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  1. billy connolly
    Certainly kicked some goals since the days of Thornton Park and Super Grey. Anyone who can make money out of horses has my respect, good luck to them.
  2. billy connolly
    Correct, Colgan used the favorite too much early and still ended up in the position he would've if he hadn't have bustled her. You ride good horses how they want to be ridden, not how you (or anyone else) thinks they should be ridden.
  3. billy connolly
    What about the other bloke (Lawrence) posing as an ICAN model FFS ??? https://www.icanmodels.com/models/dean-lawrence
  4. billy connolly
    Maybe old Millsey overinflated the tyre. Outside Warren Buffett, old Millsey must be the worlds longest serving active CEO. Surely he's had his time.
  5. billy connolly
    Totally irrelevant and nothing to do with your world, your pay packet, your job, your file, your superior, your employer, blah, blah, blah. This was a situation whereby an expensive racehorse that no doubt someone is paying good money to be trained/exercised yet a self important coont has prevented it from doing so. Horses and trainers work to a set routine, the coont in question was lucky Pender never flattened him.
  6. billy connolly
    Nonsense. no one except the complainant heard what was said. Pender should never have plead guilty .
  7. billy connolly
    I've tried to stop calling people a cunt but I cunt.
  8. billy connolly
    According to this website https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23100793 there were approx half a dozen million dollar Golden Kiwi draws in the late 80's and many of half a million or more. One $600,000 draw was won by the a 10 person syndicate of Canterbury racing enthusiasts including trainer Garth Jackson. A million in 1989 wouldn't have got you a house, it would've got you the whole street!
  9. billy connolly
    The DIA/Gambling Act wouldn't allow it to work, illegal under current legislation. Wasn't far off a million and 800k back then was serious money. Yes but jackpots were originally 10 cents per unit with minimal take-out.
  10. billy connolly
    But you wouldn't have a clue, I know a bloke who set himself up for life after winning a couple of six figure jackpots. It wasn't uncommon to see 20,000 or more patrons on course and queues stretching far and wide seeking jackpot forms in the early 70's. Lotto is for the pathologically naive.
  11. billy connolly
    Two adjudicators, two lawyers, one informant, one defendant, one relative of defendant and approx 10 pages and 33 paragraphs of tripe. The usual rigmarole to conduct a simple hearing whereby the defendant has already plead guilty.
  12. billy connolly
    Nonsense, horse was calling for the free air pump a long way out. Yet another example of how stupid the JCA/RIU currently are and Williamson should know better. The whole judicial system (from top to bottom) is farcical.
  13. billy connolly
    Of course it does but it's also an abuse of power when the incumbent chief Steward (Schreck) lifts the skirt of a jockey's wife. Regarding Stipendiary Stewards, I see there's a position - General Manager Stewards - occupied by one Nigel McIntyre. What exactly does a General Manager of Stewards do and what qualifications are required? This Nigel McIntyre rooster was a former stablehand in a Harness racing stable who couldn't make it in the game as a harness horseman yet is now the head Steward FFS ! Surely a General Manager of Stewards isn't required and even it was shouldn't it be Goodber's responsibility?
  14. billy connolly
    Isn't that manslaughter??? Haitana's brother Pat also rode, was associated with the iron horse Ahjay.
  15. billy connolly
    Schreck, wasn't that the bloke who was porking a well known jockey's wife... whilst enforcing the rules? Lest not forget our former chief Stipe tripping down from Wellington for a bit of debauchery with a harness owner/trainers missus. A standing prick has no conscience.
  16. billy connolly
    Can recall a well known hurdle jockey of the 1970's (Harry Green) copping a long lag for stopping one in a highweight event one day. Green stopped it by running it up their arses, he could have gone the cape route and not got caught but he looked after the horse and paid the price. H. Green won some good races on both sides of the Tasman including the 1973 Grand National Hurdles - https://australianjumpsracing.com/news/51626-this-day-in-jumps-racing-history
  17. billy connolly
    With regards to not running a horse on its merits, how hard would it be to hide a dead one here? Would the whip police get a sniff? Would they know the difference between hitting one and stopping one??? Is there a Hall of Shame for stopping horses like there is for whipping them?
  18. billy connolly
    I heard they're going to revoke Rule 636 (1) (a) A person shall not run a horse, or cause or permit a horse to be run, other than on its merits.
  19. billy connolly
    It's not Bosson's fault that the two imbeciles on his inside clicked up and took him on. Bosson made the decision to go forward after being parked wide which in hindsight was the wrong one. On a firm track the easiest and most proven way to get a horse beat is to take the wide lane, even very good horses are beaten this way. That's why the wide lane gets a start in an Olympic 400m final. I've seen thousands of horses finish full of running by saving ground but I've never seen a horse finish full of running posted wide!
  20. billy connolly
    Broke down.
  21. billy connolly
    I see one of the starters assistants (white overalls) started the last without even mounting the rostrum, what's the go there? Was Boof stood down? Did he stand himself down? Is the man in white overalls superior? How old would Boof be, must be getting close to a best before date? The connections of Linedanceking must have been feeling a bit sick seeing it win the race without the pilot.
  22. billy connolly
    Should know... but from the Stewards Report: - Linedanceking (A Balloo) got its head down attempting to escape under the barriers prior to the start with the rider dismounting. A short time afterwards the start was effected whilst Linedanceking was still riderless. Linedanceking was subsequently declared a non-starter by the Adjudicator with all bets to be refunded. I other words Boof let them go whilst the hoop was dismounted and standing on the side of the barriers !
  23. billy connolly
    Yes, five winners and a second from eight is a phenomenal achievement, well done. Full credit to the women jockeys, on a per capita basis they punch well above their weight and without them the game is in dire straits here. I see one B. Pelling occupying the starters rostrum, he's been around awhile?
  24. billy connolly
    You get half pregnant with your clothes half off. What about the Ben-Hur's running with their legs tied towing a sulky and driver, wouldn't that hurt? What about dogs chasing fake rabbits? Whips or no whips the bunny huggers won't stop thoroughbred racing, there's no better sight than a champion racehorse in full flight.
  25. billy connolly
    My hope is that the aggrieved jockeys take a 7-figure class action against NZTR for taking money under false pretense. The only way to outlaw whip use was to ban them but the Petone thieves condoned them and then went after jockey's who used them. If you exceed the speed limit in a car the authorities give you from 5 - 10k grace, if you hit a horse once too many with a feather duster you are hung, drawn and quartered.
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