Chief Stipe

There is an Employment lawyer in Auckland with the same name.

McElnay has just said on TV that the Pzifer vaccine is 95% effective at preventing death and hospitalisation. Utter BS!!!! BUT she also said they were waiting on data from Pzifer regarding Delta efficacy!!!!! FFS.

Gloaming must have been one bloody tough horse. Crossed the Tasman by boat 15 times!!! Won two Derby's in OZ and then caught the boat back to NZ and won the NZ Derby!!!

What he has moved from Chrstchurch?

Of course the mighty Gloaming was trained in Canterbury.

But you aren't comparing Apples with Apples. You still haven't given us any champs originating from Ellerslie! Carbine probably the closest!!! As for the South Island don't forget: Phar Lap Nightmarch Princess Mellay Monte Carlo Seamist Canterbury Belle I'm just getting started!

When was the last decent horse to come out of Ellerslie?

Now we have schools handing out hamburgers to children who get vaccinated. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/126472978/free-hamburgers-and-more-walkin-clinics-to-help-canterbury-reach-new-covid19-vaccination-goal

At least you get seasons unlike Auckland where you get months of miserable drizzle. Rarely rains properly in Auckland (from a West Coaster perspective) so never gets a good clean. They say Auckland can get four seasons in one day? Try going from 33 degrees in a norwester to 11 degrees in a south wester within half an hour. Beautiful to watch from on top of the Port Hills.

By Adam Hamilton 12:19pm • 23 September 2021 Mighty mare Amazing Dream has spent much of her career defying the odds. And now she’s out to do it again in two of Victoria’s biggest races over the next few weeks. The former Kiwi superstar returns from a short spell in Friday night’s $80,000 Group 2 Kilmore Pacing Cup (2690m). Since Australia’s most iconic country cup started in 1964, only one mare – Make Mine Cullen in 2010 – has been able to beat the boys. Amazing Dream then heads to the $300,000 Group 1 Victoria Cup on October 9 where she will be aiming to become the first mare in the history of the great race, which started in 1974, to be victorious. “She’s no ordinary mare, she’s very special,” trainer Nathan Purdon said. “History might be against her in these races, but that hasn’t bothered her in the past.” Amazing Dream has won nine Group 1 races, four of them against the boys in the Northern Derby and Auckland Cup in NZ and, more recently in the inaugural Rising Sun and Blacks A Fake in Queensland. “You’d have to say she beat a better field in the Blacks A Fake then she’ll meet at Kilmore or even in the Victoria Cup,” driver Anthony Butt said. “King Of Swing will be in the Victoria Cup and is obviously the one to beat, but he was in the Blacks A Fake and so too was Copy That.” Despite Amazing Dream being first-up since that Blacks A Fake win on July 24, Purdon insists she is primed. “Her trial was terrific a couple of weeks back and she’s as fit as I can possibly have her without a race,” he said. “I think she looks better than she did in Queensland when she was at the end of a long campaign and some hard racing. She seems brighter and her work at home is fantastic. “Some might think the back row draw (gate 10) is a negative, but I don’t. There’s plenty of speed off the front, she can settle early and then she’s so versatile, Anthony (Butt) has options when to make his move.” Butt added: “The long (2690m) trip is a big plus for her. If she’s been vulnerable, it’s in sprint races. She’s so tough and when most would be struggling, her great quality is finding a way to dig deep over the last 400m.” Three of Amazing Dream’s Group 1 wins over the boys have been in staying races at 2680m or further. American Dealer Qld Derby. Photo: HRV Purdon, the now Victorian-based son of champion Kiwi horseman Mark Purdon, is also bullish about his other stable star, American Dealer, who returns from his fantastic Queensland Derby-winning campaign at Kilmore. “He’s obviously new to me, having just joined my stable after Queensland, but he’s easy to like. I thought his trial was really good at Melton a couple of weeks back and it’s good having the input from Anthony (Butt) who drove him in Queensland,” he said. “I haven’t quite got him as screwed-down as Amazing Dream because this is American Dealer’s first of three runs in as many weeks into the (Victoria) Derby, but he’s very well and ready to run a big race.”

What the hell are you on or on about? You post several posts after the post that you are now quoting!!!! No your memory was quite good. I posted Sweet Billy's actual result and it paid $9.50. AGAIN after the post you are quoting from. If you have a look I answered your question. It's first race was at Alex Park and then it meandered down the North Island before ending up in the South Island. Hence it was the only horse in the Westland Racing Club race to have already raced right handed. Hokitika being well known as the "Ellerslie of the South"!

Did you get your fried chicken?

Raced in Auckland.

Two Bob was probably the first collect I every had on a race horse. Oh the days when you had the oil!

Is irony your middle name?

So you were aged 10 at the time Two Bob won at Hokitika in 1969?

This is another one for @the galah and @Gammalite Contrary to what @Michael aka @Mikie says the local Hokitika Harness enthusiasts used to work with the Westland Racing Club to arrange harness races when the gallops were on. They would organise sponsorship and many were harness owners so would encourage their trainers to bring horses down. Dad organised for his trainer Joe Hill to bring a horse down called Two Bob. Essentially there were four races on the Saturday and four races on the Monday. All the horses had two starts each day. Anyway Two Bob didn't run a message on the first day in its two races. 😉 However in its first race on the second day it bolted in paying $13 to win. Needless to say Dad and Joe had more than 2 bob on it. They scratched from the second race and retired to the bar.

I'll also add that the West Coast Owners Trainer Breeder Association also ran Harness races from time to time on the Coast.

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. My Dad had a share in a horse that was mad as a meat axe - but boy could he run just couldn't stay pacing for the whole race. It raced at Hokitika in 1971. I was there that day. Father Bill was the Parish Priest from 1976 to 1985. Dad helped him build the training track around 1978. He left for Temuka after 13 years on the West Coast in 1985. http://ketewestcoast.peoplesnetworknz.info/image_files/0000/0000/2012/img-goodbye.jpg

FFS Hokitika has a population of 3,000. It has been around that for 50 years that I know of. They talk about 6 degrees of separation - well in Hokitika not only did everyone know everyone (1 degree) most of us were related!!!! Yet you tell me that Dad and his mates who were the leading businessmen in the town had no input or influence on the Westland Racing Club Committee? Hell they even got them to agree to putting in training track for Harness inside the grass track! The local parish priest and stalwart of West Coast Harness Racing Father Bill Middleton used to train his horses on it! They may have done things differently in Blenheim but not in Hokitika.

With regard to Ivermectin it is believed that its mode of operation is as follows. When I read that I could see how it might actually work for Covid-19 because it actually suppresses the parasites ability to disable the immune system. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/ The prevailing school of thought is that ivermectin actually interferes with the ability of microfilariae to evade the human immune system, resulting in the host’s own immune response being able to overcome the immature worms and so kill them.50) Recently published research has indicated that GUCl− activity is solely expressed in musculature surrounding the microfilarial excretory–secretory (ES) vesicle, suggesting that any compound originating from the ES vesicle is regulated by the activity. The addition of ivermectin markedly reduces the amount of a protein (which is postulated to play a role in helping the parasite elude the host’s immune system) that is released from the ES in microfilariae.51) The growing body of evidence supports the theory that the rapid microfilarial clearance following ivermectin treatment results not from the direct impact of the drug but via suppression of the ability of the parasite to secrete proteins that enable it to evade the host’s natural immune defence mechanism.

I know. This article discusses what happened in India. MSN have reported it as well. I haven't done due diligence but you'd have to say what they did had some impact and certainly didn't cause any more deaths!! https://trialsitenews.com/msn-showcases-the-amazing-uttar-pradesh-turnaround-the-ivermectin-based-home-medicine-kits/ It's interesting too because it isn't entirely clear what Ivermectin does do with regard to disease treatment other than killing the parasites. But some of the parasites carry specific viruses which MAY be what causes the disease. The meta analysis study that was led by Dr Tess Lawrie has one major flaw in that the largest piece of research has been discredited although removing that study form the meta analysis still results in showing Ivermectin has an effect. Ivermectin is also interesting in that it is biological in origin being derived from a soil bacteria that has only ever been found in Japan and nowhere else.