Murray Fish

on the front foot today!!! ps. I share a similar worldview...

3 with kids who are riding nowadays

@Chief Stipe correct please if needed?

well worth a watch https://fb.watch/Ae3rgS2pTm/

who that be?

43 Great to see, rather badly injured not that long ago. Calder counting himself lucky after fall By NZ Racing Desk - June 14, 2022 Share Jockey Andrew Calder. Photo: Trish Dunell A battered and bruised Andrew Calder remains in good spirits after suffering multiple injuries, but with no long-lasting damage, in a nasty fall at Ruakaka on Saturday. The Pukekohe jockey was airlifted to Whangarei Hospital after he had parted company with his mount Lady Deb in Saturday’s two-year-old contest. “I’ve got some stable fractures in my vertebrae, three of them and quite high up, and then I’ve got four broken ribs,” Calder said from Whangarei Hospital. “It definitely could have been an awful lot worse. When I was knocked out, the horse was still on me and it could have been pretty bad alright.” Fortunately, Calder is unlikely to require any surgery for his injuries with time to be the great healer. “I’ve had CT scans and it all looks pretty good so they haven’t needed to operate,” he said. “The spinal cord is intact, one of the fractures moved right around it but left it intact so in that sense I’ve been pretty lucky. “I was able to get up and have a shower today and had a little walk around. I’ve got a halo-style brace on.” Calder has a clear recollection of circumstances that led to Saturday’s incident, which occurred after about 300 metres. “I woke up as if I was in a dream when I was first woken by the medics. I do remember the fall and going into it and all that led up to it,” he said. “My horse was a little bit raw and they were all green horses looking for runs and she didn’t quite deal with it all. “She crossed the heels of the one in front and when she fell she came down on top of me.” The Group One-winning jockey has yet to be given a definite timeline regarding his rehabilitation and allowing his future move to Australia. “They want me to wear the halo brace for at least six weeks so at this stage I’ll just take it as it comes,” he said. “We will be moving over to Sydney at some point. My wife and I have sold our house and will be going over for a lifestyle change. “We haven’t really decided where in Sydney we’ll go, but I am hoping to ride around the provincials over there.” Calder is married to former jockey Natasha, daughter of Pukekohe trainer Richard Collett and wife Judy. Their son Jason, whose partner Clare Cunningham trains at Warwick Farm, is firmly established among the elite level of jockeys in Sydney where his sister Alysha also successfully plies her trade. Calder has ridden 23 winners this season, including the Gr.2 Japan Trophy (1600m) aboard Gino Severini at Tauranga. The 40-year-old has a domestic career tally of 862 winners, 46 at Group or Listed level, and has also successfully ridden in Macau and Singapore.

I say those 300K fee$ will be missed...

I sure a large amount of punters wouldn't even notice!

back in 74, I worked on the gumboot chain making those! great bunch of workers! strong Unionism!

pardon!

I have always been a fan, though he does have a big advantage over most in that he doesn't have to waste like so many.

I was privileged to see the 1980 race on course

cant recall the last time I had any bet this far out...

we were going to go, cancelled yesterday!

lol, depends weather you were a woman or a man.. lots of myths about him! he was rather big on eugenics, tried to make it a crime for unmarried woman who had kids...

a man with some rather strange ideas... https://www.dianebpaul.com/uploads/2/3/2/9/23295024/truby_king.pdf

I was asking you!

that happen once at Awapuni, late 80' early 90's

what you be laying it at?

Used also in 1000's of state house kitchens! sometimes referred to as "diarrhoea yellow"

I ponder how 'wasting' plays out in any race, especially at this time of the year with at times brutally cold weather. How many workers who have to work out side in the winter dress as if it is summer?

never a fan of him! got to see some of his work close up! Bud Flavell was 'best' by far...

slowly making some progress, he was seen alive recently.. and the ex editor of Stratford Press is trying to get a contact detail

I hope it does go to your head! or that you get to excited and be drinking to much of that propaganda loaded kool-aid! To much of that might give you a dose of the shits!