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Agree divs very hard to find, wingman terrible short, but won well, thought country gold be worth a wee look, good draw no world beater but honest, did take hes a loch on the coast circuit, was very honest races, 1st day at blenheim was terrible, but big run 2nd day, will watch an see how adelphi storm goes at methven, change of trainer, formerly trained on the coast

Bit of hurdle practice maybe

Nothing simple these days, poor top weight lump 60kg, most of the rest 53kg, even Trav who had won an Auckland cup, interesting fact, I'm sure he won a race at greymouth couple years back.

I knew some mentioned it in the built up, can't knock him on that, I've always maintained it's a glorified hack race, no disrespect to connections, good on them, but our cups races have certainly changed over the years.

Chill bill,, what will be will be, nothing we can do about it, wether we keep an eye or even two on the weather, and don't trust those forecasts, nothing like a good ole wet track to throw a few roughies, just the way I like it

Who holds the track records for the wingatui course these day, remember the good ole days, when clubs always published them in race books, know one seems to care these days.

Heck, looks like ya needed a road block outside the gates, with a de tour via the car park, certainly looks grim,thought a colleagues charge would finally break maidens, next time maybe, that over due, she'll be mildew.

Interesting one, for me holiday makers, i wouldn't imagine spending up to much on betting, then I guess if theirs enough of them may make a difference.

Well done reefton, good turnover for very small fields and a week day,any idea of off course turnover, may have been a 5$ entry, time to spread those stakes around a bit more, I'm sure some smaller clubs with better turnover be grateful.

You would haven ridden quite a few winners in your time Bill, from memory you did a few stints in the lucky country as well.

Hopefully the forecast improves, they've got quite a few wrong lately, mate over the coast said they were on a rain watch, hardly got a drop.

Noticed oncourse the other day the tote staff pushing fixed odds, telling me that they were better than tote odds at the time I was putting my bet on, others just done it without telling you, are they pushing the fixed odds more for some reason, last greymouth meeting was pleased to come out on right side for a change, my bet captain upham, was around 35s fixed an tote about 30sec before start time, took tote odds and ended 67s, when fixed closed at 40s, quite a few times I've been caught on the wrong side, don't understand how the comparisons are so different at times

How very true, certainly been in the game for many a year, and supplied a lot of horses up and down the island for a long time, I remember few years back racing the grand mare kiwi idea at riverton, they've had a lot of very good horses over the years, diablo girl, tidy sprinter, a couple from my era I used to follow sharemarket and share offer, definitely not there best, but many I would have forgotten.

Has a few young ones in at reefton tomorrow, kumara noms out today, guess with three meets in a week, one club will miss out, light numbers for reefton, a struggle to find a roughie.

Heck that's a big difference, would've loved that 235, cheers for your info on the odds an betting, much appreciated.