence not in on that) and then that she THOUGHT that the alleged flanking would occur again. Yet in the video I posted she was flanked 6 times by Willo and didn't flinch. Now my opinion is that like previously when the real pressure goes on AL will often melt.

My understanding is that the lump sum is handed to TABNZ. They then determine the split between the three codes. When delivered to the codes they can do whatever they want with it. Both NZTR and HRNZ have been stashing some. HRNZ has been put some into infrastructure e.g. resurfacing of 5 tracks. NZTR are spending some of theirs on track infrastructure including tracks resurfacing although it costs more to fix a turf track than an all weather one.

In the 2025 annual report. The 2021 figure is in that years report. 2025_HRNZ_Annual_Report.pdf

Oh ok you know what horses think now? As for getting "flanked" Craig Williams "flanked" her 6 times in the straight in the Moir.

I just had another look. If you go back well before she shied you will see her look away from the fence just before the distance marker on the rail.

Flew home in the KiwiB this time last year over 1500m. The 2nd horse in that race Evaporate has won two Grp 3 races in OZ since. 2 months earlier she won the KM over 1600m.

But that's nothing new. It has been happening for as long as I can remember. We got good money selling horses to the USA in the 70's. Then again I doubt any average owner would sell a really good horse if they knew it was good.

$4.60 now. One thing I have noticed that will work against her is the rail is out 6m and nothing is coming off the pace at them moment. Might upset Tentryris as well in the Newmarket as the outside does look off.

You're irrelevant @Huey and anyone sane who reads your posts knows you have a chip on both shoulders. Get over whatever it was in racing that pissed you off it is destroying your enjoyment of your twilight years. I gather it was you that started the fake news about Te Akau leaving Cranbourne.

I thought it was the whip initially but I'm not so sure now. I've seen her lose the plot when she is put under pressure. I reckon Sweynesday came back at her. Notice how she went for the clerk of the courses horse when caught?

I very much doubt it - certainly not in real terms as the original sponsorship was huge and is what made the race attractive to Owners and Trainers. Not to mention the associated marketing around it. But are you talking about the First Sovereign Trust sponsorship? There was no sponsorship 2009 - is that correct?

Or was it named after the 1878 soda pop made with an extract from a certain South American plant? From which the slang term "moxie" arose.

I didn't say they did. I just said that never Club could match the sponsorship of Bayer.

They haven't squandered all of it. They have improved their cash assets from $12m in 2021 to $32m in 2025.

The T's and C's will be commercially sensitive but ENTAIN only operate here under a license of which supporting racing is the corner stone. Not only are the ENTAIN stakeholders subsidising NZ Racing to the tune of $30m+ for 5 years they are also pouring substantial sums into marketing the TAB. Remember the transition TAB run by Mckenzie pushed that marketing fucntion off the balance out to the Racing Code administrators (e.g. NZTR, HRNZ and GRNZ). Those administrators were clueless and did SFA. ENTAIN have also invested in replacing aged and largely useless technology (e.g. Point Of Sale terminals and Self-service Pods). They've also cut costs by renegotiating the expensive contracts that the old TAB had signed up to and Mckenzie was too lame to address e.g. the TAB operating software, broadcasting and data networks. They've also started rationalising staff. They've also sponsored races over and above the lump sum handout e.g. buying Slots etc as well as sponsoring large races. Not to mention the promotions for the big OZ races has also gone up several knots.

Yes I think at $5 she is value. The race tempo rates a bit slow though which won't helping running from the back.

You never post your selections. You are as bad as @Huey and you only post when you want to slag off that the acheivers in NZ racing. Which I gather you aren't. Can we quote you on that? Wow at least you are ahead of @Huey and actually comprehended what I wrote! But describing it as sitting on the fence was pure @Newmarket bullshit.

I don't worry if my opinion matters to anyone just seems weird you spend so much of your time worrying about it. I've given my considered opinion but you fail to comprehend it. We await with anticpation your next bitter and twisted post.

Just like the group that have shares in La Dorada running in the $4m KiwiB. That group have excited thousands.

Which makes it really weird that you worry so much about my opinion!! I've posted my opinion but obviously your fellow retirement home mates are not helping your comprehension. You should get out more.