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A fantastic turn of foot.

Baaeed hailed after crushing star field www.racing.com Baaeed's stunning success in Wednesday's Juddmonte International at York had onlookers drooling and they included former top jockey Johnny Murtagh, who labelled his six-and-half-length destruction of the classy Mishriff as the "wow performance the sport had been waiting for". Unbeaten in nine, but never tried over further than a mile, Baaeed went off the red-hot 2-5 favourite and gave his supporters hardly any worries when romping home. "Look at the brilliance of Baaeed, soak it up and enjoy – he is a fantastic racehorse," ITV commentator Richard Hoiles purred moments after Jim Crowley's mount had flashed by the winning line. Equally impressed was ITV colleague Murtagh, now a Group 1-winning trainer having been a world-class jockey who won the Derby three times and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe once. "What a performance," said Murtagh, whose countless Group 1 wins in the saddle included two in the race he had just seen Baaeed dominate. "That's the performance we've been waiting to see from him. We heard how good he is and we knew how good he was, but he had to do it on the track and going a mile and a quarter was made for him today. "You saw how he travelled into the race and that's what good horses do, he went down to the furlong pole on the bridle, was given the office to go and quickened up. He blitzed horses rated in the 120s and that's what he needed to do. This was a wow performance. "Now you can start making the comparisons to the two greats – Frankel and Sea The Stars – because we have seen it on the track." Brough Scott, the author and broadcaster regarded as an authority on all things racing, was also part of ITV's coverage and said: "That was what we wanted – it was the best performance of the season and everyone was clapping as he went by the post. You suddenly got lit up and that's what racing longs for. I think he's better at a mile and a quarter – he's murdered them. "I think Frankel's performance was the best in this race, but that is very close to it." Classic-winning jockey Jason Weaver, a mainstay of the network, added: "I was frightened as Jim was just taking him back and being patient and confident. I wondered if he'd find. It's so hard not to do anything and then push the button, but it was control, power, domination and so much ability."

Still waiting for accountability and integrity to be shown in a review of the INCA debacle. But then you see INCA as a success because it put the industry on notice. Regardless that it found SFA crimes to do with harness and cost millions of dollars.

That would be a good point if it was a fair description of the ex-police recruits. But it isn't as the majority of them didn't have unblemished careers in the force.

They played some great rugby on the high veldt last Saturday.

What's more we were self sufficient in fuel and gas offering strategic protection from external disruption. We are now heading back towards the "one bad shipment stopping the nations car/truck fleet". BTW "Think Big"was largely the brain child and project of the Hon. Bill Birch. One of the most intelligent men to ever grace the Treasury Benches. A farmer as well and a thorough gentlemen. One of my best ever life memories was being picked up by him in the Crown Ministerial Limo and touring the LPG installations in Christchurch and Lyttelton when I was a candidate in the 1984 General Election.

Then if you were consistent you would apply the same rules to the Judiciary.

It's not secondary to the perceived integrity of the Racing Judiciary. It's fundamental. End of Story.

How was it a "massive failure"? Were these projects "massive failure's"? methanol plant at Waitara ammonia/urea plant at Kapuni synthetic-petrol plant at Motunui expansion of the Marsden Point Oil Refinery expansion of the New Zealand Steel plant at Glenbrook electrification of the North Island Main Trunk Railway between Te Rapa and Palmerston North a third reduction line at the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, near Bluff the Clyde Dam on the Clutha River. The projects weren't limited to those though. They definitely make the PGF look a waste of time.

I have worked in the system for a number of DHB's. Every one of them was the same. Managed by administrative risk averse bureaucrats with SFA spent on the front line staff. Been like it for decades. There is no way anything has changed in the 4 1/2 years Labour has been in power especially during the pandemic. The only thing that has been different is less work has been done.

That's purely perception driven by political propaganda. Things have got worse under this Government whose only solution is to create a mega DHB and a Maori Health Authority with the power of veto. Although the chances of them completing the changes are very remote. The 9 years of National Government neglect is nonsense too. Any new hospitals built or more ICU beds under this Labour Government for $120 billion debt?

Be surprised.

As opposed to your socialist view where everyone should be dragged down to be the same. Ardern has perfected that.

Your posts are aligned to the lunar cycle.

Not by lack of intellect.

Your observations ARE limited.

The National Party actually.

Well I do actually having run for Parliament myself.

Well I do actually having run for Parliament myself.

The point is you wouldn't be able to.

Breaking news! Edward Rennell to replace Glenda Hughes as CEO of GRNZ.

Just quoted the evidence. This site isn't a Blog and yes it does qualify as social media. Geez you really are showing your age.