Huey

What's the problem ? They have spent a million on the inside interior and looks great!

Both Wanganui and Waverley appear to not need their inside rail for racing.

Over promising will do that to you.

I see the full sister Milseain to Werther had a barrier trial at Gosford last few days so can't be far away from kicking off her 4yo campaign.

Still look like pretty good sized field barring the jumps fields , but probably more an indication of the state of play in racing than not being supported by NI stables I'd have thought.

If you get the chance to go on the NZTBA Stallion Parade , I think this year its on the 25/26 Aug. you really should go just to see Vadamos if you have not seen him before, he is an eyeful , trust me you won't be disappointed.

He is a sexy beast as well! This may be of interest :

I tend to agree , that season he had with Tavago,Tarzino etc was such a good season it looks hard to repeat so anything less provides a challenge for him. As you say surely Almanzor gets a lot of the mares Tavistock has been getting, they may also be a hard sell at the sales. I note he has served over 550 mares in the last 3 seasons so certainly the numbers are going to be there.

Interesting 45% of his winners for the season are female, given there is a feeling that he is a sire of Colts/Geldings. I saw a nice one finish off well at Sale yesterday "Get out of My Neigh" might be worth following over a bit more ground. You'd certainly think this season or next he'd be challenging Savabeel for the Premiership given his stud fee and status at CS.

Do you think he has gone a bit quiet this season? I thought they may have dropped his fee off the back of the season he has had.

Would the dates committee be that helpful? Maybe May,June,July when the place can be under water??

Have any of the local horses tested positive yet? Seems odd if they haven't I presume the contamination is somewhere where horses are kept?

She is no bad Thomass but can she ride like Sam Spratt or Sam Collett ???

I also watched it last night and although the presentation is pretty good and the you get a bit of industry info throughout the show its probably a complete waste of time, youre not going to make a profit in the winter taking $3 shots most races its as simple as that. The show may be better morphed into a Weigh IN style show or something, it desperately needs some character and humour in it, bringing Stu Laing in off the bench isn't funny especially when he is the best tipster of the lot!

I see that, it was definitely mentioned on Saturday I think it might have been Rodley that mentioned it or the new guy.

No different to Kylie Little positive getting mentione on TS by a presenter fanboy on Saturday , not a wiff of the other more high profile positives.

Not to mention Ken Duncans will be doing quite a bit of flat racing to get fit for the fences, sacrificial races if you like. I think something that is heavily underestimated these days in training horses is trainers and their buying bench at the sales, many have owners with deep pockets and buy plenty of quality horse flesh and the way the media is these days some of these trainers only need have one good horse going around and they are flying according to the public/trackside not to mention if that horse is by a locally based sire the hype and PR is doubled by the studs to get the stallion mares , press coverage etc. This in turn is a self fulfilling prophecy and the owners want their horses trained by those stables as they all think that trainer has a particularly affinity with that breed of horse and they hear them mentioned regularly in the racing news and on TS ,not to mention they'd probably be better and have a better more authentic experience being trained by some local trainer with a smaller team. Can you imagine Te Akau with a team of Zeds,Battle Paints .Sufficient,Remind,Howbadouwantit,Fully Fledged compared to Savabeels,Fastnet Rocks ,Redoubtes Choice,Pins etc their performance would be a helluva lot different for sure. But the purchasing of those horses is really now part of their training if you get me. Not disrespect to those above stallions either as they have all done very well from their given opportunities but plenty would turn their nose up at racing those compared to what the big stables have.

I thought it was interesting yesterday how one of the presenters on TS mentioned that Kylie Little runner Beltoy had had a positive to Meth I think it was at what appears to be fast becoming the home of P - the New Plymouth racecourse. Yet I haven't heard a whisper on trackside about the G1 positive , or am I wrong about that and TS presenters have freely spoken of that stables positive?

Fair point , I just don't know how some punters keep up with all the options, I'm a bit less is more myself.

Gem of a Jockey this woman, always polite,positive,professional and happy post race many could learn a lot from her conduct.

Just out of interest I haven't seen part payment options available on any of the Auction sites I frequent, is that a private deal between Vendor and Buyer if you don't mind me being nosey.

Seriously how many options do you need? Does the 105 options make you bet more than the 47? Cause my understanding is that this is why the new FO Betting platform will be a success more options. Seems like a helluva lot of options for a punter to go through.

Even if Riccarton were flush with funds it obviously makes sense for them to make a contribution to an AW track as that's where its being proposed to be located so their contribution should go without saying. It's the other smaller clubs contributions that I'd be concerned about the ones that are potentially going to be eaten alive by it, perhaps some contribution mechanism could be put in place based on the number of race dates held at each club.

Interesting comment about the clubs putting in their share as it looks like a lot of the clubs that would benefit the most have little or anything to put into these ventures I'd have thought.

Tried your local TAB for a copy?