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You're just envious Shad, that 1.9 billion people wouldn't watch your wedding

2 billion global audience I'd go along if there was hot dogs and chips

Are you at Pimlico with a camera?. I recall your old buddy Molloy was there last year.....foot soldiering

Any thoughts, missed watching any races today I notice from 3 weeks ago Blind Squirrel Posted April 29 Te Rapa Platinum Rapper - Race 3. Got well back and made up many lengths in the last 200m. Finished off well first up at Rotorua so I think can win a race at short notice

Well it sounded good for a minute or 2

Wow that is quite a giant leap, any detail on where they will be, and how does it affect the drainage work at Ellerslie.

James McDonald has six chances to restart career on a high 16 May, 2018 5:00am By: Michael Guerin Champion Kiwi jockey James McDonald makes his much-anticipated comeback to racing today and punters are backing him to make a winning return early in the day. The Australian TAB has a special 'Mac's back' market and the star jockey is rated a $2.50 chance to ride two or more winners at Warwick Farm in Sydney. "That's not bad considering he's got rides in six races," Glenn Munsie from the Australian TAB told the Daily Telegraph. McDonald's a $10 chance to ride three or more winners and if he's to make it a very good return and ride four or more winners, that will pay $51. McDonald, who served an 18-month suspension for illegally placing $1000 on a horse he was riding in a race, is primed to start off on a winning note in the first event, with the Chris Waller-trained Cormac a $1.75 fixed odds chance with the TAB. All five of his other rides are set to start in single figure odds, with Press Box in the second race being his next best chance at $2.60 fixed. Tinkermosa is at $6, last start winner Stryke Rock is at $10, Monasterio is a $9.50 hope and Kitteau is battling it out for favouritism in the last as a $6.50 chance. "Don't be surprised if his runners start even shorter," Munsie said. "It's important for him to start off well. He wants to get his name back out there as quickly as he can. "The rank and file punters will want to be on him. They know he'll be desperate to ride winners. It's no good coming back and punching out 50/1 horses. He needs to ride winners straight away. "It's a tip in itself, some of the horses he's riding. He's not coming back to ride average horses. He's had a number of weeks to make sure he kicks off with a bang." The 26-year-old, who has already won the Sydney jockeys' premiership twice in 2013-14 and 2015-16, has teamed up with Sydney's most powerful trainer Waller to ride four of his horses. He also rides John Sargent's Tinkermosa, who is having her lead-up run to the Queensland Oaks, and Sargent is keen for McDonald to get a win on her so he follows her up north. "With Hughie not here and racing in Japan, Chris Waller has used him as his go-to man straight off, so the Kiwis are sticking together," Munsie said. "He's got rides on horses that are going to be very hard to beat. "Most trainers would have the attitude that he's young and deserves a second chance." McDonald's comeback will be welcomed on both sides of the Tasman, not only by punters but also within the industry, as the young jockey was immensely popular before his shock suspension. While he took unsuccessful legal action to appeal the suspension, he has never publicly complained about the sentence and has stated he would rather look forward now he is back in the the saddle than concentrate on the past. "While it was unfortunate circumstances, I have learned my lesson and the time away has been good for me mentally and physically, with my weight having really stabilised," says McDonald. "So I am looking forward, rather than worrying about the past."

An old hobby horse of mine I still believe it is the dysfunctional model under which racing is operated, that prevents many skilled leaders in the industry from making headway. Sure there have been some hapless cases, Andrew Brown and his 5 year plan Racing Ahead was fantasy stuff. But there also have been many who have achieved much in the business world, who also had a passion for the thoroughbred. Hopefully apart from costs, which seems to be at the top of everyone's hit list, Messara will put forward a new model. And another hobby horse of mine. Peters(or someone) alludes to a time when it was just Racing and Golden Kiwi. Well as the other avenues for wagering and entertainment came along, Racing did not compete, because it was not set up to compete. Lots of clubs, many smaller, bound loosely by a body that does not even have a marketing budget. I've likened this in the past to each Lotto outlet doing it's own marketing, with it's own format and budget. Of course it doesn't and we have seem some pretty major feelgood marketing over the years, that now sees what is just another form of gambling with the associated negatives, accepted into every living room in the country.

Fury's Order Won almost everything back in the mid 70's, liked it heavy, quite a fave of mine Just reading up about him, he was struck by lightning and died instantly.

Maybe, but still carried it off pretty well, I suppose he is a politician

Pike and Baker have been within the industry for a while as leading advocates in their field. They both appear very vocal, about poor performance over many years, and rightly so, but I'm just wondering what they did as main players in their field to bring about change. Did they lobby previous ministers, leaders of the RB and NZTR to do something?

Peters comes across as plausible as he could be, interesting times ahead.

I have to admit winter racing is ingrained in my punting soul. Rather than relying on memory, probably a good idea to make notes about the actual state of the track, rainfall leading up to raceday, rain on raceday etc etc, and what ran well, and any notable failures. Tauranga is always very tricky on a very heavy track Also heavy track sires are worth following, remember Head Hunter and a few more

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As a nice touch by Ellerslie, it looks like the flower bouquets are changed and kept fresh on a regular basis

Fair point The TAB got it right with their comment, but I listened to Trackside Radio this morning and they were tipping out Show the World to run into a place, which really surprised me, as the horse is well known to dislike anything but a good surface. The track was rated S7 at that time

The trouble with tracks like today, is that in most races only 2-3 horses handle it(have a look at how far back some of the stragglers came in). It becomes pretty clear 800m out who those horses are, so you know very early whether you have done your dough or not Art Deco is always a good bey in those conditions, though it is wiser not to bet, Lotto if you want a lottery With Highlad, the trainer had a concern that the horse would handle it, but it was clear 1000m out the horse was going to win

Horse racing owner Peter Mitchell dies aged 73 12 May, 2018 2:07pm 2 minutes to read Bonecrusher with rider Gary Stewart and owner Peter Mitchell after winning race 7 at Ellerslie 28 February 1988. Photo / NZ Herald staff NZ Herald Peter Mitchell, famous as the owner of champion galloper Bonecrusher, died suddenly overnight. The 73-year-old Aucklander was a regular sight at northern race meetings, and loved nothing more than a bet. "This is the biggest shock I've had in my life," said current racehorse owning partner, Auckland lawyer Grand Halse, currently holidaying in Vietnam. Bonecrusher made Peter Mitchell and trainer Frank Ritchie close to household names during the 1980s. Mitchell purchased Bonecrusher at the Waikato yearling sales for a budget $3250 and the lanky, athletic chestnut won 18 races from 44 raceday appearances for $674,225 here and A$1.67m in Australia. He won four Gr1s in New Zealand and six in Australia. The Bonecrusher - (Our) Waverley Star stirring battle in the 1986 Cox Plate, was won by Bonecrusher and it gave him legendary status in Australia. The same year he would have won the then world's richest race, the Japan Cup, but came down with a massive infection and did not race. He raced before the massive explosion of stakemoney. If he won the same races today it would be more than $10m. Bonecrusher was euthanised in June 2015 after contracting the terrible foot problem laminitis, which also claimed Sunline. He was buried at Ellerslie where the Mitchell family sponsor the Bonecrusher Stakes in his memory. Mitchell had a powerful personality and Frank Ritchie's son Shaune, who trained most of the Mitchell horses, including the talented Mitchell/Halse owned Excalibur in recent years, said he will be long remembered. "Peter was so strong minded, he could be awkward if you disagreed with his ideas, but he had enormous loyalty. I know for a fact he had any number of offers from trainers to transfer Bonecrusher to them, but he never did. He was very loyal to our family."

I can't believe also that people would still rely on hard copy for form analysis. If you expanded out the amount of form on Racenet, you would need a whole newspaper just to fit it all in. I guess still a lot of people around who are not au fait with using a computer let alone accessing the internet. I've tried to talk my neighbour, an old racing man, into using it, to no avail

Going to be very interesting to see what Messara comes up with. I'm not a cynic, so I believe Peters will take on board the report in it's entirety

If that is the case, then it shows just how far the industry has been mismanaged over the last 30 years, but most poignantly the lack of proactivity. Like him or lump(I don't like him), but Peters is at least showing proactivity on a major scale, and begs the question why previous leaders of of NZRB/TR did not implore the minister to do something similar. Politics I guess....or self preservation

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