Harewood

Looks to have a worthy replacment in George Elliot when the big Rac retires

Take your pick his establishment had many choices.

Unfortunately too much of his own product consumed

Nah Too busy selling railway sleepers

Are you referring to pacers and trotters or just trotters. The best driver of Trotters I beleive is Anthony Butt. Has outstanding record with some of NZs greatest trotters. Has them well balanced and lets them do their best themselves. Seldom beaten in a tight finnish. Also K ath Gath is very good on straight out trotters in Aus

There is a Mountain to climb first and that in my opinion will be too steep for SS

Dont forget Northam,Central Whealt Belt, Kilcoy , Kapunda, Redcliff, Wedderburn, Charlton or Boort not to menton Hamilton,Cobram, St Arnauld or Gounblower.

Not quite Only got the trifector LOL. And what a great race to watch it was with the 3 very good fillies fighting it out. And then she trifecterd the 2yr old fillies final as well. What great breeding stock she has at her disposal for future dominance of the fillies and mares races. And to top the night off won the Derby for 3yr olds with Act Now bolting in and a 2nd (what a let down) in the 2 yr old colts final. An amazing nights training feat by the Best trainer in Aus and maybe NZ at least of juveniles.

And yes I was. Not a big div but $3.40 was pretty good for what looked like a good thing.

Actuelly caught my eye when I watched the race and reading your post just watched the race again. Was a very good run considering drew the outside of the 2nd row. Had nowhere to go except to the rear and was still last at the 400. Came the widest and finnished off very solidly for 6th. Hit the line so well she was 4th not far past the post. Definatly a win comming very shortly for her in a similar race or just away from the top male trotters. Hopefully I will be on.

They are trained much harder in Aus, with heavy sand work and often run twice in a week and back up very quickly. You must get fitter the way they are raced and trained. As you know the races arent sit and sprint affairs like they are here in NZ, the parked position is a prime position and not a lot of horses will give that up. Unlike here when its called in the death and not many horses like it except those trained to be tough. Better than average NZ horses seem to thrive on the tough schedule in Aus. Its a wonder not more NZ trainers dont try and copy the Aus way of training in my humble opinnion. Would make racing more exciting than our norrmal follow the leader style where there are always plenty of "unlucky" runners. They dont die wondering in Aus

God HEIP the future then

3rd tonight at Redcliff $3 odd the place

Yes good luck to N Purdon and I wish him well. There are vacancies in Vic training now Emma Stewart has taken a step back along with several other trainers moving or doing the same. Im sure he will pick up ex nz horses and may even end up with a few of his dads clients well bred ones. I disagree thou that Luke John wasnt competative in NZ He only had 18 starts for 3 wins and 6 placings so had a 50% strike rate in the first three, Many of his later races have been against the top 3 yr olds ie Krug. It is no disgrace being placed to him. If he had raced thru the grades Im sure he would have won more and still been competative especially as he got older and matured. Tonight he is only racing in a $7000 race so is a big step down on his previous runs. He should win easily if he is going to become a very good horse in Aus as many ex pats do. Time will tell if he steps up or continues to race for minor stakes as he could have done in NZ. Will follow with interest.

Gentle George won four, won ech day of the cup meeting when it was four days.

Dont forget the mighty two day Kaikoura meetings with huge crowds

Yes agree without any trans tasman rivalry except the exported horses AND drivers is not a great field. They will probably still run 1.49 and McCarthys will probbly win maybe even trifecter

Unfortunately Expensive Ego will win the M Mile. Will we get a good price if your not betting.

On this occasion so the whisper goes they were even more devious and greedy. The money was put on Motor Mouth early to drop the price and seem to others that this was the one they were having a go with. The money was then cashed out and placed on the stablemate Johnny Nevits at the inflated price, hence it dropping in late. A very cunning plan to deceive the punter and if this is correct there is no place for Alford in harnes racing, EVER.

This so called lockdown with travel restrictions in Auckland is a joke. My family relatives have been up in Auck for a week and were due to travel to the coromandel for a holiday but couldnt so yesterday were allowed to get on a plane and return the South Island where they are now going on a tour of the West Coat instead. No testing or nothing so the virus could be going anywhere. What a great lockdown it is.

My last seven selections. R4 3 Kayla Mcquire R5 4 Liason R6 1 Pacing Hope R7 9 Warloch R8 5 Hezacrocwatcher R9 9 Delsun R10 2 Chalberg Thanks Karrots. Good luck if having a bet at The Punters Graveyard

Bit late putting this up and missed the last one by not seeing it was on so here goes. Will put the firstt 3 selecions up and then the rest in an hour as have to rush out. Hope thats ok Race 1 7 Demolition Man R2 6 Mailman R3 7 Roma Rosa

Gammalite, yes I saw that race last night with SG. Woneasily but the class was very weak compared to what he was racing in NZ. More like a country cup field. Will see how he goes when he lines up against your big guns that can run 1.49s like King of Swing and Cash and flow. I think he wil be found wanting thou they do grow an extra leg when they go to Aus. Talking of imports to Aus did you watch the totter Havehorsewilltravel race at Melton last night and the previous week for Team Gath. Only a 4 win horse when left NZ but I am predicting will be the next Super Trotter for the Gaths and Aus. Has gate speed and can sprint and stay. They certainly know which NZ trotters to buy and how to improve them.

Trust you so spot my spelling mistake

Thanks for your reply and yes i do agree with you on lots of your points. It will be good to have the horses spread around a bit more and not have so many from one stable in the same race however I still feel that the same owners will still win the majority of the big races, at least in the near future, untill other big cashed up players enter the market and start buying the better juveniles. Dont forget that MP is still going to be the buyer for his former owners and we all know he has a great eye for horeflesh.