Shad

like your thoughts on old oak Emma, and sods law, couple my old favourites, first appearance of the geddes horse on the circuit, always follow them when their on the coast, mogul always liked the coast and usually paid a good div, won his first two starts there, latterly trained by Mr house.always seems to have plenty of room in his stables, thought they may have brought some new stock on the trip, but I guess there hard to find, razors edge should go ok, very honest. Would love to be their but travel and work their to keep me honest, have been to the gallops up there a few times, but alas there gone these days,

Begs the question where will all the greyhounds go, when it finishes here, certainly plenty of them, may the animal rights community will take half a dozen each, I'm sure they'll be keen

On to the blenheim racing, certainly nice fields up there, and should be a great days racing,

Yes blue rock went another shocker, obviously don't enjoy the all weather of Nelson,hopefully they get good fields up the road,will keep an eye out for your preview, can beat the grass track racing

Hope you stuck with fourth amendment,after tipping it first day, nice divy

Great day out if if you can punt through 11 races and come out unscathed, re your lovely view, I'm glad your still sitting pretty up there, you cant win these days, build on the flat you risk flooding ect up top and ya risk landslides, and the insurance very expensive, 4k for the year where I am for modest place, good to see a couple of rough divs yesterday, looked like good racing from what I seen, hopefully not so hot tomorrow, and not to long between races, can make the day better, archie must have been poor again, will checkout replay.Good luck, backing up for the second day, don't know where I got the VIP, from was ment to be up, from my last post.

Nice view, and beautiful day, hope you made a dollar, few good tips amongst your picks, you'll be backing VIP for the second day

Didn't the have one called lethal that was a top priced yearling, don't think It won a race, but that's horses.

Inthezone was the second one and orse m jogar the other

Agree I don't think we'll see the fields of old any time soon, but Friday's do stack up well on what's been around, and if course the travel involved, archie a roughie for sure don't get to many big divs up there as a rule, remember some years back a local trotter, may face been trained by a fella called trotter, but could be well wrong, was the first race at 60 plus odds, can't quite recall its name have to be 10 or so years back, never won another race, also one paid 40s in a trot at blenheim, Kyle Cameron was driving it the name will come to me eventually, ended up racing in the north, only recalled as I tipped it to a friend and the race was to early to get to tab for me, as was working

Thought the fields very good number wise than other years, only one I see that I've took on the foast was archie, very disappointing last start and not a great draw on Friday, only a rough show

Have to be like the gynecologist and look into that one, nothing springs to mind, my old uncle would know one for sure, but he's dead at the moment

May have been Jack frost the jumper he was a grey

Had some in today miss onaki, leah jet the later was 4th or 5th.

Very good trio mention there, I remember I just about cried when I heard of powley fate on the trip home, very sad time.

Great days and the odd one lost their compass on the first bend from the 1400m start, track played well they ticking along, good to see the 24 start maiden win up there,did look at it, probably the fact it was trained by a harness man, but that's nothing new today, very enjoyable day looks like all got through unscathed, bar the heat and sun burn, certainly a climate of extremes up there.

Haven't heard anything on that score, and who is archie butterfly

There certainly been, plus many owner trainers as well, a lot that I've forgotten, have to drag out the old race books from many a year ago, bit late at this hour, duty calls tomorrow, 3,30 I'll be up preparing to head to work. 5km on the push bike to warm me up.

I was told harness turnover not as important these days, as clubs were bulk funded.

I do recall trials at reefton and greymouth jumpouts, back in the day,did struggle with rider numbers, some times track riders had to help out, wouldn't get away with it these days.

Our boyfriend won a nz cup years back, ridden by Mark Barnsley maybe

Yes I do believe the mighty powley is buried there,What a top mare she was, great decision to race harness meetings on the grass, what was the deciding factor in that decision.

Was a great interview with the both of them, and the plug Mr Patterson gave for the westcoast circuit will certainly get the others thinking about coming, that sort of advertising is gold to be fair, especially the struggles these small very successful meetings that are battling the higher authority to survive, grassroots racing at it's best, on to reefton, let's all hope they have a good day in the sun.

Tongue n cheek comment, not to be taken literally, in saying that kumara is in the middle of nowhere, blink and you'll miss the track driving through.

Reefton on Tuesday to come