Chief Stipe

Doing it in hopples is a skill.

Oh ok so I'm better off on BOAY?

Does it pay well?

Considering unlike Brodie I haven't backed it yet and got restricted as a problem gambler I might just offload. It's definitely on the up.

Probably would have although the metabolism of cobalt in a bovine differs to that of an equine. My understanding is that the paddock had previously had cattle in it. I'm pretty sure they weren't in there the same time. Common farming practice to move livestock around. Cattle are more adapted to mowing tall grass than horses with the latter preferring it shorter.

There was never any possibility of our health system being overwhelmed. Sorry but whats the point of having health staff and facilities if you are afraid of using them? Bit like a army going to war and not expecting to fire a bullet! The media crap promoted by the UK Government is trying to pull the wool over the publics eyes to cover for the Governments failures. The NHS in the UK is "overwhelmed" EVERY winter. This year the peak of patients in hospital with Covid-19 is around 20% of total occupancy. However many of those would have been in hospital anyway with seasonal respiratory illness. Many actually caught the virus IN hospital i.e. they were admitted for something else first! Watch this space evidence based science will eventually prevail and it will force a considerable recalibration.

Comparatively it has worked OK. Notice how the media have gone quite? If you look at excess deaths over a long time frame then 2020 was not significantly different. 80% of those that have died WITH Covid-19 were over the age of 80 i.e. older than the median mortality age. Greater than 95% had comorbidities. I'm not a Covid-19 denier or a Granny Killer. However I'm primarily concerned with the future of our youth. Who have a vulnerability to Covid-19 that is 20 to 30 (or more) LESS than seasonal influenza. Sweden did not close its schools and so did not cause considerable harm to their young. Personally I would rather forgo a year or two at the end of my life and give my 14 year old daughter a chance to learn, grow and develop normally. My Grandfathers did it for me in WW2. My daughters educational year this year was absolutely stuffed. She'll never regain that. The reality is that we will have to learn to live with the virus. For 99.9% of the population it isn't an issue.

Hell no I hope he goes on for another 5 years. LOL I actually make a point of watching his races. Might even back it next start!

You're kidding me? Where's JJ Flash - same old same old JJ.

Going to have to live with it at some stage. The Government and its cabal of rock star scientists are not being transparent and honest with us. Even if you could possibly vaccinate 100% of people given that the vaccine horse that we backed is only 63% effective it is no path to nirvana. If the only alternative is years of isolation and the restriction of civil liberties then that is the debate we should be having.

Did you go to the same literary school as Thomarse?

I dont believe we are being complacent no more than any horse trainer is with regard to viral infection. If the opposite to complacency means living in fear and forgoing liberty then I'm all for complacency. I assume you are talking about Covid-19. If you are then what is the point of quarantine and isolating our country if we have to live in fear within it? At the very best it is an admission by the Government that they can't manage quarantine except to double down on it. I read an interesting research paper yesterday that found the majority of health workers that were infected with Covid-19 were infected by the process of removing their own masks. If trained professionals whose training has a key emphasis on the prevention of cross contamination and infection mishandle the removal of their masks surely enforcing the general public to wear them only makes it worse.

So complacency is OK then?

There oft nothing more stranger than the truth. If you are not providing supplementary cobalt to your livestock particularly on deficient soils then arguably you are not doing the best for your livestock. Hell 50 years ago in primary school I was taught about Cobalt deficiency on volcanic soils.

When you consider that 90% of horses bleed at some stage then it is inevitable that there will be more examples. The only time it needs to be reported is if it originates from the lungs and displays in the nostrils! The Catalyst explanation is entirely plausible.

Well therein lies the problem. What the hell do the Stipes do? The lack of information being published only leads to scuttlebutt, innuendo and conspiracy. Can someone tell me what the hell Goober Godber actually do?

Just checked the Stewards report - didn't you do that Galah? Yes there was blood in Avantage's nostril but it wasn't from its lungs. AVANTAGE (O Bosson) - Post-race the mare was found to have a small amount of blood in the left nostril due to a minor laceration in the nostril. No doubt the conspiracists will keep on with another interpretation!

I don't get the raceform magazine!

Are you talking about Strangles? Island there another outbreak in Canterbury?

Come on Galah do you really think that would be the case?

Rule Number(s): 869(2)and Whip & Rein RegulationsSubsequent to the running of Race 2, Mr Mulcay submitted an Information in which he alleged Open Driver, Mr K Marshall 'was in breach of Rule 869(2) when using his whip with more than a wrist flicking motion in the run home'. Mr Marshall was present at the hearing and acknowledged that: (a) He understood ... (Feed generated with FetchRSS)View the full article

I did not find it totally implausible. As someone from a farming background and horse training experience I could not find any reason to discount that defence.

When was the last time that you can remember the 4th Estate reporting the facts?

Wouldn't surprise me if he hasn't been at some stage. Seen pics on their social media pages with some of their most valuable horses in a 26 acre paddock with steers. Of course a valuable colt might be a different story. But not unheard of for these properties to share paddocks with bloodstock and dry stock. Perhaps not at the same time.

Has anyone answered my question about how many test positives Te Akau have had. I'm thinking only this latest one but as soon as I say that someone will do some digging. That's 1 in about 35+ years! Makes those Ozzie trainers look like bread thieves! Woops they are!