billy connolly

Parson's found an edge a long time ago and has stuck with the formula. A stalwart of southern racing whose horses always look good and are/were never without a chance. South Island racing clubs are indebted to J. Parsons.

Which paragraph did you edit, or is English not your first language ???

Who cares what the riders think? What about the connections of Mr Pacquiao, would they be satisfied with K. Bakker navigating the Kurow course like a drunken sailor in race one? - https://loveracing.nz/RaceInfo/54859/1/Race-Detail.aspx#video Note that the Trackside head-on coverage of the back straight ceased after Bakker's exhibition on Mr Pacquiao, note also there was no mention of jockey incompetence in Stewards report. The fact that K. Bakker et al can command the same riding fee as Bosson/Grylls etc. is another aberration in this game.

55 hurdle victories from 260 rides including three Grand National Hurdles, a Great Northern Hurdle and a Wellington Hurdle which won't ever be repeated by a predominantly flat riding jockey. No incumbent Hall of Famer would've been brave enough to have 260 hurdle mounts let alone win 55 of them. Johnson should've been the first HOF inductee not the last and Des Coppins should've been buried with the Friday Flash !

New Zealand Hall of Fame Jockey Wins: Lance O'Sullivan - 2355 Noel Harris - 2167 Bill Skelton - 2156 David Peake - 2093 Opie Bosson - 2090 Bob Skelton - 1739 Bill Broughton - 1446 Grenville Hughes - 1276 Jim Ellis - 1062 Hector Gray - 921 Keith Voitre - 420 Tod Hewitt - 298 Ken Browne - 156 Tommy George - 150 Linda Jones - 65 Jim Cassidy - * Shane Dye - * James McDonald - * Brent Thomson - * Non New Zealand Hall of Fame Jockey Wins: C. W. JOHNSON - 2515 D. M. WALSH - 2451 It's a preposterous aberration when Linda Jones can make the HOF with 65 wins yet the two most successful NZ jockeys in history with 5000 wins between them are given the two fingered salute by clowns who should know better.

A bargain at any price, this Wild Night thing wouldn't be in the same street. Daryl's Joy beat Vain at level weights, second-rated a Cox Plate field as a three-year-old and won VRC derby in a hand canter. Bill Skelton's face lit up like a Whore House whenever Daryl's Joy's name was mentioned.

Didn't see the perennial CEO, Mills prancing around like a peacock. How many of those impressionable patrons who paid good money to attend will return in future, Millsey ? Place is the pitts at the best of times and an absolute shit-hole without shelter from elements.

Anyone pay the $23,000 entrance fee??? https://www.moshtix.co.nz/v2/event/martin-collins-nz-cup-al-basti-equiworld-nz-2000-guineas-day-2025-sold-out/180888

Lots of news lately denouncing the lying, cheating NZ Police force. One senior police officer's cock has cost him his career and 500k per year.

Originally from the Taieri Plains area of Mosgiel and was a neighbour of three-time Wellington Cup winner, Great Sensation. An entertaining and eloquent poster here. R.I.P. TAB For Ever.

That is the key, squire. Few jockeys ride for luck on a favorite, especially in a Melbourne Cup. Kingston Town was a near champion who got beat cause the jockey mistook the clock tower for the 800 metre mark ! Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Yes, as good a ride as you'll see in a staying race and she looks good on a horse. Trifecta wasn't hard if you anchored Half Yours.

Despite the nonsense this curious individual espouses, there's no chance of bigoted prejudiced clowns with parrots on their heads stopping horse racing, and whips will never be banned as jockeys won't ride without them. When a horse kills or maims a person the horse is never convicted, yet when a horse receives a life threatening injury doing what it's bred to do, the likes of that woman with a parrot on her head want racing eradicated. It wouldn't surprise me if some of these bunny hugging rednecks are committing bestiality with animals !

More of this... a cross between a parrot and an ostrich ?

Don't have to read anything, I've walked the walk. You and your disciples are shit stirring trolls who have no idea.

Nonsense, of all the wank images you've posted, there wouldn't be one where the horse wasn't going forward or improving its position under the whip. You and that woman trainer from Riccarton wouldn't have a clue.

The majority of Broughton/Ellis mounts wouldn't have required the whip, neither would've many of the Kerr/Thistoll trained runners. Kerr didn't take a horse to the races unless it could win! Why don't you send your slow bastards around without the (soft) whip, then you'll see how valuable even a feathered whip is?

Gold is predicted to reach $8,000 NZD an ounce, more than double the price it was two years ago!

Yes, but they wouldn't use Zabeel because they reckoned he was too expensive (200k from memory) at the time. They tried the Star Kingdom line of sprinting stallions at a time when Zabeel was at his peak which weakened their breed somewhat in my view. Grosvenor was from the Sir Ivor/Sir Tristram sire line as was Zabeel but Zabeel had the prepotent maternal sire line of Northern Dancer/Nureyev. These bloodlines coupled with the fact that Zabeel wasn't over-raced would've further strengthened the Dennis breed IMO, but I'm no breeding buff.

Good eulogy from Bellew. Imagine if the Brothers had have crossed Zabeel with those good race mares, progeny could've been anything.

Nonsense, Muldoon would've laughed at them as he would've laughed at you preaching to the ignorant on feather duster whips. The world is full of idiots.

Wouldn't hold a candle to Pitman senior, not in the same street. Pitman senior should've been a CJC board member long ago, certainly before Jelly Williams. Mills is a top shelf buffoon.

Go to - https://beeswax.co.nz/product/oxalic-acid-25kg/ (they're the cheapest) and order 25kg of Oxalic Acid, mix the acid liberally with (preferably) boiling water and apply by stiff bristled brush, leave for 12 to 24 hours then water blast with a pressure washer, seal if you wish. Note, Oxalic Acid is an incredibly versatile aqueous solution that is safe to use.

No thanks, apart from having to pay to get out of the place, what are the main attractions other than second-rate horses, third-rate jockeys and fourth-rate facilities? Is it too big a job for you or your fellow members to water blast and seal that great bronze replica of Phar Lap at the front entrance? Note you've now even closed the front (Highway 1) entrance to all bar horse floats FFS. Regularly attended Timaru meetings in halcyon days, in fact made the Crown Hotel (which never closed) a base over Christmas New Year and when not attending race meetings frequented the side shows of Caroline Bay in the company of Sir Basil Arthur and scantly clad women... winning chocolates galore ! Don't know how turnover figures correlate to those of yesteryear but you're dreaming comparing crowds of today to those of the past.

Entry wasn't free December last. Timaru at Christmas once fizzed with atmosphere but is now not a shadow of its former self, even the mighty Phar Lap has fallen into a state of disrepair.