billy connolly

Is there any likelihood of Johnson ever being inducted into the Hall of Fame, or did he not go to the right school ???

But without pharmac assistance you'll be distanced by the opposition, think they call it getting an edge.

IMO Richards father is/was a better horseman than his son and Stephen Autridge is/was a better horseman than Walker. The coat maketh the man !

With regards the Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes, racing's adjudicating personnel haven't got a clue and this was yet another example of how far out of their depth they actually are. The adjudicating chairperson stated that the runner-up had ample opportunity to go past the winner but couldn't do so which is totally irrelevant when the aggrieved party is forced over extra ground. For the uninitiated and more importantly the half-baked judicial panel, the easiest and most proven way to get a horse beat on a good/firm/easy track is to force it over extra ground, the argument that the winner has also covered extra ground and that the runner-ups jockey never stopped riding is also irrelevant. To retain a Group 1 event after coming down the straight like a drunken turtle and taking out half the field is a travesty.

I'm referring to our best jockeys past and present, not the majority of John Wayne's going around here at the moment.

NZ jockeys have always held their own in Australia and IMO they are better riders than their Australian counterparts on a per capita basis. Outside the main metropolitan tracks Australian jockeys are very poor and even many of their city jockeys lack judgement and patience. As always, the pen is mightier than the sword and it's the half-baked Australian media who have (wrongfully) portrayed NZ jockeys as inferior.

Think he purchased those for clients (Breckon Farms maybe) - Purdon rarely uses his own money, good luck to him.

But the owners of the odds-on shot in race 9 as well as the punters were reaching for the bucket on seeing the non fancied stablemate get up. Either the puppeteer or the punters have no idea.

Compulsive gambling/gamblers eventually lose and if it's their own money they're playing with (as opposed to the bank) they're odds-on to go belly up. This guy did it right - https://www.punters.com.au/news/the-australian-turfs-greatest-betting-plunge-20150318/

Dye - 92 Dittman - 88 Cook - 57 Harris - 18 Olsen - 8 Langby - 5 Wouldn't much good to a horse now, fatter than a beached whale.

Mr Worrall hears a dog barking and as he's had trouble with petrol being stolen from his property he gets up, grabbing his shotgun. His wife says, be careful, dear! He goes outside and receives a shot to his left side, fired from 12.5 metres which injures but doesn't incapacitate him, but the assailant is out of ammunition (he has a single-barrelled shotgun). So Mr Worrall, barely able to see in the dawn light, turns around with his double-barrelled shotgun and shoots. The assailant is struck by the ricochet, causing minor injuries to his face. The assailant reloads, runs up to Mr Worrall and shoots him in the arm from 1.5 metres away. It breaks his arm. Mr Worrall calls out to his wife, help me, Kerry! Mr Worrall looks up at his assailant and asks, why me, mate? and the guy says, nothing personal, as he reloads and shoots him fatally in the heart. When the assailant turned up at a hospital A&E with suspicious facial injuries, staff alerted the police and he was taken in for questioning. He denied involvement at first, but later confessed. Kerry Worrall, who'd separated from Bill, then moved back into the family home, planned to pay the killer $15,000, she intended to use half her husband's life insurance money to have him shot. With regards the head post, some handy ponies in that lineup, doubt we'll see a field of that quality here again.

The horse in question lost its footing because the John Wayne on top tried to force a run on the outside of the leader approaching the home turn but was denied that run because the jockey directly to his outside put him back where he belonged causing a momentary falter but not a slip, if it had have slipped it wouldn't have got up and won the race IMO. The John Wayne I'm referring to has been doing this for 25 years and getting away with it and he got away with it again in Race 1 at Reefton !

Like a hippie at a music/weed festival they follow like sheep, last time I went I had to swim out of the place. If the Coast has a month of fine weather beforehand, it's fine on the day and the whitebait is on the house, Kumara maybe OK.

Miss is an honorific for addressing young women and girls but that would be over your head. Would you rather I called her Hit-or-Miss ?

Reefton, Moseley caused his own mount to lose its footing by trying to barge out on the point of the home turn but the horse on his outside (light green colours) was going just as well and held its ground so Moseley had to revert back to the inside. No mention in Stewards report but I note that Miss Veronica Algar was the chair of Stewards so not surprised.

Exactly, if the John Wayne on the winner hadn't have tried to force a run on the point of the home turn, they'd have still been racing and if he wasn't charged with careless riding the Stewards are incompetent.

Entirely Moseley's fault IMO and if he wasn't on the mat for careless riding he should've been.

Imperative that the Starter is on rostrum before last horse loads and Stewards should demand so.

Race 1 Riverton is what you get when a half-baked Starter is nowhere near the rostrum whilst field is loaded.

Soich was a law clerk at the time and was in the sack with Mr Big when he was arrested but was eventually acquitted of any involvement.

It's drawing a long bow to envisage a bank blowing the gaff on their clients. There was a long chapter in the book "The Gambling Man" titled "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" whereby one of the four, the head honcho of an Australian Bank who helped himself to 5.3 mil of wealthy clients funds (eventually losing 1.8 mil) to gamble on the ponies. That was in the late 1960's early 70's which would equate to at least 20 mil in today's money. Yes, more than a few Lawyers and the odd Accountant have been partial to the lure of illicit funds, one being the NZ Lawyer who acted for the Mr. Big/Mr. Asia drug cartel of the 1970's.

Correct, and this is where many of racing's participants are largely inadequate, basic grammar and spelling isn't that hard especially when the likes of Google etc. are only a mouse click away. If more of racing's coal face participants could string a sentence and were half proficient with a puter then forums such as these are an excellent venue to voice one's view... and anonymously.

Most interference in races occurs in the first 200/400 metres, the stewards have all the head-on footage of this interference but are too dense/dumb to take it into account with regards dividend bearing placings. Early interference is also more deliberate, whereas home straight interference is mainly attributable to horses moving under pressure.

And the aggrieved connections won't allow their jockeys to carry whips in future which will cause an uproar, half the field with whips and half without. Half-baked rules enforced by half-baked stewards.

Wrong place at wrong time, 500kg of horse against 50kg of jockey. Unlucky.