billy connolly

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.

Note that Bossche promotes a preventative healthy diet and lifestyle (vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc and quercetin) in favor of vaccination. Note also that many other physicians and medical researchers have called for a halt to the current trillion-dollar vaccine bonanza for big drug companies. IMO alcohol is a bigger danger than covid !

How does one recognize a positive case? Any similarities to a head case, nut case, sad case or hard case?

Absolute fact, people are like sheep, the world is full of idiots / imbeciles, don't be one. I don't give a continental either, yesterday walked unmolested into supermarket, today had to stand outside hypotherminating, then upon entering was molested by a gay lesbian with vaginal lube, condoms, clown masks etc. and told to push a fucking trolley when I only wanted one item. Preposterous !!!

That Young Runaway horse paid $95 and $22 a place and trifecta was $32,760 !!! Races were televised but the commentator was late arriving on course and a North Island commentator covered the first race from afar. The Young Runaway also won a maiden and an ounce of gold at Reefton, the gold is now worth as much, if not more than the winning stakes. Won't see those days again.

Yes, and coincidentally won his first race (at his first start) at Rangiora. Not a fair comparison. Reefton race once per year, Rangiora would've raced at least a half dozen times per year. Are you referring to one of your old West Coast girlfriends ???

Didn't say Rangiora was safe, no track is 100% safe. What I said was Rangiora by its nature causes the field to race tighter than they would on an uncambered 1000m track like Reefton and as stated earlier, if a horse falls at Rangiora it invariably takes others with it which was the case with Lawson, McGartland and Jamieson. I should quantify that I have nothing against Reefton per se... have won the Reefton Cup (and 3 ounces of gold) in the past and have always enjoyed the atmosphere and hospitality afforded by Reefton as no doubt many others have.

Take it from me squire, Reefton is by far the most dangerous track in the South Island.... and Greymouth isn't far behind ! I have respect for M. Pitman but wouldn't ask (or rate his opinion) on track safety, if I wanted a correct and honest opinion on Rangiora the first and probably only person I'd ask is C. Johnson, he knows Rangiora (and so do I) better than most. Rangiora has never been neglected, it was unsafe 60 years ago but after Kevin Berry was killed there the track was heavily banked with cambered bends etc. The trade-off with a banked circuit like Rangiora is... when a horse falls it nearly always falls inwards which results in carnage behind as the horses following have nowhere to go and are invariably brought down as well (as in Lawson's case) whereas at the dangerous unbanked bullrings like Reefton the opposite occurs and horses usually fall outwards which is a better result for the horses following.

A prime example of how stupid NZTR (Foskett et al) are/were. They permit racing at bullrings like Reefton (1000m) and Greymouth (1100m) yet deregister the banked and cambered 1600m Rangiora track. Not going to go into the reasons behind Rangiora's demise here, except to say Rangiora were hugely unlucky with the weather and timing of a couple of their racedays after a track refurbishment and were dealt a major blow with a couple of serious race falls. Whilst talking NZTR I counted approx 50 paid employees - https://loveracing.nz/nztr/info-and-comms/staff-contacts