billy connolly

FFS, Veronica Algar, a former obscure stablehand with a couple of years bino's experience who has probably never been to a West Coast race meeting previously, fiddling with the livelihoods of license holders some of many years standing! Preposterous.

According to the stipes report one Veronica Algar was the chair of stewards, what is her background please? Is she the right person to be arraigning one of our best ever jockeys?

Beautiful West Coast day but poor crowd to that of yesteryear, I was refused entry (not vaccinated) so spent day punting from a main street local.

The trainers are as bad for not seeing how incompetent many of these John Wayne's are, a blind man could see that Elliot murdered Levante yet Kelso couldn't. Elliot also asked plenty of Concert Hall but got away with it.

Correction, Timaru raced twice on the 27th and 29th December and there were two days at Dunedin but their first day was a week before boxing day. By my reckoning that's fourteen days racing in the South in a month, now there's seven ! Whilst horse numbers and race days have plummeted those clipping the ticket at Petone has skyrocketed, I would've thought that with today's technology many of the Petone social climbers wouldn't be required anyway.

Yes, but if you have no socks you can't pull them up - ie: not enough horses. In the days of plenty the southern Christmas circuit commenced at Dunedin on December 26th, followed by Timaru 28th, Kurow and Invercargill 30th, Waikouaiti and Wyndham January 1st, Reefton 5th, Omakau and Kumara 8th. Omakau and Hokitika 10th, Greymouth 14th Timaru, Kurow, Waikouaiti and Omakau always had big crowds (of mainly holidaymakers) in attendance, Kumara also had a crowd but they were mainly Cantabrians. The atmosphere at these meetings was phenomenal, something we'll never see again here. I made Timaru's Crown Hotel my base over Christmas and when not at a race meeting was at Caroline Bay (in the company of bikini clad women) singing ragtime and winning chocolates.

Oh dear, the John Wayne on number 4 in race 4 didn't' know the difference between 800 metres and 2000 metres, hope he gave the riding back ! https://loveracing.nz/RaceInfo/45390/4/Race-Detail.aspx

Went the short way after drawing outside barrier whilst most of the other John Wayne's (Moseley included) lost their compasses and cornered like drunken sailors. Traveling approx two circuits of a turning 1200m track like Hokitika at 10 to 20 horse widths from the inside rail is gross incompetence and yet another example of why jockey's shouldn't collectively command the same riding fees! Where can one view the remaining races on that day please?

Yes, good post Lynnley Driver and agree with you... mostly. The only thing you missed was that old Gordon was a piss poor stockman. Gate Keeper was an underrated sire who left horses with a turn of foot over any distance but ended up infertile. Many local (Wingatui) broodmare owners refused to leave their mares at Gordy's property for long, only taking them there to be served and straight back home ! The South Island was fortunate to have (in sequence) the prepotent sires Kurdistan, Bellborough, Mellay, Gate Keeper and Noble Bijou.

A wooden overcoat.

I'd like to seen Bosson turn the tables and give racing's judiciary a good flogging... not just six strikes, sixty six strikes would be appropriate. Something along the lines of what that representative cricketing umpire (and pillar of society) Peter Plumley-Walker got on his regular visits to the big house.

Bill Skelton's face always lit up whenever Daryl's Joy was mentioned, he rated him way ahead of anything else he rode, Triton included. Daryl's Joy, Frankel and Tulloch would've been a hell of a match race, just as Sunline, Winx and Show Gate would've been. Frankel had the advantage of big roomy European tracks although he probably would've still second-rated them on our tighter tracks.

Exactly, Show Gate was a freak but didn't do half of what Winx (or Sunline) did.

Compare Marsh's ride on Silver Knight to that of Prebble's on Incentivise, no compare.

This bloke was 10 clear with 150 to run... or was it 1,500 to run ???

An interesting read, had as many escorts as Ford and more bangs than a stable door.

It's a travesty and an indictment on the stupid pricks who dream up these preposterous rules and even more of an indictment on the grotesquely stupid pricks who enforce them. Could you imagine someone being prosecuted for belting their dog (twice) and then fined $3,500 ???

The powers that be are dopey for allowing this scenario. Imagine if someone like the Mafias former private trainer George Way had the field carded !

So the trainer knows what occurred yet the jockey didn't. Did Chowdhoory know whether it was day or night, yesterday or today, last week or next week??? An example of why jockeys shouldn't (collectively) command the same riding fee(s)

Typical of the surname clan, I've heard of a Douglas Clayton but never heard of Clayton Douglas and Kah would wish she'd never heard of the prick either. They say if you wait long enough in life you get your revenge, no doubt Kah et al will get theirs... at a cost. Kah has been punished three times to the tune of 300k or more, the jockeys of Australia should band together and boycott a few premiere meetings.

WTF has Kah's private life got to do with racing or the rules of racing, covid or no covid? If I was in her shoes I would've plead ignorance from day one and directed all questions/indictments to her barrister, although her barrister hasn't been much use thus far. Who was the prick who originally blew the gaff on this gathering ???

If Paris Hilton invited me over for some horizontal dancing I would've broken every rule in the book to get there.

It's a gross injustice, what you're seeing here is self important half-baked pricks (masquerading as stewards) endeavoring to justify their own miserable existence. You wouldn't get healthier people walking the planet than jockeys, surely a warning would've sufficed on this occasion.

Since when did the rules of racing have covid related repercussions, haven't they already been dealt with by Australian enforcement authorities?

Does it not occur to the fuckwits in authority that most peoples workplaces are cleaner/healthier than their own place of residence, locking people up doesn't make an iota of difference. The imbeciles have taken over the asylum.