Joe Bloggs

We're going to cop some sort of storm here on the Goldie for the MM day, it's 33 and the clouds are forming.......huge crowd even allowing for the semi-lockdown.

C'mon team, it's not a crowd, it's a gathering.

Another saying Jess and very relevant, you don't forget how to train a horse.........I've had a few trainers have long spells without a winner, people like Greg Bennett, champion NSW country trainer and the breaker of Makybe Diva and Grahame Begg who left Randwick after donkeys years to set up in MEL.......plus a great Kiwi trainer who had a couple for the Mrs and I.....they came good, rode out the spell and kicked on........unfortunately some trainers, and jocks too can't ride it out and walk away, sad as that is.......worth staying in the game over here as the prizemoney is so good, plus the expenses are minuscule compared to NZ......walking away in NZ is sometimes the only option or the poorhouse beckons unless of course you are salaried and work at Petone.

We are on different planets, it's the difference of picking up a horse with gear in it prior to the fact, that's integral to the very essence of our industry, I ran second once at Newcastle to a prick.....he said to me on the Monday at the track, get on the juice mate or you'll always be second.....I never forgot it........he's struggling now, his health is terrible, the Karma bus perhaps......I'll always believe, rub out cheats for life, I was no Bart Cummings, but I never resorted to being a needle trainer, there are far too many of those, blokes who use the needle to cover their inadequacies.... Te Akau may well have a very legitimate excuse, I'm after a level playing field, with your argument Chief, its a minefield.

Chief, I hate running second to a cheat, it happened to me many times, back in the day, when EPO was the go to business. I remember the lockdown 24 hours before post time up in SING back in the early 80's.......it actually worked, mostly, save for the corrupt trainers that slung the security guards to turn the other way and lose a few minutes of security tape.....they lockdown in Japan you know, and the jocks too.....it's called transparency, that why they get K100000 people on course. Pre race testing is needed and wanted by most here, some of QLD's leading trainers stormed the Bastille to demand QRIC lift their game, it was a joke, they have lifted their game. The Croc, well there are many stories connected with that, I remember that day well, and the traffic hold up on the M1.......and the little detour the horse float took.....the stipes give some dispensation to horses that have suffered duress or are distressed, however, the simple excuse from NZ was ''we are broke'.......IMO of course but by gee there are so many wanting stepped up testing and security, milk shaking is now almost rubbed out entirely, and that came about due to the flying squads that staked out likely miscreants, and boy didn't they land some prizes.......Smerdon and his gang were done, one escaped as he claimed he was too pissed, a leading trainer that couldn't remember what he was doing the day before the Melbourne Cup as he was too pissed.....anyway......that's my take FWIW.

Yep, how Waller escaped is beyond me, in fact it's beyond most........

Chief, I can't talk for NZ as I know its a racing backwater, here we must be on course 3hours before the off if you're in a gr race....that's when the pre race test is done, blood and urine.......they have the capabilities to detect countless drugs in that preceding 3 hour time frame, other races 2 hours and provincials an hour and a half.....QLD until recently were guilty of lax or no existent procedures also, they have lifted their game to come into line with other states. NZ will continue to be a backwater with the highest salaried backwater executives who oversee the entire shambles. Shamefully as NZ was once up there with the best.....

Tony Fung, huge buyer here, now buying in partnership with Phoenix, and we all know the accusations against Phoenix. Several leading International thoroughbred identities have distanced themselves from Phoenix, however our esteemed industry leaders have welcomed them with open arms...... their credibility is now on the watch list. France has banned Phoenix, plaudits to the French!!!

Ahh, Gamma, there are a lot of protected souls in OZ, Weir only went as the Feds were involved and criminal charges, but there is so much happening in the land of Oz, not all good.......just look at the thriving Harvey Norman sale, sorry I mean Magic Gaziilions.......#followthemoney

HK for one, NSW and QLD metro, and a lot of other states and boundaries Chief, in NZ surely you must pre-race all black type races for obvious reasons.....if this horse in question was pre-raced it would never have happened.......withdrawn yes, but it now loses the race and the stink that goes with it......

Does the earlier comment ''pre race testing' resonate Chief? The only first world????? racing jurisdiction that doesn't pre-race, or mostly doesn't.....hang their bloody heads in shame.......what's the reason for that?....too expensive? no money in the bank? either, either. I'm not singling out Te Akau, but IF there was pre-race testing it would cut out the innuendo and supposition........you'd think.

wrong nemesis, the dorkshire vet said that!

Did you read where he said it will all be over on Monday? a positive result? Oh it's too funny........Danny de Vito lives in AKL.

In a galaxy far far away, I was foreman in a 50 horse stable. I would do the feeds every night those that needed meds got them from me, and me only........the buck stopped with me, on my days off, the boss would do the feeds. I used a bran mash to tease the med digestion, stand there and hand feed them.......oh how times have changed, for better or worse? your choice.

The think tank will be in overdrive, some consultation may be needed, zoom conference with the trough man maybe?

In a perfect world we should never let expense rule over integrity, however racing nz is a very different animal to racing global......

Bugger, you've been in my kitchen cupboard.

Huey, as I've opined before, NZ should be stripped of black type racing until pre-race testing becomes mandatory, it carries absolutely no cred at all. I for one would like to see all results of post racing testing and proof of.......they can't be trusted.

The RIU if this is correct are in big trouble.....or should be in any other racing jurisdiction! Even the most biased of you should admit that.......I've never ever seen this anywhere else on the planet........The one and only daily newspaper and it spreads this? What next?

This one paragraph is very damning as to transparency and integrity in NZ journalism......oh, and racing Sources close to the case have told the Herald the RIU does not believe Richards or any of his staff have been involved in any wrongdoing and the most likely source of the irregularity is cross-contamination, whether from a human handler, feed or absorption.

Lunatics running the asylum.

Google Bully Huey, it's amazing the names that emerge connected with that adjective........

Is there any probability at all that the truth and only the truth shall be exposed?

No, it's not gone, it happens everyday,.....at the Beehive.

The ROI would be unbelievable Huey, but then again, if I was looking to minimise my tax [legitimately] I couldn't care a less.....silly as that sounds.