Shad
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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.
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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.
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Grows a banging good mo, has he still got one
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Surprised the trotter kept the last race,thought it be out for sure,apparently not lapped on.
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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.
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Very true, but alot of people take it as gospel.
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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.
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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.
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They certainly will be, in many forms, they were always supporting and supplying many horse numbers for those meetings in the deep south.
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One must always look the part.
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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.
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I see the turnover over at kumara oncourse was 230k plus some, looked like they were jammed in like sardines, the Westport trots about 10k behind and heaps of space and room for all, and many extra, certainly the kumara facilities are rather cramped to say the least.
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If only it was that easy to find a fast one, like having a bet at the tab, you know the odds, now beat them, at least their still trying.
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Very true H&S has certainly ramped up these days, but cant recall any major incidents in those early years, that I can think of, I know they did race regardless of weather or track, that was basically always wet and spongy, the trouble is many are searching for the perfect track, and in my opinion make them just to good, hence the issues of light rain on a very good surface, and we all know the outcome of that.
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Cancellations of there meetings only started after the so called track upgrade, done more damage than good, in the early years the going never really changed, whether it was wet or dry for a month, track resembled a soft sponge, always safe and no cancellations that I can recall, the last time I attended was the first cancellation after one race, may have been the year they got the helicopter in, never worked, lost track of how many canned meetings since.As we have discussed before, many tracks have been in the same boat after these so called improvements.
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Very small community at kumara, but most of the rest of the coast support all meetings, kumara is a racing only course, locked up for the rest of the year and not used for anything else that I'm aware of, even when there was a couple of horses trained at kumara, as far as I know they had to travel to omoto to work their horses.
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Hope he had his skull cap on as part of the starting crew at the trots, compulsory.
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On positive note, nice win by mama sans, congratulations to the connections and first win by her trainer, followed this mare until she had a nasty fall at motukarara a year or so ago, may have been touch n go for a while, but great to see her back, and in winning form.
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This is a big bug bear for me, no bloody preliminaries, no one in the stipe police seem to give a rat's arse, and been happening for a very long time, all punter can see is the arse end of the horse, only prelim seen is the one to 1400m start st reefton, used to be standard many years ago, but so did a few other things.
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Very good summary of the debacle, horses were in the gates for some time, not ideal for those inexperienced runners, also shame for the club with the revenue lost from the late scratched horses, no fault of the club, all things aside, was a great days outing, track was great, weather held up good, considering the forecasted monsoon weather, racing very competitive, good crowd, hopefully the turnover was tidy, all horses and riders pulled up well, what more could one ask for, well done to the club, let's hope their back next year.
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Very interesting, rules are rules and should be a level, playing field for all.
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Good luck to reefton club today, fields look good, always a great day out to those that attend.
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Looked like a good day out at greymouth, hope the crowd was a good one,and the turnover was up.
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Always wanted to be a doctor, but I never had any patience,
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10 year old won at the coast trots first up.
