Chief Stipe

You said 6mls was 0.5 rating points which now equals 6 lengths. It's utter garbage and not fact!

Rule Number(s): 642(1)Following the running of race 2, Group 1 Turf Bar Cambridge 1600, an Information was filed Instigating a Protest pursuant to Rule 642(1). The Informant, Mr A Scott, Co Trainer of BECAUSE, alleged that COLOGNE or its rider placed 1st by the Judge interfered with the chances of BECAUSE placed 2nd by the ...View the full article

. Joe Lau’s New Zealand-bred galloper Sacred Capital has confirmed his place as Macau’s Derby favourite with another assertive win in Saturday’s Class 1 & 2 over 1500m. With regular rider Peter Ho in the saddle, Sacred Capital hit the line too well for Éclair Sunshine to win by a neck, with last year’s Derby runner up Royal Garden running on for third. While the winning margin was only a neck it was the manner in which Sacred Capital found the wire. After traveling on the bridle in fourth spot for most of the race Ho cuddled the impressive looking son of O’Reilly until straightening and only did enough to ensure he landed the prize. With the SJM Derby only three weeks away, it was obvious that Lau was looking to give the four-year-old as little to do as possible in Saturday’s race. Joe Lau won his first Macau Derby in 2015 with The Alfonso under Nash Rawiller who destroyed his rivals with a five lengths victory. Zac Purton then guided Sacred Man to one of the easiest wins in the Blue Riband event with a massive eight and a half lengths win in the race in 2017. Like The Alfonso and Sacred Man, Sacred Capital is raced by the same connections in Mr. Chen Ching Lung and Dato K S Yap. Sacred Capital appears to be a bright prospect as a versatile galloper who has enough early speed to lead middle distance events and can also sit off the pace and produce a dazzling finish as he did on Saturday. Add that his ability to handle any type of going and he is the complete racehorse. While yet to win at 1800m, his run in the Gr.2 Autumn Classic (1800m) at Caulfield and his close sixth when beaten 1.7L by ATC Derby winner Levendi in the Gr.33 Carbine Club (1600m) at Flemington suggest that is not an issue. Sacred Capital’s main rivals appear to be the luckless Éclair Lightning from the Peter Leyshan stable who has had a frustrating run of luck on his past four runs. The son of Darci Brahma was completely knocked out of the race in the MJC 30Th Anniversary Cup (1500m) on March 3rd. Despite losing a good five lengths in the run he still managed to pick himself up off the canvas and charge home for second to Sacred Capital. Sacred Capital, who raced in Australia as Rellson, was sold through Waikato Stud’s 2016 Ready To Run draft. -MJC View the full article

That's the problem with you Thomaas you can't even keep to your OWN topics let alone anyone elses.

There is everything wrong with calling him a moron for asking a simple question. Can you please tone down the personal insults? Any reasonable poster would have quoted the relevant sentence instead the first thing you tell Newmarket is to crawl back to the harness hole. Now sharpen up or piss off.

Last warning Thomaas if you keep insulting me then you are on a holiday. I suggest you tone it down. Remember you have NOWHERE else to go! What a load of bollocks - 6mls equals 6 lengths. There is no way you can you can use that metric which is spurious to say the least.

Mark McNamara. After a decade in New Zealand, Canterbury racecaller Mark McNamara has decided to move back to his homeland of Australia in the new season. McNamara will move to Sydney to be closer to family and has secured a role with Sky as a presenter and racecaller. “I’ll be sad to go but I am also looking forward to the new challenge,” McNamara said. “I’m going home to be closer to family so it is a personal decision, but on a professional level I am thrilled to have a role with Sky and looking forward to seeing where that takes me.” With the move, McNamara will also resign from his duties as riding agent for jockeys Zinjete Moki and Samantha Wynne. McNamara’s last day of calling will be at Addington Raceway on August 22. View the full article

Southern Icon. Matamata trainer Alan Tait may give Southern Icon another crack at the Gr.2 Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa next month. Southern Icon finished eighth in the feature sprint in 2016 and returned 12 months later to run a creditable fourth behind Underthemoonlight. The seven-year-old son of Big Brown was off the scene when the race was run last year, but Tait is hoping a lead-up run at Te Rapa either later this month or early August will have him ready for another attack on the event. “We’ll just see how he goes next start,” Tait said. “He’s well and it’s just the wet tracks that have kept me from racing him since he won.” Southern Icon recorded the 10th win of his career when scoring over 1400m at Hastings on April 27 as a late entry for the race. “After Hastings, he was to run at Ellerslie over the long weekend, but it rained so I scratched him,” Tait said. “He’s not a heavy tracker.” Meanwhile Tait plans to return to Ruakaka this weekend with Time To Fly, who scored an upset win on the track last start. After a decade in New Zealand, Canterbury racecaller Mark McNamara has decided to move back to his homeland of Australia in the new season. McNamara will move to Sydney to be closer to family and has secured a role with Sky as a presenter and racecaller. “I’ll be sad to go but I am also looking forward to the new challenge,” McNamara said. “I’m going home to be closer to family so it is a personal decision, but on a professional level I am thrilled to have a role with Sky and looking forward to seeing where that takes me.” With the move, McNamara will also resign from his duties as riding agent for jockeys Zinjete Moki and Samantha Wynne. McNamara’s last day of calling will be at Addington Raceway on August 22. View the full article

FFS everyone knows that a downgrade in track during the course of a meeting allows trainers to scratch just as any intelligent person knows there is NO Heavy 12! Your 6mls of rain equals 0.5 lengths is the most ludicrous thing I've heard and from you that is saying something.

Stop the diversion. Your responses to Newmarket contained unnecessary snipes to a fair question.

Don't bite the hand that gives you a forum for free speech.

He asked a simple question and most of your posts ARE shyte.

Thomaas if you keep persisting with those sorts of comments you'll get a 7 riding day holiday!

Would it be fair to say more horses are injured on the flat than over jumps?

Rule Number(s): 638(3)(b)(ii)Following Race 7 (NZB Insurance Pearl Series Race 1350) Mr Balcombe lodged an information with the Judicial Committee alleging a breach of Rule 638 (3) (b) (ii) in that R Hannam used the whip excessively prior to the 100 metres on his mount Sophia Magia. Mr Hannam signed the information indicating that ...View the full article

Rule Number(s): 638(3)(b)(ii)Following Race 4 (NZB Insurance Pearl Series Race Maiden 1200) Mr Balcombe lodged an information with the Judicial Committee alleging a breach of Rule 638 (3) (b) (ii) in that J Baillie used the whip excessively on his mount YOULLBEFINE prior to the 100 metres. Mr Oatham used the rear-view video to show ...View the full article

Rule Number(s): 638(3)(b)(ii)Following Race 1 (Alsco Maiden Highweight 2050) Mr Balcombe lodged an information with the Judicial Committee alleging a breach of Rule 638 (3) (b) (ii) in that M Cropp used the whip excessively on his mount HANDSOME BLUE prior to the 100 metres. Mr Oatham ran the videos and counted Mr Cropp using the ...View the full article

Rule Number(s): 638(3)(b)(ii)Following Race 1 (Alsco Maiden Highweight 2050) Mr Balcombe lodged an information with the Judicial Committee alleging a breach of Rule 638 (3) (b) (ii) in that N Downs used his whip excessively prior to the 100m without the necessary respite. Mr Oatham showed the videos of the race from the top of the ...View the full article

Rule Number(s): 638(1)(d)Following the running of Race 6 (Spooner, Hood & Redpath Ltd Maiden 1200), an Information was lodged by Mr Balcombe alleging a breach of Rule 638 (1) (d) in that J Parkes permitted his mount RETZENA to shift outwards when not sufficiently clear of OUR WAY which was checked approaching the 100 metres. ...View the full article

There aren't many reasons and less than full disclosure seriously impedes the defence case. I doubt the very high threshold for withholding evidence will have been met.

Newmarket surely by now the Police have complied with the disclosure to the defence of ALL their evidence.

Rule Number(s): Rule 869(3)(b)Following the running of Race 7, the Hydroflow Handicap Trot 2200m, an Information was presented by Mr Mulcay in which he alleged that open Horsewoman Ms N Chilcott 'drove SAINT MICHEL carelessly causing interference to OUR ROSA (Mr S Cornwall) inside the 1000 metres'. Ms Chilcott was present at the ...View the full article

But nothing has changed.

Paul O’Sullivan (left) with Hong Kong Jockey Club chief executive Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges. Paul O’Sullivan is following his stable’s fortunes over the final few racedays in Hong Kong during his annual fortnight visit back home to Matamata. A win at Sha Tin on Sunday by Wayfoong Charmer (by Dream Ahead), has taken O’Sullivan’s tally for the season to 25 wins and almost HK$32 million (NZ$6.1 million) in prizemoney and there’s the prospect of more success by the conclusion of the final day of the Hong Kong season next Sunday. “It’s been another successful season and we’ll have runners again next weekend,” O’Sullivan said. “I started the season off with a lot of new ones, plus most of them were too high in the grades. It took a while to get going, but then we hit our straps. “The vast number of our winners have been in the last bit of the season.” O’Sullivan has also uncovered some very promising gallopers, Band Of Brothers, a four-year-old son of Sakhee’s Secret, and Chicken Dance, a three-year-old by Hinchinbrook. “They’re both emerging types who could go on to do very well next season,” he said. Band of Brothers has had five starts for three wins and a second, and signed off with a win over 1600m at Sha Tin on June 2, while Chicken Dance won the last of his three starts. A relative newcomer to O’Sullivan’s team is Pakistan Star (Shamardal), who was a top performer for Tony Cruz. He consecutively won the Gr.1 QE II Cup (2000m) and the Gr.1 Champions and Chaters Cup (2400m) in 2018 after being runner-up in the 2017 QE II Cup. He has had three starts for O’Sullivan for a third to the world’s top-rated miler and New Zealand-bred galloper Beauty Generation in the Gr.2 Chairman’s Trophy (1600m), a fifth in Gr.1 QE II Cup and fourth in the Gr.1 Champions and Chater Cup (2400m) on May 26. “He hasn’t been rounding it off like he used to,” O’Sullivan said. “I don’t think he gets the trip any more so I’ll bring him back to sprinting next season and see how he goes.” O’Sullivan was dealt a severe blow with the death of potential star Win Beauty Win, a son of Makfi who recorded four wins, two seconds and a fourth from seven starts and earned HK$4.7 million (NZ$900,000) in prizemoney. “He was potentially the best horse I’ve had, but he got killed in an accident,” O’Sullivan said. “He would have been favourite when they framed the early market for the (Hong Kong) Derby (2000m). I won the Derby (in 2007) with Vital King and he was potentially better.” Vital King began his career in New Zealand with Mark Todd and notched two wins and a third to Wahid in the 2005 Gr.1 Levin Classic (1600m) at Otaki before heading to O’Sullivan’s Hong Kong barn. Win Beauty Win also started his career in New Zealand, winning his only trial at Cambridge when prepared by O’Sullivan’s brother, Lance, and Andrew Scott, who have provided a constant supply of talented gallopers to O’Sullivan’s Hong Kong operation over the years. “A vast number of my good horses come from here,” O’Sullivan said. “It’s a huge asset to me.” O’Sullivan has been in Hong Kong for 15 years and admits it was hard work getting established in the initial years, though Vital King’s Derby win helped as did Fellowship, whose wins included the 2010 Gr.1 Stewards’Cup (1600m). “I was in the right place at the right time to get a license in Hong Kong and I’m very fortunate to be there,” he said. “I’m lucky that Aerovelocity came along when I needed a boost and it’s gone from there. It’s a high pressure place and over there racing is the national sport.” A champion sprinter, Aerovelocity became the first Hong Kong horse to win three Group Ones in three different international jurisdictions. In the 2014-15 season he won the Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) at Sha Tin (he also won it in 2016), the Krisflyer International Sprint (1200m) in Singapore and the Takamatsunomiya Kinen (1200m) in Japan. Top jockey Douglas Whyte’s decision to start training in the new season (early September) has been headline news in Hong Kong, as has the enforced retirement of champion trainer John Moore through reaching the compulsory retirement age of 70. “But John is very competitive and very keen to keep going and he’s fighting to have the rule changed,” O’Sullivan said. “Douglas Whyte is getting good support and Blake Shinn is coming up (from Australia) to ride and he should be a great asset.” O’Sullivan is one of the Hong Kong trainers making full use of the world-class training facility at Conghua in China as a satellite stable. “It’s been going for about 12 months and is a truly amazing set-up,” O’Sullivan said. “I’ve got 25 horses up there and I’ll be going up for a few days when I leave here later this month. The horses travel back and forth to race in Hong Kong and it works smoothly.” View the full article

It's obvious which owner runs the show over there!