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You wouldn't have been wanting to watch the race, which I didn't. The horse drew the widest and therefore allowed to race at the back of the field, a slow mid race tempo, then came 8 wide on the turn, went past the rest of the field as though they were standing still, on a 320m straight and was stopped riding 30m short of the post. And it was a good field too, Agera for instance has won 8 races from 26 starts for 350K. Hard to fathom racing sometimes, and it was after a long road trip to Trentham, 8 days previously. This was the Facebook comment pre-race 4:11 p.m. R7 6 What You Wish For (5 g Embellish – Grand Wish) – Wiremu Pinn; he came to the end of his run out of midfield in the Group 3 Manawatu Cup over 2300m on 20 December at Trentham, and contests the $100,000 Harcourts Taupo Cup (Open Handicap, 2000m). Gee is a previous course winner and stakes’ winner over 2000 metres, which will stand him in good stead but the challenge for him to notch up another win is his shocker of a draw (15). Fixed odds: $7.50 & $2.70.

Exactly, Rich Hill Mile Smart Love 2.60 She's a Dealer 5.00 Both promising horses with 7 starts for 4 wins each, but a number of hardened campaigners in that field in top company for the first time. Poor value, you would want at least 5 and 8 before any possibility of a futures bet

Interestingly only 1 horse in at Taupo today, whereas they usually take a full complement to Taupo, so What You Wish For in the Taupo Cup probably worth a bet at reasonable money Let's hope no more tomos appear in the track

Bit of a reality check today at Ellerslie for NZ racing A journeyman, open class Aussie stayer deals to our best G1 horses Another journeyman horse given no chance runs second in one of our championship finals at $18.60, beaten by yet another journeyman horse 5 horses in a $90K race A lot of other very ordinary horses running around. Other than Well Written the quality of our 3 year olds is poor The rain, obviously that can't be controlled, but it still looked like a place you would not want to be on Boxing Day I could only see one highlight on the day, and that was Well Written and as Yulong own half, after the NZB Kiwi, all future racing will be in Aus

Let's hope the forecast is out by about 90 minutes lol

As I mentioned before, the anticipation of Ellerslie on Boxing Day used to be enormous, so not just the smaller clubs What created the anticipation at Ellerslie on Boxing Day? 4 things, in my opinion anyway 1. The overall high quality fields 2. The Derby and Queen Elizabeth which was always a superb field and the lead up race for those serious about the Auckland Cup on NYD. 3. The picnics and boot parties on the infield,. along with all the other activities that led to a real carnival atmosphere. They used to get 10,000 people 4. The huge coverage in papers like the Auckland Star and Friday Flash

It is one of those tricky forecasts. The rain arrives a couple of hours early, it is wet all day The weather arrives a few hours late, they just get the program finished before the rain

It's a forecast for 48 hours' time. Keep an eye on it, the rain may not arrive till the end of the day Some of those fields a bit skinny though

Remember also, that even though people are saying Well Written is a home run, and we think she is very good and probably is. There are a lot of 3-year-olds in Aus, still to show their hand. Evaporate and Perfumist were late additions and ran well. Ironically the first nominated , Domain Ace ran last

At Fantasyland

Just testing, always good to know that they keep on reading BOAY

That too

Make that 12 out of 32

Here is a question or two for the experts then Would horses like Wahid, Jimmy Choux and Silent Achiever, who had shown good form in the months leading up to the Derby in 1600m races, and who were then aimed at the Derby with runs in typical lead up races like the Waikato and Avondale Guines, would they have gone on to run in the Derby or NZB Kiwi if it had of existed on the same day as the Derby. Would Excellent have run in the Derby or Kiwi under the same scenario. I see, he who never had an original thought, getting ideas for threads from this site. I note Chief Stipe, that there is hope for you yet lol, with the thread on this site getting more views and a lot more replies. Admittedly 12 out of 18 have been mine

It was moved to be 3 weeks earlier with some weird logic that fillies could then run in the Oaks and the Derby