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If you are seriously interested then call Te Akau. Otherwise are yo7 suggesting you are a better trainer than Mark Walker?

Why does it have to be 2400?

What no BM64 grade races?

ST VINCENTS GARDEN HIT THE GROUND RUNNING ~ IN TRAINING Offered by Te Akau We’re thrilled to share a terrific new opportunity for our owners who love staying types with real potential - we’ve just secured a talented and lightly raced stayer for our Australian stable, and we believe he could be a real gem. Introducing St Vincents Garden, a five-year-old son of the legendary Camelot, who we purchased this week for A$100,000 from the Inglis Digital sale - the vendors have a significant number of imported horses (targeting the Melbourne Cup) and this sale is part of their normal dispersal. This quality gelding has already shown his talent on both sides of the world. In the UK, he was a 2400m winner before placing third in the Listed Vinnie Roe Stakes (2800m) and finishing a highly credible sixth in the Gr. 2 Queen’s Vase (2800m) at Royal Ascot - one of the most prestigious staying races for 3YOs in Europe. He is currently in training and two of his most recent runs have caught our attention - finishing fourth over 2400m at Bendigo, and again fourth at Royal Randwick last weekend in a very competitive A$160,000 race. It’s worth noting he’s still eligible for Benchmark 64 grade, which gives us an ideal platform to start building momentum with him. Trainer Mark Walker is delighted St Vincents Garden will join our Victorian stable: “I think he was great value, considering he ran fourth in a very good race last Saturday in Sydney. He’s a lovely bodied horse with a terrific temperament - straightforward and genuine. These types of staying horses can take a little time to settle into the Australian way of life, but we have tremendous training facilities to vary his work, including the sand hill tracks at Cranbourne, and I can see him really thriving. “He had very good form in Ireland before coming to Australia, being lightly raced with just 13 starts. The intention is to keep him in training, race him over the next three to four months, and then we will give him a nice spell. “He’s the type of horse we can target races from 2000m - 3200m and he certainly has the pedigree to appreciate these longer distances. He is still eligible for Benchmark 64 races and I feel that once we get a win with him, he will just continue to grow in confidence.“ Pedigree-wise, he’s outstanding - by Camelot, a triple Group One-winning Champion who is one of the world’s top stamina sires. Crowned European Champion Three-Year-Old, Camelot won the 2000 Guineas, Epsom Derby and Irish Derby, and in turn is by European Champion Three-Year-Old Montjeu (Sadler’s Wells), who also won the Irish Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe among six Group One wins. St Vincents Garden's dam Mona Brown is by proven broodmare sire Dylan Thomas (himself by Danehill), whose progeny have won nearly 2000 races, including 93 stakes' wins and 14 Group One's. She has left four winners and is a full sister to Group One winner Pether's Moon who won the Group One Coronation Cup at Epsom in Great Britain. He won four other stakes' races in the UK and Europe and recorded a further six black type placings before going on to stand at stud. St Vincents Garden ticks all the boxes: international form, terrific bloodlines, lightly raced (only 13 starts), and physically a very nice horse. We genuinely believe he’s the kind of staying talent that you can have a lot of fun with and he can be a real contender as we head into winter and spring racing in Melbourne. The share costs are as follows: 10% share: $11,200 + GST 5% share: $5,600 + GST 2.5% share: $2,800 + GST Shares are selling quickly already with 40% already snapped up. Please email me now to secure your share as he will be racing soon. Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you’d like more information, we’d love you to be part of Vinnie's (our stable name for him) team! Warm regards and enjoy his video! Copyright © 2025 Te Akau Racing, All rights reserved. Te Akau Racing News https://teakauracing.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6ddbf1e9f02c3d837c86295aa&id=2a4817d26c&e=c1263d7146 Te Akau Racing 748 Te Akau Road Rd 1 Ngaruawahia, Waikato 3793 New Zealand  

Or this @Gammalite

Such is the vagaries of Fixed Odds. The Tote was so much easier for all. The market determined the price.

Which horse and what is its thoroughbred breeding?

Where is the link to sign up? Can they put the Visa prize directly into my TAB account?

What if they are? Surely it is HRNZ who decide the quantum of what is spent per race? I can imagine ENTAIN might suggest this time and day is best but whether it's $10k or $20k in stakes is up to HRNZ. Is there any restriction on HRNZ using a proportion of what they are allocated by TABNZ (yes ENTAIN doesn't do the code split) as a reserve fund?

Surface water.

Following the running of Race 4, all riders raised concerns regarding the presence of surface water on the track as a result of heavy rainfall. The wet conditions were significantly impacting visibility and posed safety risks for horses and riders. In response, a Track Safety Review was convened comprising the Stipendiary Stewards, Club Officials, the Track Manager, and all riders. After thorough discussion and on the basis of unanimous agreement among the riders, it was determined that the track conditions were unsafe for racing to continue. Accordingly, the Stewards made the decision to abandon the remainder of the meeting in the interest of rider safety and welfare.

HRNZ decides where the money they get from ENTAIN is spent. HRNZ is making the same mistake as NZTR that is increasing stakes will increase participation. HRNZ though doesn't have the same demands to improve infrastructure that NZTR has. HRNZ may be better to build reserves and extend the time they have a decent income.

How do you know that they aren't influencing decisions by HRNZ?

So less than the Slot buyers. Which Slot race are you referring to?

Part of the problem with all the critics is they don't understand that one particular race turnover doeen't need to fund that race's stake. That's a @TAB For Ever cost accountant approach.

How much more? What are HRNZ contributing to the Slot races? Aka the Sweepstake races. For those of us that are really old that's what we all race for 100 years ago. My horse vs your horse and what would you punt to beat it.

Are they putting in more or less?

I see on the other channel run by @Pete Lane and @Comic Dog that there is a Topic critiquing the David Ellis yearling purchases being sold as broodmares yesterday at the Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale 2025. I will write an opinion piece on this in due course. But as some of you know I have an indirect connection to The Victress - I actually recommended to a friend that they purchase a share in the Te Akau syndicate that she was a part of. A bit of a long story but due to coincidence I was somewhat goaded into promoting the horse by @Reefton - more on that later. I said to the friend the purchase was in a filly that at the end of the day would have some residual value so everything was not lost if she didn't perform. The Victress still won two races and showed a lot of promise on the training track but unfortunately couldn't or wouldn't transfer that talent to the race track. So in terms of money invested a loss but... All was not lost however as The Victress came as a package (MM Fillys Breeding Syndicate) and my friend has been very fortunate to have won 4 group races including a Group 1 with the other filly. With their first horse I might add. One of many highlights for them was watching The Victress win her first start at a beautiful and friendly racecourse named Te Aroha. More to come...racing is all about mitigating your investment risk. Good luck to Zorrah in the breeding barn.

You are the one with the beef about racehorses masquerading as ponies in Pony Scurry's. Name the racehorse and its height.

@Huey according to the rules it is 14.2h or less. Name the racehorse and its breeding and its height that is in the Pony Scurry as a pony?

Just a minor point. Slot onwers are not necessarily the owners of the horses that race in the slots. Some slots are owned by Trainers, some by Studs and in rare cases speculating investors. Although the horses may appear to race for large amounts in some cases they only get a percentage of those winnings because the majority goes to the slot owner. Yes a winning horse slot holder might very well be the same person who owns a horse.

ATC members vote against sale of Rosehill Gardens www.racenet.com.au Rosehill Gardens racecourse will not be sold after the 11,500 members of the Australian Turf Club (ATC) today voted against the $5 billion deal. The final vote count was 56.1 per cent ‘No' while 43.9 per cent of the membership voted ‘Yes' with the motion therefore being defeated Of the 11,500 strong membership, 7864 voted on the sale proposal. The decision has been immediately condemned by Western Sydney leaders as a huge loss for Sydney which will miss out on a new 25,000 home suburb that would have eased the housing crisis. ATC chairman Peter McGauran's last ditch appeal to members to vote for the "once in a lifetime opportunity" to secure the future of racing in NSW for the next century failed to persuade the ATC members. ATC members arriving at Randwick to vote on the Rosehill sale proposal Picture: Jeremy Piper NSW Premier Chris Minns had warned there was "only one opportunity" to sell the land while there was still time to build a Metro station to service the new community. "The train line and a station can only be built once," he warned. "Without the Metro station the value of the racecourse is a fraction of the $5 billion on offer with some estimates as low as $300 million." Before the result was announced, Premier Chris Minns told ABC Radio: "I would be disappointed … if the vote went down. "I thought this would be a good step forward for Sydney … thousands of homes for young Australians. But I'd have to accept the decision of ATC members. NSW Premier Chris Minns Picture: Christian Gilles / NewsWire "We're going to have to take chances, even controversial decisions when it comes to housing in Sydney. We've got the second most expensive city in the world, yet by most measures we're the 800th densest city in the world." Ahead of the vote, Mr McGauran had argued the sale should go ahead to secure the future of the industry for the next century in the face of falling ATC membership and attendances at Rosehill. "We cannot bury our heads in the sand, we have lost 20 per cent of our membership over the last five years and crowds at Rosehill have fallen by 50 per cent in the last 10 years," he said before the vote. Australian Turf Club chairman Peter McGauran Picture: Bradley Photos Had the sale gone ahead the ATC would have spent $800 million upgrading Warwick Farm racecourse to Group One status with a new grandstand, training tracks, stables and barns for 1,000 horses. Instead members have sided with a vocal Save Rosehill campaign that was backed by prominent trainers including Gai Waterhouse and Peter Snowden, who incorrectly said no firm figure had been put on the deal. David Borger, Executive Director of Business Western Sydney and Chair of the Housing Now! Alliance, said "the broader community interest has not prevailed in this decision". "We've lost the gift of building a new city in the middle of Sydney and that's disappointing," he said. "It breaks your heart to think that such a massive opportunity to get kids into the housing market, to create new supply to deal with the crisis we're facing … could just sail by. Executive Director of Business Western Sydney David Borger has condemned the decision not to proceed with the sale of Rosehill Gardens Picture: Jonathan Ng "Young people already feel locked out. They don't feel like they've got a stake in this city anymore when they can't even afford to rent or buy a house." Borger also warned how the $5 billion price tag for Rosehill would vanish along with the proposed Metro station if a sale was revisited down the track. "Because of traffic nightmares (caused by the lack of a Metro) you would never get approval to do more than something very modest there," he said.

Not prepared to yet but given the sleuth that you are I would have thought by putting the responses from two forums together you would have joined the dots.

Fails the age and height test. Actually fails the sniff test as well.

How many racehorses are shorter than 14.2h? As an aside can you name one that won a decent race?