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hadn't realised you had answered that already gamma before i posted. that captain hammerhead race was a really great contest last year. the draws for this years hunter cup will be a major factor i think. amazing grimson has been able to get swayzee to be going so good again. the recent nz horses he has got,rakero rocket and captains mistress,were both very good but have improved since grimson got them. Obviously he makes previous trainers look like amateurs the way he gets them to run.. my wife said she thought they said on box seat pinseeker may head over there for a bit. if they gave him to grimson that would be another horse that could beat leap to fame at menagle over a mile.

that should have read the figures in brackets were from the year before for Harness racing victoria.

i believe swayzee won half a million last year in bonuses for winning 4 of the 5 nsw country cups. He missed out on the full million when beaten by captain hammerhead in the final cup race. this year i believe captains knock has won the first 3 legs and earned a $250,000 bonus already and if he wins the last 2 legs can win a million.Hes won the wagga,newcastle and bathurst cups so far. the victorian bonus i believe is for any horse who can win 4 of the 6 victorian cups races and one of those wins must include the hunter cup. kingman won the first,then bulletproof boy won the second beating the likes of kingman and himynameisjeff then leap to fame has won the next 3 so he is in with a shot at the milllion dollar bonus. i don't know,but i would guess nsw managed to arrange an insurance company to sign some 3 year deal to pay the bonuses and would guess their premium wasn't too over the top.The insurance company obviously made a terrible decision to take it on and no doubt the success of swayzee and now captains knock will mean any insurance company would have to be crazy to do that again on the same terms.Still who really worries whether the insurance compnay m,ade a poor decision,apart from them.. as to victoria. well since they announced the bonus only last year,after swayzee won his half million,you would guess the premium they paid would have been much more. it seems the focus on both sides of the tasman is to look after the high end horses and the owners who are already mega rich are certainly reaping the rewards.Theres never been a better time to be an owner of an elite harness racehorse in australia. reading the victorian annual report the 2024/2025 season saw them only lose $11.6m after losing $25m the year before.Because the victorian governmant bailed them out so they could stay solvent to the tune of $13.4 m,hrv was able to return a profit of 1.4m but was told by govt they were expected to live withing their means from now on.the govt funding was the final part of a deal worked out in 2023.There was significant savings with staff cuts,stakes cuts(10m less than paid out the year before) ,bonuses cuts,no new projects,cuts to develpment fund,cuts to marketing, to achieve the improved,if you can call it that,result.Turnover was down 8% but so was the number of races so turnover about the same per race as the year before.wagering on all racing is down over there. other indicators were 3282 (3652)..the figure in brackets being the year ,drivers 475 (529),trainers 896 (939) stablehands 857 (922),sires 34 (52),foals 1306 (1396),namings 953 (1044),services 2521 (2855). the end of a distribution deal from turnover with tabcorp saw a $12m drop in income from that source. i don't know how the recent deal they did with the governmant changes things where the govt took there spare land in exzxchznge for wiping hrv debt to the government. you know,you read the above figures from the annual report and you would get the impression ,things have got so much worse over there. But then you read what the current administrators and some higher profile trainers are saying and they will tell you things are on the up.Gee,how bad must they have thought things had become,because all data in that reprort from august last year don't indicate things a going too good. My impression would be,they all must jhave thought harness racing was stuffed but because of the government riding in and taking their main asset and giving them a final part of their bail out,that things havre gone from disaster to ,hey just bad.Hence,it can be said things have got better.

oh well. my multi went down the tube when mithali only ran 5th instead of placing. my wingman won paying $1.85 and hes a loch won paying $41. i see just easy scr because of an incident with the float coming off but apparently horses ok. Whats the bet jr toilen runs a place as i normally just miss 1 when taking a multi.

leap to fame didn't have the foot down all the way last night. Dixon happy to treat the race more as a training run with $85,000 to add to his kitty. republican party went a nice race for 2nd but did get the perfect run and never looked like getting past leap to fame. Still 2nd to a champ like that pretty good. C dalgety, quite indecisive early and checked a couple of others and copped a suspension. Probably lucky the horse that got checked badly ,managed to stay pacing,obviously it was good on its feet. i still think the hunter cup will come down to draws. Swayzee still can win if he draws inside leap to fame.Kingman possibly as well. leap to fame chasing a $1m bonus. whoever the insurer is of that bonus can't be too clever,ever if leap to fame wasn't to win it. Still ,hopefully leap to fame can win it while it exists. mynameisjeff is very,very fast. don hugo set it up for a sprint home and was very good as well,but the other horse just too fast. mynameisjeff would have beaten any horse in australasia in a race that developed into a similar sprint up the straight the way he went.He needs a big track though.

i like that you've thought about think about it but yes i think your over thinking what you think i may be saying about think about it. the money part was reference that money unfortunately can't guarantee life or quality thereof,but that was not my main thought. i hope that clarifies things fior you but maybe it will confuse you more.

you've lost me there. I'm talking nz,not australia.

the life of a racehorse.He wins 12 million,the everest,suffers a massive bleed,survives that against the odds ,retires to be looked after by his everest winning jockey,then a year later,blow me down he dies a couple of weeks later after what had been described as successful surgery for a colic attack. theres a lit to tthink about there. why,life,the fleetingness of it,money.

australia really does sound a wonderful place the way you descibe it and its animals and other nature things . i once came across a wallaby in the middle of the night about 10 years ago,when just out of town. Spotted him just in time in my headlights to slam on the brakes,still hit him,not hard. He was knocked forward a wee bit. Got up and hopped off. Hopefully he was ok and learnt not to sit in middle of a country road.

why not?

of course. why else would i say it. but of course,you have to move with the times chief. i haven't mentioned ped use in nz harness for a couple of years now because i don't think its as relevant. I certainly think it still applies to some in australia. and of course,you and the media,rambled on for years how the all stars were so dominant because of blah,blah,blah. So what happend chief. What happened when the connections needed for that aspect dried up overseas. They came back to the field didn't they, as i predicted at the time.funny that. Why did hrnz never do anything about the person with the overseas connections and who was on the client list of the jailed vet in the usa.. Funny that. anyways,i'm not going to go over that again as we've argued about it enough in the past. besides.you do know,i only believe in conspiracy theories if they are true.Time has proven me correct hasn't it.

fair enough. I thought you were meaning on here mainly.I don't think it accurately described what i see on here. bit of a yarn is the only social media i do.i don't do facebook. and i always think bitter is a word used with negative connotations, to describe genuine feelings people may have about something they have experienced ,or someone,for which any reasonable person could often view having said negative feelings as fair enough. Not always,but often. But anyway, after rereading what i posted i think perhaps i over reacted to what i thought you were trying to say anyway. actually about half an hour ago i googled what best describes a person who makes 3 or more socail media posts a day.It gave 7 traits. Not 1 of them applied to me. not that i believe in putting labels on how people think. anyways,not to worry,i still made my point.

any news on the kangaroo that crashed into the cyclists in the tour down under even last week. Looked like the kangaroo came off the worst.I see the bloke that won sustained a broken wrist in the incident. Keep an eye out for kangaroos when driving gammalite.

it will be interesting to see how sam ottley gets bazzoka away from the stand. Ottley one of the best drivers in nz for getting horses to begin in standing starts. bazooka by bettors delight. I always think they tend to go away as well but still may be a shade slow. its interesting to watch ottley. She generally gives her horses a quick stand start practice in the preliminary. also if you watch her and b orange,they always try and have there horses in positions at the start where they are not lagging behind the others on ths same line. Theres nothing worse than having a horse start 3/4 length behind the others in the middle of a full line of horses. otlley and the likes of orange win so many races at the start through their skills at getting horses positioned to their best advantage behind the tape,as they line up. i'm not so sure about the late start. I'm getting rather bored waiting for the races to start as not much else to do today. looking at trackside i see its raining hard at the townsville dogs today.Thats queensland isn't it. Just looked it up, a 15 hour drive from brisbane.thats a long way. that would be like driving from dunedin to auckland. Without the water along the way.Australia a big country.

so this is social media site. The current topic reflects what you typically see on this forum and its got a lot of comment from regular contributors. and there you are generalising how you would sum up people who post on here,or say the other channel. so your either going to say,yes they are as described or no you weren't meaning the current ones posting.Of course if you weren't meaning the current ones posting then you undermine your own comments on what you describe as the typical poster. Also tell me,if many are anonymous like you say,how do you know so much about their personalities,motives and how they feel after posting and how they see the world. is the reality not,there will be people as you have described but your generlisation is just that. In other words your taling a smaller % of posters and placing greater emphasis that they are representative of all posters and people who comment on social media.Doesn't that reflect on how you see the world as well. so you post a put down generalisation of social media posters ,while knocking people who post put down generalisations on social media..Whats the point in that