Chief Stipe

Watch the first video on this page. Things might get more ugly if the Police keep doing this. Seeing the video certainly gives a different impression from what we are hearing on the news. Certainly the Police look the aggressors. That new word I learnt last year comes to mind....Dystopia! https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/02/10/the-truth-behind-the-headlines/

1981 was my first year at Uni. Lincoln College. We were the only University who voted FOR the Tour. Went to the Lancaster Park Test. We parked my mates Morrie 1000 about 4k from the Park because he was scared the protesters would damage it. I had stand tickets - my Dad as the Westland Rugby Subunion Secretary had contacts to get me tickets. My mates were wearing Swannies and Steel Capped boots on the embankment shoulder to shoulder ready for anything behind the barbed wire. LOL Dad was a member of the Metropolitan Trotting Club so I had "swingers" and entrance tickets for after the Test Match - there was a race meeting on at Addington after the game. We got changed into our No1's in the Members Carpark out of the boot of the Morrie Thou!

I went to Uni in 1981 the year of the Springbok tour. These protests at Parliament are tame by comparison. Yet even on Newstalk ZB the protestors are being decried and derided. Hell if I was in Wellington I'd have my tent there.

Correct and she also won a slipper AND an Oaks. Not an easy feat. Bolted in in both of them.

You got it. Mrs Smith allowed a portait of her to be hung above the fireplace in the living room. What was special about her achievement on the race course? What was special about her Slipper win that was a first and I don't think has happened again?

Lost me on that but I'd say neither. Another clue Female.

$36 actually. I had a new girlfriend at the time. I asked Jim Wallace how she would go and Jim said "she'll go Ok but I don't expect her to win - a good 4th would be great".... So I backed off the punt and put $10 E/W on her for the girlfriend! Jim got a ring straight after the race from his sister I think it was in Australia who backed her having seen her work when she was back in NZ.

Nope. TJ was the first to do this with this horse and I'm not sure anyone has done it since.

You want a clue? The only portrait of a horse that Mrs Smith allowed to be hung in her home.

So you both give up? Geez and I thought both you and nomates were TJ accolytes!!!

This photo you posted worries me about you @Rangatira was it at the Peaches and Cream sponsored side show?

I've given up reading the form on the TAB NZ site. I always use Australian Racing derived form for NZ. The stupid thing is they get the data from NZ!!!! It is just the TAB NZ website and App that screws with it!!!! Now if you are using an Ozzie site to look a the form......what comes next? You are flooded with promotional odds from a number of OZ bookies and invariably you get a better deal!!! Duh!!!! Another irritating feature(?!) is the apprentice allowances on the TAB NZ site. If you go through a field once and click on a couple of horses to look at the form (which is a waste of time) you'll find that the apprentice allowances strangely disappear. Again you have to go back to the Aussie sites to confirm what you thought you saw the first time you looked!!!! Some of the idiot sycophants e.g. the @JJ Flash's of this world rabbit on about how good McKenzie was yet he didn't understand wagering and had a chance to pull the pin on the computer wagering systems pigs ear they bought for platinum prices!!!! What's more that they are still paying through the nose for yet can't afford the upgrades!!!

Well INCA is taking longer. We still haven't heard anything regarding the Wiggs and Jones cases. So 2yrs might be a bit light.

Buzz....wrong. Try again.

I hear what you are saying but I don't agree. You could throw a blanket over most of the Grp1 fields today at the finish. The sectionals they can run are phenomenal and that is on slower tracks than yesteryear. Verry Elleegant and Winx would in my opinion would beat many of the champions of the past.

Here is an easy question: Which of all the horses trained by TJ Smith was his favourite? What was the remarkable achievement of this horse?

So were Winx, Nature Strip, Verry Elleegant, Kolding and a few other Gr1 winners. I think I posted last year a video of a trial that was dominated by Waller's team and there was well over 20 Grp 1 wins amongst his starters. Let alone the stakes money in the bank.

I don't think I'd be too unhappy if I was Chris Waller with the cattle he has. Over AU$27 million in stakes won so far this season i.e. half way with the rich Autumn Carnival yet to come. Nature Strip, Verry Elleegant, Espiona and Home Affairs would be more than enough for you to handle Joe.

Right with the horse and Jockey. Although she was Lee Rutherford then (a nice bunch of good looking women in that family!). Te Rapa wrong. I'll make it easier for you - Lee only rode her at Avondale in an Open 2100m and in the G3 Rotorua Cup at Rotorua. She ran third both times. Came from last on the turn up the inside on a swoopers track and beaten I think a neck and nose. Just past the post she was in front. It might of been Hayden. Sadly he passed away. 25 different Jockey's rode Madame Shinko with one Jockey - an apprentice winning the most with 3 wins.

As I posted in another thread - Verry Elleegants form line in OZ reads as follows: The Australian Form line says this: Back after 14 week break. Placed at Randwick when last fresh and won one of seven first-up. Ran in two trials. Hard to beat.

I'm like you @aquaman. A second class citizen and it has been bloody tough - family wise, work wise and socially. I understand how some people have acquiesced to the mandate to save their jobs and income but I'm appalled at those that chose to do it so they "could go to events, restaurants and bars". I don't see the point of taking the vaccine now that the disease is so mild - although I always believed it was milder than we would lead to believe. It is now a cold or a very mild flu. So my strategy is to acquire natural immunity which I believe will be longer lasting, more robust and better able to fend off any new variants. I don't want to get onto the vaccination treadmill for this particular virus. The mRNA vaccines aren't vaccines - they don't work. I see Pzifer has declared a US$38 billion on the back of a product that doesn't work. Once I have acquired natural immunity I will be applying for an Immunity Passport as I will be less dangerous than a fully vaccinated person. If the MOH refuses to recognise my natural immunity then I will seek a Judicial Review through the courts.

Are the spelling mistakes yours or the TAB's?

Ok....I misread the original article which said he was still involved on race day. Maybe it wasn't him in the picture I posted in another Topic.

Cheviot used to race at Rangiora. Don't know the politics around it shifting. Some history below: Cheviot – The Cheviot TC (HRC since 1987/88 season) held its inaugural meeting on 5 February 1927 taking over from the Cheviot Racing Club that had been in existence since its formation in 1894. Earlier races had been held on the Cheviot Domain course on Boxing Day 1890 and 1893 which included trotting events. Until 1926, the Cheviot RC had held meetings comprising both galloping and trotting races on the property owned by the Cheviot Domain Board (5/8ths mile track) used in association with the Agricultural and Pastoral Society until the outbreak of WWII in 1940 (Domain used by Army) – last meeting held on 18 March 1939. The 1923 meeting was held at the Canterbury JC’s Riccarton racecourse in Christchurch. After holding a meeting on the North Canterbury JC’s course at Rangiora on 16 March 1940, a recess occurred during the war with meetings recommencing at Rangiora in 1946. The Cheviot TC was to remain at Rangiora until its final meeting on this course on 9 March 2003 although racing at New Brighton racecourse on 18 March 1961, Addington Raceway on 19 March 1983 and at Rangiora on 6 March 2011 (owing to Christchurch earthquakes). From the 7 March 2004 meeting, Cheviot, have conducted their annual meeting on a Sunday afternoon at Addington Raceway. In 1946 an option was exercised for the purchase of a 100acre site at Spotswood, six miles from Cheviot. Significantly by 1960 when the Cheviot club had been unable to fully develop the Spotswood site due to building restrictions, apart from several seasons (1950 – 1965) when they combined with the Rangiora TC, Cheviot utilised an annual permit to continue racing at Rangiora. The land purchased at Spotswood (1200m grass track) had non-tote meetings from 1964 and matinee meetings from 19 October 1974 to 16 October 1982. The Cheviot club introduced its feature event the Group Three Leonard Memorial for 2yo fillies at its 1968 meeting, now having passed its fiftieth anniversary.

Which proves that the TAB NZ form is computer generated. So much for integrity for new punters. I'm surprised it didn't say - "Won Maiden well at Ruakaka, this is a step up". The Australian Form line says this: Back after 14 week break. Placed at Randwick when last fresh and won one of seven first-up. Ran in two trials. Hard to beat.