Joe Bloggs

Ah, JJ, I left the colours at home one day, told the stipes I'd been crook, [I had] I copped a 50 buck fine, wanted to scratch mine from the Maribyrnong plate as he had heat in his o/f fetlock, vet couldn't find heat, wouldn't let me late scr, he went terrible and I had to turn him out, he was out of Miss Emma, your champion 2yo of that year, he was never the same, I should have said he had colic signs and it would have ended different, I learnt a valuable lesson that day, my story is minuscule but to me, a life lesson.

What a self righteous clown you are, you're indicative of what's wrong with racing in NZ, closed, immovable and live on planet Flash. It's not about 'his' reputation it's about the 'being honest and fine' .....as I said, we've all told porkies to the racing police, most of them wouldn't know the truth if it bit them on the arse, so being upfront and honest doesn't pay and it suits your narrative to sanctify the police and their mean, dispirited actions........

You wouldn't want to be an owner in the SI in all reality, well, for the next 3 months, unless you've got super competitive horses, the AWT will be their salvation, but only if they handle it, I see so many horses trial the other day and finished so far back they were telling you something......the kickback will take no prisoners, it will provide some longevity to a small band of horses that would have faced a very uncertain future however, it's now up to the punters to work out who they are.

Me too NM, me too.

They just might need a track man to send through the Otaki times NM? give em a call, Bring Benner undone, it must be Nirvana nowadays if you've got a smokey.......don't let Holly catch you tho, she'll cut you in half from 100m with that acerbic verbal assassination.

Well, Sportsbet don't give a rats arse for NZ racing it appears, no fields, nada, zilch re tomorrow at Royal Awapuni.......Neds do but not Sportsbet.

I'm thinking more ''Marx Bros' or 'The three stooges', however Keystone Cops is all encompassing isn't it?

I bet next time, oooh, touch of colic here, best call the stipes, friendly local vet, = vet cert=done deal........FFS, you couldn't make this up could you, being honest, nah......far to complicated and costly.

Great night, morning watching the ARC and the other races, marvellous to see the mighty Iffraaj was the grand sire of two winners during the day, both gr1, Zellie, won the Marcel Boussac, by Wootten Bassett, and A Case Of You, Prix L'Abbaye, who is by Hot Streak. What a loss to NZ, Iffraaj, just bloody magnificent ......

I asked Theo Howe once who he thought was the greatest jumper of all time, he said Kumai without a doubt, I reckon Theo was a great judge, he told me Jim Houlahan said Crisp, just, from Kumai, how Jim saw Kumai is beyond me, but if thats not a wrap from the greatest jumps trainer ever I give up.

KUMAI =GOAT

Gee NM by the sound of it you might have run your own business, unfortunately Petone is full of salarymen and women, career salary takers, nothing wrong with wage earners we couldn't;t live without them, but the decision makers at the Taj Mahal and the loon who lived in AUK and thought he was God are to blame for the malaise, losing the race call landline was unfathomable to all....except them, McKenzie and co, back as far as Jackson, all are responsible, I've discussed this with several expat Kiwi's in the industry here, all just shake their heads, imagine if some lunatic pulled the plug on our race media, we ride on the coattails of so may good radio shows racing related, both AM and FM, podcasts and facebook also, but primarily the listening audience to the differing media outlets is impressive with paid advertising and sponsorship growing......how the hell can K2 of waterway AKA Tasman Sea create such a divide in thinking? It's never too late, never, but the obstacle is incumbents at Petone, and until root and branch reform is enacted nothing will change. Messara had some real good points, but in the wash-up he's an Oz billionaire that got rich breeding and trading, not rocket science, and much the same mantra as the northern cartel, putting him on the mantle as BDL did was wrong, closing lovely country tracks wasn't the way, they were financially viable, and safe! building AWT's wasn't the way, just made FH even richer and will result in depleted fields as Waikato is experiencing now. I wont go on you're probably bored and most are over it....so many good people gone, the industry here is chocker with Kiwi's, no sign here of slowing either, so many Kiwi horses arriving each week, most wont go home, if something is not done soon you'll be racing for kumaras like Colin Wightman predicted 15 years ago.

No use asking Saundry about bullying, he's in denial, ask Kate Goodrich, trainer, Seymour, Victoria. Outsourcing human welfare issues to the Salies was their mantra at NZTR, a bunch of no-hopers hiding in a bunker just north of another bunker, The Beehive I think it's called......

Could be all three Chief, it is NZTR after all, that Bastian of propriety and transparency.

Must be the only industry on the planet that pays these type of people these salaries, and no one holds them to account? How many melt downs from grass roots people have there been and the inepts at HQ looked the other way, I know of a few, I bet most of you do too!

Their laughing all the way to the bank, their bank, not yours.

I can't comment on the red hots or the dishlickers but NZTR is bullshit central, headed by bullshit meister Saundry, bullshit is contagious though, and can end in disaster, just remember, ''There are none so dangerous as those that believe their own bullshit''.

Remember when that thing Hughes bragged about opening a TAB account, it was a red flag, the Cartel were present at that soiree, did they see red? if they did, they disguised it well.

BDL will be in apoplexy ........he foresaw this, as did we all........

Your talents are wasted Freda, you should be working at Destination Canterbury!!!

It appears he has inherited a nice filly from from Levin trainer Josh Shaw, Swing The Tide, only beaten a length in a listed over there, still a maiden, should just go bang.

Hey boys and girls, we are a very angry bunch aren't we? getting angrier too......BUT, we should be a little wary as Bernie might send the stormtroopers after us like he did to poor Kate Goodrich the much maligned VIC trainer who was almost destroyed by the hopeless buggers that were at RVL then.........useless begets useless, this mob are worse than RVL ever were, why did God create Petone? He needed somewhere to keep the hopeless and useless.

If I could have given the post a double champion post I would have!

What a joke, by jokers. We can't stop progress, I acknowledge that, but what an opportunity for a massive race day to say goodbye to an icon, that famous hill......a salute to all those wonderful horses that won there and went on to conquer Oz and the world in some cases......Bernard and Cameron have a hand in this? The league of gentlemen at work here, or!......every village has one....in this case TWO!

NI: Hazel, Jonathon Riddell, Robbie Lammas........note I said Robbie...... SI: Kylie, Tina, bunfight.