Rusty

Aussie betting corporates, Ladbrokes and Neds, both had formline comments, consisting of 2 or 3 sentences for each and every runner today at Addington harness. P.S in a few months, can someone please offer some advice regarding VPNs? (Asking for a friend!)

I was disappointed with the run last time at Kilmore (4th), but tonights run will have connections scratching their heads. Very average performance, despite being held up briefly on the turn. Some horses thrive with a move to Aussie, and other horses just seem to go backwards. A trainer once told me the water in some places over there is enough to put a horse off their game. I laughed at first. Then I drank it. Jesus. After that, I thought yeah, maybe a valid point.

Dougie, have you lined up any horses for us to follow this week? I have a few bills I need to pay and your selections usually give a pretty good account of themselves, and at value too.

Whenever people go on about horse racing being cruel, I bring up duck shooting, duck hunting season etc. I agree with you Happy, jumps racing should go. Wouldn't mind if whips went too.

And Rusty is my name. Hardly anonymous Gregory.

Fark off dickhead.

Peter V'landys. Now there is a man that isn't just a nice bloke, but one of the world's best sporting administrators going around. Respected by many, feared by some, he answers most, if not all questions directly, honestly and sometimes bluntly, but more importantly he gets sh!t done and the results speak for themselves. Something other chairmen/CEO's within the NZ racing industry could try and emulate perhaps.

You are easily amused Greg if you find that funny. Noone on here cares about my CEO experience/achievements, maybe no one except for you, for some unknown bloody reason. But why stop at that? You wanna see the size of my bank account or the size of anything else of mine, so you can compare me to anybody else? I have never understood the likes of you, and quite frankly won't be wasting any of my time too either, as to why you would want to know about one's business experience, subsequent to a comment made about someone else's performance. Tell us all this... If someone has not played rugby at the highest level on the world stage, can they not offer an opinion on the All Blacks? Actually don't bother telling us. No one cares mate.

Chief, you and I are in the same boat. His "answer", if you could call it that, as it was more of a response than an answer, was two sentences long, and he duck-shoved it. He displayed the same trait when I questioned him at Addington's AGM a few years back on another matter. I am sure he is a nice bloke. Just not CEO material in my book.

My question? Or his answer?

The question of disclosure of turnover figures was asked to RITA's Dean McKenzie. His response is in red font below:

Exactly this. Many, many people within the industry have been saying exactly this. And the hard working people at the grassroots of the game deserve it.

Happy, and everyone else on here for that matter... where do you see this cost cutting ending?

Actually, I hope the whole thing goes belly up, a week out prior to Cup week. Just to rub it all in. It's just getting ridiculous now... throw in the towel. It's all over. Unlikely, but maybe the game could start up again in 5-10 years. With an industry authority that can actually manage racing properly, led by people that have skin in the game and have a few clues.

WTF indeed. Just close the whole bloody thing down, and be done with it. Seriously. Turn off the life support, shut the whole industry down. Forget it.

Starship, a handy enough horse having his first race day start, on Cup Day '86.

'98 Cup R.I.P - D. Campbell, gone too soon.

'87 and one of the best NZ Cups...

Exactly. Dead right. Didn't clutter up the field back then... just to make up the numbers. Was bloody hard to get a start in the Cup. Real hard. You hard to worthy. Cup class. "Imola" hahahaha the thing is still running. Was lucky to win 5 races that horse.

'83 Cup

The '82 Cup And the bad old days of racing (note the important notice in photo), when divi's were not rounded up to one full dollar. Terrible, terrible times, and a sad, sorry state of affairs racing was in back then.

'81 NZ Cup. Couple of goodies in here...

Actually come to think of it, it's a wonder the silks weren't in the rainbow colours. Anyway, jolly good on them I say.

The names of some horses... way back then aye, who woulda thought?! Ahead of their time. Well before the BGLQT and any other letter you want to add these days.

Haha yes, dead right! He knew of Sundon too! Oh and Ricky May.