Murray Fish

Not the most elegant in other areas of his life either... conservative, ignorant, reactionary are words that come to mind!

So! right wing people thing that that sort of thing is ok?

oh, does he think? thought that the likes of him are set on 'automatist Pollyanna' mode, any truth that he is a full brother to TAB

my first introduction was via 3ZB, Mum's first cuzzy was Reon M, Every race that he commentator-ed was listened to.. then aged 16, started going to Addington and Riccarton, never a meeting missed, ran with the likes of 'Pitty' way before he started training... family interest at the coalface, actually goes way back further, G G Dad, trained the winner of Kumara Nuggets back in 1926? My late Dad had a horse back ground, in the '30's he had a team of 30 Clydesdales.... memories, doesn't racing make them!

please educate me!!! lets start with something that I$ important, the role of the mug punter. You are happy with the betting take out$ re most of the products on offer?

HOW can you really tell how well the Industry is travelling when there is so much use of 'smoke and mirrors', where are the fact$ that things are improving? metric of needed

Speaking as a photographer, he was friendly and easy to deal with. A life well lived!

Propaganda rules! more so that ever! For ownership, I recon, that approach is rather 'doubled edge sword!' The propagator pleases a select few, others, either gets brutalized by 'the reality of racing', get lucky, mostly though, get burnt and leave... rather hard to due diligence in this industry! Of course, 'the punter' can go f themselves with large rip of take out!

lol, I think I might be of help! "The Sandman is a mythical character in European folklore who puts people to sleep and encourages and inspires beautiful dreams by sprinkling magical sand onto their eyes." and just like that we have a world class race track... sprinkle sprinkle

As a photographer, he was always easy to deal with. A life well lived!

A very senor old school trainer, once told me that he thought that each horse finds a weight where it doesn't stretch out to it best advantage. He was a master at placing them.

how many 'colours' can you name?

yes, the one and only.. I once got a ride to and back from the races one day, he spoke about 5 words on each journey...

How many riders can you name?

that be me on DCB, a old union saying... re your 25%.. is that factoring in all the Tax Rebates that certain owners enjoy? ps, as always, 'caveat emptor'.

I have a real photo of that sort of thing... delivered by one of the strongest whip riders ever... MC

Well spotted, one of Mr Eales fav horse's at that time.. CH had muscles other horses didn't have

One correct there...

shouldn't 'local knowledge' add some value? 🤑

Go any stories about Mr Eales, I have Here is one of the few shots of him with Hat Off.. A quiz: where? when? what win? who be next to him?

re track conditions, I do recall, pre watering (<-overwatering) the tracks days, about a hour before the first, a couple of stipes would wonder out onto the track by the winning post and kick the ground a few times.... Talking trainers and getting true track conditions, Mr Eales was rather big on knowing that sort of thing, some amusing stories could be told...

speaking as a punter who prides themselves at being a winning punter! that track was a instance NO BET MEETNG, sadly quite a few Group race meetings seem to fall into that cat agree...

did you feel your nose grow a little when you typed that?

toughen up man! rule 101 of Net Warlording... when the going gets tough! the tough get going....

Interesting to see you say 'don't play the man', it was my perception of you doing so that that encouraged me to post... I will now throw in a few comments.. Re reading the likes of the M report, You can champion it, cool, but surely you can not support the way M and his acolytes played procedural games around the whole process, that approach disgusted many 'in the south'. So much so that it encouraged disinvestment, which continues... More, re reading, You will be happy to know that in a pervious life I gained sponsorship from (then Racing Con) to 'study' Race Horse Ownership in NZ, read Every Royal Commission etc. The conclusion being Sun Set Industry, 'whistles and bells and propaganda' don't change that sort of thing! heard of Dead Cat Bounce. Ps. Anyway, Good to hear that you stand up to bullies, you recon there are a few in the Industry? Shell we share stories about Labour Court cases involving key players....