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$1.20

Here is a point to ponder 3 or our best 3-year-olds in the last 2 years, Leica Lucy, Willydoit and Molly Bloom, all showed themselves to be well superior to the opposition, an ability to show good acceleration and easily put distance on rivals, much the same as Well Written. The spin machine on all 3 went into overdrive as it usually does with a horse that puts up good performances in NZ, the superlatives flowing All 3 were sold or part sold to Aus buyers with bottomless pockets. Between the 3 of them, they are yet to win a single race in Aus, Leica lucy being the best performed with some nice placings at G1 level Just putting things in perspective, based on recent experiences

The clearance rate wasn't on the press release that you posted. Not disputing it has been a good sale so far

Paid 1.00 for the win on the tote (only tote available) Someone was bemoaning that Well Written paid $1.20 lol

No, it was an article put out by NZB, with all the good news. It failed to mention what the clearance rate was and how that compared to previous years, as done with the good news. That is spin

Come on Chief, an article is spin when you only publish the good news. It does not contain any info about the % passed in and how that compares with previous years

Day 1 without the spin 290 lots 20 withdrawn 207 sold 63 Passed (23.3%) 72 NZ buyers (34.8% of the 207 sold) David Ellis 11 lots ($3.15 mil av $286,400) plus 1 for Fortuna ($60K) I think TA have about 30 syndicates, so still a few to buy today and Book 2

According to our expert on the Thoroughbred Facebook site, Birdcage Bill, it will be the Doncaster over 1600m. He can be a pain, but seems very knowledgeable. Well Written's 6th dam is Jocasta, a speedy Pakistan 11 filly. I doubt they would try her over more than 1600m

I thought it was lower than that 14.5% co-mingled 15.5% NZ only The only rort is that too many people went tote and that is how a totalisator works. $1.50 -55 FO was available for most of the day

It really is a matter of getting your races accepted as prestigious enough to be accepted by HKJC who run the World Pool. Probably the reason why they switched the Railway, being a G1 to KM day. Unsure whether the World pool applies to the entire meeting or just specific races. Someone else will know

The trouble is, they make a lot of noise, and they try 50 times harder than the average racing person that posts on social media, so they give the false impression of the industry. Look at Wightman, he is absolutely convinced that he speaks for most of the industry and that most of the industry is behind him. Trouble is he persists with this rhetoric ad nauseum and many just let him run freely at the mouth because he simply overpowers them.

Basically a fifth are going to NZ, is that typical. Many will be waiting for Book 2 to try and get a bargain

22% gone to NZ buyers so far

I read it in one of the press releases

Anyway, back on topic. It seems the attitude in the industry is, it is okay to sell off as much silverware as you want, then when we have crap fields here compared with Aus, it is okay to sit around and blame everybody but the people in the industry themselves. Sounds like a big gravy train to me And Entain who have come in and underwritten the industry for 5 years, who have funded so many initiatives are the bad guys

Just checking you were up to the mark CS

If the deal for 50% sale is indeed that Marsh trains her, then he will have to set up in Aus

FFS yes I do realise that!

Why not, the deal is she is trained by Stephen Marsh. I presume that means she stays and gets trained in NZ, unless he is going to set up a stable in Aus. The 500K bonus makes the Proisir Plate and Howden Mile both equivalent to million dollar races, which is the same as those early G1's in Aus

Hasn't raced or placed in a group race

I think it was a great race day all round, with good sized fields containing lots of form, that would have attracted a lot of betting. We never really know because figures are never published. The track was good, despite attempts to claim a leader bias, that is probably more a poor ride than bias. The track had 132 mm of rain over the last 7 days and was rated a S5, Ellerslie never gets to be better than a G4 these days. So despite the early criticism by many, it is providing a good racing surface even after substantial rain has fallen. Note that New Plymouth had H10 with only a third of the amount of rain. Comparing it to Aus racing. The Railway showed again that we are lucky to be at G2 level, with 2 2nd string sprinters dominating, although the run of Sweynesday was indeed very good. A shame another up and comer First Five did not contest the race The 2 year old KM, a win to what can only be rated as a 3rd tier Aussie horse, but only just beat a very much unheralded NZ horse with daylight back to third The 4 year old KM. 2 NZ horses reasonably comfortable over a 3rd tier Aus horse The 3 year old KM. No Aus horses, but I doubt there is a horse in Aus that could have come close to Well Written, and I presume the reason why no Aus 3 year olds made the trip. Further to the title of this thread unless I get castigated for going off topic lol, it may indeed attract Well Written to contest 1 or 2 of the HB G1's as apparently the condition of sale being that Marsh must continue to train the horse. So I presume the horse will be based in NZ then travel to Aus for any Autumn or Spring races

Just the usual

The unheralded NZ horse Magill that almost held on but still lengths ahead of the 3rd horse, pulled up in a distressed state and was transferred to a local vet

Probably something to do with the expected heavy track. H10 with a third as much rain in the last 7 days as Ellerslie, who are racing on S5. Got to be a message in there somewhere

9 steps forward, 10 steps back. Ohope Wins, while not in the Kiwi, sold to Yulong, will race here up until the Oaks and/or Derby. One potential quality 4 year old that won't race here again. Like trying to stop the tide coming in That is 4 of the best 3 year olds produced in NZ (Leica Lucy, Willydoit, Well Written and Ohope Wins that will never race in NZ as 4-year-olds and above