Shad

Yeah when he was asked about a all weather track, his reply was, dont they have one of those at addington.

1200 someone will have a blast.

Talking about the wind, spent 3 hours on the river this morning, chasing the elusive whitebait, bitter wind off the snowy hills, couldn't feel my hands, colder than a frog's tit, I swear spring weather is much more cold than winter itself, glad my small scale lambing was over a month ago.

Watched this last night, very sad and just highlights the struggle that some of these young racing folk face, lets hope many also watch this, and reach out to those around them for help, I also didn't personally know Cody, but knew the name in the jockey ranks.

Can't beat the grass

Oh thought he must of been injured, when they said breaking news.

Be interesting to see how many owners and trainers will support the all weather tracks.

Heard someone broke into our local dog pound and released all the dogs, police are following a number of leads.

Break away may do him some good, come back fresh.

Got one maybe going to semi retirement, till find out if any jumps in the south

Any word on jumping races for the south island next season

Great to be back on the grass, addington does get boring week in and out.

Bought a budgie once, it was going cheap

Not at all, pay your money and makes your choice, you can send them to the best sires in the world,at the end of the day doesn't guarantee you winner, in my opinion.

I was meaning you have just same chances of winning a race whether you buy cheap horses or expensive ones, no guarantees either way,many rags to riches story in the racing game.

Cant be to harsh on him, keeps the numbers up week in and out, good on him for having a go, with a few battlers that could be in a much worse place than at to the races, plenty of characters in the racing game, and he's just another them.

Participants have a choice whether they buy in or not, so do your research and make your decision, no one twisting your arm, did see an add where they purchased one out of Australia, was a 300k purchase as a yearling, had 4 starts, and I think they bought it for 27k to syndicate.

No givens in this game, level playing field whether you spend 3k or 300k pay your money and take your chances, can't buy a winner that's for sure

Given the plight of racing, may be a better option to make them into a equestrian horse, especially before they make the races, be more financially beneficial for sure

Locked, more like clamped some of them.

Nice one Thomas's,good to see you on the comeback

Must warn anything over 2 pounds must be hand lowered, for fear of cracking the porcelain.

Think I'd be frowning as a trainer to if caught 3 and 4 wide, not sure what the horse drew, but sometimes it is the draw and no matter who the rider is, guess the decision to settle and sit or go forward and use the petrol is the key, guess it helped only with a feather weight, one I have a share in got caught 3 wide the trip at invercargill one day, with 59kg from a handy draw, I was muttering a few expletives at the tab TV, but he managed to get up by the skin of his teeth, you don't see many than can do it, over any distance, was put of madam sequoia with a draw of 16, left me abit annoyed, but that's just racing isn't it.

Haha remember that, did quote it on the other channel, along with them to take the money and run on this issue.

Wasn't to far away, I thought a good run in a very tidy field to be fair, I took wild Jack in the cup, bit gutted he didn't quite get there, the 126 an 26s fixed price was very appealing, just thought a good draw and good rider was a outside chance, fact he had to get off the rail may have held him up a tad and cost him the win,wasn't much in it still remember his great run when beaten in the timaru cup I think by the I'll fated boots n all.