billy connolly

Bill Skelton's wife kept a meticulous record of her husbands career and would've known those colours but died last year. May not have raced again after winning the four in succession but did sire a few handy gallopers including Shudup who won 12 including the Champagne Stakes, Great Easter and Canterbury Challenge Stakes.

You've been nominated for the filthiest blogger of the year and are odds-on to get the prize.

Graeme Robertson at left (cap and shades) bred and raced the 1995 filly of year and NZ Oaks winner Tartan Tights.

More nonsense from you, the correct decision was made to race on the Poly. As T. Pike alluded, the two best horses ran first and second in the listed race yet on a bottomless bog grass/turf track they might not have fared as well. Heavy grass/turf brings the quality horses back to the opposition, nothing (not even weight) will take the speed out of a horses legs more than heavy ground will and the race times would've been 5/10 seconds slower on heavy grass/turf. IMO Poly track form is more credible than heavy 10+ grass/turf form.

Nonsense, and a shame a Hall of Famer would give a retard like this the time of day. I'd have diplomatically told him to fark off.

M. Pitman didn't get fashionably bred stock either and he improved (considerably) every cast-off he got from other stables yet he started with less opportunity than the woman trainer in question and with a massive physical disability to boot. If I'd started in racing paying training fees to M. Pitman there's every chance I'd still be doing so 40 years later, if 40 years ago I'd started out with the (un)accomplished Riccarton horsewoman I'd have sacked her long ago. Name is Connolly, Billy Connolly or Sir Billy Connolly to you.

Correct, that woman trainer from Riccarton is too thick to know that her third rate scrubbers aren't good enough to compete on firm grass/turf, whereas the Synthetic gives her a second crack. Her and the clown she's in bed with are also anti padded whips, yet the likes of J.B. Cummings and other successful horse personnel are/were pro non padded whips ! Elsewhere on this forum she referred to Winston Peters as clueless. If Peters is clueless, his predecessors were imbeciles.

The most proven method of getting a horse beat is to take it via the pilgrimage. A well known Australian jockey of an earlier era in Mel Schumacher was disqualified for life (reduced to five years) for pulling another jockeys leg whilst winning the 1961 AJC Derby. It's an indictment on our weak useless Stewards when Schumacher can get life (reduced to five years) for trying to win, yet 65 years later with modern digital technology Kennedy can walk free for trying to lose !

Doubt there's been a poorer exhibition in a major race here, maybe on an off track there's an excuse but certainly not on firm Strathayr. Even if he was told to lead, no jockey worth their salt should murder the horse in doing so. I've seen dead ones ridden like that but never in a million dollar race. Incompetence personified.

If a little known apprentice navigated the course like a drunken sailor bouncing up and down like a whores drawers you'd never hear of them again. In Australia or Hong Kong he'd be on the mat for not riding the horse on its merits and looking at a long stint in the sin bin. Didn't that jockey win a premiership and seven in a day???

Was the jockey on a sight seeing trip or did he loose his compass?

Since the inception of the Ellerslie Strathayr many runners have been murdered by jockeys loosing their compass. The slight downhill run to the home bend and insufficient camber makes it impractical to go wide IMO. The caveat is if another runner gives you a cart into the race as was the case with the Cup winner, but what usually occurs is the half-baked jockeys inside you force you over considerably more extra ground, not only exacerbating your chance but theirs as well. Ellerslie should consider installing a false (cutaway) rail which would be a massive assist to back runners.

Yes, the Maori All Blacks alone can tongue each other for ever and a day on home soil but certainly not in another country. Our national anthem sung by a Maori is more appropriate.

Wightman's horse is still capable of performing at that level in my view. You can get away with using them against inferior opposition but against a quality field it's a different story. This race highlights how bad our jockeys currently are when a bloke from Australia who's rarely rides here can come from last and not go around a horse. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Good post TAB. Smells like Fish has also requested me confront him/her/it in person but when one has walked with kings/queens in life you have little regard for minnows of Smells like Fish's ilk.