Mustang Kenny

we complained on mass last year and got exactly the same this year for our troubles

yes and all that following a six week gap with NO grass track racing in Canterbury! It's bullshit really

Kendra Bakker is apprenticed to one of the very best riders we have seen down South, so will be getting the best of mentoring. Our apprentices are also overseen by Jason Laking who was a rare talent in the saddle and does an awesome job with them.

and what about Lieca Lucy - huge run. Certainly franked the NZ Oaks form that Auckland are trying to steal!

This is wonderful and so generous of Colin. So awesome to see someone investing in the future of North Canterbury racing rather than trying to destroy it. Thankyou Colin

oh come on Mike, I think I saw 10 people watching Boris 🤪

Will have a dramatic impact on either Timaru or Oamaru fields this coming Sunday. Surely common sense would say postpone Oamaru until the following Thursday. No meeting in NZ that day and it would enable many horses to back up that will not otherwise back up 4 days later after very hard runs at Timaru. I have phoned that suggestion through to NZTR but got no joy

Yeah NAH, not for my babies

Saturdays Wellington meeting sectionals up on Monday, Sundays Matamata and Mastertons sectionals up. Meanwhile Riccartons Saturday sectionals still NOT up late Tues afternoon. Last week even Sunday's two meetings fields were out before Riccartons Saturday fields ... Not bloody good enough again Riccarton or NZTR. Happens week in and week out, we are not also rans!

I didn't mind it 🤪

what a surprise ...

The South Island Breeders Stakes, Riccarton, Group 3, 1600, 100K - great time honoured race and perfect chance for our future broodmares to get some black type. The Cuddle Stakes, Trentham, Group 3, 1600, 200K - great time honoured race and perfect chance for our future broodmares to get some black type. Both races will get good quality fields, probably with several taking on both races, unless some dickhead decides to run them on the same day ... Ahem NZTR, really?? I guess if we reduce the quality of both races it will give them enough reason to move them both to Ellerslie

now the first four button has gone altogether - I think it might be amateur hour

Biggest day of the year, thousands of new or occasional punters and the TAB fails and bets can't be placed. Bloody lucky I didn't have the second horse as I couldn't place my first four despite trying 4 times and two different computers. Unfeckingbelievable on Melbourne Cup day. On the other hand WHAT A RACE

and ... HELLO, down here, can you hear us? HELLO - we in the South Island do exist and we want to be part of NZ racing!!! Whats our travel subsidy grrrrr