Shad

Interesting winner of the cup race, did have the perfect trip behind its stablemate, thought may have been a tad out of its class, but there you go.

And also plenty of not so good ones that have been lost along the way.

Floating around I see what he done there.

Can remember some years ago a couple of trainers said the track was never the same after the changes made, and it was effectively a front runners course, shame really, when will they learn to leave well alone.Nice turnover, president pat did slip under my guard after following it over the coast circuit, never mind 12s I thought a little short, but was a average field.

Never used to be a front runners course, only changed after they fiddled with it, before hand winners came from anywhere

Top effort by horses and riders to avoid an accident, horses generally will do anything to avoid running over the top of someone, that person was a real wit, a f... wit, only takes one clown to ruin it for all, what next barriers like they have at the car racing, wouldn't surprise me, who is for watching races from behind a cage.

None of this will apease the general public or the animal right protesters, better off with no whips across the board, even that wont be enough for protesters, as they want the whole shebang closed down.

How did their betting end up overall, did they bet in all races or just a few.

You never know, keep your phone on the hook, I'm sure you could do as good with a few of those royalty bred steeds, mind you we don't hear to much of those expensive ones that don't make the grade

Plenty of hard luck stories in racing, and that one would be up there, grab that catalog and don't miss the next one

Biff in abit of breaking in, and a prep for a 10k maiden, let's hope it goes on with it, certainly won well, and we most thank the post creator for breaking the spell.

And old shad even gave it a mention, all you people must have got on, was quite discussed with the dividend, 2 minutes before the race was paying 12s, nice win, she wouldn't have been a cheap purchase.

Maybe victorem can bring a change of luck tomorrow

I believe draws are crucial in all racing, weather it be a sprint or a staying race, rather be tucked away on the fence than 2 or 3 wide the trip, anyday, I do find it surprising when you hear the odd comment, that the wide draw won't worry them.

We had a top jock on one day, drew wide admittedly, 60kg never went forward or back, sat 3 wide for most of the race, over 2200m, decided to go forward at the 900m mark, well you know where we finished, told us horse never handled track conditions, backed up a week later same track and conditions, and won.

Think he trained Kid Columbus who went on to win a grand national hurdles, can remember if he trained it then or not, remember it winning a flat race one day, may have been Oamaru, paid over 100$, think he had an apprentice called Jo Chong, or maybe she just rode for him, the kid went to Australia and never raced due to injury.

Grows a banging good mo, has he still got one

Surprised the trotter kept the last race,thought it be out for sure,apparently not lapped on.

Hopefully it works out, but everything is a year by year proposition at the moment, and the virus is going to be around for quite sometime yet, I see they are letting in a 1000 school kids from overseas, if it was me I'd be shutting the border to all, but apparently they cant do that by law, mind you they changed the firearms laws very quickly.

Very true, but alot of people take it as gospel.

Is it right that the paper should be surmising what the probable cause is before all the facts and tests have been completed, one should keep an open mind on this issue, all we can hope for is a level playing field for all, no matter who the stable belongs to.

Certainly was a great story, gives hope to all battling to get a older horse to the races., good draw today may help her chances, anyone like anything up there, thought sods law may be a roughie and fynn frost.

They certainly will be, in many forms, they were always supporting and supplying many horse numbers for those meetings in the deep south.

One must always look the part.

True, the kumara meeting is just a big social occasion for most, but at the end of the day no matter how we look at it, it's a great advertisement for coast racing, track seemed to suit all, and everyone won got around in one piece, be interesting to see if hokitika get a racing date next year, any one think they were to hasty in handing their track to local council, or was it just a matter of time before it was seized by the national body.